New! Camp News from The Aloha Foundation Spring 2008 ReveilleVolume! 1, Number 1 New Look in the News: A Note from Jim SCREEN STAR DOUBLE FEATURE: otice anything different Catherine Herrick & Carolyn Strauss here, Camp friends? All around Fairlee, spring Nhas gloriously sprung. The crocuses Catherine Herrick Carolyn Strauss Makes are blooming, the grass is greening, Takes TV into the Wild All the Right Movies the frogs are peeping, the chicks are hatching, and you’re waking up from a ast summer, former Hiver and itting in a stylish leather chair long winter to a new Foundation news Aloha camper & counselor, Cath- with a stunning view of Los An- source. erine Herrick, treated an Aloha geles in the background, hi-top Why, you might ask? The “Ohana” L S Camp assembly to fascinating stories sneakers propped casually on a coffee has kept alumni and parents in the from her career as an Associate Pro- table, Carolyn Strauss looked every bit know and up to date just fine these past ducer for the long-running CBS news the show business mogul welcoming 25 years, since the original mimeo edi- broadcast 60 Minutes. Aloha visitors into her HBO office one tion rolled out of the office in 1982, and “Obsessed with news” from the day last March. it’s grown quite handsomely with the time she was young, Catherine moved times. Now, though, there’s another to New York City after graduating “Ohana” (well, a third actually, count- from Middlebury College in 1997. She ing the lovely director’s cabin at Alo- began her working life as a page at ha): our wonderful new family camp the CBS Evening News before join- on Lake Fairlee’s eastern shore. So it ing the team that started 60 Minutes II, seems a good time to re-christen the the weeknight version of the hit news family communication with a distinc- magazine show. In 2004, Catherine tive title, befitting its original purpose became an Associate Producer for the — to help you rise and shine periodi- original Sunday evening edition of cally to the latest news and views from 60 Minutes. This fall all the camps of the Foundation, and to See Reveille, page 2 Inside Surrounded by memen- tos of her success as a producer of • Elliot Baines Remembered award-winning television shows and • News from the Camps films — The Sopranos, Deadwood, Six • Centennial Whistle-stop Tour Feet Under, Sex & the City, The Wire, Curb • Alumni & Staff News Your Enthusiasm, Real Time with Bill Maher, Dennis Miller Live, Da Ali G Show, See Herrick, page 3 See Strauss, page 5 Aloha Hive Lanakila Horizons Hulbert Ohana THE ALOHA FOUNDATION, INC. 2968 Lake Morey Road Fairlee, VT 05045 Tel.: 802-333-3400 www.alohafoundation.org Bob White President, Board of Trustees Reveille! Jim Zien Executive Director Table of Contents REvEillE! Newsletter Note from Jim ................................ 1 Laura Gillespie, Editor Communications & Alumni Profiles Alumni Relations Manager Catherine Herrick ....................... 1 Tom Miller, Director of Development & Carolyn Strauss ........................... 1 Everyone’s returning to Fairlee!! Alumni Relations News from the Camps Centennial Tour .............................12 Marisa Miller, Editorial Assistant, Aloha .........................................6 Annual Fund Manager Hive ........................................... 7 Staff News .................................... 14 Chris Mann, Technical Support, Lanakila .....................................8 Development Operations Assistant Horizons ....................................9 ................................ 16 Alumni News Tiger Bridge Graphics, Print Design Hulbert .................................... 10 Ohana .......................................11 Remembrances .............................20 Imperial Company, Inc., Print Production Photo Credits: The Aloha Archives, Baines Family, Laura Gillespie, Catherine Herrick, HBO, William Mercer, & Mike Vecchiarelli Mission Statement of The Aloha Foundation, inc. The Aloha Foundation, Inc. is a non-profit edu- Reveille from page 1 cational institution with the objectives of fostering toot our horn from time to time about personal growth, self-reliance, self-confidence, • photo essays and mystery pics of cooperation, and a sense of community in people great things happening hereabouts. camp people, places and things, of all ages and backgrounds. These objectives are Reveille! is a work in progress, past and present; accomplished through a variety of experiences and this inaugural issue is very much • book reviews and articles of including camping, hiking, athletics, water sports, an experiment. So we invite your com- interest to campers, counselors, art, music, crafts, theater, and environmental edu- ments on the concept and look forward cation. In a warm and caring atmosphere, Aloha’s parents and families by writers professional staff nurtures the health and well- to shaping it, with your help, into a on education, recreation, nature, being of individuals and helps guide them through publication that becomes a must-read leadership and other topics rel- challenging experiences that enrich their lives. for anyone interested in the ways Camp evant to our community. shapes the lives of all those who love it. ERRATA from 2007 Annual Report For starters, we’ll be trying out What else would you like to see some sections in the next couple issues included in future issues of Reveille? Apologies for… that may become staples in Reveilles to Camp comic strip? Maybe someone out neglecting to include the generous gift of come: there would like to write one. Campfire J. C. & Helen Rankin Butler in memory recipes? Send in a favorite. Camp- of Lua Ameden. • lead stories about alumni of Aloha, ing gear reviews? Tell us what you use. Hive, Lanakila, Horizons, Hulbert Camp poetry? Know any? neglecting to recognize Fran and Eric or Ohana, whose personal pas- In a word, we’d like to make Rosenfeld with a Kanaka, for their sions, worldly pursuits and/or Reveille! relevant to you. So bugle us years of consistent generosity in giving. social values have been influenced with your ideas — by email’s best, at mis-stating distinguished Emeritus by experiences at Camp; [email protected]. Board member Bob Kenagy’s first year • features on each camp with high- of Board service. It was in 1976. lights and illustrations from the present as well as the past; misspelling Bridget Fariel’s name. 2 Reveille! Spring, 2008 Herrick from page 1 to be following a compelling story, but to take it to the city of marks the 40th anniversary which she is so proud. In fact, of the program, a cultural when asked once what issue she touchstone for many gen- thought CBS could be giving erations of viewers. more coverage, she replied Catherine has worked on instantly, as a staunch Mid- many of the signature stories westerner, that there should be of our times: 9/11, the war in more stories about Cleveland! Iraq, the deaths of both Pope When she spoke to us last John Paul II and President summer, Catherine para- Ronald Reagan. She has been phrased the motto of the involved in two major inter- Cleveland school she attended views with President George as a girl: “we learn not for W. Bush and has traveled the camp, but for life.” Using that globe, from Antarctica to the motto as a jumping off point, Arctic Circle, from Europe to Herrick captivated India. Herrick works exclu- the Aloha crowd sively with 60 Minutes cor- with accounts of respondent Scott Pelley. The the unusual experi- features produced by Herrick ences Camp helped and her team run the gamut of her prepare to the emotional spectrum, from undertake. Here’s the marvel of a child prodigy part of what she had who composed five sympho- to say… nies before turning twelve, to the wrenching Peabody “Climate change, one Award-winning story about the of the most impor- massacre of Iraqi women and tant and controversial children in Haditha, Iraq. issues of our era, has When asked about the been one of both per- story of which she is most sonal significance and proud, Catherine tells about one that my team has a piece she produced for been covering since Pelley about a treatment for 2005, even before the children with cerebral palsy fame of Al Gore’s An called conductive education. Inconvenient Truth. One (http://www.cbsnews.com/ of the most fascinat- stories/2004/02/24/60II/ ing aspects of the story main601944.shtml) The has been observing its 60 Minutes team went to evolution in the eyes of Budapest to report about 60 Minutes viewers. We the Peto Institute, a facility strive to take unique but where children with CP have been treated with a rigorous and highly dis- See Herrick on page 4 ciplined program that has been successful since the end of World War II. The Top to bottom: Catherine story continued to Cath- in India washing down erine’s hometown, Cleve- elephants; in the Arctic land, Ohio, where conductive with a tranquilized polar education is being applied in bear; with niece, Taylor Herrick at Aloha last some local schools. Herrick summer. was doubly excited, not only Spring, 2008 Reveille! 3 Herrick, continued from page 3 impressive! We travel with a huge pared for a nimble response to surprise. amount of gear and getting it from When Hurricane Katrina hit New Or- noteworthy reports, bring them to the country to country through customs leans on a Wednesday in August 2005, forefront, provide critical information takes weeks of planning. Once under- my team was with the polar bears in the and then ask our viewers to learn and way, Camp habits return! While riding Arctic. There was no question we had to care about these issues. a Jeep through the jungle for up to ten move south – way south – and quickly, In the pursuit of a story on climate hours a day, we passed the time singing to capture the devastating Katrina story. change, following the 2004 Arctic favorite Camp songs and by the time 60 Minutes would be expected to have Climate Impact Assessment, my team we returned to Delhi, I nearly had the a major story on the Hurricane on the went to Iceland, Greenland and the elephants and tigers singing ‘Bum- broadcast that Sunday.