tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-213646562024-03-13T13:06:36.519-07:00Camp Chic-a-LacCamp Chic-a-Lac, for former campers, counselors and staff of camp chic-a-lac, Youngsville, NY, in the Catskills, 1950s, 1960s Carl Meltzer, Director. Roy Chernock, Ralph Weintraub, Herb Herbst, Head Counselor, Mort Steuer Assistant Director,
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Bob Eberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11403886357745847564noreply@blogger.comBlogger56125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21364656.post-60993861041792536702019-11-18T15:16:00.002-08:002019-11-25T13:04:26.421-08:00"A CHILDREN'S PARADISE" (Write for Booklet T.) Classified Ads from the NYTimes 1955-1966(huh?) <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Remember the pages full of classified ads for summer camps in the back of the New York Times Magazine? Was that how those few of us who were not related to the Meltzers or the Rattners first heard of Camp Chic-a-Lac? Well, I found scans of many of those complete pages that contained ads for "A Children's Paradise" from a search on <a href="https://www.proquest.com/products-services/pq-hist-news.html" target="_blank">ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times</a>, clipped those individual ads, and combined them on one page. Each of the original full pages had a header with a date, presumably the date of publication. It is that date that I used to identify each of the clips. Unfortunately missing are 1957, 1962, 1963 and 1964, but you'll find a surprise bonus on the second page.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">When you are finished looking at the individual ads have some fun by taking a look at some of the full pages (some partial) with <a href="http://www.eber.com/ccl/pubs/Classfied%20Full%20Pages%20All.pdf" target="_blank">all the summer camp classifieds (<i>click)</i></a>. Wonder how many of them are still around. </span><br />
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Bob Eberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11403886357745847564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21364656.post-40100313088984368072011-08-19T16:55:00.000-07:002019-11-26T11:28:35.565-08:00Phil Schaap<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In 1961 and 1962, I had a camper at Chic-a-Lac named Phil Schaap. When I tell this story about Phil, many people remember that he was related to Dick Schaap, probably the most famous sports writer and personality in the New York area at the time. I always wondered what became of Phil, but it wasn't until a half-century later that I had my answer. Phil is one of the foremost jazz historians in the country, and there is no better expert on the life and music of Charlie “Bird” Parker then he is. For more than 35 years, he has produced and hosted a daily morning show on <a href="http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/wkcr/" style="color: red;">WKCR</a>, the radio station of Columbia University, entitled "Bird Flight", devoted mainly to the music of Charlie Parker. He is also the Curator of <a href="http://www.jalc.org/" style="color: red;">Jazz at Lincoln Center</a>. He has also won seven Grammy Awards. There is a wonderful article on Phil on <span style="color: red;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Schaap"><span style="color: red;">Wikipedia</span></a></span>, which gives his biography, and lists all his many accomplishments as a jazz archivist, record producer, educator, author, and critic.<br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Being a recent born again music nut, I began listening regularly to Phil's radio show on the way into work, and was delighted to hear that he occasionally hosts a drop-in all day and evening open house in the atrium at Jazz at Lincoln Center in the Time-Warner Building, where jazz aficionados can and do hang out with Phil and his well known musician guests, and talk jazz. A while back, I did just that – I dropped in and joined about 40 or 50 other people, all of whom knew much more about jazz than I did. While I was there, <a href="https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Lou_Donaldson" style="color: red;">Lou Donaldson</a>, who played saxophone with legends such as Milt Jackson, Thelonious Monk, and Clifford Brown, and was a member of the Art Blakey Quintet, and <a href="https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Delfeayo_Marsalis" style="color: red;">Delfeayo Marsalis</a>, who besides being a member of the incredible Marsalis family of jazz musicians, is a gifted trombonist and producer of acoustic jazz recordings, dropped by. It was wonderful to hear them swap stories with Phil and many of the old timers in the group. During one of the few lulls in the evening, I sidled up to Phil and told him that I was there for two reasons: the first, because I love hearing him talk about jazz, and the second because I was his counselor at Camp Chic-a-Lac 50 years ago. It was great seeing his reaction and spending some time with him.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Of course I took some photos for the blog and am finally getting around to posting them. Then make sure you play the JALC video. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It was sold for <b>$189,000</b>. We should have bid </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and held our reunions there. Can you just imagine? </span></div>
Bob Eberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11403886357745847564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21364656.post-65847293854868283322010-08-01T19:21:00.000-07:002010-08-11T19:01:52.740-07:00MORT, AS I WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER HIM<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.eber.com/ccl/photos/BobMort.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="377" src="http://www.eber.com/ccl/photos/BobMort.jpg" width="450" /></a></div>This picture captures so much of the joy Morty obviously got from reuniting with everyone from camp, and how much of that joy he was able to impart to us. That joy, that laughter, that warmth, was infectious and will remain with us always.Bob Eberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11403886357745847564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21364656.post-73826498048581908942010-07-30T10:00:00.000-07:002019-11-22T18:46:37.925-08:00MORTY<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Of the many wonderful things that came out of that magical 2005 reunion, reuniting with Morty, and for 5 years being able to laugh with him, reminisce with him, hug him, kiss him on top of that head, and just to be with him, was one of the very best, even if it means that I cry today. But the memories of all that laughter, and all that warmth, at camp nearly a half century ago and over the past 5 years, will make all of us wipe away the tears and laugh again. With Morty, you just won't be able to help yourself.</b><br />
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<b>And damn it Morty - I don't care what you do. </b><b><u>I</u> was the Waterfront Director in 1963.</b></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Love,<br />
Bob</b></div>Bob Eberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11403886357745847564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21364656.post-23854311266173358922010-07-21T16:57:00.000-07:002010-07-31T07:13:34.208-07:00THEY HAD CAMERAS THEN? MORTY'S LONG, LOST SLIDES<span style="color: #003300; font-family: verdana;">On July 11, "The Committee" met in Deedle's meticulously kept and always spotless dining room, to plan for the next reunion based in large part on the responses (23) to the Reunion Survey. Morty looks and sounds great as you can see in this candid, unposed, and casual photo taken lovingly by Betty Steuer.<center style="color: #003300; font-family: verdana; font-size: 80%;"> </center><center style="color: #003300; font-family: verdana; font-size: 80%;"> [click on the photos to enlarge]</center> <a href="http://www.eber.com/ccl/photos/Junta7_10.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.eber.com/ccl/photos/Junta7_10.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 120px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 160px;" /></a><br />
Morty brought with him a moldy box of slides. Unfortunately, they were not dated. But we had them scanned, and they now reside in a Picasa web album. To see the slide show, click on the <a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ungapatchka" style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"><u>ungapotchke</u></a> "<span style="color: #993300; font-weight: bold;">View Morty's Album</span>" button under the sample photo, and you should be taken to album page. (Don't know if you'll have to first sign in with your google account). The click on "slideshow". Hint - if you click on the F11 key, you'll see all the photos in full screen. Please, please help identify everybody (and dating the shots) by clicking on the word "<span style="color: #ff6600; font-weight: bold;">comments(s) </span>" at the end of this post. And keep watching your e-mail and this page for more details about the reunion.<br />
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<center style="color: #003300; font-family: verdana;"><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/eberlaw/MortySLongLostSlides?authkey=Gv1sRgCO-Ai9Xe4-C0rgE&feat=directlink"><img border="0" src="http://www.eber.com/ccl/photos/MortyAlbumButton.png" /></a></center></span>Bob Eberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11403886357745847564noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21364656.post-9196132285906527012010-03-19T12:03:00.000-07:002010-08-05T20:34:50.654-07:00LOS ANGELES MICRO REUNION!<span style="color: #003300; font-family: verdana;"> Last Saturday evening, March 13, Gary and Rhonda Nestle came up from Orange County to join my brother and sister-in-law, Les and Judy, and me at </span><a href="http://www.charlieos.com/" style="color: #660000; font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;">Charlie O's</a><span style="color: #003300; font-family: verdana;"> in Valley Glen, in the San Fernando Valley. </span><a href="http://www.charlieos.com/" style="color: #660000; font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;">Charlie O's</a><span style="color: #003300; font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #660000;"> </span>has been voted by </span><a href="http://www.downbeat.com/" style="color: #660000; font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;">Downbeat Magazine</a><span style="color: #003300; font-family: verdana;"> as one of 100 best jazz clubs in the world three years in a row, and that night it certainly lived up to its reputation. It attracts the best jazz musicians in the area. We were lucky enough to see, hear and enjoy <a href="http://www.chuckmanning.com/" style="color: #660000; font-weight: bold;">Chuck Manning</a>, an incredibly talented saxophonist, playing with the </span><span style="color: #003300; font-family: verdana;">John Heard Trio</span>, <span style="color: #003300; font-family: verdana;">with <a href="http://www.andylangham.com/live/" style="color: #660000; font-weight: bold;">Andy Langham</a> on piano, <a href="http://www.myspace.com/roywmccurdy" style="color: #660000; font-weight: bold;">Roy McCurdy</a> on drums, and <a href="http://www.heardworks.com/" style="color: #660000; font-weight: bold;">John Heard</a>, who has played with every famous jazz musician in the world, on bass. For years, Gary has been playing drums professionally, and his enthusiasm for the music and the quality of the musicians was contagious. The <a href="http://newcastlebrown.com/" style="color: #003300; font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #660000;">New Castle Brown Ale</span> </a>wasn't bad, either. It was just a great evening. I kept shaking my head at the thought of what I would have said if someone had told me during my last summer at Chic-a-Lac that in 47 years I'd be sitting in a jazz club outside Los Angeles enjoying great music and having beers with one my campers and his wife. Mind boggling.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #003300; font-family: verdana; font-size: 92%; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1; text-align: center;"> Les, Judy, Rhonda, Gary, and me</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.eber.com/ccl/photos/CharleyOs-Band_editedWEB_1.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.eber.com/ccl/photos/CharleyOs-Band_editedWEB_1.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 210px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 280px;" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #003300;"><span style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Andy Langham, </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-style: italic;">piano</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">, Chuck Manning, </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-style: italic;">saxophone</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana;">John Heard,</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-style: italic;"> bass</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">, Roy McCurdy, </span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">drums</span></span></span></span><br />
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #003300; font-family: verdana; text-align: left;">So, if you live in the L.A. area, or are just visiting, and want to hear some classy, live jazz, head over to Charlie O's -- you'll enjoy every note.</span> <span style="color: #003333; font-family: verdana;">And check out the <a href="http://www.charlieos.com/" style="color: #660000; font-weight: bold;">Charlie O's site</a> for some great jazz links.</span></div><span style="color: #003300;"> </span></div>Bob Eberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11403886357745847564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21364656.post-58792928269359871402010-01-18T16:15:00.000-08:002010-07-29T17:18:41.466-07:00INNER SECRETS OF THE CHIC-A-LAC JUNTA REVEALED!!<span style="color: #003333; font-family: verdana; font-size: 121%; text-align: center;">December 6, 2009. Somewhere in New Rochelle, New York.</span> <span style="color: #003333; font-family: verdana; font-size: 78%; text-align: center;"> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #003300; font-size: 78%; line-height: 1; text-align: center;"> Is anyone listening to me?</span></td> <td><a href="http://www.eber.com/ccl/photos/JuntaMortRocky.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.eber.com/ccl/photos/JuntaMortRocky.jpg" style="width: 190px;" /></a><span style="color: #003300; font-size: 78%; line-height: 1;"> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #003300; font-size: 80%; text-align: center;">[click on photo to enlarge]</span> <a href="http://www.eber.com/ccl/photos/RoyChachkeTable.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.eber.com/ccl/photos/RoyChachkeTable.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 210px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 280px;" /></a><span style="color: #003300;">Alas, all but one of these magnificent pieces have gradually disappeared. Some drowned -- or were drowned -- in the bathtub, their little duckling squeaker giving one last lifeless, pathetic, gurgling little </span><a href="http://www.eber.com/ccl/pubs/Duck01.wav" style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"><u>quack</u></a><span style="color: #003300;">. Some were simply tossed into the garbage by boorish, unappreciative, uncultured spouses, muttering "Where did you get such </span><a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/dreck" style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><u>DRECK</u></span></a><span style="color: #003300;">?!" And some, sadly enough, were confiscated by the EPA for containing so much </span><a href="http://health.howstuffworks.com/china-lead-poisoning.htm" style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"><u>lead paint</u></a><span style="color: #003300;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>that they could have been used as a hencil, uh, pencil.</span> <span style="color: #003300;">Recently, the last remaining bird, which was last seen hidden in the shadows at the back of the Reunion Tchotchke Table, hoping against hope that he would not suffer the indignity of being chosen as a door prize, was discovered squawking frightfully and running for his life from a </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shechita#The_knife" style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"><u>hallaf</u></a><span style="color: #003300;">-wielding maniacal </span><a href="http://www.eber.com/ccl/photos/schochet.jpg" style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"><u>shochet</u></a><span style="color: #003300;"> at a </span><a href="http://kosherfood.about.com/od/kosherbasics/f/glatt.htm" style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"><u>glatt kosher</u></a><span style="color: #003300;"> slaughterhouse near </span><a href="http://www.betweenthelakes.com/liberty.htm" style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"><u>Liberty, New York</u></a><span style="color: #003300;">. After a bath, a pedicure, a combing and a nine piece meal at <a href="http://www.eber.com/ccl/photos/kfc.jpg" style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"><u>the Colonel's</u></a>, Mortie's, uh, rooster once again stands tall, thick, proud, firm, and smooth in the safety of his new home, an alabaster-colored specimen of Herculean proportions, with a proud, erect head, never again having to fear falling into the wrong - or right - hand.</span> <br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #003300; font-size: 80%;">[click on photo to enlarge Mortie's Rooster]</span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.eber.com/ccl/photos/MortiesBird.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.eber.com/ccl/photos/MortiesBird.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 240px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a><span style="color: #003300; font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;">MORTIE'S BIRD ON HIS NEW ROOST</span> </div>Bob Eberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11403886357745847564noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21364656.post-4018880232116366562009-01-26T16:53:00.000-08:002010-07-29T17:42:48.740-07:00ON THE NEVER ENDING TRAIL OF GEOFF OUTLAW<img align="absmiddle" class="ife_marker" id="null_ife_marker_0" src="chrome://informenter/skin/marker.png" style="border: 0pt none; cursor: pointer; display: inline; height: 19px; width: 14px;" title="Max field length is unknown" /><br />
<div style="color: #0c343d; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Geoff was one of the corral counselors in 1963 (the other was Rusty-anyone remember Rusty's last name?)</span> </div><div style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"> </span></div><div style="color: #0c343d; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 85%;">[click on any photo to enlarge]</span> </div><div style="color: #0c343d;"><a href="http://www.eber.com/ccl/photos/OutlawDeb.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.eber.com/ccl/photos/OutlawDeb.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 225px;" /></a> </div><div style="color: #0c343d; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> Sometime in 1968 or so, Neil went to see Arlo Guthrie's <span style="font-style: italic;">Alice's Restaurant</span> and recognized Geoff as the actor who played Arlo's sidekick, Roger. It turns out that Geoff and Arlo were friends since their early days in Brooklyn, and later attended the Stockbridge School together, where they formed a band. <a href="http://www.eber.com/ccl/photos/GeoffArloStockbridgeHSedit.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.eber.com/ccl/photos/GeoffArloStockbridgeHSedit.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 250px;" /></a> </span><br />
<div style="font-size: 78%; line-height: 1; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Steve Elliot, Geoff, Jeff Boverman, and Arlo (dig Arlo!!) performing at the Stockbridge School gym in 1963</span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span><br />
<div style="text-align: right;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Anyway, in my attempt to find Geoff, I came across some great photos of him over the years, and some great multimedia-type stuff which I thought would be fun to share with you. By the way, I heard from Niles Fuller, who took the 2004 photo of Geoff, that as far as he knew Geoff was still living in Austin.</span> </div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><br />
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<div style="font-size: 78%; line-height: 1;">Geoff as "Roger" in the Stockbridge<br />
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from <span style="font-style: italic;">Alice's Restaurant</span>, 1968 </div></td> <td><a href="http://www.eber.com/ccl/photos/GeoffandArlo1998.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.eber.com/ccl/photos/GeoffandArlo1998.JPG" style="height: 142px; width: 129px;" /></a><br />
<div style="font-size: 78%; line-height: 1;">Arlo and Geoff, Austin, Texas, 1988 </div></td> <td><a href="http://www.eber.com/ccl/photos/GeoffFlickr.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.eber.com/ccl/photos/GeoffFlickr.jpg" style="width: 130px;" /></a> <br />
<div style="font-size: 78%; line-height: 1;">Geoff, 2004 [photo by niles j. fuller © 2004] </div></td> </tr>
</tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">On the 40th anniversary of his "Alice's Restaurant Massacree", Arlo tells the story behind "Alice's Restaurant" to Debbie Elliott of NPR's "All Things Considered". To listen to the entire interview,</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5028273" style="font-family: verdana;">click [here] to open the NPR page,</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> and then on the </span><img alt="NPR Listen Button" src="http://www.eber.com/ccl/photos/NPR%20Speaker19.bmp" style="border-width: 0px; font-family: verdana; vertical-align: bottom;" /><span style="font-family: verdana;"> button.</span> <br />
<span style="font-family: verdana;">Finally, Geoff appears in the original 3 1/2 minute movie trailer. Just click on the Play </span><img alt="Play Button" src="http://www.eber.com/ccl/photos/control_play.png" style="border-width: 0px; font-family: verdana;" /> <span style="font-family: verdana;">Button in the middle of the image below, and see how many times you can spot him.</span> <br />
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Speaking of "finds". I'm putting together a post based on a real "Eureka" discovery that I hope will surprise and delight everyone as much as it did me. Check back in a few days....... </div>Bob Eberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11403886357745847564noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21364656.post-81788460415051578552008-08-25T17:14:00.000-07:002010-07-30T07:25:29.042-07:00FROM ANNETTE-NEW REUNION SHOTS&MINI-REUNION @ AQUAGRILL IN SOHO<a href="http://www.eber.com/ccl/photos/AnnetteReunion_1.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.eber.com/ccl/photos/AnnetteReunion_1.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 190px;" /></a> <a href="http://www.eber.com/ccl/photos/AnnetteReunion_2.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.eber.com/ccl/photos/AnnetteReunion_2.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 190px;" /></a> <br />
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" >On October 24, 2007, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Marcy Silverberg Pulewitz</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Rocky Rattner</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Carol Deedledum Galetz</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Vic Greenhut</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Paul Auerbach</span>, and I got together at the "Catskill On Film" discussion at the </span><a style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://mjhnyc.org/">Museum of Jewish Heritage</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" >, in Battery Park City, New York. The event was hosted by Prof. Phil Brown of Brown University </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;" >(rah), </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >founder and head of </span><a style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://catskills.brown.edu/">The Catskills Institute</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >, and featured Shelly Altman, screenwriter<span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" >, Sweet Lorraine</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" >; Pamela Gray, screenwriter, </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" >A Walk on the Moon</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" >; and Joan Micklin Silver, director, </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" >Hester Street</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" > and </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" >Crossing Delancey</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" > (click </span><a style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://viewer.zoho.com/docs/ysqbw">here</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" > to see a detailed description of the program and the museum exhibit). Carol, Rocky, and Paul Auerbach particularly have had strong family ties to the Catskills, with Paul's family having owned the Lesser Lodge in White Sulphur Springs. The movie clips were classics and caught much of the essence of the Catskill culture. As always happens when Chic-a-Lac refugees gather, we had lots of laughs and a wonderful time, although we felt a bit constrained since Dr. Ruth was sitting right in front of us. For the next mini-reunion, how about renting both movies and inviting <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.sheckygreene.com/">Shecky Greene</a>?</span>
</span>Bob Eberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11403886357745847564noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21364656.post-21509978450131229592007-10-09T18:44:00.000-07:002010-07-22T15:18:44.726-07:00NAME THAT BUGLE CALL!!<span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >Grab a pencil. Make sure your sound and speakers are on. Then, after each bugle call, click on the <img style="border-width: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 42px;" src="http://www.eber.com/ccl/pubs/mp3_1.png" alt="" border="0" /> button, or if that doesn't work, try clicking on the <img style="border-width: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 42px;" src="http://www.eber.com/ccl/pubs/wma.png" alt="" border="0" /> button. Listen to the bugle call (patience - you may have to wait a few seconds or hit a "Play" or "OK" button to get going), and jot down your best guess at its name. When you're all done, click on "</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><u>Comments</u></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >" at the bottom of the post. Copy your answers (and leave any other laudatory remarks) in the box that opens up, <span style=""><strong><b>MAKING SURE TO LEAVE YOUR NAME</b></strong></span>, if you want to claim your prize. Answers may one day be posted in the "Links" section of the green sidebar. And who knows - prizes might even be awarded at the <a style="color: rgb(221, 0, 44);" href="http://chicalac.blogspot.com/2007/09/2008-camp-chic-lac-reunion.html"><b><u>2008 SUMMER REUNION</u></b></a>.
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</tbody></table></div>Bob Eberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11403886357745847564noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21364656.post-31706122710189438792007-08-04T23:58:00.000-07:002010-08-18T13:49:20.717-07:00CHIC-A-LAC WEST COAST MINI-REUNIONBrunch in Brentwood Aug 4, 2007<div style="color: #0c343d;"><a href="http://www.eber.com/ccl/photos/MikeGaryBob.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.eber.com/ccl/photos/MikeGaryBob.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 164px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 200px;" /></a> <span style="font-family: verdana;">We located Mike Lager through his brother Richard (but that's another story) on Thursday; Gary Nestle had been traveling, but called Friday as soon as he saw my email; and we got together on Saturday. Mike came down from Encino, Gary came up from Huntington Beach, and we had breakfast, appropriately, at N.Y. Bagel.</span> <a href="http://www.eber.com/ccl/photos/MikeGaryBobJudyx.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.eber.com/ccl/photos/MikeGaryBobJudyx.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 164px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 200px;" /></a> <span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">We were joined by Mike's friend Judy (in the turquoise), my sister-in-law Judy (in the blue) and my brother Les (behind the camera) who taught Mike when he was a Fellow in Cardiology at UCLA Medical Center nearly 35 years ago, and who hadn't seen him since. So it was quite the wonderful reunion with some very special people. </span><span style="font-size: 85%; text-align: right;">[click on either photo to enlarge]</span></span></div>Bob Eberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11403886357745847564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21364656.post-35595217649086638822007-07-12T11:11:00.000-07:002010-08-05T20:36:45.518-07:00DINNER ON CITY ISLAND APRIL 7, 2007<a href="http://www.eber.com/ccl/photos/City-Island-4-07.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.eber.com/ccl/photos/City-Island-4-07.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a> <span style="font-family: verdana;"> <span style="color: #006600;">A delightful impromptu get-together with Bob Weiss, his wife Anne, Carol and Corinne. Anne, who took the photo, is warm, charming and very engaging. And we're all invited to So. Padre Island for the next reunion!</span></span>Bob Eberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11403886357745847564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21364656.post-80711343933974347332007-06-20T07:11:00.000-07:002010-07-30T08:11:12.313-07:00DORIS BAIM<div style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Carol reports seeing </span><a href="http://www.eber.com/ccl/pubs/DorisBaim.pdf" style="font-family: verdana;">this obituary of Doris Baim</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> in the </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-style: italic;">Sullivan County Democrat.</span></div>Bob Eberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11403886357745847564noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21364656.post-84169736401166544312007-05-31T21:17:00.000-07:002010-07-22T15:18:45.275-07:00VANITY PLATE AVAILABLE IN NEW YORK!(no kidding)<a href="https://www.dmv.state.ny.us/personalizedPlates/EmpChoosePlate.cfm"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://www.eber.com/ccl/photos/LicensePlate.jpg" alt="" border="0"></a>
<font style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);" face="verdana">If you'd like to proudly display this on <u>your</u> car, click on the <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="https://www.dmv.state.ny.us/personalizedPlates/EmpChoosePlate.cfm">license plate</a> and be the first to follow instructions on the Motor Vehicle Department site. When you get it, be sure to take a picture for all of us to see!
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(The possibilities are endless. For example, click [<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.eber.com/ccl/photos/Combined9.jpg">here</a>] to see some other available plates).</font>Bob Eberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11403886357745847564noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21364656.post-52247982879504561482007-05-03T13:18:00.000-07:002010-07-22T15:18:45.460-07:00MORTIE - YOU'VE COME A LONG WAY, BABY!<span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;">To this:</span></span>
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<a href="http://www.eber.com/ccl/photos/CoachMortJohnJayEdit.jpg"><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);"><span style="font-size:90%;">[click on either photo to e</span><span style="font-size:105%;">n</span><span style="font-size:120%;">l</span><span style="font-size:135%;">a</span><span style="font-size:150%;">r</span><span style="font-size:165%;">g</span><span style="font-size:180%;">e]</span></span></a>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;">From this:</span></span>
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<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.eber.com/ccl/photos/MortieDBhr.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px;" src="http://www.eber.com/ccl/photos/Mortie%20Diving%20Board1962200.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Bob Eberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11403886357745847564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21364656.post-82963718699984173892007-04-29T09:56:00.000-07:002010-07-22T15:18:45.586-07:00LUNCH IN FT. LAUDERDALE<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lcnAf0fs5GI/RjTPkJA51-I/AAAAAAAAAAU/JMdXUkh84CU/s1600-h/P1010007.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lcnAf0fs5GI/RjTPkJA51-I/AAAAAAAAAAU/JMdXUkh84CU/s320/P1010007.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5058896501245859810" border="0" /></a>
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Carol, Sidelle and I got together 2 weeks ago for lunch. It was an unusually cold and windy day here (68 degrees!), so we ate outdoors on the water. This place has been one of my haunts since moving to Florida, back in 1974.Bob Eberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11403886357745847564noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21364656.post-30219140296701927932007-03-20T13:11:00.000-07:002010-07-31T20:29:06.406-07:00MESSAGES FROM DEBBIE KORN SLOANWith Great Reminiscences of Uncle Mortie<span style="font-size: larger;"><b>strolling down memory lane</b></span> <span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 100%;">Well, hi. Despite the fact that I went to Camp Chic-a-Lac for six summers, I found all of one picture that I could absolutely identify as me in the hundreds on your site. Maybe I was just imagining it all? Anyway, I looked up the website because I wanted to thank Uncle Morty after all these years for being so wonderful to me. When I was sick in the infirmary, he made sure that I got to participate in a raffle ... stuff like that. Lots of stuff like that. I had a hard time fitting in and Uncle Morty made sure I wasn't excluded. I remember all the camp songs and have shared some of them with my kids (to their dismay). Movie nights on Thursdays, hot dogs and beans; tuna for lunch on Thursday. I was friends with one of the blind girls -- Cindy Helfond. Sometimes I wonder what happened to her, and to some of the others, but it amazes me to see how much I've forgotten. I didn't think I would ever forget. So, hi from Debbie Korn, Chic-a-lac camper from 1960-1964. I am now a professor at the University of Montana and wish to thank you for doing this for me! Debbie ***************** I remember a lot of the people you mention. Debbie Chernock and I are the same age and were roommates once or twice, I think. I also have wonderful memories of Aunt Ethel and Uncle Roy. Don't worry about the lack of any pictures of me. I was a chubby little misfit and found it hard to make friends. Klutzy to boot! I did like waterfront, though, except I decided to get phobic about diving and refused to do it, kinda screwing up my opportunities to progress through Red Cross training. Sometimes a counselor would take pity on me and pass me anyway. I do also remember Carol Deedledum - she gave me a nice part in Mary Poppins - and Corinne, etc. All good people. Sure, you can post my info. I'll write more when I have a decent opportunity. And thanks again. Debbie *****************</span> <span style="font-size: 85%;">[Debbie's e mail is:<a href="mailto:Debbie.Sloan@mso.umt.edu"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.eber.com/ccl/photos/DebSloanemail.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; vertical-align: bottom;" /></a>. To send her a message, just click on her address]</span>Bob Eberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11403886357745847564noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21364656.post-2246992970073837912007-02-01T07:48:00.000-08:002010-07-22T15:18:45.772-07:00New Photos on Yahoo Photo Site<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/2521/1969/1600/573557/Camp%20Entrance.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/2521/1969/320/497297/Camp%20Entrance.jpg" border="0" /></a>
Uncle Carl apparently took many color slides at Chicalac throughout the years. Some were taken very early on, at the camp's beginning. Others in the latter years, in the mid 1960s. I am in the process of posting them. Take a look at the "Carl's Slides" album at the <a style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/8942731@N05/sets/72157600369280609/">Flickr photo web site</a> (click on the red text to be taken there). More old black and white shots will be added in the next few days from my collection.
Does this shot ever bring back memories! All that's left of the scenery in this shot shot is the umbrella tree.Bob Eberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11403886357745847564noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21364656.post-40655110112325085972007-01-26T21:04:00.000-08:002010-08-06T09:12:44.214-07:00A 1959 CLASSIC FROM DEBORAH SCHWARTZ FREEDMAN"Well I found the picture of my bunk from chic a lac, I knew I would eventually. Here it comes!" <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.eber.com/ccl/photos/DEBFreedmanBunk1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://www.eber.com/ccl/photos/DEBFreedmanBunk1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >"The names over the faces are, counter clockwise, Janet Reiss, me, Rochelle Rosenstein, Marcie Silverberg, Sue, Rochelle Greenstein".</span>Bob Eberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11403886357745847564noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21364656.post-70026620779819025192007-01-25T12:42:00.000-08:002010-07-22T15:18:45.854-07:00MESSAGES FROM PHIL EDWARDS!!('57-'60)<span style="font-family:verdana;">My name is Phil Edwards and I was a counselor at Chic-A-Lac from 1957-1960, which makes it 50 years since my first summer there. I always remember fondly my years there and often think back on those great summers. I worked with Rocky & Ronnie Ratner, Alex Frankel and many others. I discovered this web site my accident and it's been great looking back on those old photos, especially finding myself in the picture of Chick-A Woo lodge from 1960. I have a few old photos of my own, and if I can find it, I even appear in a camp postcard that was printed up and used at the time.</span> <span style="font-family:verdana;"> I spent most of my working life in law enforcement, and retired in 2002 as a New York State Parole Officer. I currently live on Long Island, and can be reached at--</span><a href="mailto:p123@optonline.net"><img style="border-width: 0px; cursor: pointer; vertical-align: bottom;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/2587/1965/200/357197/p123.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>
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<span style="font-family:verdana;">The 2 counselors, in rear, on either end, are Charley Dillahay and Leo_____? Year is unsure, but I was there from 1957-1960 and it brings back memories.
Phil
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I have a few old photos if I can find them. I also still have the shirt I'm wearing in the 1960 photo-saved it as a souvenir.</span>Bob Eberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11403886357745847564noreply@blogger.com16