DUNMORE REUNION
August 25-27, 2000
(Disregard the dates on the actual pictures, I forgot to set my camera date)
Returning again to Salisbury Vermont, we find Camp Dunmore a little different than we all remembered it to be. Most of the boys bunks are gone with only bunks 1,2,3, and 4 remaining. The infirmiry was relocated to the left of bunk 1. Click here to see an amazing picture of the boys side of camp without the bunks.
The three amigoes . . . After several unsuccessfull operations to seperate themselves from their hips, Hilary Vengel, Jillian Mosse, and Beth Waltzer are now the main feature in Ringling Brothers and Barnum Baileys Circus. I think Jillian is now dating the smallest man in the world, which has caused major problems between the three of them.
Jesse James and Billy the Kid ?? Partners in crime. Brad and Fink back together one more time. Well, no damage to report, nobody got hurt, no injuries, nothing broken, no police involved, and the Pentagon has informed us that we can safely step down to DEFCON 1 again . . .whew !!!!
For those who missed the reunion, there was a special surprise at this one. Two people who were not on the list to attend, surprised us all and showed up. You cannot have a Dunmore reunion without these legends in attendance. Pssssssssst . . . it was Louis Miron and Danny Stone !!!!
Just relaxing for breakfast in Rosies we have the "older" crowd. From L to R we have Brian "Pic" Slomovitz, Scott "Tootsie" Schector, Jeff "Natural" Kaplan, Craig "Starke-Fag" Starke, Evan "Eeash" Heisler, and David "Big Doody" Gott.
But we'll all return again, Dunmore boys becoming men . . . . Perry Salmanovich, Doug Segal, Brad Rosenberg, Jeff Finkelstein, and Anthony Powell just chillin out in front of the Social Hall.
As it turned out, about 50 people showed up for this reunion. The weather was beautiful and we couldn't have asked for a better day on Saturday. Sitting in front of the Social Hall, we just waited for Color War and Olympiad to break out, but nothing happened. sniff. .sniff
Going for the record !!!! When I was about 14 years old, these guys woke me up one night around 2:00 AM and gave me the opportunity to dethrone the former marshmellow champion who stuffed 17 big marshmellows into his mouth, closed his lips, and ate all the marshmellows at one time. I beat him by two marshmellows that night making the official record at 19 marshmellows. I stayed at David Gotts house the weekend of the reunion and Miron and Stone showed up with a bag of marshmellows for me to break my old record. Lets just say that it was nice to have a garbage pail nearby. . . The record still stands . . .
One cannot be inside camp without having a clearing party. Thanks to Craig "Ernie" Starke, we had a nice fire going at the old clearing. Just drinking some beers and telling stories. I must have been really wasted because I thought I heard some people singing that damn mountain dew song . . .
About the same time of our reunion, there was another little reunion going on somewhere in the swamps of New Jersey. These guys were on the list to be in Vermont that weekend, but were having sooooooo much fun with their own little reunion, decided not to attend. Sheeeeeesh !!!! Here we have Craig Zinader, Jimmy Gleich, Andy Woodhead, and John Gleich.
The last time I saw these guys, they were Inters at Dunmore. All grown up we have Neil Erlick, Brad Rosenberg, and Robert Lewin. Damn I must be getting old !!!
Dunmore Reunion 2001
It's 106 miles to Chicago, we've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses . . . . hit it. Blues Brothers 2001, Mitch Aronson and Rick Gilbert reunited once again thinking about getting the band back together one more time. Oh yeah, by the way . . . that Gray 1981 color war flag never ever made it to the dining room and was the only flag missing from the walls . . . guess we now know where it was after all those years.
You want the truth . . . you can't handle the truth !!!! Phil Aronson has not stepped on Dunmore soil since the early 80's ( after a pre-mature exit ) and made a brief return on August 25th to prove that he can still walk around the camp in a timely fashion. And to his dissapointment he learns the truth after all these years that the color war hatchets are really NOT still buried down near the totem poles.. Here he is drinking to Wacunda trying to wash down the pain of learning the truth.
Falls of Lana . . . Making our way the the "sacred" falls of Lana, we have Mr. Jeffrey "J" Mertz who flew in all the way from Los Angeles , Doug Segal who conquered his fear of heights with a few beers, Sheri Dagowitz who was the only one brave enough to actually go into the cold water, Phil Aronson who finally earned his hiking chevron (someone please tell Ernie), and of course ffej who returned to the falls to look for Chief Wacunda.
Middlebury Inn . . . kicking back at the Middlebury Inn just maxin and relaxin . . . Rick Gilbert put together some photos on his laptop and we all watched them in his room. Here we see Brad Rosenberg, Paul Starke, Jeffrey "J", and Doug Segal. Off to the side are Rick Gilbert, Mitch Aronson, Phil Aronson and me who took the damn picture.
Move over frisbee garbage-pail !!! The new game we invented which would have kept the Juniors , Inters , Seniors, Waiters, and counsellors occupied for an afternoon, simply called, "Throw the golf ball into the square hole in the paddleball wall". Here we see Rick Gilbert giving us the thumbs up after getting the golf ball into the square. A great game that kept us occupied for a while because it was so damn addictive !! We didn't leave until everyone got the golf ball into the square hole. Here we see Paul Starke giving us a demonstration . . little off to the right Paul . . . sorry try again ! Of course I was the first to get the ball into the square . . . it's because I'm from Bayonne. By the way, I already bought the rights to this game . . sorry people. Patent # 100908767
IF ANYONE HAS PICTURES OF THE REUNION, PLEASE SEND SEND SEND !!!!!
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