Where Are They Now?

 

How the hell do I know? Nobody tells me anything.

October 20, 2004 - Ok, here's what I know. Although you wouldn't know it by this site, I'm a writer. I live in New Paltz, New York with my main squeeze Sue and her daughter Elizabeth. Here's us. I write books for an almost living. You can even find me (warning: crass commercial plug coming) on Amazon.com. My brother Alan Kisseloff retired from the practice of law in NYC and now lives in Ormond Beach, Florida, which took a direct hit from about 865 hurricanes this fall. He's had quadruple bypass surgery, no doubt caused by the cholesterol levels of the Camp Everett food. Nowaday, he works for the company that renews your magazine subscriptions. You know that card that falls into your lap every time you open a magazine? Blame him for that. He has a wife and three children. He was formerly married to Wendy Glasser, who is a guidance counselor on Long Island. Although they are no longer married, he and Wendy are best of friends. In fact, he took her to the prom last year. Wendy has one child, Jared. Coincidentally, my brother also has a child named Jared, but now she's married to a wonderful fellow named Les. Wendy's parents used to own the camp. Unfortunately, Jerry Glasser died way too young several years ago. We still miss him. Renee, however, is doing fine (and in an email she says to say hello to everybody), so is Wendy's sister Ellen, who is married to Richard, an anesthesiologist, and they have two fine children. Ellen lives in splendor out on Long Island.That's it for my recent news, but here's some old stuff. Eric Schultz is a lawyer, living in Plainview. I owe him a phone call. His brother Ernie is in the video production business. He is married and also lives on Long Island, as does Paul Malamud. He was married at the time of his death earlier in 2004. Wendy tells me she has bumped into Fern Malamud a few times. Jamie Jond, I just checked on the Internet, is a golf pro up in Westchester. Corey Scher is married to Lisa Kronenberg, and they live in or near New Orleans. He teaches at Tulane Medical School. He is a doctor. Another doctor is Steve Albert. He is a radiologist and knows my insides intimately. He lives in Westchester. His brother Bruce is a surgeon in California. Last I heard Ed Chazen was in Massachusetts in business and doing well. Lisa's brother, Eric, is another Long Islander. He's in the construction business, and he owes me a phone call. Corey's brother Lee sells insurance in Arizona. Gary Traub is a psychologist. He lives in Florida. His brother Paul is an attorney. I saw him about seven years ago at a funeral for Stewie Offner's father. Stewie used to drive the water ski boat. He's a lawyer and lives in Massachusetts. The last time I saw Kenny Traub, there was a huge story about him in The New York Times. He did well in the dot com boom. When I was running races in Central Park, I bumped into Laurie Cohen a few times (not literally). She was a reporter for the Wall Street Journal. I talked to Amy Sudolsky a few years ago. She was then a Lubavatcher and happily so, although not married and didn't have 23 kids like everyone else in She does have pais and wears dark suits. Her name is Chaia, but when she was still Amy and attending Cornell, she asked me whether she should buy a motorcycle or go to Israel. I had just returned from a year on a kibbutz, so I suggested the latter. She took my advice and came back a Hasid, so I take the blame.I bumped into Eddie Bernard also (and also not literally) a few years ago. He owned a service station in Manhattan on the West Side and really missed his days at camp. If you get a flat on the West Side Highway, stop in and see Eddie.Not good news is that I know of the deaths of at least four former camp mates: Nancy Bellis, Jake Heller, Mike Nadelman and Joel Pitagorsky.Where are you? Write me and tell me your news or news you have of anyone else. We're anxious to hear your news. If you don't have any, make some up. Send a photo. If you can't send a photo, send help.

October 28, 2004 News update: Tomorrow, I'll be sending out my first batch of postcards with addresses I culled from the Net. I did make two phone calls to people whose phone but no addresses were listed. One was to Lance Beckoff, who is an actor. He lives out in North Hollywood, Ca. He's won six Academy Awards and just ended a long-term affair with Julia Roberts. He's also delusional. Ok for real: he sounds quite good. He's been in a few commercials and low-budget films and has also worked as a chef. He also refuses to purchase a computer so he has no email address. His brother Ira Beckoff lives in Fort Worth, Florida. I also spoke to Elliot Gurian. He's a CPA and lives in Milford, Pa. He's been married a long time and has three kids, He said to celebrate his 50th birthday, he's embarked on a journey to ride his bicycle at least 50 miles in all 50 states.

October 30 — The postcards have apparently landed. I just received email from Jamie Jond, who reports that his folks are fine. He is married and lives in Rye Brook, NY. He is married, with two kids, 12 and 7.Stick a note on the forum if you come by a visit. Hey people it's your forum (I just had to say that. One of my few regrets in life was that I never got to be a counselor at Everett and thus never had a chance to say, "Hey, people, it's your Olympics," to a bunch of slacking off kids, of whom I has usually been one).

November 1 - Omigosh, the response to my little mailing has been incredible, email! phone calls! checks! One person phoned and called me all sorts of foul names, but that doesn't count. It was my mother. I've heard directly from Heidi and Jeff Gurian, Linda and Laurie Cohen, Eric Schultz and Ernie Schultz (I feel like I'm announcing a pairs figure skating contest), Randi Roth, Fern Malamud and Jamie Jond. Here's what they're up to: Fern (now Boyarsky) lives in Woodmere and has two children. Heidi (now Terens) lives in New Jersey and plans events for IBM. She has three kids and is married to a urologist. Jeff is a lawyer in the Chicago area. He says he has a real estate law boutique real estate firm in Highland Park. He is married with two kids, Joshua 11 and Taylor Rae 8. Laurie Cohen still works for the Wall Street Journal. She still runs. She is single and lives in Tribeca and has a nine-year old son named Sam. Here's a photo she just sent in. Jamie is married and lives in Rye Brook, New York. He has two kids, a girl and a boy, 12 and seven respectively. They were just visited by Jamie's parents, Eleanor and Hack, who are both fine and Eleanor was especially excited about the site. If you remember, she was the camp nurse for a while. I'll have to go back and take a picture of the infirmary, which in Eleanor's time was stocked with a jar of Pepto Bismo, half a tube of jock-itch cream and a rectal thermometer. Jamie said his cousins, Julie and Lewis (the Biblowitzes) pass by the camp occasionally. Linda Cohen (now Dickens) is married and lives in Florida, but she too has visited the camp site. Her three kids are grown and have left the nest. She has taken up marathoning and has qualified for Boston. She says she is in touch with a whole network of ex-Everetteers. Let's hope we hear from all of them. Randi Roth wrote a lovely note. I'm not sure what she does, but her return email address said Ph.d. It's nice to know we have another doctoral in the family.With all the good news, there's also some sad: Gari Schultz died two years ago. She was 78. Let's raise a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and a glass of chocolate milk in her memory. Also, Norman Gurian died a while back, of colon cancer. He was 49. But Jeff reports that Sandy is living in Florida and doing well. She even has a boyfriend named Norman. To all who checked in, thanks for writing. Post a word or two on the forum page, which now has among others a "Where Is" topic, and Heidi has begun "Friends, Friends, Friends," a great place for folks to reintroduce themselves. There you can also list your email address, and again, send a photo or two so we can all have something to laugh at besides my funny face. The forum is pretty straightforward. Click on a topic heading, and after reading the responses, click on post reply if you choose to add your comments. If you want to post a new topic for discussion, just click on the post topic folder. Clicking on the folders with the names on it, doesn't get you into the topic thread. It simply opens up your mail program to send that particular program email. This is very good for settling old scores, but if you send a message that way, others won't see what you have to say. The forum is actually hosted on another site (it was the only free one I could find), so let me know via email or phone (845 255-8996) if it's not working, and I can find another. Remember, this is your forum. ( I love saying that) It won't work without your input.

November 2, 2004 - Just got email from Patti Pashutsky (now Shapiro), who is living outside Los Angeles. She is in the home decorating business. She and her husband Jody (married 27 years), have two daughters (one of whom roomed with Lisa and Corey Scher's daughter at Tulane). Jody, she reports, suffered a severe stroke recently, but has recovered well. She also reports that her big bro Steve is an elementary school teacher in Brooklyn. The site has had over 200 hits. Maybe we can give the 500th visitor a jar of dry lake dootz.There are now two photo pages. Click here for photos: now and here for photos: then.More email from Patti, who says she would love to hear from anyone. Her email address is: BYITALL@aol.com. Jeff Gurian also said I should fee free to post his email address. His is jeff@beckergurian.com. He also has a Web site. Randi Roth has gotten back about her work. It turns out my deductive powers are indeed sharp as a tack. She is a Ph.d. Ms. Roth is a psychologist with offices in White Plains and Manhattan (based on some of the forum posts, we might be sending a few people her way). She is divorced with two children, 14 and 10. They go to Camp Lenox, which still plays Camp Pontiac. I still going there and being greeted with "We welcome you to Pontiac, we're mighty glad you're here" It was shocking to find out that there was actually only one official song for every summer camp in the Northeast.

November 2, 2004 (PM) - It's another busy day on the site. At this hour, we've had more than 200 visitors today. Both Billy and Sheryl Turkish have checked in. Sheryl, now Kerewski, is an assistant principal in the Bronx. Her husband is retired. (One of our contemporaries has retired! I swear I only started shaving yesterday). They live in Rockland County and have two children, 23 and 21. Her email address is kerew@aol.com. Billy lives in Syosset. He's an attorney. He practices in Jericho. Another Long Islander is Jayne Kolber (now Grubard). She and her husband have two children, a 24-year old daughter, who is now a first-grade teacher and a son graduating from Towson University with a degree in sports management. Another arrival to gathering is Paul Malamud a.k.a. Dilly Dally, a.k.a. Mud, a.k.a., a.k.a. Dud, Alfred E. Newuman's long lost brother. Paul reports (four times) that he works for Bank of America and is married with two kids. He lives in Oceanside. It was also wonderful to hear from Sandy Gurian, who says she is doing fine down in Florida, now retired after 40 years in the camp business (I wonder what kind of sweater they give out for that). She said she'd love to hear from anyone. Her email address is Campsandy1@aol.com.Ernie Schultz tells me that Frank Bass was featured in a fine documentary by Dan Klores, who revisited the gang he played basketball with in Brighton Beach, New York. The film is called, "The Boys of 2nd Street Park" and was featured on Showtime to great reviews. In that little group, the class clown was Frankie Bass, who no-doubt was a big hit among his fellow eighth graders with his singular ability to pick his nose with his tongue. I just found a publicity still for the film. The photo is small and grainy. Can anyone pick out our Frank? I'm still waiting for more photos. Be forewarned, if I don't start receiving any soon, I'm going to start posting more pictures of myself, and it's not going to be pretty.

November 3, 2004 — Alan Goldman has checked in. Alan was at Everett from 1971 to 1973. His sister Mindy was also at camp. She's in Florida. Alan is a dentist. He lives in the Albany area and has made several trips back to the camp site. He says he has also made the Delaware River trip and still listens to the Who. I'm thinking about installing a chat room on the site, but am wondering if people would use it. Drop me a line a line and let me know your thoughts. I also have another batch of postcards ready. If there is someone you would like me to seek out for the site, or someone whose address you know who would appreciate learning about it, please tell me and I'll follow up. Finally, here's my snail mail address in case anyone wants to send me a photograph or two. It's 20 Calvin Boulevard, New Paltz, New York 12561. Feel free to also enclose cash or drugs.

November 4, 2004 - These updates aren't always a lot of fun. Steve Milim checked in tonight with the awful news that Larry "Monkey" Isreal died six months ago of pancreatic cancer. Steve is a gynecologist on Long Island.I've put up many new photos. Simply go to the opening page and scroll down.

November 5, 2004 -- Tonight news arrived via email from Pete and Debbie Berland who are living down in North Carolina. Pete ran a sports net business but did well, and now he lives on a golf course in North Carolina — almost literally, according to Debbie. Laurie is in East Hampton with her family. Bruce lives in Atlanta. We've also heard from Steve Dennison, who lives in Chicago with his wife and two children. He's the vice president of a production company out there. His brother Bobby is married and lives in Florida. I've also heard by email from Gary Pollack (as opposed to Gary Pollick). Gary works for a brokerage firm in NYC. He lives in Scarsdale with his wife and two children. He reports that he still knows most of the words to "Herb is a smarty," one of Camp Everett's greatest hits. He also reports that his brother Alan Pollack (as opposed to Alan Pollick) is in the software business in the Boston area. Tonight also brought contact with Marjorie Bellis, who is the head of guidance, in I believe Elmhurst. She is married with two children. I'm starting to see a pattern here insofar as kids go. News was also heard from Kenny Handler, who works for Sanford Bernstein, a brokerage firm in Boston. He is married with 25 kids. Kidding, he also has two. We're hoping all of our old friends will stop in at the forum and say hello.

November 6 -- The latest person to check in is Meryl Novor. She is a psychotherapist and is married with two children (12 and 10), and two stepchildren in their 20s. She lives in Westchester and reports that she has a pitching mound and batter's box on the side of her home. I also had a nice chat this morning with Barbara Hecht. She and Al are doing fine. They live in Florida. Eliot Hecht is an electrical technician. He is married and lives in New Jersey. Irene lives on Manhattan's Upper West Side and "does her own thing," says Barbara. Legally blind since she was in high school, she still manages to play in a symphony orchestra and run several New York City Marathons. We've also heard from Karen Scheiner (now Martinez). Karen still lives in Brooklyn. Contact has also been made with Billy Lerner. Billy is an oncologist in New Jersey. His assistant asked me if I had any dirt on him from his youth. I suggested that she and the staff begin chanting, "Billy has a bad temper" and see what damage results.

November 7 - Karen Scheiner sends some info. She is a bookkeeper for eight Party City Stores. She has two sons by her first marriage. One is awaiting entrance to the New York City Fire Department, the other will soon graduate high school. Karen breaks the schneid with a third child, an 11-year old daughter with her second husband Ramon. Today also brings word from Lisa Kronenberg (Scher). She and Corey live in New Orleans as reported above. Corey is in charge of the anesthesia residency and liver transplantation at Tulane. They have three children, a daughter Ryan in her second year at Tulane Law School, Dani, a junior at Tulane, and eighth-grader Oliver. She reports that she sees Mark Bernstein, who is a cardiologist in New Orleans. The site has also heard from Marty Kafka, who attended Everett in the early 60s and found a wonderful photo for our picture page. Marty is a psychiatrist in the Boston area. His work as a specialist in working with sex offenders was featured in a recent New York Times Magazine article. He is married and has two children. He reports that his brother Kenny Kafka is an internist, living in Ohai, California. Also heard from is Joel Brenner, who is a semi-retired lawyer living in the Philadelphia area. He has how many kids? You guessed it. Joel's mom Faye (famous for making sure that all dancing was done at least six-inches apart) has died, but Herman Brenner is alive. He lives in Stockbridge, Mass. It was also wonderful to hear from Rick Silverblatt, who first attended camp in 1955. He remembers a hurricane that year relegated the Olympics indoors. The two teams were forced to battle it out mostly over knock-hockey boards. Rick is an urban planner, specializing in creating housing for the poor. It was a special pleasure hearing from him. Rick was a wonderful counselor. He later served in Vietnam, and until I saw his photograph in a reunion of 1962 Stuyvesant High School grads, I wasn't sure he had made it out of the war alive. But as he said, quoting Mark Twain, "Rumors of my death are greatly exaggerated." He is married and lives in Brooklyn.Sadly, news was received that Les Rapapport died following a suicide some time ago. Les was also one of the good guys.

November 9, 2004 - The site had a wonderful chat with Henry Levine, who said he had chills hearing about this effort. Henry is a gastroenterologist in Orlando. He has just remarried and has two children with his firs wife. They are 25 and 23. The older son, he reports, was traitorously sent to Camp Greylock for many years. We also have a Judge among us, which means every time that Jane Cutler enters the forum, we all have to stand up. Jane and Alan Greenspan, a cardiologist living in the Philadelphia area, are the answer to Lisa Scher's question about other Camp Everett couples. We had 232 hits yesterday, a new Camp Everett Web site record. Curiously, though, 231 of those visits were mysteriously redirected to the George Bush for President site.

November 11, 2004 - Alan Pollack informs us that he earned a Ph.d in music and now works for a software engineering firm in Boston. He has recently remarried. We also received a warm note from Debbie Berland, who says, "We live in this great little town (which has nearly quadrupled its population in 15 years!) named Cary. It's been featured several times in magazines as the best place to live, which I guess explains our population explosion. But it's also 15 minutes from Research Triangle Park, Duke, UNC Chapel Hill, etc. I thought you'd want to hear some old news about your old Head Counselor. He retired from teaching and coaching in Chappaqua in 1986. He started a business called SuperNet, making batting cages and other sports nets. In 1989 we moved down here, and the company became quite successful. Six years ago he sold the business and decided to spend the rest of his life playing golf. He calls the golf course his office, and he goes to the "office" six days a week. Poor guy!! We live in a golf course community that has three golf courses. I repeat, poor guy!! Obviously, he's having a great time in his retirement!! He does still work at one thing. We have been running a Baseball, Softball, and Soccer Coaches Clinic for 26 years. It's at the Rye Town Hilton on Jan 27, 28, & 29.  Usually have about 600-700 high school coaches attending." Debbie continues that after years in marketing, Laurie now owns a yoga studio in East Hampton. She is married and has one son. Bruce is a stockbroker. He's single and lives in Atlanta.Click here to go to old pictures.

November 11, 2004 (PM) - Today brings news of Steven Abramson. Steve lives in Manhattan, although he and his partner of ten years, David, also have an inn in Provincetown, Mass. The inn has a Web site: www.somersethouseinn.com. He says all of us can stay there for as long as we want free of charge. Ok, he didn't quite say that, but he was nonetheless happy to be back in touch. He is doing health car consulting at Ernst & Young after having worked on the hospital administrative side for the past 14 years. His brother Michael is married with four kids. He lives in California. His sister Robin is in Glen Cove. Both his folks are enjoying retirement. Lila, of course, was the wonderful camp nurse, for whom we faked many illnesses to get out of all sorts of activities. The site has also heard from Sharon Asnis Wank, one half of the Asnis twins. Sharon lives in Roslyn. She and her husband have two grown boys. Ellen is in Florida with two grown boys of her own. There was also news from Susan Cohen (now Lapidus), whose whereabouts were the subject of numerous queries. She's in Plantation, Florida. She says she's been in the state for some 30 years. Her daughter Jennifer, a teacher, was recently married. She's 28, and her other daughter Jamie, also married, is in the restaurant business. Sue and her sister and husband work in the family business, which their grandfather was in, manufacturing sequins and glitter. Terri Stillson (now Rossman) has also wandered onto the premises. She lives in New Jersey and is married to a urologist, apparently not the same urologist who is married to Heidi Gurian in New Jersey. It does raise the question of whether the two urologists have ever been seen in the same room together. She has three daughters. Melissa, 19, is a sophomore at Emory, Stephanie, 15 and Carly, 11. Terri is a speech pathologist with a private practice in Princeton. Her email came with a lot of initials after her name.

A message reminded us that two more names can be added to the Too Soon Gone category: Steve Joblove in the mid-80s of AIDS and Janet Schwartz, hit by a car in the late 1970s.

November 13, 2004 - News arrived via Pony Express this am from Sharon Gallub (now Tinkel). Sharon, whose note set a Guiness World Record for the number of exclamation points in a single email, lives in Edison, New Jersey. She and Bruce have been married nearly 30 years. Their daughter Erin is 17 is not unexpectedly tall and considering her genes not unexpectedly beautiful. She is applying for modeling work and to college. Sharon's sister Fran (now Masters) has been married for 22 years and recently left for India on a trip. She and her husband are world travelers. Fran works at Vanity Fair Intimates, which a check on the Web reveals, is a company that makes ladies' unmentionables. For years, J. Edgar Hoover was their best customer. Lori Gallub (now Sandler), she of the long braids, is a nutritionist in Boca Raton, specializing in diabetes.She has two children. The site is finally hearing from the Camp's older generation. David Goldstein, oldest son of Jack and Dottie, is a lawyer, who has spent most of his adult life in the State of Washington. He reports that little brother Barry just moved to Williamstown, Ma. Barry is married to the noted author Andrea Barrett. He has an Md. Ph.d, which means he is probably 187 times smarter than the rest of us. Mark Goldstein has also checked in with the site. Mark is a pediatric dentist. He lives in the Philadelphia area. It was also great to hear from Carole Taporek (now Clarin), who began attending camp in '52 when the bunks were caves. She was there until 1963. She and her husband have a house in the Berkshires. It was also great to hear via Ann Halperin Risch that her mom and camp mom Roz (who preceded camp mom Roz Serbin-- it was in the Camp Everett governing rules that there must be a camp mom named Roz and a counselor named Sy on site at all times) is alive and well at 87. The site also received a brief but pleasant note from Doreen Schecter, who works at CBS news. There is also news from Susan Schwab (now Ettman). She and her husband Bruce (oddly enough the same Bruce who is married to Sharon Gallub -- who says we're not a close family?) have, as she correctly puts it "the pre-requisite number of children." Rob attends Quinnipiac, Leah, 16 is in high school. She, like Terri Stillson, is a speech therapist and lives in New Jersey. In fact, she may be Terri Stillson. Last but not least it was terrific to hear from Camp Everett's leading real estate mogul, Ed Chazen, who lives in Wellesley, Mass with his lovely wife Barbara and two children, the oldest of which is a student at Franklin and Marshall.

It's become apparent here that the group is remarkably successful and that hardly anyone joins the Web master on the buttom rung on the ladder of success. In fact, it has gotten so lonely down there that the Web master is beginning to yearn for news from someone that their son is a juvenile delinquient, their daughter is pregnant at 14 and the husband, when he's around, sits around all day farting in front of the TV set. Alas, I'm afraid, this is not to be.

Too Soon Gone: Warren "Spider" Klein of cancer.

November 16, 2004 - An email has arrived from Harris "Rusty" Zwerling, who attended Everett along with his brother Donny "Rustier" Zwerling. Rusty, who was formerly a college professor, lives in Pennsylvania where he is working as a researcher for the Pennsylvania teachers' union. He and his wife have been married for 16-years, and he says they are the "doting parents" of a rusty-colored beagle. I'll leave that one alone. The other news is the arrival on site of the Resnick girls. Joan says she is married to Hy. I'm assuming she's not referring to Hy Gang, our old group leader, who would be 97-years-old if he was alive. They live in Nesconset on Long Island. She works part time as a network administrator in the computer biz. She has two boys, 14 and 10. She earns extra brownie points by writing that she has two of my books. Connie lives near Princeton, where she works in hospital administration. Their mom Gloria has retired from teaching, but is still busy and still living in New Rochelle. Also checking in is Mindy Golub (now Golden). Mindy work for a non-profit down in Maryland that helps special needs children. Her husband Bruce is a professor in applied mathematics at the business school of the University of Maryland. Not surprisingly, they got their math right when it came to having children. They have two girls. Sara, 23, lives in Manhattan and works for Bloomingdales. Jenna is a senior at the University of Michigan. Mindy's brother Spencer is also a professor. He's in the theater department at Brown. He and his wife have (yawn) two as well.

November 17 - After weeks of mispelling his name, the site was able to quickly track down Lester Jee when his last name was found correctly listed in an Everett Echo. Lester has just moved to South Carolina and is a semi-retired engineer. His partner in crime, Barry Gruber, has also finally been found. Barry, who is single, lives in Coral Springs, Florida where he teaches fifth grade. Richard Gerber, that's Dr. Richard Gerber, has also forwarded his particulars. Dr. Gerber resides in the hills outside Salinas, Ca. with his wife Laurie, and three kids, Jamie 13, Rebecca 10 and Benjamin, 7. He writes, "Camp Everett was a long time ago, a dream, a memory, a trip, a fantasy, a game that never ended, and a black night of a thousand stars, an inside joke, a wish, a prayer, a song, a friend, a place in my heart, and some of the happiest days of my life..." Not long after that missive arrived, Leslie Gerber (now Hantverk) checked in with kind words for the site. She added little about herself, but did say she enjoys the site and that while she had no idea who I was, my disruptive antics at the close of tribal warfare have been frequent fodder for the Gerber family reminiscences for last 30 years. Leslie, glad to be of help, as that was my intention all along. News also arrives from Miriam Marlowe (now Shiff), a Gerber cousin and brother of Bruce. She is now 41 and recalls being shipped off to Everett when she was around 6. She adds that in college, she discovered her boyfriend (unnamed) had also been to Everett, and the two then embarked on a road-trip and camped on the site. Brandi Kane (now Bell) has also been located. She is a psychologist on Long Island and has a daughter in law school.

November 19 - Steve Shulman, who apparently is no longer called Topo, writes that he is a real estate lawyer in Manhattan. He and his wife Gale live in Plainview with their two boys, Corey, named for Corey Scher and Danny, named for Corey and Lisa's daughter Dani. They are a family of runners. Steve is a triathalete, and he completed his first Ironman in Florida last year. He reports that his brother Jason and mom Naomi are also doing fine. A note was also forward to the site from David Granet. He lives in the San Diego area and is the Anne Ratner Chair of Pediatric Opthalmology at the University of California San Diego. His email has the following link for a series called Health Matters for which he serves as host. I clicked on it and just watched a 28 minute film on managing urinary incontinence. I give it four stars. I would have given it five, but I had an accident and missed the ending.

November 20 - The site had enjoyed a recent conversation with Donna Dachs, who lives in Maine where she is an elementary school teacher. Donna enjoys the work and the travel time it affords her. She is single. Email also arrived from Pete Leepson, maybe Camp Everett's greatest hitter and toughest bunk inspector. Pete, who attended camp from 1950 through 1964, is a lawyer in Connecticut. His email has been posted in the Camp Everetters 1955-1964 item in the forum. Lurking around the chat room tonight was Ricky Lipson, who lives in Old Westbury and works in the "family business," as he calls it. Ricky is a hitman for the Mafia. He is offering a 10 percent discount on a rubout for all Everett alumni. Email also arrived from one of the Red states (which to this old lefty is such a wonderfully ironic color choice) in the person of Andee Finkel (now Shapiro), the Web master's favorite prom date, who writes that she has been married to her husband Jay for 27 years. "We have 3 sons, 24, 21,16.Those are their ages & not their names, Scott, Stuart & Max." Andee sells real estate in Atlanta.

November 23, 2004 - One of our lurkers finally came out of the closet tonight. He's Elliot Hecht. It's hard for me to believe this, but Elliot, who was so young when he started at camp, he was just a zygote, is now an adult. He is also an electronic technician. He lives in New Jersey with his wife and how many kids? Let's not alway see the same hands. Yup, two. They are 23 and 13. All you other lurkers out there, it's time to show your face. That means you, Eric Kronenberg. With Elliot reporting in, I officially have no other new news about anyone. So if no one new checks in tomorrow, I'm warning you all, I'm gonna start making shit up or I'm just going to start repeating old news.

November 24 - Steve Kaiser has dropped by to say hello. Steve has lived in Manhattan for many years. He and his wife Vivian have, ok, anybody want to guess how many kids? Emily, 17 and oh, gosh, you shouldn't have, you just shouldn't have, you're too kind, Jeff, who is 14. Steve own Kaiser time Inc., which makes knockoff Rolexes that malnourished Senegalese immigrants sell on the streets Actually, it's a full service consulting, executive recruitment and mergers and acquisitions firm in the luxury watch and jewelry industry. You can visit Steve's Web site at www.kaisertime.com. Steve reports that his brother Alan lives in Armonk with his wife Debbie and his, yes!, three kids. He is the part owner of a computer security firm.

November 28 -- Email has arrived from Sue Wortman, a psychotherapist with an office in Manhattan. She and husband Bill live in Westchester. Sue says her brother Bob lives in Philly. He is an optometrist and has the Camp-mandated two children.

November 29 - Today, the site has heard from Scot Cantor, although his whereabouts and doings remain a mystery. Perhaps that can be a topic: Guess what Scot Cantor is doing today. If you're wondering about Bob Kohn (and I know many people are), check out his Web site at www.bobkohn.com. Bob is a lawyer and writer and software executive and record-label owner and the father of two children out in Pebble Beach, Ca. His daughter is a sophomore at NYU and his son, a junior in high school. "He is as skinny as I was at his age and even 8
million megapixels can't capture his image," writes Bob. The site also had a pleasant chat with Dolly Wohl. She and her husband Jack were counselors at Everett in the '50s. Dolly teaches in the Plainview school district (and has nice things to say about former school board member Eric Schultz). Her husband Jack is an attorney. They live in East Meadow, New York, a great place to escape from, says one Web master who grew up only a few blocks from the Wohl's home.

December 2 - It turns out that Scot Cantor is a CIA operative. Now, he's gonna have to kill me. Actually, he sells military textiles and garments. Until I got Scot's email, I thought to myself I wonder what he does for a living, and I decided — an ice cream man. That reminded me of a story, not a good story or an interesting story, but a story nonetheless, and since I have a big mouth, I'll tell it. After my first year of college, four of my high school buddies were looking for a sucker to go into the ice cream man business with them for the summer. They found one in me, and since I was then working as a groundskeeper for the Mafia and was caught in the crossfire of a union battle, I decided a career move might be in order before, as my co-workers used to say, I was part of the Motor Parkway. Alas, my life as a capitalist lasted all of four days, but that's another tale. Anyway, on the first day, the boss sent me out with the veteran ice cream man, a evil dude named Chick, to learn the tricks of the trade (how to get a five year old to spend all of the five dollar bill his mommy gave him, foolishly expecting him to bring back change, and how to use an empty soda can to reduce the time you need to spend searching for a bathroom). At the end of the day, Chick drove me back to the yard, where he spotted his most successful protege. "Let me introduce you to my star pupil," Chick said proudly. "Lenny Hirsch." Now, I'm sure most of you are saying to yourselves right now, "Who the fuck is that?" For those who don't remember, Lenny was a counselor at Everett for a couple of years. He was such a nerd, that he may have even been the nature counselor, but his specialty really was antagonizing Ed Chazen. And there he was, now an ace ice cream man. There's a moral there some place. I have no idea what it is, but it's there. Getting back to Scot. He lives in Manhattan, has been married 30 years and has (let's say it together) two kids. One is in law school, and the other is applying to college. Maybe, she will be an ice cream woman one day. Scot adds "I am not very interesting ... The only thing that is quasi-noteworthy is that I bought Aunt Dottie's [Goldstein] house in Lee, Ma.

Surfing around on the web, I found this photo of a group of educational consultants in Cambridge, Ma.:

Can you find Harvard Ph.d Beth "Mighty Mouse" Warren?

December 6 - Gary Weiss has found us. He's a lawyer on the West Coast. "Goofy" is one of seven short members of a firm which represents the Disney Corp. (sorry, I couldn't resist). He lives in San Francisco and has apparently not been informed that there is a limit of two children per Camp Everett alumnus. He has three offspring: Maia, 15, Natasha, 11, and Kenzo, 6. Pete Berland will be sent shortly to remove one of them from Mr. Weiss's home. We've also heard from David Sudolsky, a Manhattan resident and a VP and CEO of various startups in the biotech field. Unlike Gary Weiss, David has followed proper breeding guidelines and produced two boys, now seven and three. David says that his mom Bea, is about to have knee replacement surgery. He also writes that Amy is living in Pittsburgh, where she serves as the defensive line coach for the Steelers under Bill Cowher. On my return to camp this fall, I found this graffiti on the wall of one of the senior bunks:

Tonight, I had a nice chat with Arty Garfein, who is a psychiatrist in Colorodo, and who like many of those who attended Everett in the '50s has fond memories of what he calls "Camp E.V." Other '50s folk are starting to appear on the site. More will be heard about them in the coming days. Others who have been heard from include Debbie Gliboff (now Finn), who lives in Scarsdale and works for the Lillian Vernon catalogue company, and Marcy Mashioff, who is single, lives in Manhattan and manages money. Her sister Helene, who did the art work for the 1960s Echo cover, is now known as Randy Mashioff. She lives in North Carolina, where, Marcy says, she is a baker and also communes with nature. Also contacted was Matthew Dulberg, now a lawyer on Long Island. His father Sy is retired and lives in Florida.

December 7 - Lots of news tonight. Today's email brought long-awaited word from Norm Winer, who always brought with him to camp the best collection of rock music tapes of his broadcasts from Brandeis, so it's not surprising he's still in the business. He lives in the Chicago area and programs rock stations for Infinity Broadcasting. He writes, "I help oversee about a dozen stations from Boston to San Diego. I even helped launch a new station this summer in Atlanta called "dave-fm" ("Rock without rules.") As you might gather, our programming approach there, and here in Chicago, is somewhat unconventional. We're geared towards intelligent, music-loving adults. And we play a LOT of different types of music -- new and old. Our basic audience is probably 30-50 years old." He is married with three kids, 16, 12 and nine. I reminded him that I recalled him passionately kissing one of the Tunick sisters in South Pacific. Three hours after I sent him that email, this photo arrived from Jonathan Kaskel:

If anyone else would like me to conjure up shots of their most romantic moments, please let me know. Jonathan Kaskel was only one of several members of the family heard from tonight. Jonathan is the LAN manager at Temple Emanu-el in New York City. Another was Frederick Kaskel, who is a doctor specializing in pediatrics at Einstein in New York City. Rick was at camp in the 50s. Marilyn Kaskel is a veteran producer in TV network news. She now has her own company and produces documentaries. Another veteran who checked in is Karen Chazen (now Romm). She has just retired from her position as a school psychologist in Montclair. She and her husband have three children and live in Manhattan. Greg Nathan has also put in his first appearance. He lives out on the Coast where he does something. What that is, we don't know yet. Perhaps he is an ice cream man. Art Garfein also has put us in touch with Marc Newberg, who is a retired physician living in Greenwich, Ct. and Joanne Berguida (now Smith) who lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Initial contact has also been made with Neil Newberg, Jo Ann Bloch Pine, Margie Levin and several others from the 50s and early 60s. More information on them as it becomes available. Stay tuned.

December 9 - Jo Ann Pine, who attended camp in the late writes that her Everett experience was so wonderful, she and her husband bought their own camp in New Jersey. They've just retired as owners and they live in Livington, New Jersey. Her email address is joze111@msn.com. Perhaps no one has followed the Camp birthrate guidelines better than Jo Ann, who has two sons, two daughters-in-law (I guess they'd have to be living in Utah if they had more) and two grandsons. The site has now heard from the Orensteins. Steve "Augie" Orenstein works for Sterling Bank. He and his wife live in High Falls, New York, which is spitting distance from here in New Paltz. Debra Orenstein is married and the mom of a 13-year old. They live in East Brunswick, New Jersey where Debra teaches special education with an emphasis on dance and movement. Alan Kaiser has also dropped us a line, saying that he and his wife and their two kids live in Armonk. He co-owns two businesses and has an interest in a NYC restaurant, Marco New York on West 10th Street. Another old timer we have just heard from is Alan Kaye, who attended camp from 1954-1958. He now lives in Boynton Beach, Florida. A note from David Goldstein pointed us toward the fine photographic work of his brother, Renaissance man Barry Goldstein. Take a look at a selection of his marvelous post 9/11 portraits at http://www.bgoldstein.net. The pictures will soon be published in book form. Here's Barry today:

Lisa Kronenberg has suggested that this is not Barry, but is instead Sean Connery. Hmmm, Barry is a fine actor as evidenced by this photo from Guys and Dolls:

Has anyone ever seen the two of them in the same room together? Not that I'm aware of. I think Lisa's right. He's Bond, Barry Bond.
Or could he be Barry Bonds. They both know their chemistry ....

December 9 - After years of searching everywhere, under every rock from the deep Pacific to the Himalayas, the site is very pleased to report that our crack team of detectives on crack has finally located Sid Serbin. The site had a pleasant chat with former camp mom Roz Serbin this afternoon. Sid lives in Queens, where he has a sandwich shop called Sid's Submarines. Actually, he manages a warehouse, but he should have a sandwich shop called Sid's Submarines. Roz is doing well. She says if anyone needs their hair washed, just knock on her door, and she'll get out the old tube of Prell. Roz also reports that Nadine (now Kliegman) is married and lives in New Jersey. Why she would change her name from Nadine to Kliegman I have no idea.

December 12 - The post-reunion email brought long-sought news from Ron (formerly Ronnie) Cohen. Ron attended camp from 1960 to 1969 when he finished up as waterskiing counselor. "Life has been downhill ever since," he says. Ron, his wife and ahem, three children, live out in Palo Alto. He works primarily for the Stanford University Medical School as a neonatologist, an interesting sub-specialty devoted to the study of brightly colored gas lighting. He writes, " My wife, Aileen, is also a Stanford doc, doing Pediatric Heme/Onc. Dinner conversation is really cheery & up-lifting." Ron reports the good news that his parents, Irv and Myra are doing well in Florida. His pneumatic brother Terry is a cardiologist in West Palm Beach. Ron says he'd love to hear from his former Camp Everett friends. His email address is ronald.cohen@sbcglobal.net. At the reunion were a number of people who hadn't been heard from. One was Andy Shore, who is an attorney. He lives in Scarsdale. There are an unknown number of kids there. As soon as the Everett police check for any excessive births, we will report back. Also at the reunion were Camp Everett sweethearts Joan Demar and Lenny Dvorin. In fact, their oldest son, an attorney, is named John Everett Dvorin. How nice, but perhaps it was going a bit far when they named their younger son, a screenwriter, Allen Taconic Connecticut Dvorin. Joan is an interior designer. Lenny works for Datum Global, a New Jersey company that does outsourcing. In fact, Lenny has offered this site such a good deal, that after tonight the Web master will be a fellow named Ramah, who works out of an office in Bangladesh. Margie Levin (formerly Rubin) is a retired school teacher and real estate broker. She and her husband live in Boston. They have two daughters, Rachel, a journalist in San Francisco and Julie who works for the New Democratic Network in New York. She is married to a med student. Lynn Chasen Lipton, who attended camp as a young married couple with her husband Steve (who was then the waterfront counselor) lives in Poughkeepsie, New York. She taught at Vassar's laboratory nursery school, in the Psych department, for 17 years as a head teacher. She says that she has been retired for quite a while and keeps busy with bluegrass fiddling and fiddling with computers. In fact, she has donated two Everett Echoes for downloading. Look for them in the next few days. Perhaps, we'll get her to record a bluegrass version of the Camp Everett marching song.

December 19 - The site has heard from Mike Pearlman, who succeeded Mike Mehrig as golf counselor in 1974 (draw your own conclusion about Mike being replaced and the camp closing in the same year). Mike is a pharmacist, working with Thriftway Pharmacy in Brooklyn and Zitomer Pharmacy in NYC.  His wife Fran works in a dermatology office in Massapequa. They live in Levittown. His son Jason just graduated from New York Institute of Technology and is IT Manager for GPS Tracks, and his daughter Aimee is in her freshman year at Lehigh University. 

December 20 - I was just about to close the door for the night when who walked in but Randy Shipper. Randy, who stopped by the chat room, lives in New Jersey. He said, "I married the most amazing woman who took pity on me and gave me two [she knew the rules!] wonderful kids, Alexandra 16 and Eric 13." Randy says he is a computer consultant, designing software for retail businesses.

December 29 - Work may have stopped over the vacation break, but email didn't. The site has now heard from Julie Heimbinder (now Eden), a high school biology teacher. Being a teacher, she writes that she is aware of progeny rules, and that she and her husband Avery have limited themselves to two children, Andrew, a freshman at Buffalo and daughter Jennifer, 15. We also received a nice note from Doreen Schecter's sister Eileen Tichauer, who was at camp from 1958 to 1965. She and husband Paul live in Toronto and have two college-age sons, David at McGill and Adam at Brown. News has also arrived from another branch of the Scheiner/Malamud family. Shari Weiss Goldsmith and her husband Andrew are another Camp Everett couple. She writes, "I was a CIT that year [1974], and he arrived as a last minute waiter fill in for Dave Levy (who had broken his arm).  The summer began with me "dating" Mike Pearlman.  When Mike and I broke up, around July 22nd, Fern told Andrew that I was available.  We've been together ever since. That's 7 years dating, 23 years married!" Andrew works as a prosecutor with the Department of Justice and Shari is a nutritionist. They have two boys. Michael, 20, is at the University of Virginia, and Jonathan, 15, is an "avid thespian" (not that there's anything wrong with it).

June 14 - It is Flag Day today, so why not add two names to our Where Are They Now List. The site has heard from two more long lost Everetteers. Sara Sprung. She is a portfolio manager for a hedge fund. She lives in NYC is married to an architect (Art Vandelay?) and has three kids. She says she just packed off their trunks for a hippie camp in Maine. We have also heard from Larry Epstein, one of many Epsteins at the camp in the early 70s, all of whom were apparently related. Bob Epstein was the girls' tennis counselor. Rose Epstein worked in the office, while Larry, Miriam and maybe Vivian were campers. Larry is recently divorced after 26 years of marriage. He has two daughters. Rachel is at Tulane, while Dana is a high school senior. Larry lives in Merrick and works in NYC as a data processing manager.

July 4 - Every holiday is a new where are they now day in these parts. We've heard from some new old folks lately. Two of them are Shaws. Pshaw, you say, but no, it's true. And they are related Shaws. One in Rhonda Shaw, who is now Rhonda Hurwitz. She was briefly at camp in '62 or 63, and now lives in Chappaqua. She has two children. Then there's the other Shaw, her brother Bob Shaw, who is now Robert Shaw. He is a Rheumatologist and lives in Baltimore. He has three kids. In his email, Bob noted that he and his sister attended camp (he recalls being there in the late '50s and early '60s) on a scholarship, earned by being the niece and nephew (I'll leave it up to you to guess who was which) of Jack and Dottie Goldstein.

July 11, 2005 - The site is once again hopping with new folks. This morning email brought news from Susan Litwer and Marty Litwer. Susan is an attorney. She said she visited the camp site two years ago, and one of her children survived a swim in the lake. She has two of them (kids, not lakes), Benjamin, 28 and Margery, 25. Marty Litwer, also have two children, of course. He lives in Philadelphia. My Mac also beeped with a hello from Terry Newirth Hirshorn, who a few decades ago was nearly related to me. Terry went to camp from 1952 to 1963. A sister, Jill Newirth Horn, and a brother, David Newirth, started in 1950. Jill and Terry live in Philadelphia. Terry is a chemistry professor at Haverford. She says that if any alumni of Everett find themselves in the area, please look her up. According to her email, Jill has three kids and also a son and daughter in law (one of each). She is on what she calls "high hiatus" after 26 years in the cooking business, the last 20 in her own stall in the Reading Market. No cheesesteaks, but lots of vegetarian stuff. She has expressed an interest in publishing a Camp Everett cookbook, which would probably require a skull and crossbones on the cover. She recalls being a General of China (post Mao) and a captain of Cuba (pre-Fidel). A couple of weeks ago, also brought news from Penny Brown Simmonds, who was at Ev from 1948-1958. She lives in the Bronx. Her email is penflake@aol.com and would love to hear from her old friends.

July 14, 2005 - Since it's Bastille Day, I thought I'd add a few new names to the heard-from list. Brother and sister act Deena and George Kunken live in Boca Raton. I don't know what George is up to yet, but Deena managed a Judaica store in the city. One day, she happened to be in the store when Nellie Scheiner walked in. Deena has a seven-year-old girl. The Kunkens were related to the Shulmans. There were three Shulmans, Jerry, who had a lot of hair, Fran and Elaine. The family business was dog food — Harry and Jack were their biggest customers — and Jerry went into the business, and now runs a business specializing in pet oral hygiene. How they teach dogs to brush their teeth is beyond me, but, hey, Jerry has a nice place in Englewood Cliffs, NJ, so he must know the secret. He has two boys, 19 and 12. Fran is married and lives in Manhattan and has abided by the rules with two of her own. Elaine lives out on Long Island. We've heard from her before. Milt Field is another New Jersey resident. He's in the insurance business, been married for quite a while and not unexpectedly his two progeny are tall. His 6-5 son is in finance, his daughter, 5-10, is a teacher. The site also had a pleasant chat with Artie Gang, who is a lawyer out in Westport, Ct. He has three children. Tsk, tsk, Artie, you'll have to give one back. Artie says that his sister Toby works for AT&T. She lives in Philly and unlike Artie understands the law and issued two youngins. A brief chat was also had with one of our more distinguished alumni, former Congressman Stephen Solarz, who now lives in McLean, Virginia. Our 50s group has been recruiting heavily. This evening came word from Judy Levy, who is now Judy Lesley. She was an actress and is now a manager. She lives and works in Greenwich Village.

July 17, 2005 - In honor of my brother's birthday, I thought I'd add a few names to the list. Marcia Ames is now Marcia Sauer. She has been a kindergarten teacher for some 32 years. She and her husband of 26 years have violated Everett reproduction guidelines by having four children, two girls and two boys. One daughter is an environemtnal engineer, the other runs a sporting good shop. Their oldest son is applying to law school. The other is a student at Rutgers and hopes to be a veterinarian.

July 25, 2006 - Since today is the 27th birthday of Louise Brown, the world's first test tube baby, I thought I'd add a new name to our where-are-they-now list. That person is Marjorie Keith, formerly known as Margie Zeitz. Margie and her husband Michael live in Mendham, New Jersey. Marjorie has two children, Ben and Jesse. She taught for a number of  years.  Her brother Barney, who was also at camp is a widely celebrated sculptor. You can see his work at his Web site: www.bzeitz.com.

August 8, 2005 - On the eve of the thirty first anniversary of Richard Nixon's resignation, I thought I'd add a few names to the list. Yesterday, the Web site had a wonderful chat with Barbara Rosenbaum. Barbara's is the fourth Camp Everett marriage that we know of. She married Stu Kandel, who showed up in 1969 or 1970 for only the last month, as what Barbara called a "replacement counselor." I have no recollection of the counselors going on strike that year or of Norm hiring scabs, but I guess it's true. They have been married 34 years and have two children. Barbara is a hospital pharmacist. Stu is a salesman for a moving company, and they live in Jericho. In the afternoon yesterday, the phone rang, and I soon found myself in a wonderful conversation with Beth Fishman, who just may be may be the nicest and warmest person in America. Beth is in the real estate business, but she says she is semi-retired. She and her husband live in Walnut Creek, Ca. He's an accountant. Beth has two children. Beth's younger sister Mindy Fishman (she, who went to the prom with everyone in my bunk but me) is a dermatologist on Long Island (divorced, three kids, she's quite a catch!). There was a third Fishman who only showed up at camp on visiting day, so she doesn't count. But if you're curious, she's a lawyer with an office in Westchester. She doesn't have a name. Beth, by the way, has a movie credit to her name. I believe she was a caterer on "Amadeus." That means, if you look really really carefully at the teeth of F. Murray Abraham, you might see little pieces of food prepared by Beth. The site also had a nice chat with David Nadelman last night. David can be forgiven for asking how to spell Everett. Getting a wedgie every day for three years will do that to a person. Actually, David has recovered quite well from his Camp Everett experience. He is a husband and father. He lives in the Boston area, where he manages the Hyatt Regency in the city. Let's all go up there and steal a few towels. His mom, Bunny Nadelman, plays bridge with my mom where they live at North Shore Towers on the Queens-Nassau County border.

August 16 — In celebration of the anniversary of the closing on our house, I thought I'd offer up a few more tidbits of news that have come our way. Stephen Gollomp is the chief of neurology at Lankenau Hospital and lives in Bryn Mawr. He has three daughters. Steve is a nice fellow, and we think he can be convinced to give one up. When I mentioned to Michael (Morty) Keisman that Marc Newberg currently owns the record among us for the earliest summer at Everett, 1945, Mike said in reply, "I think I have the record." But age being what it is, he had no idea when his first summer was. He is a retired psychologist. "No, he corrected, himself. "You never stop being a psychologist. He lives in Sarasota, Florida. His uncle, Dave Halperin, formerly owned Everett. The site also had a nice chat with Howard Pogolowitz, who attended Everett in the '50s and '60s. He was in the office supply business and is now retired and also living in Florida. And finally, the phone rang late this afternoon, and on the other line was Dr. William A. Lerner, aka Billy Lerner. Bill is a hemotologist/oncologist. He lives on the Jersey Shore. He is married and has properly reproduced with two children, both of whom are in LA learning the film business. The site also had a pleasant chat with Vicki Klappholz, who used to be known around these parts as Vicki Valiant. She is a reading specialist tudor. She is married with daughters and lives in New Jersey.

August 21, 2005 - Gil Rosenthal is one of Philadelphia's leading architects. His wife is an Episcopalian priest (if you're planning an Episcopalian wedding and happen to be in the Philadelphia area, she's the one to call). He has two daughters, one on her was to Paris, where she is spending her junior year at the Sorbonne, and one just back from studying in Peru. The site also tracked down Lori Wiener, who lives in Maryland. She is married with two children. She works at the National Cancer Institute as the Coordinator of its Pediatric HIV Psychosocial Support Program . To read more about her wonderful work, click here.

August 27, 2005 - I meant to post this on August 22, in honor of the 40th anniversary of Juan Marichal clobbering Johnny Roseboro with his base ball bat (an incident announced by Al Hecht at the rec hall flagpole, by the way), but I forgot, so here's the news five days late: Susan Wolf, daughter of Irene and Stan, lives in Palo Alto with her husband Brian and two (the Wolfs were taught to be obedient) teenaged sons, Jeff and Kevin. She has been a nurse at Stanford Hospital for the last 20 years. She writes that she just returned from a cruise to Mexico where they celebrated Irene's 80th birthday. Wendy Wolf is married and has a 14-year-old son Chris, and a yellow lab named Chloe (that counts as two kids, I guess). She manages a public health clinic in San Francisco. She lives in Moraga, California. Jimmy Suffin lives in Florida. He is a sales rep for an industrial paper and packaging company. He is married and has a stepdaughter. His sister Jill is a massage therapist in Colorado. She has a daughter.

August 26, 2007 - Wow, two years since the last update. It's taken that long for someone to write me an email. Well, here's some old news and new news. I heard from Roger Schank, who was probably the smartest person (besides me, of course) to attend camp. Roger, who was at Everett in the 1950s, sent me this partial bio: 

Dr. Schank  is the Chief Learning Officer of Trump University. He is also the CEO of Socratic Arts.   He was  Chief
Education Officer of Carnegie Mellon West and Distinguished Career Professor in the School of Computer Science at
Carnegie Mellon University from 2001-2004. He founded he renowned Institute for the Learning Sciences at
Northwestern University in 1989 where he is John P. Evans Professor Emeritus in Computer Science, Education and
Psychology.  From 1974-1989, he was Professor of computer science and psychology at Yale University, Chairman of
the Computer Science department, and Director of the Yale Artificial Intelligence Project.  He was a visiting professor
at the University of Paris VII, and Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Linguistics at Stanford University and
research fellow at the Institute for Semantics and Cognition in Switzerland.  He is a fellow of the AAAI and was
founder of the Cognitive Science Society and co-founder of the Journal of Cognitive Science.  He holds a Ph.D. in
linguistics from University of Texas.  

In 1994, he founded Cognitive Arts Corp, a company that designed and built high quality multimedia simulations for
use in corporate training and for on line university level courses. The latter were built in partnership with Columbia
University.

In  2002 he founded Socratic Arts Inc, a company that is devoted to make high quality e-learning by doing affordable
for both businesses and schools.

He is the author of more than 20 books on learning, language, artificial intelligence, education, memory, reading,
e-learning, and story telling. Some recent ones are   Coloring Outside the Lines:  Raising a Smarter Kid by Breaking
All the Rules,  Engines for Education, Making Minds Less Well Educated  Than Our Own, and Designing World Class
E-Learning, Lessons in Learning, e-learning, and training: perspective and guidance for the enlightened trainer.

He received the American Society for Training & Development Award for Distinguished Contributions to Workplace
Learning and Performance June, 2001, and was named the number one e-learning guru by Epic Group in the United
Kingdom in 2005. Mr. Schank attended Camp Everett in the 1950s where his specialities were lanyards and hospital corners.

 

We also heard from Sally Meyers, who lives outside Boston. She has three children, after being special permission by the web master to have a third. Here's a bit of what she had to say, 

"I think for a very brief moment I went out with your brother Alan (maybe all the way to the laundry shack if I remember.) I'm so old now I  can't even figure out the years I went to camp but they were definitely the best. Of course I remember Wendy Glasser I shared "the three room" with her and Janet Schwartz in College Hall 1968 (saw the picture) We were the luckiest we had our own sink!!!!

I remember Lisa K going out with Corey and Lisa had the best clothes and her mother made almost all of them. I  remember Steve Dennison who was from New Rochelle, Wendy Glaser, 3 Simon sisters, Gloria,  Janet Schwartz, Patti Pashutsky and Susan Weiss all from Brooklyn I remember the name Nadine Serbin and some others.

I loved that camp and wished it was still there for my kids to go to.
I would love to have another reunion, and hope somebody remembers me, I didn't think I was a nerd!!

Billy Raphael, who went to camp in the 1950s also checked in, as did Doug (aka Dougie) Weiss. We also heard from Ed Rand, who in those days was Eddie Rosenstein. He passed along the following recollections:

I spent the summers of 1942 through 1956 at Camp E-V (I know, E-R-E-double--T--BOOM), known as Eddie Rosenstein.
If the social hall remained, you'd have found my name scrawled everywhere backstage.
Bunk mates who followed along year by year included Howie Tolk, Mike Warren, Donny Birn (whose Dad owned a piece of the action).
Others, too, but I'll recall their names only when I wake at 2 AM (or Paul reminds me).  Campers lost touch, which I regret.
Right now I'm cradling my Citation of Merit plaque "for outstanding performance, All Around Athlete." Though for which year, who knows.
My brother Paul also was there most of those years.  He's a bit younger and has tons of OLD photos.
Head counsellor used to balance a lawnmower on his face. Paul will know his name. Believe I used to go out with his lovely daughter.
Smile to drive me crazy.  Ah, the things I should have known back then, in that very different world (but, obviously, did not).
I'm sending Paul a copy of this as you might contact him with a best way to use the photos

I started as a papoose, with female counsellors, in the very first bunk on the boy's campus, by the showers.
I was there when they built the bunks that backed on the lake. The water pump cycled "boom-boom-BUMPH," endlessly.
The girls' head counsellor's favorite song was "My Dame Has A Lame Tame Crane," I believe.
Why, after all these years, can I still sing THAT?
Did you have Color War, or by then had it faded into something gentler?
Passed my deep water test because Marty Finkel had, though I hated squirming through the patches of lilly-things.
Recall the fire that took the mess hall, and busing to meals until they built a smaller version behind the social hall, where we ate in shifts.
It later became the nature shack. 

Another old camper checking in was Donald Birn, who now has the title of the earliest camper at Everett. Here's what he had to say:

Please let me know if you would like the email addresses of any of the above.