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Keewaydin Dunmore 2021: The Reboot

The groves of birches are beckoning to Keewaydin campers and staff. Nearly two years after we blew out our candles and promised to keep “Keewaydin’s friendships strong and deep,” we will be meeting again on the shores of Lake Dunmore. How will we react? What will it be like to see friends we haven’t seen in such Once again, the Keewaydin waterfront will be alive with canoes, kayaks, sailboats and a long time? What will camp be like swimmers! with Covid still in our midst? Lee Randlett and the York House Keewaydin’s No doubt, there is going to be a lot Crew have built sinks on the outside of unbridled joy! And, no doubt, of all of the forts. With approximately Podcasters there will be changes in place this three times as many sinks, it will summer to make sure we stay healthy. be much easier to wash hands this There will be testing, cohorting, summer—all in the fresh air! By Peter Hare ’59 masking and distancing; but there will still be morning dips, formation, Will campers and staff have to wear Media gets a lot of negative attention activities, general swim, rest hour, masks all summer? We will definitely these days. Many believe it is the hikes on Moosalamoo, and lagoon have to wear masks a lot, but not primary engine of hyper partisanship. investigations; not to mention navy all the time. Each wigwam will be Competition for views and clicks has seals, boats out, campfires, Old Timers divided into “cohorts” of three to meant more emphasis on quick, eye- Day, the Frolics and more! four tents. A “cohort” will operate catching (i.e. sensational) material. as a family, meaning when only they continued on page 2 What will be some of the biggest are together, they don’t wear masks. changes? Probably the most Therefore, while in tents or meals or cohort-only activities—no mask- noticeable will be the large event In This Issue style tent over the MacDonald tennis wearing required. Nevertheless, court. Given that being in tight during free time when around others quarters indoors is conducive to viral (from other cohorts) or when entering Alex Wolff's New Book 6 spread, we will have over half of the any building, we put our masks on. As the season progresses, it is likely those camp eating outdoors under the tent Keewaydin Temagami Closed 7 this summer. That will be different! cohorts will begin to merge until a wigwam is one big cohort. continued on page 2 Alumni News 9

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The wigwams will also be older. By the time this Kicker arrives in your inbox, campers in their final Keewaydin Dunmore Older? Why is that? When we made days of school will be daydreaming of 500 Rustic Lane the decision to close last summer, we told campers who were scheduled plunging into Lake Dunmore, parents Salisbury VT 05769 to go on the Wilderness trips and will be double-checking packing lists, the Moos senior trip that they could and staff will be setting up tents and Tel 802 352 4770 return in 2021 to complete their putting in docks. Keewaydin’s summer Fax 802 352 4772 Keewaydin journey. By doing that, it of 2021 is about to begin! holds all other campers back a year, Peter Hare which means essentially that each Camp Director wigwam is a year older. We figure it v v v will take two to four years to fully Keewaydin Foundation return to the normal age breakdowns Podcasts Board of Directors in wigwams. continued from page 1 Janice Farrell Day, President The tripping program will move Jeff Howe, Vice President forward—with one significant There is one form of 21st century Barry G. Cline, Treasurer difference: with the border to Canada media, however, that runs counter Laurice Arroyo, Secretary still closed we most likely will not be to the trend of appealing to short able to trip in Canada. As a result, attention spans looking for a quick Benjamin B. Beinecke the Wilderness trips are set to head to rush. This is, of course, the podcast. Laurie Burton-Graham the Boundary Waters in Minnesota For those not familiar, a podcast is Thomas Gluck and the Moos senior trip will explore audio media, usually in the form of interview, analysis or narration, Rana Kashyap the wilds of Maine with an itinerary that will take them to the site of the covering subject matter that, quite Garrett M. Kephart original Keewaydin, as well as the literally, covers any human interest Dan Kunkle Allagash River, the territory of the imaginable—bee keeping, beer Louise Lampton original senior trip! brewing, basket weaving, sports, Timothy F. Nicholson politics, history, philosophy, canoeing Carolina Pardo There will be many familiar faces and on and on! People can subscribe Frederick W. Reimers back on staff. All of the Wigwam and listen to podcasts through the internet on their computers or mobile Victoria K. Robertson Directors will be back—Ben Jacoff in Annwi, Stephen Hildreth in devices. In many ways, podcasts are Katie Tanz Waramaug, Scott McCurdy in similar to radio shows (in fact many Wiantinaug, and Owen Gutfreund in radio shows are also available as Peter Hare Moos. Carlos Spigel with be joining podcasts), the biggest differences, Executive Director the Leadership Team, replacing Ben however, being that people can listen Jacoff as Annwi Director second half. to podcasts whenever they want, the www.keewaydin.org Given that we missed last summer, medium is not regulated by the FCC, [email protected] this year’s new staff will be larger and the number of podcasts available than ever–31 new staff! Twenty-six is not limited to radio bandwidth. Tam Stewart are former campers, many of them There are well over 100,000 podcasts Design & Production having completed Moosalamoo and in English, and that number grows Wilderness. They will be joined by daily! six new to Keewaydin, who will bring varied talents and fresh ideas. We are continued on next page

2 Podcasts given that he grew continued from page 2 up listening to audio shows on the radio, Podcasts are mostly long-form media, cassette tapes or CDs with episodes lasting at least 15 such as “Radio Mystery minutes, though many last 60 minutes Theater” and “Prairie or longer. This duration allows for Home Companion.” depth, detail, nuance and complexity After listening to many for listeners who really want a deep “pods” over many dive into a subject they love. years, he eventually became intrigued Given that podcasts can be such a with making one thoughtful form of media, requiring himself and concluded unusual expertise, imagination, and that producing one commitment, it is no surprise that about “the infinitely Bill O’Hare (right) with podcast partner, Dan Hannon Keewaydin staff have joined the interesting stories podcasting ranks! Ken Woodard '81, in education could be the basis the wide range of compelling things a 20+ year staffman at Keewaydin, is for a wide-ranging and engaging in teaching that don’t always get the dean of Keewaydin podcasters. He series.” Woodard sees teaching as attention from traditional media.” started “Lunch Duty: For Teachers, By “fundamentally about human-to- Teachers” in 2017. Waramaug staffman human connection” and podcasting Woodard believes that the podcast and middle and high school teacher as “ideal for conveying nuances of is uniquely suited for the type of Bill O’Hare '15 has been entertaining personal contact.” program he wants to produce. He and edifying the Buffalo sports fanatics explains that there is “something with “Buckets and Dan’s Sportsland” Since 2017, Woodard has produced profoundly intimate about the human for over a year. Gray Gutfreund '12, over 30 episodes which capture the voice that, when well produced, can who will be a first year staff in 2021, richness of school culture. Nearly be more affecting than video.” He is the junior member of the group. all of his episodes have members of strives to create an atmosphere with He started his sports podcast, the “I the school community as guests— his guests that make them “forget the am Guru Gray,” at the start of the students, teachers, administrators, microphone and relax into natural pandemic. parents or school board members. dialogue.” When this happens, he Topics have included teachers says, “the humor and pathos intrinsic Woodard has been a devotee of the transitioning mid-career into to teaching really come out and make podcast genre since it emerged in the education, the job interview, robotics for compelling radio.” early 2000s. This comes as no surprise competitions, the advent of online textbooks, theater For Bill O’Hare, starting “Buckets programs, how and Dan’s” was, as much as anything administrators make else, a way to keep connected with important and his close college friend, Dan Hannon. difficult decisions, test When the two were undergrads at preparation strategies, Cortland State in upstate New York what teachers should they had a radio show together. Both know about student are proud Buffalonians and avid interaction with social supporters of their city’s sports teams. media, predicting when Their podcast allows them to banter snow days will happen, about sports in general, but their focus and much, much more. is clearly Buffalo’s professional sports What he hopes makes teams, the Sabres and the Bills. They “Lunch Duty” special is its “openness to continued on next page Ken Woodard

3 Podcasts nickname) and Dan are the high recording equipment and replace them continued from page 3 priests. with paddles and PFDs. Undoubtedly, the same kind of inspiration, do a regular Q&A with their audience Gray Gutfreund, a sports fanatic since enthusiasm and imagination they and frequently have guests on the his dad put a New York Giants onesie bring to their podcasts they will also show, including such past luminaries on him, can tell you the average bring to Keewaydin this summer! as Bills quarterback Rob Johnson and yards per carry for every starting NFL fullback Sam Gash, and Sabres goalie running back on a weekly basis and Martin Biron and forward JP Dumont. v v v give you his ranking of top 25 NBA shooting guards by decade. A guru, Bill and Dan’s knowledge of their indeed. Notwithstanding his facility teams is surpassed only by the depth Time to Go Shopping at with numbers and statistics, his real of their passion for them. Using the gift is his gift of gab. His show is the Keewaydin Store! first person plural “we” and “our” almost exclusively a solo act—Guru when speaking of the Sabres and Bills Gray shares his insights, analysis and Hankering for some great reveals a very personal relationship. opinions on sports (mostly basketball Keewaydin apparel? Who These teams don’t just provide and football) and we listen with rapt doesn’t want to proudly wear a entertainment: they are friends, they attention. Nevertheless, there is a Keewaydin T-shirt, or perhaps a are family, they are civic treasures. relaxed feel that engages the listener. Keewaydin hat, or maybe a nice Buffalo, a small market sports city, has Gutfreund says that his goal is for Keewaydin flannel shirt? Go to not celebrated many championships the audience to feel “as though they the Keewaydin Store online to (the last was the Bills in 1965). The are listening to me have a regular find the gear that you want and Bills famously lost four Super Bowls conversation” with them. wear it with pride! in a row. The term “long-suffering fans” doesn’t even begin to describe Gutfreund’s primary role model for the level of despair Buffalo fans have his podcasting style and format is endured. However, there is something Bill Simmons, the founder of the pure and beautiful about being a wildly popular sports and pop culture fan of the perennial underdog–it Flannel Shirt podcast network, “The Ringer.” He breeds patience, humility, and an looks at podcasting as a “more free almost mystical hope that you will flowing form of media” than writing. be delivered from years of suffering Describing himself as “extremely to the heights of glory in a way that opinionated,” he views podcasting “as is practically religious. If sports are a way to express my unique opinions.” a religion in Buffalo, Buckets (Bill’s Though he has taken a hiatus from his Ball Cap podcast while finishing up his senior year in high school, we will look forward to his return to the medium in the future, perhaps, someday, next to Bill Simmons on “The Ringer!” T-Shirt

Woodard, O’Hare and Gutfreund will be on Dunmore’s shores this summer as part of the Visit our website at 2021 staff. They will shed www.keewaydin.org, their microphones and and click on Camp Store! Gray Gutfreund

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5 Endpapers, Alex to pull in non- sports threads— Wolff’s New Book about basketball and culture, about basketball and Barack Obama. Alex Wolff ’70 has written a new But a lot of book! After a career writing about my SI stories have sports, Wolff has turned to a new been historical, so genre—a family memoir with an the ground wasn’t historical backdrop. In Endpapers, he that unfamiliar. tells the story of his German ancestery. I had a sense of His grandfather, Kurt Wolff, was a how to find stuff renowned publisher in Europe and in an archive, and the United States, who fled his native what makes for a Germany in the 1930s with the rise of good story. And Adolph Hitler and Nazism. His father, citing letters and Alex Wolff at his home in Cornwall, VT Nico Wolff, fought for Germany in diaries isn’t that appreciate the broad tapestry on World War II, and later emigrated to different from playing off quotes in which these individual lives play out. the United States where he started a your notebook after you’ve conducted If you’re into memoir or family sagas, I new life. Alex, his wife, Vanessa and interviews with interesting people. his children, Frank ’13 and Clara S’13, hope you’re engaged by the characters and how they find their way through moved to Berlin, Germany in 2017 What was most rewarding to you cataclysms, from anti-Semitic riots where they lived for a year while Alex about writing the book? in early 19th century Germany, did his research for the book. Just to gain perspective and context. through two World Wars, through the For instance, I knew my grandfather disruptions of exile and immigration. Pete Hare recently interviewed Alex had been a titanic figure as a publisher But I hope every reader–and I suspect about Endpapers. in Germany, and again in New York. my father and grandfather would join But I hadn’t fully realized how these me in this–comes away with a greater What inspired you to write two great successes had been cut short, appreciation for democracy and what Endpapers? first by the Weimar hyperinflation we need to do to protect it. I’d spent 36 years chasing the news and the rise of the Nazis; then in a for Sports Illustrated. After the Rio boardroom conflict at Pantheon Books Alex Wolff was a staff writer for Sports Olympics, it seemed like the right that he lost. That he was essentially Illustrated for 36 years. He is the author time to step away from the weekly chased into exile twice adds a layer of three other books, The Audacity of grind and at least poke around in my of poignancy to his life’s journey. Hoop, Big Game, Small World and family’s story. I knew the broad strokes, As for my father, he had always just Raw Recruits. He is also the author of so had a hunch that there might been my dad, a solid figure forged by “Hello Muddah,” a long form article be something there. My ancestors an immigrant’s desire to make it in about Keewaydin published in the July 8, wrote letters and kept diaries, and postwar America. And he did make 1991 edition of Sports Illustrated. He I quickly realized that many were it, spectacularly–but now I know was a camper at Keewaydin from 1970- historical documents. It seemed almost how unlikely all that was, given that 1972. His son, Frank, and daughter, irresponsible not to try to use them as he was partly Jewish, that he was 12 Clara, were campers from 2013-2016 a basis for a book. when Hitler came to power, that he at Keewaydin and Songadeewin, had served on the Russian front. How was this project different from respectively. your other books? What do you hope readers will take It was intensely personal. And it was away from Endpapers? mostly history. Virtually every other I suppose it depends on the reader. If v v v book I’ve written was journalistic and you’re drawn to history, I hope you’ll about basketball, even if I often tried

6 Keewaydin Temagami Closed in 2021

For the second summer in a row, Keewaydin Temagami will be closed. Director Emily Schoelzel made the decision in late April in consultation with Executive Director, Pete Hare, and the Executive Committee of the Keewaydin Foundation Board. With the border to Canada closed and Ontario in a lockdown due to the pandemic, it was clear the chances of being able to open were remote.

Some Temagami campers have been able to switch to Dunmore and Songa. Others will have to wait until next summer before they get head back to their beloved camp on beautiful Lake Temagami.

After the decision was made, Schoelzel said: “We know the loss of another summer is difficult for our campers and staff, who were gearing up for a summer of canoe trips. We also know we will be back, and we’ll be ready to immerse ourselves into the wilds of Canada again.”

Though summer camp will not be operating on Devils Island, The Ojibway Family Lodge will be up and running. Canadian residents will be able enjoy to the beauty and rustic comfort of Ojibway, swimming, paddling and soaking up the beauty of the northern wilderness.

7 Alumni-Family Weekend ~ August 26-29, 2021 ~

Alumni-Family Weekend will be back in business in 2021! This is a wonderful opportunity for alumni to reconnect with Keewaydin and Songadeewin. Swim in Lake Dunmore, paddle a beautiful green canoe, and hike on majestic Moosalamoo! It’s also a great way to introduce young boys and girls to camp!

This summer we will celebrate the opening of the “The Lolly,” the new Songadeewin trip packout building dedicated to Songa alumna Lolly Burton S’37. On Sunday, August 29 at 11:00 a.m. there will be a memorial ceremony for Peggy Breed Marsh S’34, who passed away on February 15, 2021.

For more information on Alumni-Family Weekend, email Mary Welz at [email protected]

8 zil where he also enjoyed the “Latin enjoyed lots of hiking, biking, and, Alumni News American spirit”. best of all, fresh air! He is most look- ing forward to gathering with family David Pearl ’60 has two grandchildren, Charlie Bicknell ’95 lives in Boulder, and friends, and hearing stories from “Goldie” and “Saul,” and reports that CO with his wife Christina, son Aidan, Dunmore, when we can all meet again being a grandfather has given him a and stepson Robert. Charlie works for safely. whole new view on life. At least one Resource Innovations as an energy ef- grandchild should be a future camper ficiency consultant. Mike Moritz ’04 has the position of at Dunmore. College and Career Advisor at the New RJ Adler ’98 and his wife Pollaidh Roots Charter School in Ithaca, NY. John Manion ’65 sent us an update on moved to Berlin, VT, got a kitten This summer, Mike hopes to travel former “staff brat” Jeremiah Manion, named Aziraphale, and a puppy to Israel to study the activist work of who has been a researcher for the Bos- named Crowley (named for their the Palestinians. Keewaydin is never ton Globe for the last 15 years. favorite characters from the book Good far from his thoughts and he hopes to Omens which is a must read for your return some summer! Richard E. Winslow III ’65 anxiously next Rest Hour!) He’s working for a awaits the 2021 canoeing season. “I startup called Wheel Pad that builds Michael Tessler ’05 and his entertain- shall paddle in northern Maine out universally accessible home attach- ment/tech startup, Multihouse (named of Loon Lodge just south of Allagash ments. in honor of the stage that started it all Lake.” for him), moved into a beautiful new Johnny Clore ’00 builds wood canvas office space in Hollywood. The com- Ted Adler ’88 had a great “Dad Camp” canoes as part of a class integrating his- pany recently received Congressional day this past summer on Lake Dun- tory, science and craftsmanship at the recognition and a special proclama- more with his sons Jack (6) and Sam Lawrenceville School in New Jersey. tion from Rep. Adam Schiff and the (4). They hiked to Silver Lake, visited Los Angeles City Council for “Helping the Keewaydin campus, swam at Bran- Note the shirt Johnny is wearing. the Other Fellow” with a massive sup- bury State Park and dined at A&W. ply drive and the launch of its social Fun-filled day! impact accelerator to support unhoused neighbors and local nonprofits in Los Angeles.

Johnny Clore Ted Adler and sons, Jack and Sam Craig O’Shea ’02 graduated from law Phillip Mauser ’93 and his family (wife school in 2017 and has been living in Pema and kids Paul, Maya and Anna), the Virgin Islands since. He writes, are currently living in San Luis Potosí, “getting outside as much as possible, Michael Tessler Mexico. Since 2008 he has worked for life is good!” BMW and is the director for produc- Ash Phillips ’08 works for The HALO tion steering, program planning and Ian Robertson ’02 is a law student Trust (www.halotrust.org), which vehicle distribution at the plant there. working for the Federal Public Defend- oversees the removal of landmines and Phillip is enjoying working with the er’s office in Idaho, where he is help- unexploded remnants of war. He is in young Mexican team. Previously he ing attorneys represent individuals on continued on next page lived 2.5 years in the south of Bra- the state’s death row. Out west, he has

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Alumni News linois, Missouri, and Kansas until they continued from page 9 reach Colorado, where they are switch- ing routes and heading through Utah Kosovo running a new survey project and Arizona, finishing at the Pacific to understand the current contamina- Ocean in California. They will be trav- tion levels mostly from cluster bombs eling roughly 3,500 to 4,000 miles, all dropped by NATO during the ’98-’99 the way from coast to coast! If there are Kosovo conflict. Soon, he will be mov- Keewaydineesi along the trail that have ing on to the Bie province in Angola, yard space available for them to pitch a where he will spend a year managing tent, contact [email protected]! James and Kat Hogan, with Charles teams to conduct clearance from An- gola’s civil war. Spencer Fetrow ’07 and his wife, Devon Tomasulo, welcomed their Bay Diggs ’09 is working as an analyst second child to the world on April at the Carlyle Group in Washington, 1. Josephine Grace Fetrow, weighing D.C. in at 6 pounds, 3 ounces at birth, joins her brother, Cal, in the Fetrow- William Goldberg ’12 spent four Tomasulo family. Spencer reports that months in Dakar, Senegal, teach- while Josephine is a serene baby, older ing preschool and elementary school brother Cal—nearly two—expresses his English. In French and Wolof he excitement for having a sister by bang- taught the basics: greetings, colors, ing his toy paddle (made by his father) numbers, and classroom objects. In his and yelling “Boom! Boom!” free time, he learned how to surf on the famous waves of Dakar, explored the capital city of Senegal, and learned about Islam and Senegalese culture Oliver Bijur with his homestay family. Deniz Akman ’14 is a freshman at the University of Edinburgh. In February he took a vaccination training course and is now a certified Covid-19 vaccina- tor, assisting frontline essential workers in the fight against the pandemic! Way Spencer Fetrow, Josephine, and Cal to go Deniz! GONE BUT NOT BIRTHS FORGOTTEN James ’97 and Kat Hogan announce After a long and hard-fought battle the arrival of Charles Sargent Hogan. with Alzheimer’s, Albert Monroe Charlie was born April 1, weighing 7 Greenfield III ’64 (aka “Moose”) William Goldberg pounds, 2 ounces. Though three weeks passed away peacefully on Super Bowl early of his due day, both baby Sunday at 12:06 am. A skilled ath- Oliver Bijur ’14 took this semester off Charlie and his Mom Kat are happy lete, he excelled in wrestling, boxing from school to plan, earn money, and and healthy. While he has been getting and baseball. He likely earned more complete a cross country bike trip. He accustomed to Brooklyn he looks for- coups and Ks than any other camper and his riding partner Elijah set off in ward to heading to Vermont soon. in Keewaydin history—just check the April from the shores of Yorktown, coupboards! Virginia and are following the Trans- America bike trail due west across the v v v country through Virginia, Kentucky, Il-

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