Camp Nebagamon

Keep us posted! You can send life updates to Louis Levin (louis@campnebagamon.com) or Joe Briggs (briggs@campnebagamon.com) in the Camp Nebagamon office or directly to Keylog editor Brad Herzog (brad@bradherzog.com).

1940s-1960s

Andy Tisch (New York) is co-chairman of the board and chairman of the executive committee of Loews Corp. He also serves on the board of trustees for the Brookings Institution, is vice-chair of the New York Historical Society and sits on the Harvard Business School Dean’s Board of Advisors… Joe Rosenbloom (Jackson, TN/West Newton, MA), an award-winning investigative journalist, has written a book called Redemption: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Last 31 Hours. Published by Beacon Press and due out in late March (though available for pre-order at Amazon.com), the book has been described by one reviewer as a narrative that “draws the reader intimately into King’s life and courageous moments at a time of grave danger to himself and the civil rights movement, constantly rewinding to provide crucial context.”…

An exhibition of the photography of Mike Eastman (St. Louis) is currently running through late January 2018 at the Edwynn Houk Gallery in New York City. From an overview of the exhibition (“New Work from Buenos Aires”): “One of the usual themes present throughout his work is historic preservation and the depiction of places marking human activity but devoid of actual inhabitants.” His other works are on view at the Art Institute of Chicago, High Museum of Art in Atlanta, International Center of Photography in New York, and many others.

1970-1980s

Jon Losos (St. Louis) is heading the Living Earth Collaborative—a team effort involving Washington University, the Missouri Botanical Garden, and the St. Louis Zoo—which will study biodiversity and threatened plant and animal species… Joel Samuels (Washington, D.C./Columbia, SC) teaches international law at the University of South Carolina… Tony Samuels (London, England) was elected vice-chairman of the Surrey County Council… Ed Felsenthal (Memphis/New Jersey) has been chosen as the 18^th editor-in-chief of 94-year-old Time magazine, which now has an overall reach of more than 100 million through digital and print media… Chad Millman (Highland Park, IL/West Hartford, CT) has left his post as ESPN’s editorial director of domestic digital content to take a position as head of media at The Action Network, a sports analysis and media company focusing on the betting and fantasy markets… Jeremy Erdreich (Birmingham, AL) is president of Erdreich Architecture, pursuing urban real estate development, multi- and single-family residential design, and related opportunities in New York, Birmingham and places in between… Scott Winicour (Chicago) is president at Gibraltar Business Capital in Chicago… Michael Gordon (Cincinnati/Washington, D.C.) has become the General Counsel of Blue Wave Solar, a firm that develops large community solar projects and also finances rooftop solar installations… The latest children’s books by Brad Herzog (Deerfield, IL/Pacific Grove, CA) are a picture book in verse called Murphy’s Ticket: The Goofy Start and Glorious End of the Chicago Cubs Billy Goat Curse and One Hurdle at a Time, co-authored with 1952 U.S.Olympic gold medalist Charles Moore.

1990-2010s

Roger Wallenstein (Chicago) serves as president of the Board of Directors for Camp of Dreams (providing after-school, weekend, and summer camp enrichment opportunities for under-served kids in Chicago) and writes a column about the Chicago White Sox that appears in The Beachwood Reporter every Monday… Andrew Schram (Boston/Chicago) married Yuan Zhang, finished his residency at Rush University Medical Center, and is now an MD in internal medicine on the staff of the University of Chicago, as well as an international health care consultant… After a stint as an education transition specialist with Mission: Graduate, a program of the United Way of Central New Mexico that aims for 60,000 new college degrees and certificates in central New Mexico by 2020, Dan Mendelsohn (Brooklin, MA/Albuquerque, NM) has begun classes at New Mexico Highlands University to earn a masters degree in social work… Andy Cohen (St. Louis/Austin, TX) landed a job as front desk supervisor with Fairmont Hotels & Resorts in Austin… Andrew Trenton (Kansas City) graduated last spring from Syracuse University with a degree in Industrial Design… Jason Hirschhorn (Los Angeles/San Diego) teaches math at San Diego Cooperative Charter School 2… Jim Schulman (St. Louis) is currently the senior art director at a web design firm called Matchbox Design Group in downtown St. Louis… Sasha Kahn (Kansas City/Baltimore) graduated from the University of Denver and is pursuing graduate studies in fine arts at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA)… Elliot Schiffer (Woodstock, IL/Denver) has joined Mici Handcrafted Italian, a Denver based fast casual chain as CEO and Partner and is looking to grow the brand from four to 100 restaurants in the next eight years… Marty Brodsky (St. Louis/Boulder, CO) owns an apparel company called Kingflyer Collective, creates handcrafted furniture from sustainably harvested wood, and writes short stories, many of which can be read on his website, MartinBrodsky.com.

 

We are sad to report the deaths of the following alumni:

David Ellbogen (Chicago 35-43)

David Fromkin (Milwaukee/New York 41, 44)

Bernard Werthan (Nashville 43-47)

Don Spilker, Jr. (Chicago 58-60)

Ed Drolson (Lake Nebagamon/Minneapolis 53-65, 67-69, 72-74)

 

Our productive alumni:

Emily Jordan and David Greenhouse (New York City/London 94-00, 02) – Wilbur

Marissa and Cody Zalk (Boulder/New York City 91-96, 99-01, 03-04) – Julian

Michelle Bagi Block and Brian Block (Beechwood, OH 88-93, 95, 98, 00) – Alexander and Theodore

Emily Towers and Danny Cohen (Washington, D.C./Los Angeles ) – Rose