Keep us posted! You can send life updates to Joe Briggs in the Camp Nebagamon office (briggs@campnebagamon.com) or directly to Keylog editor Brad Herzog (brad@bradherzog.com).
1930s-1960s
Accordion serenade, 1960
Steve Ehrlich (Detroit/Los Angeles) has donated a significant autograph collection to the archives of the Cook Music Library at Indiana University, which serves the renowned Jacobs School of Music. The Stephen A. Ehrlich Autograph Collection consists of 83 autographed and framed portraits of some of the most accomplished and world-renowned classical music artists of the mid-20th through early-21st century, including the likes of pianist Arthur Rubinstein, violinist and conductor Isaac Stern, and opera singer Marilyn Horne… Roger Goldman (St. Louis), the Callis Family Professor of Law emeritus at St. Louis University, was one of thirteen 2017 inductees into the SLU LAW Order of the Fleur de Lis Hall of Fame. Last December, he published an op-ed piece in Newsweek: “Why Has Police Sexual Misconduct Escaped the #MeToo Movement?”… The latest book by Gene Dattel (Ruleville, MS/New York City), Reckoning with Race: America’s Failure, has been out since the beginning of October. He has been doing joint presentations with prominent African-Americans and received an endorsement from James Meredith, the man who courageously integrated the University of Mississippi in 1962. Meredith said the book “should be required reading In the classroom and incorporated into public dialogue.”
Stuart Kornfeld (St Louis), the David C. and Betty Farrell Professor of Medicine at Washington University’s School of Medicine, has been honored by the Academy of Science-St. Louis with the Peter H. Raven Lifetime Achievement Award, which recognizes individuals with a distinguished career in science, engineering or technology… Judge Dan Polster (Cleveland) of the Northern District of Ohio made news in March as the subject of a New York Times article headlined: “CAN THIS JUDGE SOLVE THE OPIOID CRISIS?” Tasked with resolving more than 400 federal lawsuits against central figures in the national opioid tragedy, he announced that he would be streamlining the process in an attempt to save lives. According to the Times, he ordered lawyers “to prepare for settlement discussions immediately. Not a settlement that would be ‘just moving money around’… but one that would provide meaningful solutions to a national crisis—by the end of the year.” Read more about it here.
1970s-1980s
Air guitar contest, 1980
After winning five Emmy awards as a comedy writer for “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,” Rob Kutner (Atlanta/Los Angeles) currently conjures up monologue jokes for “CONAN” on TBS and tweets political zingers back and forth with New York magazine writer Jonathan Chait (Bloomfield Hills/New York City). He also recently published his first graphic novel, Shrinkage, about an intergalactic war taking place inside the U.S. president’s brain. He describes it as “Fantastic Voyage meets Dr. Strangelove in The West Wing.” Check it out, along with his videos and interviews, at www.robkutner.com… Restaurateur Danny Meyer (St. Louis/New York City), who has opened more than 100 Shake Shack locations worldwide—from the U.K. to Saudi Arabia, finally opened his first one in his native St. Louis last December… Last May, the National Parks Conservation Association posted a blog written by Joseph Goldstein, the 13-year-old son of Jeff Goldstein (St. Louis/Springfield, IL). A survivor of acute lymphoblastic leukemia, he wrote about his mission to support the Save the Boundary Waters Campaign: “When the Make a Wish Foundation approached me, it didn’t take long for me to realize that I had an opportunity to do something that would be bigger than me. This was a chance to “wish” for something that would leave the world a better place, to protect a place that was endangered.”
1990s-2010s
Survivor Nebagamon, 2008
Ben Falik (Detroit) is the Community Impact Manager at FCA North America, coordinating volunteering opportunities for employees of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles of America… Ike May (Nashville/New Jersey) works for a finance firm in New Jersey… Jonathan Gerstell (Washington, D.C.) worked on the campaign for Kelly Mazeski who ran for the Congress in the Illinois 6th Congressional District… Ellie Sweeney (San Francisco) is a clinical nurse with the Pediatric Critical Resource Pool at Duke University Hospital… Katie Neusteter (Denver) is a senior writer for American Rivers, an organization formed to protect the nation’s wild rivers… Ben Davenport (Chicago/Piedmont, CA) is an urban planner for the City of Piedmont in California… Alex Elson (Chicago/Washington, D.C.) is Senior Counsel for the National Student Legal Defense Network, a non-profit organization that works to advance students’ rights to educational opportunity… Michael Jorgensen (Boston/Cascade, ID) teaches math and science along with being the medical program assistant at the Alzar School in Cascade, Idaho… Jaime Hensel (Atlanta/Seattle) spent the winter in Antarctica (summer on that continent) as a nurse practitioner.
We are sad to report the deaths of the following alumni:
Ray Wittcoff (St. Louis 33-34)
Don Kramer (St. Louis 41, 44)
Robert Schiff (San Francisco 58-61)
David Myers (Springfield, IL 63)
Mike Keene (Austin/Byron, TX 73-83)
Our productive alumni:
Shana and David Jadwin (Chicago/Minneapolis 91-97, 00) – Bernie
Phil Myers and Kristin Ahlberg (Bennett, WI/Washington, D.C. 92-98) – John
Sarah Broder and Mike Singer (Detroit, 93-96, 98-01) – Aaron
Amanda Lattanzio and Michael Faber (Durham, NC 93-98, 00-02, 04) – Juno
Brittany and Scott Abramson (Chicago 94-99, 01-03) – Jacob
Julie Werman and Ben Solochek (Chicago 99-02) – Molly
Chloe Amman and Jacob Kessler (St. Louis/Washington, D.C. 99-04, 06-09, 11-12) – Lucy