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Steve Buch November 11, 2011 09:24:27 (EDT)

I'm meeting Phil Siegle for lunch tomorrow. It's only been 49 years since we've seen each other and 51 years since we were tentmates in Tent 14! Thanks to my kousin and former kamper Joe Gurkoff for putting us back in touch.

Bob Sprafkin October 23, 2011 17:14:27 (EDT)

WFIL,

So sorry to hear of Dickie's passing. As you know, he was my sister's boyfriend in high school, and was always wonderful to me. Rides in his classic red MG TD and lots of other great experiences. Please extend my sympathy to family.

Bob

WFIL October 22, 2011 15:08:08 (EDT)

I am sorry to report that my dear Uncle Dickie (Richard)) Klein passed away yesterday. (Kamper '44-'51.) He had been ill for some time with congestive heart failure. He was a great Idea Man and had hundreds of friends and endless stories. About a month ago he published his autobiography, "Who The Hell Is Richard Klein, and Who Cares? A Memoir of an Idea Savant." It is an interesting, funny, entertaining book, filled with anecdotes, including many stories of Kamp. If you knew Dickie and would like a copy, it is on Amazon.com.

Tiger Levy October 10, 2011 07:11:29 (EDT)

Joe Ludgate was a very good HC (following a VERY tough act wasn't easy) & a very good person. Stein is right about Joe's hard-to-beat mix of humor & sarcasm. The result was that he always seemed authentic--nobody wasted a lot of time wondering what he'd said, liked, wanted, etc. Few of us have this gift &/or know how to use it.

alex stein October 7, 2011 14:06:02 (EDT)

Joe was a true mensch. He was never my tent kounselor, but he was my friend. He had a way to say important things using both humor and sarcasm that have always been with me. He had his ups and downs as we all did, I will miss him.

BS Cohen October 4, 2011 16:27:17 (EDT)

So sad to hear about Joe Ludgate. I talked to him over the summer - he very much wanted to come to the reunion. It was clear he couldn't, but we had a long and wonderful chat.

Sandy Jo September 29, 2011 09:30:37 (EDT)

Fred Half, thanks so much for that link to the Pitts Paper. Turns out that my grandfather Charles H. Joseph was editor of that paper for many years. I lost your e-mail address please forward to me at alexhjoseph@aol.com. Thanks

Steve Buch September 28, 2011 15:36:30 (EDT)

That is very sad news. Joe waw my Tent 1 Kounsellor. He was good friends with Gerald Hall who was also a friend of my parents and who worked with my father. Both Joe and Gerry told me a funny story. Gerry was is the area so Joe took him to see Kewanee (in the off season). They walked through the Grove and down to the lake. There on the shore they found a soapdish. They picked it up and on it was a piece of tape with a name on it. Mine! We always thought that was an amazing coincidence. I will always carry fond memories of Kewanee and Joe Ludgate played a big part in that.

WFIL September 28, 2011 13:45:57 (EDT)

Relayed to me by Jim Levy, I have some sad news to report:

On Monday, our beloved HC, Joseph P Ludgate of Scranton, passed away. He was a great Kewaneean and will be sorely missed.

Robert S (BS) Cohen September 23, 2011 15:20:42 (EDT)

In answer to Robert Bernstein's question, Keystone College does not own the camp. They do lease the Lodge and its adjacent pier for a marine biology lab, however. The camp itself is currently owned by one Harry Mumford, who lives in Waverly, and who told me that he had been a good friend of shop counselor Leo Pelton, who would take him to some of the plays and marionette shows we produced in the Lodge those many years ago...

Robert Bernstein September 20, 2011 20:42:23 (EDT)

Thank you, Steve, that did help.

Best,

Bob Bernstein

Steve Buch September 20, 2011 13:53:53 (EDT)

Thoroughy enjoyed the reunion. I wish I could have talked more of my contemporaries into coming. Maybe next time. Robert, if you go to Google Maps and search for Manataka Lake, Benton, PA 18414 you should be able to find the entrance road on the map that comes up. Move the marker to that intersection and then click the "get directions" button and you should be good to go.

Robert Bernstein September 20, 2011 07:42:59 (EDT)

How nice to visit at the Reunion, thank you all.

How does one get to the Kewanee kamp site in La Plume? I ask because I think I may some time be in that area and would certainly look for it. Don't I recall that the local Keystone College owns the site? Where do I find directions to same?

My mother--pretty clearly the reason my brother and I came to Kewanee, perhaps rather than Kennebec, the Maine camp that a number of local families favored--has been a lifelong Philadelphian, first in the North Broad Street area, than, Germantown and Mt. Airy, then she moved with her parents into the new 1939 apartment house behind the artr museum, and then into the Main Line, in Penn Valley in a house my father's little brother designed, in 1955, and now in a retirement community in Gladwyne. She's 86, bright, and was for many years quite a traveller--for instance not many Americans chose to see Mauritania in the 1980's, she did, and I visited Cuba with her in 2003. Not able to get around quite so much now, we thought to have an 'off the beaten track' Pennsylvania tour after the Reunion, in essence for me combining a visit with you folks and a visit with her (as I've been in Vermont for 40 years). The Susquehanna flooding from storm Lee precluded this (we went south and drove around Delaware and Maryland for a few sunny days instead).

But I hope to drive to Northeast Pennsylvania sometime and would certainly try to look up the Kewanee site.

Best to you all again, and thanks.

David Sundheim September 12, 2011 09:21:11 (EDT)

I have frequently enjoyed going to JewornotJew.com for a little humor in the middle of the day. Today's profile, while not Kewanee, seems to have caught the spirit of our recent reunion. http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1150

Bob Sprafkin September 12, 2011 06:46:44 (EDT)

This was my first reunion, and what a great experience! Amazing, after 55 years to be able to reconnect! Thanks so much to the folks who helped organize this wonderful event! As I mentioned to some of you, we are in the process of relocating to Center City Philadelphia, and would love to stay in touch with local Kewanneans.

Mike Corson September 11, 2011 09:27:11 (EDT)

What a great time last night. A huge Kee Kee Wah for the committee - Dave, Steve, Bob, and Nehru. Thank you all so much.

Joel Atlas Skirble September 10, 2011 16:12:05 (EDT)

Missing all you guys tonight. The smell of fresh cut grass, the crack of a bat, Ein Kalohanu, and many more stimuli bring back my fabulous summers at Kamp. Love you guys
Joel

Jon "Moose" Adland September 10, 2011 06:44:08 (EDT)

Wish I could be with everyone tonight. Have a wonderful reunion and hopefully next time.

Hank Mosler September 2, 2011 21:30:16 (EDT)

Tennis anyone? Bring your racquet. I will be staying at the Best Western Friday night and drive to the Ace Conf Center Sat morning. Looking forward to seeing all of you.