Photo Gallery 1960s
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1960
Campers lounging on the lawn.
Is that Lanny Hecker, second from right, massaging Aide Steve Simon's sore neck?
Background: (left: original farm house; right: "rec" hall)
July 1962
Milo Peck introduces his friend to the campers.
(Click on the photo to enlarge).
Robert Coffman at Bashbish Falls, July 1962.
Bert is now a
psychologist in New York City,
and an advocate for those who are both
gay
and mentally ill, a group that he feels often
falls between the
cracks of society's support
systems.
August 1962
For a larger version, click on the photo.
Left to right: Joe Gerver (standing). (At least he thinks it is. It
could be his twin brother Mike.) Bob Zaslow (partly hidden, nature
counselor), Hector DeLaConcha, Sam Meyerowitz (standing, back to
camera), ??? (standing), John Rothchild, Klaus Stoscheck, Billy
Haarman(?), Lenny Dick (standing), Steve Pfeffer?, Kenny Irvis, Yen
Chin, Ben Welch (standing), Michael Capece?, Jerry Krasnoff?, Alberto
Sanz, Leo Coleman, Jack Levy. The boy on the far right, standing with
his back to the camera, might be Mike Gerver (or it could be
Joe).
What are these folks doing now?
Joe Gerver teaches math at the Camden campus of Rutgers.
John Rothchild lives in Miami and is
the captain of a ship which sails all over the world collecting
specimens for aquariums and doing underwater archaeology.
Klaus Stoscheck was assassinated by a rightwing death squad in 1980 in
Guatemala, where he was teaching organic farming methods to the
peasants.
Lenny Dick, our recording secretary, teaches math at the
Ramaz School, a yeshiva in New York.
Kenny Irvis is an MD in Pittsburgh.
Yen Chin, our newsletter editor, lives in Seattle and
describes himself as a bureaucrat.
Leo Coleman died in Vietnam in 1970.
Mike Gerver is a physicist who designs medical imaging systems for GE in Haifa.
Karl Ruden, husband of camp director Malli Ruden, with
aides Lanny
Hecker and Ken Zaslow, August 1962. Today,
Lanny and Ken are both
MD's living in the southwest,
Lanny in Phoenix and Ken, an
opthalmologist, in San
Antonio.
Camper Jack Levy and aide Joanne "Dodo"
Christian, August 1962.
Aides Judy Solomon and Ken Zaslow, with nature
counselor Bob Zaslow
(at right), August 1962.
Picnic Table: They are (clockwise, starting at
the left) Howard
Guralnick (now a tennis pro),
Steven Pfeffer, Sam Meyerowitz,
Jerry
Krasnoff, Jack Levy, and Billy
group
Haarmann. (Joe Gerver, Mike Gerver, and Yen
Chin identified the people in this photo
and the big photo from the same month. Both
1962 photos, by the
way, were
taken at the summit of Mt. Everett.)
July 1965
In June 1965, several former campers, aides, and
counselors came
up to camp to get things ready
for the new season. Shown are (left to
right)
Nancy Recknagel (an aide in 1964, now known as
Nance Crow),
standing in front of an unidentified
camper, John Rothchild '62,
Susan Argutto '61,
standing in front of Sam Meyerowitz '62, and
Karen
Recknagel (the 1963 nature counselor),
holding her dog Kaiser.
Former nature counselor Karen Recknagel (now Karen Chamberlain of
Colorado), with former camper Lenny Dick (now a math teacher and
Northrop board member) and Karen's dog Kaiser, at camp in June
1965.
Parents watch their daughters swim on visiting day.
(Click on the photo to enlarge).
Joanne Blucher (now
Joanne Throne, a restaurant
owner in North
Carolina)
performs at a variety show
in the rec hall, July 1965.
A variety show in the old rec hall. Marilyn Peoples(?) on right.
(Click on the photo to enlarge).
Two photos: Athletics counselor Gloria Groff,
by the pool with some of the campers, and with a raccoon.
July 1966
According to Kim Do (in the blue turtleneck), "We sang 'Yellow
Bird' and 'Who Will Buy This Wonderful Morning' (from Oliver!) next
to the pool. I'm not sure who the others are. I have a sprained
finger from catching a softball."
A chess game, Northrop style (camper Joseph Machac is on the left).
(Click on the photo to enlarge).
At the end of the season in 1966, architect Walter Anicka stands
with camp director Amalia "Mallie" Ruden, before ground is broken for
the new building. Mr. Anicka's building served the camp for 27 years
before it was destroyed by fire in 1993.