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From the Editor: It’s time again for us to be in touch of themselves with their cheers, so much so that they were inter- through our newsletter. We feel compelled to pass along informa- viewed on Fox news. One of our Kiwi counselors led our boys tion that we have gleaned from alumni who have been in touch in the Haka (Maori fight cheer) on stage at the event. Later Jason with us this year. We’re always happy to hear from you and love came on to the buses to thank the boys for their support as he again to recount your news. We make an assumption that you enjoy won the world title. Other noteworthy items would include record reading about people that you knew when you were 12, but if that numbers of anglers. Our boys were catching lots of bass and the is not the case let us know and we will remove you from our list. occasional Walleye and Musky were also pulled in. The cooler Our journalistic techniques tend toward the gossip column genre weather this summer made for good fishing conditions and our since we usually rely on info that we glean by pumping our un- campers did a lot of it. It was just a great group of fun loving kids suspecting alumni. Given that we go to print only once a year it and Leb and I loved being with them. takes awhile for a reprint, so if your information is incorrect then you might want to grin and bear it. Of course it’s much safer to We’ve also been busy with some projects. Our kitchen is getting send in your news to us to ensure accurate reporting. We do not a renovation. We are putting in a new floor and upgrading some underestimate the good will of our alumni who are generous do- of the interior. Most exciting of all is that we will for the first time nors to our scholarship fund, provide testimonials, keep in touch have a garbage disposal. No more Oscar (after the Sesame Street and send their boys to us (or themselves for family camp). We garbage can dweller) a stainless sieve that had to be emptied after hope this finds you in good health with good memories of your every meal to the disgust of our kitchen workers and counselors. camping days. This will likely go down in the annuals of NSC and become a his- WHAT’S NEW AT CAMP: toric marker (pre Oscar vs. post Oscar). Renovations to the tennis Swine flu was a theme for all camps this summer. Leb was on first courts are also on the schedule for this fall. The trip shack, arts name basis with the CDC representing private independent camps. and crafts and health center exterior has been painted, new doors The CDC was trying to glean information from the summer camp added and new windows will be installed. We’ll also be upgrading H1N1 experience to help in planning for the school season. Their our fleet in the spring with some new fishing boats. Since our last current recommendations reflect some of what was learned this mailing we have new floating docks at the swim point which have summer from camps scrambling to prevent the spread of the virus been a great addition. Our caretaker Tom will be working through- and keep their camps open. At North Star we held it to 14 cases out the winter which requires some high quality woolies. so while it was a headache it certainly didn’t define the summer but it did curtail socials and competitions with other camps. What In our office we are working with alumni JOSH FROST in con- did define the summer was a very strong committed staff who pro- structing a new web site. It’s been a fun collaboration. DAN vided a wonderful experience for our campers. Our theme this LICHTENSTEIN, our associate director is also busy putting to- summer was: North Star’s Got Talent and our staff proved that gether a new brochure. We will be making several cross country in multiple ways. As an example we charge our staff with the recruiting trips. If you are interested in camp for your son, grand- job of finding innovative ways to introduce themselves to our 2nd son, nephrew, neighbor etc. give us a call and we would be happy session campers every summer. This summer they used a movie to stop in. format. The story line involved 2 counselor recruiters traveling the world looking for staff and once they found them, the new WHAT’S NEW IN HAYWARD: staff were tossed into a van. At one point in the film the real time For those of you who love Blizzards the Dairy Queen is now a new and virtual time met as our staff on film was getting out of the eat in location on Railroad Ave. next to Perkins... yes, there is a van and entering Mike Hall in real time to our waiting campers Perkins in town. The old Park Theater is now a venue for stand-up watching the movie. The kids loved the format and we were off comedy, plays and concerts. It’s a wonderful addition to the arts to a great start. Another high light was taking the entire camp to in Hayward. We now have a great wine bar on main street run by the Lumberjack Championships in town. One of the competitors Molly Scheer who regularly performs and a great brew pub called Jason Wynyard from New Zealand has become a big hit with our the Angry Minnow in the historic bank on Hwy 63. The big news campers. He is a world champion lumberjack and a world cham- in Hayward this fall was the bear that sauntered in to Marketplace pion nice guy. The boys enjoyed his visit to camp and had a great liquor in the middle of down town and planted himself on the beer time cheering for him at the event. They made quite a spectacle cooler. TEN YEAR MEN THIS SUMMER CHIPS OFF THE OLD BLOCK It’s a big commitment to return to a place for 10 years. It usu- It’s so much fun for Leb and I to have alumni kids at camp. Dur- ally means defending camp as a legitimate job with parents and ing the friendship fire at the beginning of the summer we ask our missing out on what is going on at home, leaving the girl friend, campers to stand up if their fathers, uncles, grandfathers, brothers privacy and bars on the cell phone. Despite all of that our list of attended camp. Its amazing to see how many of them are standing. ten year men is growing. I do have to say that the guys are getting We love the history and connection that camp holds. better all of the time with the psych outs leading up to the big roast. Second Generation Campers this summer: This summer MICHAEL BLUMBERG and NICK YOHANNA Danny Bazelon (Gary, Highland Park, IL.) were inducted. Our campers never can get enough of the stories Josh Berger (Jim, “Bugsy” Detroit) not to mention the celebratory cake which they now get from town Sam Bricker (Lew, Deerfield, IL.) because they think I can’t keep a secret or be trusted to hide the Daniel Cole (Alan, Northbrook, IL.) James Cole (Bob, Ridgewood, N.J.) cake. Sam Cohen (Steve, Northbrook, IL.) Ryan Cutler (Michael, Rockville, Maryland) FAMILY CAMP 2009 Simon Dinkin(Steve, San Diego, CA) This year Post Camp started with a bang with the band Hayward, Aaron Dinkin (Jeff, Santa Monica, CA.) playing at Old Hayward Brew Pub. The band, made up in part of Max Emmerman (Ross, Chicago, IL.) three alumni and post campers MIKE SIMONS, ADAM BLACK Steven Fishel (Mark, St. Louis) and JON SHERMAN have been wanting to play Hayward with Scott and Max Goldberg (Bruce, Omaha) their Chicago based bluegrass band for quite some time. This Holden Greenberger (Robert, Larchmont, N.Y.) year was the year. We took over the beer garden at Old Hayward Scott Hamilton (Jim, Northbrook, Il.) and had a ball. The next night Hayward played again for our post Ethan Handler (Jon, Northbrook, IL) camp happy hour by the lake. Music seemed to be the theme for Noah Henson (Jeff, Highland Park, Il.) Post Camp this year since many of our Post Campers brought their Chip Kass (Geoff, Highland Park, IL.) instruments and became members of the North Star Blues band or Michael Lee (Bob, Riverwoods, IL.) just sat on the porch and jammed with who ever was available. I Jared Much (Larry, Highland Park, Il.) loved the inter generational music making that went on all week. Jacob Lehr (John, Omaha,NE.) One camper and his dad even brought their nose harps. It was a fun Parker Leshin (Eddie, Highwood, Il.) week in the sun. Old favorites at Post Camp include, tubing down Ethan and Daniel Levy (Brian, Mequon, WI.) the Namakagon., talent show, tennis tournament, evening family Owen and Spencer Marks (Richard, Chicago, IL.) canoeing, waterskiing and sailing, climbing, archery and riflery and Graham and Ian Michelson (Bob, Glencoe, IL.) of course family friendly happy hour by the lake. The Good vs. Brad, Tommy, Justin Mills (Andy, Highland Park, IL.) Evil dodgeball is always lively and filled with laughs. I think the Corey Nagel (Marty, Glencoe, Il.) promo skits with JON SHERMAN, PAUL NATHANSON, KEN Ike Nierman, Elliot Goldberg (Peter, Lincoln Park, IL.) DOANE, MIKE GREEN and JOE MENDEZ pulling for their Andy Peterman (Tom, Glencoe, Il.) teams were almost as much fun as the event. It was fun to have Scott Plonsker (Steve, Deerfield, Il.) Alum PAUL ADELSTEIN at camp. You can see Paul as Cooper Matt Reisin (Rich, Highland Park, IL.) the Pediatrician on the T.V. Show Private Practice: a spin off of Ben Rubin (Scott, Highland Park, Il.) Grey’s Anatomy. He MC’d the talent show along with 9 year old Cole and Luke Schrager (Jeff, Omaha, NE.) drummer SAM PORTER (son of ROB PORTER). The 65th Lou Jacob and Noah Sherman (Jon, Oak Park, Il.) Rosenblum open tennis ball golf tourney showed on the leader board Ben Schulman (Mark, Highland, Park, Il.) that EDDIE LESHIN was the new Champion. Later on the real Spencer Sherman (Andrew, Tampa, Fl.) golf course, alumni JON BIEDERMANN’S boys who are 5 and 7 Max Sinton (Scott, Deerfield, IL.) cleaned Leb’s clock with their beautiful natural swings. Ugly dolls Jordan Reiff (Ed, Skokie, Il.) were the rage in the craft shop with Shannon and it seemed like every Josh Tashma (Doug, Northbrook, IL.) family went home with one. Karon out did herself with a little more Harrison Rosenthal (Bill, Leawood, KS) sophisticated fare than we usually have during our camper season. Mark Yellon (Al, Chicago, Il.) In the end it was just a great way to spend some fun time with the family without having to cook, entertain, or get in the car. Bully for our Post Camp staff who showed everyone a great time. Other alumni in attendance included: STEVE, MICHAEL, and JOEL RICHMAN, MIKE SIMONS, KEITH and GARY KRETCH- MER, CARY ROSENTHAL, JON FREMSTAD, TOM PETER- MAN, PETER KATZ, ANDY ZUKROW, FATHER BILL KEY, MARK HOLTZ and BRIAN LEVY.

DATES FOR POST CAMP 2010. AUG. 14TH-21ST. (Starting and ending with breakfast.) Howie Zien, Chip Zien, Dennis Stern and Tom Adler in NYC this summer. TEEN JEOPARDY NOV. 3RD. C.I.T. ZACH lending, joint ventures, regulation, banking, and related financial BLUMENFELD COMPETING and transactional matters. He feels the turmoil of the current market Zach got the news that he offers unprecedented opportunity to creatively help businesses was selected out of 30,000 emerge, reinvent and adapt to the changing environment. Brian teens who applied while lives in Milwaukee with his wife and three boys (two of which are he was a C.I.T. at North campers)....TOM PETERMAN is the chief credit officer for Ad- Star this summer. He then vantage National Bank in Chicago... KEN DOANE works for a also made the cut to the charitable foundation whose mission it is to improve family and 15 that will appear on the children’s lives in Northern, California. Ken is Mr. recreation play- show. Our entire camp ing in a baseball league, on an ultimate frisbee team, and the captain community is very proud of his ice hockey team. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and of him. Zach has also been daughter. The Bay Area NSC men get together frequently including a National Geography Bee the MIKE GREEN, CHARLES MARGULIS, DAVID FRAI- competitor and actually BERG, JON BRICKMAN and KEN DOANE families. JON ran into a few of his former competitors at the Jeopardy taping BRICKMAN teaches English as a second language at community as well. Teen Jeopardy will air on Nov. 2nd and Zach will ap- college along with enjoying many other remarkable things in the pear on the Nov. 3rd show on channel 7 Chicago at 3:30 Chicago outdoors according to Ken Doane....DAVID FRAIBERG is mar- time. He’s sworn to secrecy but I can tell you he had the time ried and has a daughter. He is currently starting a patient advocacy of his life and learned a lot about buzzer timing. No matter how business along with other entrepreneurial ventures.....ANDY DO- he does on the show he is still a winner to us. ANE formerly employed by the Dept. of Homeland Security is cur- rently working for Amazon. He created a new division called Cloud I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE, Computing. Andy was always on the cutting edge with comput- ers....ANDY SHERMAN is a heart surgeon in Fort Lauderdale and STRAIGHT FROM THE HORSES MOUTH his son is a camper at North Star....JON MARKS is an attorney AND MOST OFTEN FROM CYBERSPACE. with Katten and Muchin in Chicago.....JOEY LEVY lives in NYC with his wife and two daughters and works as an investment bank- IN THE DAYS OF LOU AND RENEE: 1945-1980 er...... PETER NIERMAN was married last year both he and his DICK KAHN (45, 46,49) visited camp this summer. He is a wife Amy lost their spouses to cancer and each had two children the retired investment manager and living in Milwaukee and Na- same ages. With their enlarged family they moved from the city ples, FL....The NAGEL brothers stopped in during camp this back to Peter’s roots in Wilmette and have obtained the same phone summer on a golfing outing with a group of 12 guys. They number that the Niermans held for 30 years. Peters two oldest boys played 36 holes of golf in a day. You’ve got to love the game to are campers at NSC....JAY SCHWARTZ completed his second do that. DAVID NAGEL lives in Columbia, MO and is a Na- masters degree in Administration and started a new job with GE tional Account Rep. for Kyrocera Printers. In a former life he Health Care....SHIRLEY WEINER is doing well still living in was a recreational therapist. He has two daughters.....MARTY Milwaukee but has moved to apartment on Oakland. She is a great- NAGEL lives in Chicago working in a teli-communication grandmother and is loving it.....STEVE MINTZ had been working consulting business designing data networks. His son is a for the Department of Justice in D.C. but he has recently accepted camper.....JIMMY NAGEL lives in D.C. and is an attorney for an offer in a private law firm Hahn, Loeser and Parks in his home Freddy Mac. He does fellow alumni PAUL NATHANSON’S town of Cleveland....DAN MINTZ has a masters in fine arts from taxes.....JEFF DINKIN hosted a NSC reunion at his home in Florida International University with major in photography his long Santa Monica for current campers and alumni in the L.A. area. time advocation while continuing to work as a property appraiser..... JEFF MELVOIN stopped in. He is currently working on the LARRY VALLEM stopped by camp this summer and dropped off T.V. series Army Wives as executive producer. During the writ- some great paintings of JON SHERMAN, BRAD SCHWARTZ ing strike he taught a T.V. writing course at Harvard.....PAUL and PAUL ADELSTEIN all in their Pow Wow Day regalia. They WILLIGER also stopped by. He lives in Malibu with his wife are now hanging in our lodge. Larry has retired from teaching high and two children and is employed at Appelton and Associates as school art and now devotes his time casting beautiful bronze sculp- a associate architect and director of the Santa Monica office, tures and working as a sculpture lab assistant at the University of designing and managing numerous fabulous custom residential Indiana. One of the perks is that he gets free bronze. He loves being and commercial projects.....HOW COHEN and BRAD DREY- retired.....North Star alum JIM ZEIN was recently married in New FUS also stopped in. Thanks to the Dinkins for hosting the re- York. Jim is the exec director of the Aloha Foundation, which runs union. JEFF DINKIN works in the commercial real estate and a number of camps in New England.....Thanks to BRIAN ANDERS has three daughters and son Aaron an NSC camper...... who has provided us with all our foil products from his company JOHN (JACK) LARSEN is a retired Director of Admissions Durable Goods for the last two summer without being solicited. His at the Univ. of WI Stevens Point and a professor in the school generosity is most appreciated...... JAY WEBER writes that his of education. Jack is living in Plover, WI...... BRIAN LEVY daughter Brooke, is engaged and will be married this fall. LEN works for Katten and Temple in Chicago but is developing his ZUKROW, who is now a Rabbi in Pensacola and will be officiating own practice offering legal and business strategy assistance to at the wedding. He spent one summer at camp as a counselor and businesses in commercial and residential real estate, mortgage his family was close with Lou and Renee in Milwaukee.....MIKE KATZ’S feature film called ‘Remembering Phil’, about a guy who returns from a trip to discover that nobody knows him stars Nicho- NSC nurse works in Ill. as a nurse and recently traveled to South las Turturro, Christina Murphy and Dan Castellaneta, made its Africa where her daughter is doing missionary work.....METRO Chicago debut at a fundraiser for the Anixter Center and Camp For MAZNIO former trips director lives in Cable, WI working on the All Kids last March at the Gene Siskel Film Center.in Chicago. It Louis family estate. He is married to Jo an R.N. They recently also premiered as an Official Selection of the 2008 Downtown came to the Lebby’s camp home for dinner along with CHUCK Film Festival in Los Angeles, and was also honored at the 2008 and ERICA WARSHAWSKY.....CHUCK WARSHAWSKY is Big Bear Lake International Film Festival and the 2008/09 Bev- doing well and his new restaurant in the old Tony’s Fireside (now erly Hills Hi Def Film Fest. Mike is the founder of Prevalent called The Fireside) is very well received in the community and Films.....RORY GILBERT writes that he really enjoyed recon- the food is like nothing Hayward has seen before: quite upscale necting with “Hulk” STEVE GORENSTEIN at Tom Adlers book for the north woods. Every time we have been there STEVE event in Chicago. Rory tells us that Hulk’s daughter went to the RUDNICK just happens to call in and we catch up with him. Rud University of Wyoming on a basketball scholarship where she and Chuck still talk every day...... KELLY DAGGETT CLARKE played on the team with MARTY and JANELLE MCGUFFY’S is living and teaching in Boulder. Her husband built their home daughter. ....JIM “BUGSY” BERGER has a new job at Chysler outside of Boulder and they are completely off of the grid. Kelly in charge of the financial support of Quality and Warranty func- has two adorable daughters, Addison and Norah...... BRAD tion and he is responsible for the monthly Sales & Marketing fi- DREYFUS also stopped by the Dinkin reunion in L.A. Brad prac- nancial forecast....Bracewell and Giuliani has announced that tices real estate law in L.A .and lives in Brentwood...... DAN PAUL NATHANSON has been elected Senior Principal in the SANDMAN works for an in house tennis channel and is married firm’s Federal Government Relations and Advocacy Group...... to a physician.....Leb and I were visiting our daughter at college DENNIS STERN is number two (2nd in command) at the New and while strolling through the Fremont market in Seattle some- York Times...HOWARD ZIEN lives in New York and owns a one says, “Suuue?” I replied “Dylan?” and there was DYLAN computer business...... CHIP ZIEN long time Broadway star di- CHERNOV with his new wife Mora. Dylan is getting his PHD rect from the NSC stage is also starring in T.V. with a role on “The from Univ. of Washington in Anthropology/ Music. The newly Good Wife”.....TOM ADLER continues to do promotions for his weds met at Birch Trail after coaxing from MARK HUSE who book Campingly Yours. The book can be found in Barnes and was working at B.T. as the Trips Director...... KEITH LISSNER Noble, Walmart, Borders, and the Paradise Shops in most airports. was on the Bravo’s reality T.V. show The Fashion Show. It was so Jeanne Rosenberg, a well known Hollywood screen writer: The much fun to see him on T.V. desiging and sewing his creations. Black Stallion, Journeys of Natty Gann, Running Free, and Heidi Keith’s instinctual love affair with fashion was cultivated during a has taken on the book and is writing a screen play. TOM was in childhood spent learning about his grandmother and great-grand- NYC this summer promoting his book Campingly Yours at the mother’s couture dress shop in Chicago. He studied women’s wear New York Book Fair. Tom’s booth was next to Julie Andrews who at The London College of Fashion and upon his graduation began was promoting a new memoir. JEFF MELVOIN and JOHN designing for Perry Ellis and Ralph Lauren in New York. Keith has KRETCHMER are also advising Tom. Many NSC alums have since founded his line of women’s demi-couture evening wear. supported Tom and his cause of raising money for the Lou and Likewise, he recently launched a line of gently priced cocktail Renee Rosenblum Endowment to send inner city boys to camp. dresses called Keith By Keith Lissner, inspired by his friends in We’re excited to see how far Tom can take this...... LINDA New York. Janet Jackson has worn his dresses.....Brother CLIFF ROSENBLUM was at camp this summer to visit her son MI- LISSNER and wife Lisa are pleased to have welcomed Audry CHAEL SWIRYN who was our Trips Director. Linda runs peer Laurina Lissner into the world last January. Audry had her first counseling programs in the Chicago area and spends time at their summer at Chipewa Ranch Camp under mom and dad’s owner- home in Sante Fe, NM....“Super Cut” NEAL CUTLER is a neu- ship...... DAVID FELSENTHAL is recently married living in rologist living in L.A. with two adult children....TOR SWYADER Chicago and working for Bluestone International. He still keeps is a dermatologist at Henry Ford Hospital. He is taking flying les- up with JASON OLT and MICHAEL MELLON as well as sons with his solo and short cross countries behind him. His goal MIKE SIEGEL....MARK BARNHART lives in Indianapolis is to be able to fly up to camp for post camp! ...... TONY (TK, with his wife and two boys. After 13 years of owning his own Tinkerbell) KAHAN writes this: “As I made a fire in my fire pit company he sold his shares to his partner and is now working for for the single purpose of making S’Mores, my middle daughter Katz, Sapper and Miller Touch Point Recruiting Group. Mark Janie 11, came up to me and asked “Dad, will you make me a made it through the whole Brett Favre saga also becoming a Jets s’more nice and golden brown like that famous guy Denny Ship- and Viking fan along the way. His first born is named Brett could wreck?” For us, S’Mores are family time, and Denny’s name AL- it be in honor of.....? JEFF KROLL was selected by his peer as a WAYS is associated with the best time I have with my family.” I Leading Lawyer in the areas of Personal Injury Law and Profes- love that Tony and of course he is referring to DENNIS SHEF- sional Malpractice for the sixth year in a row. He was also selected CYK..... for the fourth year in a row as an Illinois Super Lawyer in the area IN THE EARLY DAYS OF LEB AND SUE 1980- of Plaintiff’s Personal Injury. Only 5% of lawyers from Illinois are chosen each year. He also received an award for the “Most Valu- DOUG CHAMBERS lives in Waunakee, WI with his 1995: able Volunteer” from the Illinois Institute for Continuing Educa- wife Christine and two toddlers. Doug graduated from UW Madi- tion.....In small world stories RYAN JACOBS was recently on a son in 91 and is currently employed as Director of Accounting for trip to Israel and found out that the group included Jill Schwager Telephone and Data Systems Inc...... DEENA RODINO former (formerly Jill Peckarsky long time post camp kid), a NSC post- camper who has been to NSC for more successive years than he zilian consulate there.....JORDAN RUDNICK is a lawyer in had.. She then introduced Ryan to MICHAEL ROSSKAM Chicago, single but with a beautiful female black lab named (camper early 90s who is also on the trip)...... Ryan is currently in Stella who is 3...... PHILLIP GRINNELL lives in Philadelphia Ann Arbor for Michigan’s two year full-time MBA program. and is Mid Atlantic Regional Sales Manager for Athena Diag- Never to be idle Ryan launched a new youth sports division of nostics...... LEW SHENDER lives in San Diego, but commutes his Atlanta-based event photography company, and some event often to the East Coast as the CEO of Hollywood Tans, the larg- groups in Chicago (somewhat similar to Spyral Entertainment est chain of indoor tanning salons in the U.S. JOSH RADIN that he was doing in Atlanta). Quoting Ryan, has had an illustrious musical career as a singer song writer. “I had the first event for one of the groups earlier this month and Growing up in Shaker Heights, OH he picked up the guitar and was thrilled to actually bump into a few North Star individuals! taught himself how to play after college and moved to New Perhaps not worthy of a small world North Star story at the coun- York. Soon various Radin songs were being heard in TV shows cil ring, but seeing MIKE GELLAR, ROGER DANIEL, BRI- such as “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Brothers and Sisters,” “American AN DESHUR, DAVID ROSENBERG, ETHAN KARSEN Idol,” “One Tree Hill,” and “So You Think You Can Dance,” and a few others was terrific nonetheless.” If you want to take a among others, as well as movies including The Nanny Diaries, peak at the event site, it’s www.ToLifeEvents.com. Ryan is plan- The Last Kiss, Catch and Release. His debut album, 2006’s “We ning quarterly events and hopefully tying Camp for All Kids into Were Here” drew critical acclaim and passionate listener re- the next event. He’s been in touch with Rabbi Susan Stone, the sponse. He played at Ellen Degeneris’s wedding. ROB POR- new Executive Director of Camp for All Kids. It’s great to have TER attended one of his concerts in Cleveland and Josh was Ryan on board with our cause....JEFF HEXTER stays very busy quite surprised to find out that his camp counselor was in the in Cleveland being a stay at home dad running a computer busi- audience...,..Having heard and appreciated Josh’s music I was ness from home and being cookie dad for his little girl scouts. also surprised to hear that he was the same Josh Radin who had This allows his wife to deliver babies and practice as an OB/ attended camp in the mid 80’s....It’s hard to keep track of every- GYN. Jeff has two girls.....LEB recently attended his 40th class one...... BOB FELLER is teaching, coaching and running a ten- reunion for Shaker Heights High School at the Rock and Roll nis camp in the summer in Manitowac, WI. He often thinks Hall of Frame. It was great to see fellow class mates and alumni about camp....BRAD COHEN lives in Bend Oregon and works CASEY GREEN and BOBBY CARROLL.... While in Cleve- for Global Strategies International doing Web Page Optimiza- land we dined at Fire, DOUG KATZ’S popular restaurant on tion for Fortune 500 companies... JOSH ATLAS and wife Dana Shaker Square...... Doug employs 55 people and is a hands on (Birch Trail Alum) welcomed daughter Blake Kaden Atlas on owner and chef. We gave it 5 stars for the Tandori Trout and the September 14, 2008....JEFF LEBENSBERGER is a staff doc- best duck I’ve ever eaten. His architecturally beautiful environ- tor at St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital in Memphis....MICHAEL ment and inventive menu JAFFE is Vice President make it a great dining of Global Marketing & destination. We loved it New Programs at NXGEN so much we ate there Payment Services. Leb twice. Doug has twins a has enjoyed a business boy and a girl..Leb’s connection with him re- aunt works for Doug..... cently. FLETCHER BROWN writes that he is still liv- RECENT PAST AND ing in Missoula Montana employed as a professor PRESENT: 1995- in science and environ- 2009: mental education. He MICHAEL LICHTER a has three kids, one 10, counselor in 96 from Ger- one almost 17 and one many visited camp this sum- Doug Katz and Sue Lebby approaching nineteen. Mike & Stella Jaffe mer with his wife and two Wendy his wife is a massage therapist with the Women’s Health children. When he worked for us he was very interested in the- Center. He still vacations every summer at his cabin on Made- ater lighting and redesigned our theater lights. He currently is line Island...... BILLY WEIBERG was wed this summer in Chi- working for a Madison based company called Electronic Theater cago. Many of the 15 neat guys from his North Star Days were Control. He has worked for the company in London, German in attendance i.e. DANNY BERNSTEIN, MIKE SIMONS, and at Disney in Tokyo, Hong Kong and Paris. He is a light- MATT POWERS and PAUL ADELSTEIN.....GARY ing engineer working with designers building lighting equip- KRAVITZ is a real estate and corporate attorney in Michigan. ment. While living in London Michael spent time with NA- He handles transactions throughout the Midwest and beyond. THAN WRIDE another NSC international counselor.....SETH He’s been married (13 years) and has two kids Evan and Elise KATZ is a 7th year associate at the law firm he joined after law and a Dog (Bob).....DANIEL BLASER (Daniel@DanielBlaser. school. He lives in Chicago...... DAVID FISHEL attends Texas com) is practicing law in NYC....ANDY HUCKMAN is living in Christian University and played on the basketball team. This Hong Kong for three years with his girlfriend who is in the Bra- summer through his fraternity Pi Kappa Phi he bicycled across the country to raise money for Push America benefiting people WYATT BARON is attending Villanova University as a fresh- with disabilities....As Lance Armstrong says, “It’s not about the man this year....MARK LAZARUS writes that he is chugging bike.”...BILL FISHEL was married last summer and graduat- along in his second year of med school at Rush University in ed from Yale in May....JOE FISHEL after working for Morgan Chicago and preparing for a potential career in surgery.....ARI Stanley is now in business with his father in financial planning. GOLDBERG was teaching English in Korea and sent the fol- He lives in Denver and he and his dad just opened their own of- lowing dispatch. “My 12 Korean kindergartners started off with fice....AARON LISBERG has completed his medical school zero English, so everyday I have us talk about the weather so boards at Univ. of MN School of Medicine and is currently do- they can learn their vocabulary. I make a big production about ing his rotations...DOUG WILLSON visited camp this sum- it and lift up one special helper every day to an open window so mer he is a teacher and coach in Sante Fe New Mexico...... they can poke their head out and tell the class how the weather CHRIS SVOBODA attends George Town University where is. How could I ever determine, out of 12 children who gets to he was active in fund raising for The Higher Learning Founda- check? Naturally, there is but one option. Just to throw their tion providing scholarships and college preparation to DC high budding English skills a curve ball, I thought I’d throw a little school students.....DANIEL JACOBS was at he helm at the German in there just to spice things up...Ein Svei Drei, Hors- Northwestern University Dance Marathon raising an all time engoggle!” Ari put the whole adorable thing on U-tube http:// high of $933,855. We hear that Daniel is applying to medical www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLH4SCSXWWg. Who would school which may be very old news by now....It was great to think that this NSC tradition would have such far reaching influ- have JACK “ABU” SILVERSTEIN visit camp this summer. ence. Hosengogle is also in Wikepedia sited from the North Star He is teaching journalism to Chicago public school kids and handbook We’d love to know who submitted that....DUSTIN they are publishing their own impressive magazines. Jack also TALLISMAN, recently moved to Chicago and started a real maintains a blog called readjack.com.....Also visiting camp estate investment company doing short sales, buying and sell- this summer were JON WEISS who is living in Cleveland ing pre-foreclosed and foreclosed homes. Since moving he has and working in commercial real estate as a project manager for seen many North Star alumni including ELLIOT COHEN, student housing projects across the country....JOSH FROST PETER ADELMAN, TONY SAMPSON, to name a few.... also visited this summer. Josh works for major league base- MICHAEL RICHMAN is a freshman at the Newhouse School ball doing web design and maintence on the Cleveland Indians of Communications at Syracuse. He won “Best Lawyer” award website. Josh lives in NYC....JAKE SEGIL visited camp this at the divisional and regional Mock Trial Competition for his summer. He is a biomedical engineer in Chicago working on School team.. He was President of his School in Cleveland and improving artificial limbs....ROBBY RUTKOFF sent in this he was the “Wiz” in the school play, “The Wiz”...... AARON report from ANNIE MILLSTONE’S wedding in LA this sum- HAMER is Chief Financial Officer Enginetics Corporation in mer. Robby reports that there was quite a prominent NSC Huber Heights, Ohio. It is also rumored that he is engaged...... contingent there: ROBBY RUTKOFF, CASEY LOWMAN It was great to see our office manager CASEY LOWMAN at (bride’s maid), DAN MUSCHLER, SAM KRAUS, BETH camp this summer. She is doing public affairs and media re- SHEFCYK, NOAH DORSON, CHARLES EISNER, AN- lations for the Chicago Peace Corps Office and very involved NIE MILLSTONE BELL (bride), DANIEL MILLSTONE with the NSC Chicago contingent.....MICHAEL DESTEFA- (groom’s man), TOMMY MILLSTONE (groom’s man), NO graduated from Marquette Univ.and was deployed to Wies- JOE MILLSTONE (father of the bride), STEVE SCHUL- baden, Germany doing administrative duties in the Veterinarian MAN (counselor from Joe’s days). In typical Millstone fash- Detachment. He is currently at Joint Base Balad in Iraq (just ion, Annie walked down the aisle to “Night swimming” by north of Baghdad on the Tigris River). I quote Tony, “ I can REM and with Steve walked back down the aisle to “All You say one thing about North Star: between Balad and Hayward Need is Love” by the Beatles. Leave it to the MIllstone family WI, there really isn’t much of a difference. I am completely to include incredible music at a wedding. The highlight of the in “camp-mode”. We spend almost all day & all night w/each party had to be Annie and Steve’s first dance. They had prac- other, and to me, honestly, this feels like camp. I truly mean that ticed a very elegant salsa dance for the months leading up to the in a good way. You almost get nostalgic just thinking about it.” wedding and it was very impressive. Right when we thought it Michael’s dad TONY DESTEFANO also worked at North and was over, though, the band abruptly switched songs from salsa just retired from the State Patrol....GELLAR, ROGER DAN- music to “Single Ladies” by Beyonce. Annie and Steve then IEL, BRIAN DESHUR, DAVID ROSENBERG, ETHAN broke out an equally-impressive hip hop routine with Annie KARSEN and a few others was terrific nonetheless. If you want stripping off her wedding gown into a scandalous black dress. to take a peak at the event site, it’s www.ToLifeEvents.com...... It was quite the scene!” Thanks to Robby for that reporting. ADAM GOLDBERG recently left for Israel where he will be After the wedding ROBBY came to North Star to spend the spending a “gap year” studying at a yeshiva. He’ll be back to last four weeks at camp to fill in as a cabin counselor. Robby start his freshman year at Univ of Minnesota in 2010...... DAN- is in the Teach for America program teaching in an elementary IEL KURTZ PHELAN has been an editor at Foreign Affairs school in NYC. At the end of the summer he will have earned Magazine in New York since he graduated from Yale in 2003. his masters degree in education with the program. We were He has been a senior editor for the past several years. He is thrilled to have him back at camp.....ADAM WEBER gradu- living in Brooklyn.....JON FREMSTAD is the Vice Presi- ated from Yale a few years ago and, after taking off to be a ski dent of BE&K Building Group. BE&K is a design build firm instructor in Lake Tahoe, is now completing his first year of focused on commercial, healthcare, industrial and institutional medical school at the University of Alabama at Birmingham..... projects. Jon continues to be a featured speaker on economic, lives and we brought him in to speak to our group of private camp lar bear fur. The twins are keeping him very busy...... ANDY owners on future trends. He was very well recieved and we were WHALLEY is working for Camp Leaders a company that proud to call him one of our own.....TODD ANDREWS tripper places international students in American camps and resorts. in 2002 writes that after camp he moved to Minneapolis where He runs both the Marketing and Transport departments in the he earned a Masters in Counseling/Psychology and worked UK ...... ERIC DANIELS began law school at the U of Mary- with the puppet theater called Heart of the Beast. He currently land...... KACY LEBBY will be visiting MANFRED FRANK lives in Oakland and is completing his doctorate in Psychol- in Germany when she goes to Prague for her semester abroad. ogy ...... ZACH SLOVIN graduated from IU last spring and he Manfred is the owner of Cars and Starz transporting celebrities is living in Minneapolis and taking a post-graduate advertising on concert tours throughout Europe.. Manfred often states that program. He can’t wait to be back near the north woods and he uses the communications skills learned at camp everyday in we hope that he will stop at camp one summer.....MICHAEL interacting with his clients.....KACY LEBBY is a junior a the ROSENBERG is a chef at the Little Nell in Aspen, CO. He University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, WA. A camper at heart graduated from the Culinary Institute of America last January this summer she was a trip leader for Thunderbird Camp for and moved to the mountains. He spends his free time skiing, Girls leading their 6 week Pacific Northwest Trip....MICHAEL hiking, fishing, horseback riding and playing with his dog...... GRODIN works for Microsoft, in the games division in Seattle. CHRIS GIBBS he is teaching in Taiwan....WES SPECE is a I know alot of guys who would love that job...... GARRETT pre-school and physical education teacher and a cross-country, LEBBY graduated from the Univ. of AZ with a degree in Busi- basketball, and baseball coach. He is also building his sports ness Management and is currently teaching business to non- memorabilia business. He lives in Martinsville, VA...... GOR- traditional high school students at a charter school. He is also DAN SKIPAGE counsellor in 1999 from New Zealand. He working as a manager at Colonial Frontiers (an import furniture is the father of two sets of twin boys!!! The oldest are two and and architectual artifacts store) in Tucson. He is back in school a half and youngest almost 6 months. He has been working as working toward his teaching certificate.. a Business Consultant developing a new range of cold climate We’d love to put you in our next alumni news. Let us know products including comforters, sleeping bags and jackets that where life has taken you. Remember if you don’t turn yourself contain a natural product that is comparable in warmth to po- in someone else might. NORTH STAR SCHOLARSHIP....CAMP FOR ALL KIDS....THE LOU AND RENEE ENDOW- MENT... IT GETS A LITTLE CONFUSING. Have no fear all funds are used for the same good work to send underpriveleged kids to camp. We’ve been excited to have the addition of Cleveland area camper benefiting from the scholarship fund. Rob Porter and Joey Mendez have been instrumental in expand- ing the CFAK Mission to include Cleveland campers. As a teacher in Cleveland Joe works with students that fit the mission of CFAK and he is working hard to communicate with the campers, the families and the camp directors. The beauty of the CFAK program is that the campers are able to attend camp for as long as they like. Therefore, they are just like the rest of the campers and at the end of the summer they are able to say their goodbyes to their buddies and say, “See you next year.” Our alumni and camp commumity have been incredibly supportive of the scholarship program and we sincerely appreciate your contributions. Last year 65 kids were able to attend camp. Tom Adler’s book Campingly Yours was sent to everyone on our mailing list. We got quite a few copies back due to changing addresses. If you did not get a copy and would like to recieve one we would be happy to send you one. Remember a significant amount of the sales from this book will go to the scholarship fund so donations are always appreciated. North Star is well represented on our CFAK board with MIKE SIMONS, ROB PORTER, JOE MENDEZ and new member PAUL NA- THANSON.

PLEASE TAKE A MINUTE: We’re excited to announce that we’ve added some great new alumni web tools to help you all stay in touch with camp and reconnect with camp friends. This new system will allow you to log in and update your contact details. There is also an alumni message board. These functions will soon be connected directly to our website, but they are available now. For those of you whose email addresses we currently have, you can follow this link: https://northstarwi.campintouch.com/v2/login.aspx

You will see a log-in window. When you log in for the first time, you will see a “retrieve password” link. If your email ad- dress is not on file, you can either email us at offi[email protected] and we’ll send you your password or you can register by using follow this link: https://northstarwi.campintouch.com/alumni/register2.aspx

Please let us know if you’re having any problems logging in. We’d appreciate it if you’d take a few minutes to log in and make sure that all of your contact details are up to date and accurate. By making sure that your records are correct and we have an accurate email address we’re able to send you alumni and NSC updates and newsletters via email, making us just a little more environmentally friendly. Second session second generation campers at the Lebby’s house this summer

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