Twenty Questions With ..............
Eric Schultz
Jeff Kisseloff
Scot Cantor
David Granet
Ernie Schultz
Eric Schultz:
1) What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you
think of Everett?
The color green and the Berkshire Mountains
2) What is your favorite memory of camp?
Going to the NY Jet’s
training camp and having some kid ask Joel Pitagorsky sign his football.
Joel lit up, smiled and said, “Sure
kid, what’s your name?” He signed it right below Joe Willie.
Somewhere some kid has his dad’s football with the signatures of
all the Jet Hall of Famer’ and Joel Pitagorsky
3) Your most
nightmarish memory?
Billy Losoff
4) Your greatest camp triumph?
Making my bed to start the Apache Relay, in less than 60 seconds.
Sad, eh?
5) Here’s your opportunity to apologize to someone:
Wendy Glasser (see answer to question 8)
6) Time to get this off your chest:
I should have been
on the “A” team
7) Yeah, it was
disgusting:
Watching them cook food during my years as a waiter.
8) Who was your favorite prom date?
Julie Biblowitz
9) With whom would you have wanted to attend the prom but never
did so?
Here’s your chance to state your case to that person.
Beth Warren, wherever you are. We had a lot of fun at the
square dance one year and you let me walk you back to the linen shack.
We were about to kiss when someone shined a flashlight in our eyes.
We parted and never were able to rekindle the passion of that moment.
10) What was your finest arts and crafts creation?
Are
you kidding? I fucked up even the most simple ash tray.
11) Regrets?
I’ve had a few, but then again too
many to mention.
12) Roz Serbin in a Princess Leia bikini, Herman Brenner in
a thong,
or any other adolescent camp fantasy:
Naked tribal warfare counsel, adults only, of course.
13) Camp Everett never had a motto. Create one:
How come
I always got the freakin’ Pagoda?
14) This should have been an Olympic sport, because I would
have been
great at it.
Raids
15) One year on banquet night, when I sent my candle
out on the lake,
this was my wish:
That
winter would go quickly so that we can get back to camp again.
16) This is what I learned most from my Camp Everett experience:
People are different but each brings something to the table. With patience
you can learn something from anyone.
17) This is probably what I
shouldn’t have learned from
Camp Everett:
10 -12 people in one bunk with one toilet is not a good idea.
18) This is the most memorable person I met at Camp Everett
(and
explain why):
Joel Pitagorsky. Pitt was irreverent and funny. When Joel was
my counselor and group leader I was on the verge of young manhood. He gave
us a sense of irreverence, not taking yourself so seriously that you cant
see the forest because of the trees.
19) This should have been the Camp Everett song:
It’s
a Gas, by Alfred E, Neuman
20) My favorite memory of Jeff Kisseloff, Web master par excellence:
Watching Jeff read the NY Times from cover to cover at 16. We were P.C.s
that year and most of us thought MAD magazine was War and Peace.
1) What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you
think of Everett?
Just being young and all it entailed -- that and atomic wedgies
2) What is
your favorite memory of camp?
Close friendships never came easy
for me, so oddly, maybe my favorite memory is of the last day of camp every
year when the intensity of the relationships that had been formed became
so apparent with the end of summer and the realization
of just how much I was going to miss them. Also: dancing to the “Good
Old Days” on square dance night,
gosh, that was fun in part because the tune was so danceable it was the
only time I ever felt coordinated on the dance floor.
3) Your worst memory?
Trembling at the thought of having to ask a girl to the prom
4) Your greatest camp triumph?
Many are Olympics related: catching a pass (after dropping about four
of them) from Corey Scher that not only won the game but may
have clinched a very very close Olympics one year, plotting a winning
apache relay team, running the anchor in a marathon and winning. But
also: using my brain and teaching myself how to successfully place hit
in softball and play tennis by switching the racket from hand to hand
to make up for a complete lack of strength; sending Kenny Hausner to
the infirmary with a frisbee to the chest after a rather nasty argument
over the Vietnam war during which he physically threatened me (I took
these things rather seriously even then); putting the kibosh on tribal
warfare one year; in 1971 after being caught on a raid, challenging Pete
Berland and the counselors to a counselor-waiter softball game. If they
won, I’d
be docked for half the summer, if we won, I’d get off scot free.
We won; and finally, my first kiss (not from Pete, Abbie Attenson in
1965).
5) Here’s your opportunity to apologize to
someone:
To Alan Pollack: cool fairy was an awful nickname. I’m sorry.
To Francine Shulman: When I was I think 10, I asked Francine to the prom
but then broke up with her after I saw her eating a tuna fish sandwich
and all the mayonnaise was sticking to her braces. My shallowness shone
through even then. Francine, wherever you are, I’m sorry.
6) Time
to get this off your chest:
One year, a bunkmate and I hid the toothbrush of another bunkmate the
first week of camp. Not once during the summer did the other bunkmate
realize his was missing.
7) Yeah, it was disgusting:
See above. Also, I once sat next to Toby Glick on a bench when she was
having a particularly itchy day.
8) Who was your favorite prom date?
Andee, my first non-juvenile relationship
9) With whom would you have wanted to attend the
prom but never did so? Here’s your chance to state your case to
that person.
Mindy Fishman, you went through every one else in my bunks during the
years you were there, so I guess I'm next by default.
10) What was your finest arts and crafts creation?
A 4” by 4” mosaic hot plate, signed on the back. Here it
is:
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11) Regrets?
I wish I had been less of a wiseass, but then again I'm still trying
to learn how.
12) Roz Serbin in a Princess Leia bikini (Herman Brenner in a thong)
or any other adolescent camp fantasy:
Man, Debbie Berland... Pete was one lucky fellow.
13) Camp Everett never had a motto. Create one:
Where There’s Always Someone Else to Pick On
14) This should have been an Olympic sport, because I was great at it:
rabblerousing
15) One year on banquet night, when I sent my candle out on the lake,
this was my wish:
That I would grow up to be just like Billy Losoff.
16) This is what I learned most from my Camp Everett experience:
How to fold my shirts with the crease out.
17) This is probably what I shouldn’t have
learned from Camp Everett:
How to inflict emotional distress on others
18) This is the most memorable
person I met at Camp Everett (and explain why):
I never thought there was a cooler counselor than Phil Zittell, who accomplished
it without also being mean unlike a few other counselors.
19) This should have been the Camp Everett song:
You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch)
20) This is what I remember or don’t want to remember or don’t
remember at all about exalted web master par excellence Jeff Kisseloff:
He didn't make much of an impression on me, other than a vague recollection
of a kid with ears larger than dumbo's and the happiest guy in America
the day he first skipped a haircut.
1) What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you
think of Everett?
Standing before the flagpole on a cold August morning hoping
my underwear wasn't on the flagpole or worse on the girls flagpole.
2)
What is your favorite memory of camp?
Early morning cookout with Herman Brenner.
3) Your worst memory?
During the summer of 1957
my grandfather died and Mark, David, Barry and I were told and then
we had a very quiet breakfast at the directors table.
4) Your greatest camp triumph?
Winning three man basketball tournament. I was a zero but Mark
Falkawitz carried us to victory.
5) Here’s your opportunity to apologize to someone:
I
apologize to everybody because I was such a spoiled brat.
6) Time to get this off your chest:
I wasted artisan
well water.
7) Yeah, it was disgusting:
Stale white bread and
sweaty salami given to us on trip days.
8) Who was your favorite prom date?
Arlene Fish. The
date was arranged by the staff for the kids who didn't have dates. She
was charming, pretty and a very nice person. I am sorry I didn't
get to know her better before.
9) With whom would you have wanted to attend the prom but never
did so? Here’s your chance to state your case to that person.
Mark
Ruben's sister.
10) What was your finest arts and crafts creation?
Enamel
cuff links.
11) Regrets?
Not buying the camp property when it
closed.
12) Roz Serbin in a Princess Leia bikini (Herman Brenner in a
thong) or any other adolescent camp fantasy:
Going to Bambiland
with the girls arts and crafts counselor. No,
it wasn't Rose Blaustein but a beautiful girl with dark hair who was
there for only a year.
13) Camp Everett never had a motto. Create one:
14) This should have been an Olympic sport, because I was great
at it:
Having your fillings pulled out by Sugar Daddy's on
movie nights.
15) One year on banquet night, when I sent my candle out on the
lake, this was my wish:
That I could live there all year long.
16) This is what I learned most from my Camp Everett experience:
To
be self sufficient. Also about sex (actually not everything was correct
but you have to consider the source)-they placed sophomores on one side
of the bunk and seniors on the other.
17) This is probably what I shouldn’t have learned from
Camp Everett:
To be more athletic.
18) This is the most memorable person I met at Camp Everett (and
explain why):
Sam Kostman, boys head counselor. He was
a nice guy who
had strong moral and religious feelings. He wanted the campers
to enjoy themselves and have a sense of freedom. He wasn't
afraid to butt heads with the directors.
19) This should have been the Camp Everett song:
20) This is what I remember or don’t want to remember or
don’t remember at all about exalted web master par excellence Jeff
Kisseloff:
Nice kid who was very athletic.
1) What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you
think of Everett?
Some of the best times of my life.
2) What is your favorite memory of camp?
There are so many. The friendships and closeness. The way the 2 months
of summer were as important as the year of school. Winning intercamp
games against camps much bigger than us. The Pit apache. Zoom Schwartz
Bafigliano. First kisses. Being the first birthday each year of camp
(June 30). Calling for Roz in the mess hall. Talking to Corey Scher in
the middle of the night when he was my counselor. Learning about life
from the older guys. It goes on and on.....
3) Your worst memory?
Hmmm.... My parents being late for visiting day. My brother Kenny chasing
me each year for atomic punches for my birthday! But the really worst
memory was Everett closing before I could be a waiter or run color war.
I wanted that badly.
4) Your greatest camp triumph?
Winning basketball tourney at camp Wahnee. Winning soccer at Camp berkshire
(sp?). Dating some of the girls at camp (whose names will be anonymous).
5)
Here’s your opportunity to apologize to someone:
Got nothing on this one
6) Time to get this off your chest:
I HATED the camp closing.
7) Yeah, it was disgusting:
Purple nurples.
8) Who was your favorite prom date?
Jeff's sister - Heidi!
9) With whom would you have wanted
to attend the prom but never did so? Here’s your chance to state
your case to that person.
I have no regrets!
10) What was your finest arts and crafts creation?
I still have this little cup I made....
11) Regrets?
Nope.
12) Roz Serbin in a Princess Leia bikini (Herman Brenner in a thong)
or any other adolescent camp fantasy:
Hey I had to live with my sister Ellen being the hot waterski instructor
in a bikini. That was enough.
13) Camp Everett never had a motto. Create one:
Life just doesn't get any better.
14) This should have been an Olympic sport, because I was
great at it:
Well I was very good at Pit Apache events like the long Pee and making
the bed.
15) One year on banquet night, when I sent my candle out on the lake,
this was my wish:
For the year to go quickly
16) This is what I learned most from my Camp Everett experience:
Life is not a spectator sport. I learned I could be a part of a group
- a team player and come through when my buddies counted on me.
17) This is probably what I shouldn’t have learned from
Camp Everett:
Farting is funny.
18) This is the most memorable person I met at Camp Everett
(and explain why):
There are so many. Corey Scher. Great overall athlete, girls loved him
and guys wanted to be him. Steve Bilsky - big reps don't make good people.
19) This should have been the Camp Everett song:
Friends.
20) This is what I remember or don’t want to remember or don’t
remember at all about exalted web master par excellence Jeff Kisseloff:
I got a big fat blank here!
1) What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you
think of Everett?
Friends, Friends, Friends, we will always be
2) What is your favorite memory of camp?
Not memory, memories. Many memories..
The Pitt Apache, putting a postage stamp on Eddie Chazens head as he was leaving
camp, talking with Norm Weiner about music, talking with Jeff and Monkey and
my brother every night when we were PC’s, raids, poison ivy with Sheryl
Turkish, watching shooting stars with Debbie Feldstein, seeing Robin Portnoy
play a boy in Oliver one summer and then looking like a playmate
the next summer (where is she?), John Navarro and Pete Berland’s
standoff as John was about to shoot a bow and arrow at a raccoon, driving
home in the rain in a Volkswagon without windshield wipers with Lenny
Planes and Corey Scher, and on and on…
3) Your worst memory?
I honestly don’t have any bad memories of camp. I broke a toe once and
a pinkie, but that didn’t slow me down.
4) Your greatest camp triumph?
Scoring 42 points in an intercamp basketball
game and having Pit call me up at dinner to recognize the achievement.
5) Here’s your opportunity to apologize to
someone:
Douglas Klein,
sorry (but, what is for dinner?)
6) Time to get this off your chest:
nothing here
7) Yeah, it was disgusting:
Hockey pucks
8) Who was your favorite prom date?
Patti, who told me as we were dancing
to “As tears go by” that
dancing with me was like dancing with a basketball pole, But I love her
anyway. Always will.
9) With whom would you have wanted to attend the
prom but never did so? Here’s
your chance to state your case to that person.
I have no regrets here.
10) What was your finest arts and crafts creation?
I made an E out of wood.
I think though it started with taking an E and painting it, so really I did
nothing. But it was fabulous!
11) Regrets?
I couldn’t beat Marc Berman at the end of the Apache relay. We
ran the last leg and he was just faster than me, I let my team down,
my family, my friends – I am so ashamed…and I also lost
to him in racket ball – damn, he sure ruined that summer!
12) Roz
Serbin in a Princess Leia bikini (Herman Brenner in a thong) or any other
adolescent camp fantasy:
Willa, Willa, Willa – a young boy’s
fantasy
13) Camp Everett never had a motto. Create one:
Nothing comes to mind – guess that’s
why I never went into advertising
14) This should have been an Olympic
sport, because I was great at it:
Raids
15) One year on banquet night, when I sent my candle out on the
lake, this was my wish:
Like everyone, to come back the next year
16) This is what I learned most
from my Camp Everett experience:
Friendships are to be treasured. And no
matter how long it may be, there is nothing like your friends from camp
17)
This is probably what I shouldn’t have learned from Camp Everett:
Pharmaceuticals
18) This is the most memorable person I met at Camp Everett
(and explain why):
Like Eric, Joel Pitagorsky was probably the most influential.
He was cool, he was understanding, me was our friend, our mentor. He died
much too young.
19) This should have been the Camp Everett song:
In 1970 I played Woodstock
non stop with my large stereo system, which to this day I can’t believe my parents let me bring to camp. Woodstock
started with the Richie Havens song “Freedom”, which really
was what camp was all about.
20) This is what I remember or don’t want to remember or don’t
remember at all about exalted web master par excellence Jeff Kisseloff:
“My old friend Mishaloff” – don’t
remember who said it, but it will always be funny to me.
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