Keep us posted! You can send life updates to Louis Levin in the Camp Nebagamon office (louis@campnebagamon.com) or directly to Keylog editor Brad Herzog (brad@bradherzog.com).
Mike Maidenberg (Marion, IN/Oakland 61-62), who served as publisher of the Grand Forks Herald from 1982-2004 and helped lead the newspaper to a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service following a devastating 1997 flood, was chosen as the sixth recipient of the North Dakota Newspaper Association’s Distinguished Service Award. He left the Herald in 2004 to become vice president of the Knight Foundation and retired in 2010. Here’s a link to a story about the award… Charles Hirschhorn (Cincinnati/Pacific Palisades, CA) 68-72, 74-79, 04, 11) recently began a new position as President of Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles… Danny Meyer (St. Louis/New York 68-70, 72-73, 75) was interviewed by Trevor Noah on The Daily Show in early May. Watch it here… Joe Shacter (Chicago 71-75, 78-85) sings in the Apollo Chorus of Chicago, which boasts more than 100 members. Last December at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance, the chorus put on its annual performance of Handel’s “Messiah,” an Apollo holiday tradition since 1879…
Howard Handler (Detroit 72-74, 78-80) has moved back to his native 313 area code after taking a new job as President of 313 Presents, a Detroit-based company that provides world-class, live entertainment at venues of all sizes in southeastern Michigan and beyond. He is overseeing booking, production, marketing, and business opportunities at various arenas, ballparks and theaters… Scott Silberstein (Chicago 77, 79) and his HMS Media partner Matt Hoffman (Chicago 73-78, 80) were the subject of an April feature article in the Chicago Reader about their work creating a quarantined video of Carole King’s “You’ve Got a Friend,” featuring actors and musicians from Beautiful, the hit King biomusical. Read about it (and notice the Nebagamon mention) here… Michael Gordon (Middletown, OH/Washington, D.C. 80-84, 86-87) served as investigative counsel for the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform during the impeachment process… Stephen Sachs (St. Louis/Chapel Hill 89-95), a law professor at Duke University, has been named by the Federalist Society as the winner of the 2020 Joseph Story Award, which recognizes academics 40 years old and younger who have shown excellence in legal education.
Guitarist, composer, and music eductator Ty Citerman (St. Louis/Brooklyn, NY 85-89, 91-93) has composed the theme music for a podcast hosted by Dan Gorenstein (Chicago/Philadelphia 91-92, 96-00), which premiered in October. The “Tradeoffs” podcast is described as examining the intersection of health care, policy, and people…. Josh Goldman (St. Louis 87-91, 93-95) started a new position at St Louis University as Director of Community Engagement in the School of Education… Ryan Glasspiegel (CT/Chicago 96-02, 04-07, 09) is a sports writer for Outkick the Coverage and was recently a guest with TNT NBA host Ernie Johnson’s live show on Twitter… Ben Falik (Detroit 94-97, 00) writes for The Jewish News in Detroit. In February, he contributed a deftly-written piece featuring Nebagamon program director Louis Levin (Northbrook, IL/Detroit 05-10, 12-20) and including the following mid-article disclaimer: “I am an alumnus of Camp Nebagamon; it has been 20 years since my last CN summer, so I can now say with dispassionate objectivity that the camp is the bestest camp.)”
Michael Freeman (Denver 98-03, 05-09) is spending a semester teacher data visualization in Madrid on a Fulbright Scholarship… John Robert Allman (Houston/New York City 05-06) has a new book out called “A is for Audra: Broadway’s Leading Ladies from A to Z”. It can be found here... Michael Blonsky (Denver 05-07, 09) works on renewable energy integration for the National Renewable Energy Lab… Ben Huston (Denver/Netanya, Israel 09-12, 16-19) moved to Israel to join the Israel Defense Forces… Jonah Docter-Loeb (Washington, D.C., 11-17, 19) has received quite a bit of attention for organizing a 3-D printing project to create protective medical equipment in the fight against COVID-19. You can read about it here… Chloe Ahmann (Maryland/Ithaca, NY 12) has joined the faculty at Cornell University as an environmental anthropologist… Max Setteneri (Fairfield, CT/D.C. 15-16) works for the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C…. Zach Sullivan (Chippewa Falls, WI/Duluth 16, 18) is the Program Director for the Duluth Folk School, creating and implementing classes with both children and adults… Zayla Asquith-Heinz (Haines, AK/Duluth 17-18) is a tax site supervisor for Community Action Duluth.
Our productive alumni:
Kyle Hopkins (Kansas City 02-06, 08-09, 12) and Emily Ferris – Charles
Dylan Perry (Boston 07) and Liza Perry — Rye
We are sad to report the deaths of the following alumni:
Art Davidson (Omaha 37-41)
Aaron Scharff (Memphis/Southport, ME 41-43)
John Isaacs III (St. Louis 41-47, 50)
Robert (Bob) Rosenberg (Cincinnati 43-47)
Alan Goldman (St. Louis/Raleigh, NC 48-61)
Steve Kalish (St. Louis/Redmond, WA 52-59)
Art Loomstein (St. Louis 54)
Jay Hoffman (Minnetonka, MN 57, 62, 69)
Sue “Freida” Weisner (Superior, WI/Orlando 68-69)
Laurel Starstead (Superior 70-75)