Keep us posted! You can send life updates to Louis Levin at the Camp Nebagamon office (louis@campnebagamon.com) or directly to Keylog editor Brad Herzog (brad@bradherzog.com).
1930s-1960s
High water, 1953
Since retiring five years ago from full-time work (as Senior Vice President for Institutional Advancement at the Cleveland Institute of Art), Mike Cole (Indianapolis/Shaker Heights, OH) has been spending three days a week at the Jewish Federation of Cleveland as a senior development officer, meeting with long-time donors to get them to consider making endowment gifts… Andy Tisch (New York 59-63) has co-compiled 72 essays about family immigration stories—from the likes of Tony Bennett, Alan Alda, Marlo Thomas, Cory Booker, Nancy Pelosi, and Michael Bloomberg—into the recently published book Journeys: An American Story. One such story concerns a Nebagamon family—the Dattels of Ruleville, Mississippi. All profits will be donated to the New-York Historical Society and the Statue of Liberty Ellis Island Foundation. Last July 4 at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, Andy gave the keynote address at the naturalization ceremony for 67 new citizens from 35 countries.
1970s-1980s
Steve Addison (Saratoga, CA/Los Angeles) continues to produce events in the Los Angeles area. He raises funds and creates star-studded entertainment for organizations and causes close to his heart, as well as providing market research services to national government departments… Scott Simon (Birmingham, AL) is the President of Betterhire Inc., which just celebrates its 20th anniversary and staffs cybersecurity and data people throughout the Southeast, primarily in banking/financial… Scott Chukerman (Glencoe, IL) works in sales for Redwood Logistics, a transportation company, moving freight for a number of larger national accounts as well as smaller regional ones… Brad Young (Memphis/Atlanta) is Executive Director of the Israel Bonds Southeast Regional office. He adds, “My wife’s first cousin married Ken Mack, so now I truly do have camp family.”
1980 program director Frank Sachs and village directors Bob Blackbourn, Steve Olsen, Stan Strauss, and Brian Alger
In his “Editor’s Letter” for the July/August issue of Terrain, an outdoors magazine published in St. Louis, Brad Kovach (St. Louis) gave a shout-out to Chris Willett (Osceloa, WI), writing, “I’ve had a few outdoor champions in my life… There was Chris Willett at Camp Nebagamon in Wisconsin, where I spent six transformative summers as a kid. He showed me how to paddle big water and portage a canoe, opening the door to countless adventures in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area. Plus, he had his own handmade, birchbark canoe. How cool is that!?!”… Jeff Cohen (New Orleans/Middletown, CT) is the news director of Connecticut Public Radio and is particularly proud of recent stories about the effects of Hurricane Maria on Puerto Rico and Connecticut — where more than 300,000 Puerto Ricans claim roots. He adds, “But the thing for which I’ll forever be known is a three-minute interview I did with my daughters after one of them cut the other one’s hair. It went kinda viral a few years back, then it turned into two children’s books.” Here’s a link to the adorable tale.
1990s-2010s
2016 trip staff
David Sachs (Minneapolis) is the Lower School Coordinator for The Blake School in Hopkins and Wayzata, MN, responsible for all campus-related activities for both campuses… Tucker Slosburg (Mission Hills, KS/Seattle) runs Lyceus Group, a boutique marketing/PR firm specializing in the financial services industry… Luke Herzog (Pacific Grove, CA) has written and published his third book. Fishbowl: Collected Stories of Space and Time, a compilation of award-winning sci-fi and fantasy short stories, is available at LukeHerzog.com… Mike Singer (Glencoe, IL/Detroit) is a senior business development manager at Barton Malow Company…
Charlie Felsenthal (Highland Park, IL) works at Ventas, a healthcare real estate firm in Chicago… Brennan Greene (Minneapolis) opened his second craft brewery, Birch’s Lowertown, in St. Paul, MN… Sasha Kahn (Kansas City/New York City) is an artist working mainly with oil painting… Jason Yale (Denver) is the National Program Director for Big City Mountaineers… Ryan Glasspiegel (Simsbury, CT/Chicago) had a special guest on his “Glass Half Empty” sports podcast (for ESPN’s “The Big Lead”) last August: a young up-and-comer named Roger Wallenstein, who writes a weekly Chicago White Sox column for the Beachwood Reporter. You can listen to it here.
Our productive alumni:
Jacob Kessler (St. Louis/D.C. 99-04, 06-09, 11-12) and Chloe Ahmann Kessler (University Park, MD/D.C. 12) – Lucy
James Bleshman (Brooklyn 06, 08) and Maya Scherer – Emilia
Robyn Lessinger (Atlanta/Lancaster, PA 05-06) and Steven Elias – Max
Jonathan May (Memphis 94-98, 00-01, 04-06) and Emily May — Theodore
Scott Rosen (St. Louis/New York 96-00, 02-04, 07) and Samantha Rosen — Oliver
We are sad to report the deaths of the following alumni:
Ruth (Lorber) Rosen (St. Louis 30-40, 50-51)
Joe Borinstein (Indianapolis 38-40, 43, 47)
Dick (Richard) Elden (Chicago 42-51)
Nicholas Booker (St. Louis 09-12)