Winnebago Alumni Newsletter Spring 2011
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The Winnebago Alumni Association 12316 Spur Lane, Rockville, VA 23146 In this issue: David and Sam - Updating the Twins -1 NYC Alumni Reunion - A Ball in Brooklyn -1 The Rest of the Story - Uncle Joe Yoder -2 From the President - A Cell Phone Rings -3 Uncle Jim Out West - A Travel Diary -4 Post Camp 2011 - Don’t Miss It! -5 Ris Wedding in SF - A B&G Hora -5 Lubells Blaze Trails in Human Rights and Arts Winnebago on the Web! See photos of Camp Read the WAG Read the Echo online Find news of friends Post your latest news Watch the Camp video Take a virtual tour See Winnebago in winter All of this and more at— www.Campwinnebago.com and www.Winnebagoalums.com Winnebago Alumni Newsletter —Spring 2011 Shannon and their newborn son Ben. Just this May PBS aired “Welcome to Shelbyville,” a TV program about the success of the Tennessee effort in the town of Shelbyville. According to David, what sets his project apart is its focus on resident populations, not just on im- migrants. “A lot of groups are trying to water the seed, and not the soil around it. We’re trying to water the soil.” An eye on the newest in design When Sam Lubell was at Brown, his intent was to major in history. Then he took an art history course with famed Professor Dietrich Neumann. A junior year in Paris at the Sorbonne sealed the deal, and Sam’s new direction was clear. After graduating in 1998 as an art his- tory major, Sam spent five years writing on, “everything but architecture.” He did freelance work for the New York Times and the Architectural Record, where he was news editor from 2003 to 2006, and lived in New York. In 2006, Sam moved to Los Angeles to pursue a relationship which later ended. (Continued on page 2) 9th Annual NYC Reunion Brings 50 Alums to “Bowl” Over fifty Winnebagans had a blast at Brooklyn Bowl on Saturday, March 19th. With four bowling lanes and plenty of deli- cious Blue Ribbon© food and grog, alumni swapped stories, reminisced about trips, and gathered for a classic “pointing” group photo (page 6). The gathering could not have been possible without the hard work and generosity of alumnus Stephen Schwarz and his marvelous staff at the Brooklyn Bowl. Look for information next winter on our Facebook page about our 10th NYC Alum Gathering! When identical twins David and Sam Lubell (Lodge 1990) were campers, they never liked to be compared. Today, in Sam’s words, they are “cheerleaders for one another’s accom- plishments.” And their accomplishments in- deed give us much to cheer about. David heads a national organization promoting immi- grant rights; architecture critic Sam just pub- lished his fourth book. The Winnebago Alumni News recently man- aged to catch up with both David and Sam, looking to get an update on the two decades since they left Camp. Fighter for the newest residents After graduation from Wesleyan in 1998, David moved to Memphis to pursue a relation- ship which later ended, but while there he be- came involved with immigrant issues. With Latino Memphis he led a successful campaign to increase access to healthcare for that popu- lation. In 2002, David founded the Tennessee Immigrant & Refugee Rights Coalition. TIRRC is now considered a national model for such organizations. During those years David also received a Masters in Public Administration from the Har- vard Kennedy School of Government, and a certificate in non-profit management from Georgetown University. After a few years with TIRRC, David’s atten- tion shifted from influencing legislation to changing public attitudes. “You have to change the culture of the community,” he says. “Without that, on a human level, no policy success is possible.” In 2006 he founded Wel- coming Tennessee, which works to increase the understanding and acceptance of new resi- dents in the population at large. Now David has moved on and, headquar- tered in Atlanta, has founded Welcoming America, which, with the Tennessee initiative as a model, looks to become a national move- ment, and has opened programs in thirteen more states. He lives in Atlanta with his wife
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Transcript of Winnebago Alumni Newsletter Spring 2011
The Winnebago Alumni Association 12316 Spur Lane, Rockville, VA 23146
In this issue:
David and Sam- Updating the Twins
-1
NYC Alumni Reunion- A Ball in Brooklyn
-1
The Rest of the Story- Uncle Joe Yoder
-2
From the President- A Cell Phone Rings
-3
Uncle Jim Out West- A Travel Diary
-4
Post Camp 2011- Don’t Miss It!
-5
Ris Wedding in SF- A B&G Hora
-5
Lubells Blaze Trails in Human Rights and Arts
Winnebago on the Web!
See photos of Camp
Read the WAG
Read the Echo online
Find news of friends
Post your latest news
Watch the Camp video
Take a virtual tour
See Winnebago in winter
All of this and more at—
www.Campwinnebago.com
andwww.Winnebagoalums.com
Winnebago Alumni Newsletter—Spring 2011
Shannon and their newborn son Ben. Just this May PBS aired “Welcome to Shelbyville,” a TV program about the success of the Tennessee effort in the town of Shelbyville. According to David, what sets his project apart is its focus on resident populations, not just on im-migrants. “A lot of groups are trying to water the seed, and not the soil around it. We’re trying to water the soil.”
An eye on the newest in design When Sam Lubell was at Brown, his intent was to major in history. Then he took an art history course with famed Professor Dietrich Neumann. A junior year in Paris at the Sorbonne sealed the deal, and Sam’s new direction was clear. After graduating in 1998 as an art his-tory major, Sam spent five years writing on, “everything but architecture.” He did freelance work for the New York Times and the Architectural Record, where he was news editor from 2003 to 2006, and lived in New York. In 2006, Sam moved to Los Angeles to pursue a relationship which later ended.
(Continued on page 2)
9th Annual NYC Reunion
Brings 50 Alums to “Bowl” Over fifty Winnebagans had a blast at Brooklyn Bowl on Saturday, March 19th. With four bowling lanes and plenty of deli-cious Blue Ribbon© food and grog, alumni swapped stories, reminisced about trips, and gathered for a classic “pointing” group photo (page 6). The gathering could not have been possible without the hard work and generosity of alumnus Stephen Schwarz and his marvelous staff at the Brooklyn Bowl. Look for information next winter on our Facebook page about our 10th NYC Alum Gathering!
When identical twins David and Sam Lubell (Lodge 1990) were campers, they never liked to be compared. Today, in Sam’s words, they are “cheerleaders for one another’s accom-plishments.” And their accomplishments in-deed give us much to cheer about. David heads a national organization promoting immi-grant rights; architecture critic Sam just pub-lished his fourth book. The Winnebago Alumni News recently man-aged to catch up with both David and Sam, looking to get an update on the two decades since they left Camp.
Fighter for the newest residents After graduation from Wesleyan in 1998, David moved to Memphis to pursue a relation-ship which later ended, but while there he be-came involved with immigrant issues. With Latino Memphis he led a successful campaign to increase access to healthcare for that popu-lation. In 2002, David founded the Tennessee Immigrant & Refugee Rights Coalition. TIRRC is now considered a national model for such organizations. During those years David also received a Masters in Public Administration from the Har-vard Kennedy School of Government, and a certificate in non-profit management from Georgetown University. After a few years with TIRRC, David’s atten-tion shifted from influencing legislation to changing public attitudes. “You have to change the culture of the community,” he says. “Without that, on a human level, no policy success is possible.” In 2006 he founded Wel-coming Tennessee, which works to increase the understanding and acceptance of new resi-dents in the population at large. Now David has moved on and, headquar-tered in Atlanta, has founded Welcoming America, which, with the Tennessee initiative as a model, looks to become a national move-ment, and has opened programs in thirteen more states. He lives in Atlanta with his wife
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David and Sam Lubell
(Notice – there are still similarities. They are still twins!) But his travels also led him to The Architect’s Newspaper, and landed him his cur-rent position as Editor-in-Chief of the West Coast Edition. His current assignment affords him the opportunity to work on his own book projects, and just this spring he published his fourth. “Paris 2000+” and “London 2000+” were published in 2007 and 2008, and spotlight out-standing architectural projects in those two cities since the millennium. Sam’s third book was “Living West: New Residential Architecture in Southern California.” His newest, just released, is, “Julius Shulman’s Los Angeles: Birth of a Modern Metropo-lis.” Shulman was a famous photog-rapher best known for capturing mid-century modernism. “This book looks at everything else,” Sam points out. “It’s another side of a famous photographer.” Sam is a serious photographer in his own right, whose work can be seen, along with his writing and edit-ing, at samlubell.net. He notes that he started with a pinhole camera
(Continued from page 1) made in the Camp photo hut, and has gone on to take photography courses wherever he has been – Brown, NYC, Paris and L.A. The brothers most certainly re-member their Winnebago summers, and note the impact Camp has had on them. With a chuckle, David says, “People talk about how difficult is to convince folks to accept immigrants in their community. I’ve found it eas-ier than getting down the Moose River in 1987!” (For those who weren’t there that year, it was a nightmare trip led by a man who couldn’t, or wouldn’t read a map. ‘Nuff said.) Sam recalls that it was only when he came back one summer as a coun-selor in 1996, now trained and at-tuned to architectural and natural design, that he fully appreciated the beauty in the setting of Winnebago, and the forests and rivers of Maine. The Winnebago Alumni Newslet-ter takes pride in reporting on the accomplishments of all of our former campers and counselors. We’re doubly proud of the Lubells. If you’ve got a story that should be in these pages, please let us know.
The Rest of the Story
A Tribute to Uncle Joe Yoder Uncle Joe Yoder passed away on January 19th of this year. As Aunt Dee said in her letter to me, “Joe was a genuine 1919.” The front license plate of his convertible read “1919.” His email address included 1919. Joe kept the CW calen-dar on his desk and always enjoyed reading the newsletter and remembered so many of the campers. Joe’s dedication in Arts and Crafts, his atten-tion to detail, and his creative way of engaging campers are all hallmarks of Joe’s years at camp. Joe and Dee were both fixtures at camp in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s. At the Council Ring, whether he was spinning a yarn of his own or reading a Paul Harvey story, campers and counselors alike would await his ending words: “And now you know the rest of the story.” Uncle Joe was a fun-loving, caring, and re-sourceful counselor who understood the essence of Winnebago, and worked hard to share that with others, both at camp and during the off-season.
Winnebago Alumni Association
Board of Directors—————–
President—Jim AstroveVice President—Peter NewmanSecretary—Paul SchwarzTreasurer—Ethan Ris
Eric Feder, Dick Lewis, Ben Lilienthal, Peter Sheehy, Brad Solmsen,
————–—–Alumni Newsletter
Editor, Paul SchwarzMail to: [email protected]
Uncle Joe Yoder’s spirit of fun was on display in the annual CW Mardi Gras celebration.
David Lubell Sam Lubell
From the Association President—
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Thank You!Since the Fall 2010 Newsletter, the Win-nebago Alumni Association has received contributions from the following alumni, parents, and friends:
Ty Alper & Tamar ToddAnonymous Max & Jonathan AronsonEd AstroveJim & Ann AstroveValasie AugustNancy Bard & Donald BaerSelim BenbadisJean & Neal BirnbergAdele & Rick CarterAndy CasdenKim Cheiken Living TrustElizabeth & Craig ChumneyCramer Rosenthal McGlynn, LLCEllen & Lester EberDavid & Resa EpplerEric FederMary & Richard FelixSamuel, Margaret & Andrew FlaxJill FrankelDavid FriedmanJoseph & Anna Gartner FoundationCarol GileEliot GreenfieldTerry GreissNancy & Carl GropperJohn GrottaMatt & Laurie HassSusan HaberDaniel Haber & Ellen CohenJamie & Haim HandwerkerLeslie HansonJim HofheimerAnne & Robert IvanhoeMarc KaiserBarbara KaufmanKenneth KaufmanMary KaufmanLeni Klaimitz & Mitchell BergRob & Penny KlatellMelissa KleinMichael & Bettina KleinDavid LandisFred LevyTodd LevyDick LewisBen LilienthalRay LondaSteve & Denise MalesEthan MandelkernPeg & Lou MetzgerCharles Meyer
Hello Everyone,
I am driving home from work when my cell phone rings. While I am “hands-free” and ready to answer, not recognizing the number I almost don’t pick up. Something, though, tells me to answer. Astonishingly, it is a voice from 27 years ago, Jeff Newman, a camper in my 1984 Senior Lodge and Allagash. Jeff was recently named a partner at a DC law firm where a close Conn College friend of mine is also a partner, and they have figured out the connection.
My friend’s children call me “Unk” – Conn – camp in Maine. It all falls into place and the next thing, Jeff calls and we are talking. A modern connection gives us back old times from camp. And in speaking now, not having seen or heard from each other since the summer of 1984, we are back at camp, back on the Alla-gash, regaling each other with stories we both know so well.
I’ll be seeing Jeff in June to renew our relationship in person. Such is the nature of things today. Be it Facebook, LinkedIn, or the randomness of our small world, there are connections to be made, reconnections to be made as well. We all share this common experience of Winnebago. It brings us back to our childhood and then transports these relationships, places and memories to the present day. Each experience we shared and still feel so closely in our hearts is a bond.
Since our last newsletter, your giving has been tremendous; I cannot thank you enough for your efforts to keep this Association alive. If we value these bonds, these connections and reconnections, then we must continue to make this oppor-tunity available to those who would otherwise never know of camp.
Think for a moment how camp plays in your life today. I know it does still play, today and everyday. So keep on making the commitment to share Winne-bago, to share the chance to swim in Echo Lake, to get a fourth quarter Patrol Game flag in the first minute, to paddle the Allagash, and yes, to be able to live it all 27 years later in the glow of a campfire ember and the ring of a cell phone.
Have fun!Jim Astrove
Jill MeyerMillipore Matching GiftJanis Min FundDavid NathanDavid NewmanMichael NewmanPeter & Tracy NewmanFrank Pakula, Andew Waldholtz, Daniel Perrault, Dr. & Mrs. Lawrence PakulaDiane & John ParolaValery & Elena PlotnikovSusan QuillNathaniel RichDylan RisJeanne Ackerman Haimovici & Max RosenJack RosenblumAndy RougeotJean-Andre & Vicki RougeotEric & Fiona Rudin
Eric SchanzerRichard ScherzerLindsey SchoenemanKaren & Jeffrey SchwartzMarcus SchwarzBob & Harriet SelverstoneDavid SheehyPat SilvermanJonathan SokotchBrad Solmsen & Aliza KlineElliott SteinbaumPaul StevelmanLawrence WagenbergBaila, Bruce & Andrew Wald-holtz
* * * * * *In honor of Max Arnell Nathan Arnell & Heidi HellringIn memory of Mary Bodkin John Bodkin
In memory of Robert Friedman Michael FriedmanIn memory of John Kaufman Andrew & Linda KaufmanIn memory of Aunt Emmy, Ben Rinaldo, ,Nabby, and Peter Hoffman Phil LilienthalIn memory of Mark Madoff Jacob Addelson Max Bledstein Tucker Risman Elliott SilvermanIn honor of Jeff Silver Charles B. & Paula M. Moss Foundation, Inc.In honor of Gabe Taylor Paul Taylor & Elizabeth MarksIn memory of Joe Yoder Dee Yoder
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Our 1ST Session will be from Friday, August 19 to Sunday, August 21. It provides a wonderful family experi-ence replete with games, talent shows and exploring. The 2nd Session (August 21-August 28) is a similar, but more complete, experience for the family. It is a wonderful 8 days in which you can have as much activity as you like and as much relaxation as your family will allow you to have. At Family Camp you will enjoy your own cabin and participate in a wide variety of activities, or just enjoy the quiet by the lake or in the woods.
Talent Show, Tennis, Happy Hour, Pemaquid Point, Canoeing, Swimming, Softball, Campfires
8/19-21 8/21-8/28 8/19-8/28
Rates 1st Session 2nd Session Both Sessions Daily
Adult $325.00 $675.00 $895.00 $105.00
Young Adult (16-29) $275.00 $500.00 $650.00 $90.00
Child (2-15 years) $225.00 $400.00 $500.00 $70.00
Under 2 years Free Free Free Free
2011 Camper $200.00 $350.00 $450.00 $55.00
Please complete the form below if you would like to join us.
____ Parent/Son Camp: Sign us up for August 19-21, at a cost of $325 for a parent and $200 for our son. Enclosed is $100.00 per person deposit, refundable in full until August 1.
Name of Adult(s)_________________________Name(s) of children__________________________ Family Camp: We'll be there for Family Camp, August 21–28 (Partial stays are negotiable)____ Both: We’ll be there from August 19-28.
Names and relationship of all attending (birth dates of those under 18). Enclosed is a $100.00 per person deposit, refundable in full until August 1.
Send to:Camp Winnebago—131 Ocean Street, South Portland, ME 04106 (Winter Address)
19 Echo Lake Road, Fayette ME 04349 (after June 7)
Post Camp 2011
Astrove Travel DiaryWinnebagans in the West
Our Winnebago West Coast swing included Alumni gatherings in San Francisco, Santa Monica, Pacific Palisades and Anaheim. Ethan Ris and his beautiful bride, Liana, were married in San Francisco on Saturday, April 16. (see article) Earlier in the day, Andy Casden met with Jim and Ann for a tour of Golden Gate Park. On a second California trip two weeks later, Jim and Ann found Chuck Davis and Jimmy Carter in Pacific Palisades for a relaxing afternoon, and then Jim and Ann got together with 1974 Big Captain Steve Aron in Santa Monica and were later joined by Dylan Ris from neighboring LA for a terrific Kentucky Derby party.
The next day, Steve, Dylan, Jim and Ann attended an Angels game (in the Autrey Luxury Box, thanks to Steve) and were joined by Marc Kaiser, counselor 1974-1976 (Jim’s Senior Lodge counselor in 1975). On our next West Coast swing, we hope to see even more Winnebagans. You can let us know where you are by joining us on Facebook and by emailing your contact information to [email protected].
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The Gift of Camp: Over the years, so many boys have enjoyed Camp through the Association’s Scholarship Fund. Winnebago underwrites the greatest share. Your contribution makes it possible, just as it does for your college. Can you help to give a boy a Winnebago summer? Please use this coupon to become a part of this impor-tant effort.
Yes, I’ll Help the Winnebago Scholarship Fund!
I want to make it possible for minority scholarship campers to enjoy The Gift of Camp by attending Camp Winnebago. I enclose the following tax-deductible contribution, payable to The Winnebago Alumni Association:
__ $500 __ $250 __ $100 __ $50 __ $25 $______ (any amount)
Name ______________________________________________
Address _____________________________________________
City ____________________________ State ___ Zip _________
Email_____________________________Phone_______________
My years as a camper: _____________ counselor: _____________
News for the next Alumni Association Newsletter: ______________
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Mail to: Jim Astrove, 12316 Spur Lane, Rockville, VA 23146You may also donate online at winnebagoalums.org
Alumni Attend Ethan Ris-Liana LoConte Wedding in San Francisco A good number of Winnebagans cele-brated the wedding of Ethan Ris and Liana LoConte in April at the San Francisco Film Cen-ter, in the historic Presidio district. Strains of “Carry On” were heard at a pre-wedding dinner
of Mexican food, Margaritas and beer. The wedding itself, on Saturday evening, was anything but traditional, as the various parts of the ceremony were interspersed with the dinner courses, the vows coming between the main course and dessert, in time for cake and champagne. Winnebagans in attendance included Jim and Ann Astrove, Paul and Barbara Schwarz, Dan Goff and Samira Nazem, Andrew Kam-
bour and Julie Holt, Eric Feder and Jordana Ravick, Eric Benson, and Al Miller (longest distance award).
Ethan is a doctoral candidate in education at Stanford. Liana is a product manager at Greatschools.org. They live in the Castro district of San Francisco.
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Winnebago Alumni Meet at Brooklyn Bowl; 9th Annual Reunion
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Thirty-three alumni (and one future Winnebagan) at Brooklyn Bowl for the eighth N.Y. Area Alumni Reunion. (article page 1)
