1940s—1960s
Jim Klein (Toledo, OH/Charleston, SC), who was a camper in counselor Nardie Stein’s Swamper 1 cabin in 1955, spent last spring at the East China University of Political Science in Shanghai, where he taught a six-week course on the U.S. judicial process and civil procedure. A distinguished visiting
professor in Charleston since 2010, he had been picked by the Chinese university as a Fulbright specialist… Ken Wurzburg (Memphis) serves on the steering committee of the Memphis Jewish Home, a residential and rehab facility… John Kander was interviewed at length by the Cleveland Plain Dealer and was the subject of a one-hour PBS special produced by HMS Media, First You Dream: The Music of Kander & Ebb. The film, which features 14 songs performed by leading Broadway stars, was produced for stage and television by Scott Silberstein and directed by Matt Hoffman. According to the press release, “Co-founders Hoffman and Silberstein have been close friends since meeting as teens at Camp Nebagamon, located in the north woods of Wisconsin, where Kander himself was a counselor many years before. They were introduced by the camp director, and Kander has been mentoring the HMS founders ever since.” Just before airtime, the person of honor commented, “If this isn’t a banner night for Camp Nebagamon, I don’t know what is!”… Mike Eastman (St. Louis) completed a series of great photos of Forest Park in St. Louis in conjunction with the launch of its major fund raising effort… Frank Sachs (Minneapolis) appeared in a CNN special last January called “The Person Who Changed My life”—about weekend anchor Poppy Harlow and her father. Frank’s role as Blake School’s guidance counselor is highlighted at the 5:30 mark.
1970s
Bob Zafft (St. Louis) has joined Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale as an international law attorney… Steve
Gallant (St. Louis) is an executive vice president and general council with Maritz Holdings Inc… Joe Shacter (Chicago) is the senior manager for state corridors for Amtrak… Steve Kaufmann 
(Denver/Washington, D.C.) practices law with Morrison & Foerster… Rob Kaufmann (Denver) is a litigator with Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck… John Kalishman (St. Louis) serves on the boards of the Jewish Community Relations Council and the John Burroughs School… Mark Witcoff (St. Louis/Los Angeles) tied the knot, marrying Laura Scherck Witcoff… Craig Garfinkle (Glencoe, IL/Los Angeles) was recently the subject of an interview conducted for Video Game Music Online. The introduction stated, “Whether trailers for Star Trek, sequences for WWF, or shows for top comedians, the composer’s music has been adapted for all sorts of purposes. However, he is best known to score listeners for his extensive works in the fantasy realm…” You can read the entire Q&A here… Kasper Rorsted (Arhus, Denmark/Düsseldorf, Germany) has left his position as CEO of Henkel AG, a German maker of cleaning products, to become CEO of Adidas, as touted in this article in the Wall Street Journal… Danny Meyer (St. Louis/New York City) topped The Power List 2016, a ranking by the restaurant news of the most powerful people in foodservice. The January article can be found here… Adam Bezark (Highland Park, IL/Los Angeles), owner and creative director of The Bezark Co., was the focus of a feature article in The Orange County Register last January: EX-DISNEY IMAGINEERS ARE NOW IMAGINEERING FOR OTHERS. It began, “What do Disney Imagineers do when there is no Disney theme park to create? They form their own companies to create theme parks for others around the world.” Read the rest of the story here.
1980s
Jon Star (Columbus, GA/Arlington, MA) is the Nancy Pforzheimer Aronson Associate Professor in Human Development and Education at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education… Alan Halpern (Tulsa/Stamford, CT) and wife Julie Milsten Halpern have each recently transitioned into new jobs. Julie has joined Starwood Hotels and Resorts as the director of internal communications, while
Alan is the new vice president of community engagement for the Jewish Reconstructionist Communities, headquartered in Philadelphia… Thomas Jorgensen (Nairobi/Copenhagen) works with Ferring Pharmaceuticals doing research with fertility drugs, while brother Peter Jorgensen (Nairobi/Copenhagen) is in the logistics research department of the Danfoss Group… In November, Andy Cohen (St. Louis/New York City 78-83) read excerpts from some of the hilarious letters home from camp that his mother had saved all these years—while sitting next to Stephen Colbert as a guest on “The Late Show.” He mentioned that they were from his years at “Camp Nebagamon in Lake Nebagamon, Wisconsin.” Euan Kerr (Edinburgh, Scotland/St. Paul) traveled with the Minnesota Orchestra on its historic trip to Havana, Cuba, in May, covering the story for Minnesota Public Radio News and NPR. You can listen to his story for Weekend Edition here.
1990s
Dan Scharff (St. Louis) is a wealth management advisor with Northwestern Mutual… After serving for three years as the director of scouting for his hometown St. Louis Cardinals, Dan Kantrovitz (St. Louis) moved to California’s Bay Area to serve as assistant general manager of the Oakland A’s, serving alongside general manager Billy Beane. Dan served as Oakland’s director of international scouting from 2009-11… Danny Cohen (D.C./Los Angeles) is the new District E representative on the Los Feliz Neighborhood Council in Los Angeles… Jeremy Feiwell (Chicago), who serves as principal of the Lazaro Cardenas Elementary School, was quoted throughout a Chicago Sun-Times front-page story last December about how nearly half of the school’s students can do math at a pace that will get them into college, “a startling success for a school serving low-income children that blew away district and state averages.” The story explained, “Feiwell says his teachers decided as a team what and how they would teach new common core state standards. Cardenas doesn’t use a set math curriculum. Three years ago he asked teachers to look at each of those standards and map out how they’d teach them drawing from multiple sources. Then he got them substitutes so they could plan. They owned the process, he said, now in its second year of implementation.”
2000s
Danny Wasserman (Englewood, CO/Seattle) is Employer Development Manager for Koru, Inc., which
partners with high-growth companies and top colleges across the country to solve the problem of unemployed and underemployed recent college graduates… Noah Saag (Louisville/Baltimore) was named director of operations for women’s basketball at Loyola University in Maryland… Jacob Keyes (Duluth) reached the summit of Denali as an assistant guide on a trip for the Alaska Mountaineering School.
OUR PRODUCTIVE ALUMNI
We congratulate the following alumni on these new additions to their family (and the camp family):
Jeana and Brad Foxman (Dallas, 95-98, 01-05) – Adele
Andrea and Brian Kramer (East Troy/Chicago 88-93, 95-00) — Sydney
Karen Lombardi Bernstein and Todd Bernstein (Memphis/San Francisco’85-90, 92-94) — Andrew
Marissa and Kevin Cole (Cleveland/Boston 86-92, 94-95) – Olivia
Lauren Frank and Adam Frapart (NYC, 94-00) — Cameron
Emily Farris and Kyle Hopkins (Kansas City 02-06, 12) – Theodore
WE ARE SAD TO REPORT these deaths in the camp family:
Leo Drey (St. Louis 33)
Richard Rosenthal (St. Louis 34-39)
Bob Friedman (St. Louis 36-40, 50)
John Saltzstein (Chicago 45-46)
Ed Saltzstein (Milwaukee/Santa Fe 45-46, 49-51, 53-55, 77-79, 91, 96-98, 01)
Albert Gordon (Columbia, TN/Isle au Haut, ME 54-59)
Fred Mindel (Toledo/New York City 55-62)
Bill Laytin (Fort Smith, AR/ Northbrook, IL) 57-65
Peder Kolind (Aarhus, Denmark /Nicaragua 64-68)
Ebbe Anderson (Naskov, Demark 65)
Will Fisher (Minneapolis, 88-89)