Archive 11 - August 2000 - POST-REUNION

Quick Carl & Marksie's Favorite Lines
1) "Wally's dad did 3 bricks short of a dime in Fed Space and didn't sing to the eagles" -- Peter Kaufman. 2) "Get your stinkin finger out of my drink; that's Vodka" -- Lee Glicksman. 3) "Tell the Neil Heller story, Eddie" -- Bobbo Heilbronner. 4) "Hey, I told you I was tired" -- Pud (as he crashed into a moving tree in the Central Area). 5) "No he wasn't, Mark" -- Eddie Fried. 6) "I finally figured out what a peeler is" -- Steve Lebau........What a weekend guys---thanks for the great memories!!
Date=2000-08-20    Carl Bass and Marksie, , SeeYAin2020.com, [Msgid=60097]


Cheers to 40 years

Hello to all my pals in Timberzone. I'd like to say first of all that Pete Koro (myself) and the Wino brothers were deeply grieved that we could not attend the reunion, although I think we would have barely made the cut. Hey Gazzoo, how about some pictures from this century. Just kiddin'... keep up the good work buddy .Glad somebody stepped up and put somthing cool together like this, you rule. Also, I believe I understand the significance of the dates anyway, since I couldn't be up north guyz, I thought I would drop a line and give my regards, and notify everyone of the first annual ATA tourney August , 2001
Date=2000-08-20    Peter Koro, , pakal@earthlink.net, [Msgid=60111]


tush continued

I would like to add that outside wagering on this event wil be prohibited. The ATA will be notified of any such events; and violators will be prosecuted. Location, times, and entry details shall be posted in the upcoming months. Get up and get ready to all you tough guys with no spin, Tushtime is approaching. Rosa, if you're out there,' bring your best game'..PPK Peace--
Date=2000-08-20    Peter Koro, , pakal@earthlink.net, [Msgid=60113]


Love Camp, Coach

Next time, I want to stay eight weeks!
Date=2000-08-20    David Susman, , ewazak@enteract.com, [Msgid=60127]


Hip-Zoo!

A big hip-zoo, rah-zoo to all!
Date=2000-08-21    David Raskin, , draskin@artic.edu, [Msgid=60179]


Reunion Revisited

What an amazing weekend, like stepping into a time warp. Highlights of the weekend for me were, playing disc with Peter, playing basketball for the first time in years..running the loop again, looking at the stars and oh yes punking Donny in Softball...yes Donny the first game did count!... 9-8 old guys with MP hitting the walkoff homer in the bottom of the last inning. What a great time! The only thing I won't miss is sleeping in a bunk bed and the camp bathrooms!
Date=2000-08-21    Jeff Mossler, , embensar@mindspring.com, [Msgid=60189]


Timbereunion-what else?

One of the most abused and misused words in today's common vernacular is "wonderful". In the last month, I have heard people describe everything from coffee to a pair of socks as "wonderful". When I think of something as wonderful, I think of "...that which is full of wonder..." Ole Mr. Webster kinda said it better; "wonder is defined as (a) exciting amazement or admiration and (b) effective or efficient beyond anything previously known or anticipated." I guess I am kind of wacky but I just have a hard time thinking of toilet paper as "wonderful." It is a pity because when we need the right word e.g. wonderful, its impact is diluted by the people who describe their last dump as "wonderful". Contraty to the above babbling, I am not here to give a semantics lesson or cast aspersions on the misuse of words. Rather, I wish to drive home the point that this past weekend was indeed, wonderful. I could not have anticipated the feelings, emotions, memories, comfort and laughs I enjoyed this weekend. I tried to explain to my partner today at lunch what I did this weekend, and true to my keylog words-nobody but us gets it. We are so blessed to have experienced Timberlane and this past weekend screams our good fortune at the top of its metaphorical lungs. Thank you all, not only for this past weekend, but the years during, since, and yet to come, of our lifelong path.
Date=2000-08-21    Bobby, , robertlb@bellsouth.net, [Msgid=60223]


Aspersions...

Pud's not really as callous as portrayed by the above and believe the vast majority of you (including Mr. Handmaker because he IS the best) were copied on my e-mail regarding the weekend. As for such "aspersions" (great word, Bobby), they were very much casted and duly comprehended in a very jocular way.
Date=2000-08-21    Pud, (800)500-DEDUCT, sideswipe@tree.com, [Msgid=60255]


It was GREAT!!!

Thank you all again for a great weekend. For those of you who missed the reunion, it was like a summer of camp thrown into one weekend. What a gas. I hope we can all stay in touch one way or the other. K
Date=2000-08-21    Ken Lorch, 312-201-2430, lorch@wildmanharrold.com, [Msgid=60269]


From The Gazzoos...

This is Bob & Heidi writing from Door County as we have not yet returned to the mainland. We echo Bobby's words and will add more later this week. In the meantime, someone might want to detail Steve Lebau's broken wrist, Cheeks booting adventures, and the soon-to-be-infamous "Canoe Tip 2000". For those guys who we didn't get to say goodbye to, please know you are in our hearts (yes that was really Gazzoo writing that). 50th Reunion Countdown--519 Weeks
Date=2000-08-21    Heidi & Bob Gassel, , us@internetcafe.com, [Msgid=60282]


Too Quiet Down Here

I have to say that after 13 years at Timberlane, 2 at private school, 4 at military academy and 2 with college roommates, this weekend I experienced the loudest snoring I have ever heard in my entire life...the cabin sounded like a lumber mill. It was as if I were in a cave full of slumbering Neanderthals. And yet, with all the buzzsaws, the wet sandy floors, the pulled muscles, the earful of lake water from my 0.000002sec barefoot run, the sore throat, the frigid nights & mornings, the two hyper extended fingers from TushballÆ, PK's foofkies in the car the whole way up, my soaked traveling shoes after collapsing one of Billy's docks at Agawak along with Pete, Josh & Bobbo, and the mosquito that flew up my nostril and never getting a confirmation that I blew it back out...... I'd head back up there in a heartbeat and do it all over again.

Camp was a beautiful and fun place to grow up, but it was all of you that made my years there so 'wonderful'

Thanks.

I hope you all had at least half as much fun as the dogs did.
I must go now, as I will be editing video until the next reunion.
Date=2000-08-21    Bosco, 555-Luv-Camp, YaHeyDer@aol.com, [Msgid=60318]


Keylogs for the ages

Well I for one had "a moment" when leaving Sunday afternoon. Suss I'd owe you some money on this one. It all just hit me and gratitude is all that I could begin to express. I then get in the car with Esch and he says, "You know it sucks. After 12 years this place still has the power to make me feel miserable when I'm leaving." I just feel grateful.. grateful grateful grateful! Stohler, "grateful" means...!
Date=2000-08-22    Jeff Leiken, , jleiken@pudmobile.com, [Msgid=60325]


Sioux Cabin Rules

This weekend was definitely one to remember, you guys are the greatest. My highlights were hangin with the boys between 1:22 and 1:24, Ed and Jeff Moss re-acquainting Pud to the nail. Also, Dean and Harry's rampage through camp at 2:00am at which time Bino's bed was short-sheeted (while he was sleeping). And finally, finding a dejected and broke Peter Kaufman and helping him back to the top. Jeff Mossler, ask your brother who won the REAL game. By the way Koro, Ross is a non-factor in tush. Hope to stay in touch with everyone. Let me know if anyone is out in Arizona or San Diego.
Date=2000-08-22    Danny Plattner, , dsplattner@aol.com, [Msgid=60336]


Future Timber-staff

Hey guys, It was great seeing all of you. Sophie had the best time of all with all her new uncles. She told Danny and I that she wants to work at Timberlane but, she does not do kitchen detail. Maybe JP, Matt and Jeff can teach her how to Canoe. Hope to see you before ten years has come and gone. Take Care, Sabrina Plattner(Danny's wife, Tim's sister, Ed and Billy Fried's cousin)
Date=2000-08-22    Sabrina Plattner, , Dsplattner@aol .com, [Msgid=60340]


Tripe Face Boogie

Thanks for the memories...you all govern my Timberlane afterworld! Special thanks to Donny for redefining the rules and accepting his softbrawl beating like a man! Honorable mention to Pud from falling short of some Siberian poon-tang to crashing into pine trees. Pud you are truly wonderful! More to follow!
Date=2000-08-22    P'troff, , nanpeter@megsinet.net, [Msgid=60367]


Let's do it again real soon

It was great seeing everyone this weekend, and I would be more than willing to have some get-togethers in Chicago for all the local folks whenever possible (Raskin, Gold and I are definitely going to call you on your offer). Let's not wait 10 years for another reunion. Also, we may have a first here, if Bino and I end up hammering out a business deal that started on the Camp Timberlane athletic field. Finally, fellow Timber-Alum Wayne Hoffman sends along a Hip-Zu to everyone, and told me about a great story he heard on NPR last week. It was a guy talking about how we basically need to abolish schools, since everything he learned of any value in life, and everything that made him into the man he is happened at camp. After this past weekend, I concur.
Date=2000-08-22    David Siegel, , david_m_siegel@hotmail.com, [Msgid=60408]


Great fun -- missed a few others

This last weekend was great! I haven't had that much beer without getting loaded in a long time. Mellow -- that's the best word I have to describe it. Missed a few people... Belinke, Beadel(sp?), either of the Freidman's, Vance... Sure glad I sat near the campfire.
Date=2000-08-22    Joe Shneider, , jshneider@uswest.net, [Msgid=60465]


Pud never got near the nail, but did partake in sawin' the wood.

For those of you whose e-mail address was omitted from the reunion address list, please find herewith pasted some electronic communication I sent out to those who had an e-mail--"Despite having a 'moving tree' sideswipe my car this morning in the Central Area literally minutes before departing Timberlane (almost as good as Steve Lebau's broken wrist and Bobbo Komisar's pulled hamstring), I just wanted to thank everyone for making this weekend absolutely spectacular. Everyone from Mike & Leslie, to the entire Hiken clan to...YOU (since you're being copied on this) are the BEST. We all have much to appreciate in the way of true, lifelong friends after such a uniquely special weekend at our "Home-Away-From-Home." I'm quite certain this tree-of-sorts will eventually become the "Pud Tree."
Date=2000-08-22    Pud, 309.691.3083, jon460@netscape.net, [Msgid=60495]


An E-mail to my mother

I wrote my mother an E-mail today....it said----"thanks for sending me to camp.....Love, Your Son I don't think I ever thanked her for doing that. Then I told her about Pud's car, Brian Williams rounding third base and the dogs outside the lodge. It was quite an E-mail!
Date=2000-08-22    Marksy, , , [Msgid=60498]


Friend of the Devil

Since returning to the city, I keep seeing people and thinking "that looks like so-and-so from camp." But no real sightings yet (aside from Matt, who as you all know, doesn't look like anybody.) Then driving home from work today, Friend of the Devil came on the radio, which almost never happens, and my mood was much improved. Such is the hangover from the weekend. Just wanted to thank everybody for making it a great one.
Date=2000-08-23    Jon Healy, , j.healy@mindspring.com, [Msgid=60518]


Send a kid to camp

Guys, this past weekend we raised a terrific amount of money to send kids to real camps like ours. In case you didn't make a donation, are interested in making another, or want to tell your friends about this charity, I got the address from Mike. This program sends kids who would not otherwise be able to attend to independent, private camps. I know everyone has a lot of organizations asking them for money, but this program sure strikes close to home for me. If you do donate (or donate again) please mention that you have an affiliation with Timberlane. The Camp Kids Foundation c/o David Capes Rosenbloom, Goldenhersh, Silverstein & Zaft 7733 Forsyth Blvd. St. Louis, MO. 63105
Date=2000-08-23    David Raskin, 773.271.3525, draskin@artic.edu, [Msgid=60638]


Reunion Stuff

Dear Gang, I hope this gets on Tushball.com. I''m pretty computer illiterate. But, as you can all tell, still able to "get it on" with my barefeet on the water. By the way, I did not escape unscathed from the weekend. It seems that I separated my shoulder doing a backwards barefoot stunt. I guess I'm just getting old. At least I didn't injure my groin or hamstring...right Komisar, Randy, Bruce!!? Or, my shooting hand, right Steve Lebau! Can't tell you how much fun I had. The smile is still on my face. It was great hearing Eddie finally admit to the world that he still laughs at farts. Good example of acceptance. I still laugh at Eddie, Barry, Peter, Gazzoo, Ogie, etc. etc, Yea, even you Marksie! Looking forward to the 50th. Hope to keep in touch with everyone in the months and years to come. Later, Bobbo
Date=2000-08-23    Bobbo Heilbronner, , , [Msgid=60671]


Reunion Pics

I put this in Announcements, but I'll repeat it for those who skip right to The Central Area...I hope to have the first pics posted Thursday night (hopefully). I encourage everyone who has shots to somehow get them to me for inclusion on the site. An attachment thru e-mail is preferred, but if you have to send me the actual photos, I'll scan them and get them back to you within a week. Obviously, try not to send your only copies. Please email me for the address to send your pics.
Date=2000-08-24    Gazzoo, , cmptimber@aol.com, [Msgid=60678]


Thanks

WOW WHAT A WEEKEND !!!! MANY THANKS TO EVERYONE INVOLVED. I NEVER THOUGHT YOU COULD GO BACK, BUT NOT ONLY DID I, BUT IT WAS AS GOOD AS I REMEMBERED IT. I'M ONLY SORRY FOR ALL WHO MISSED OUT. YOU TIMBERMEN ARE AN AMAZING GROUP AND I AM PROUD TO KNOW YOU. THANKS FOR THE FUN. LOVE, STEPHANIE
Date=2000-08-24    Stephanie Busalacchi, 414-967-0391, jsdrake@execpc.com, [Msgid=60715]


The Keylog I didn't have the guts to throw....

Picture it: 1978...a little pipsqueak..imagine a female version of Pud, Gazzoo with the barefoot wildness of Callahan...living in Connecticut. My father...a well known Nuclear Physicist (went to Harvard) died when I was 3...leaving behind the 4 of us to live in an affulent community (SNOTS!). I was the baby of the family...and 7 years behind the next. One of the first songs on piano that I ever wrote was entitled "SUMMER CAMP". It was an instrumental. I wanted to go to camp so badly...I sent for brochures; but I needed to work, so I took on 2 paper routes to pay for eggs and Mac & Cheese. I started my own summer camp and even scheduled swimming (our block owned a beach on the ocean), I started my own newspaper and produced variety shows every week and had an arts and craft sale too. Hell, I could have my own 25th reunion, but there were only 6 campers! Another girl on the block went to 4-H camp...I was SO jealous. My mom was worried about me, I talked about it so much. We just couldn't afford it...Well, I grew up and moved to Chicago and met my precious Gazzoo. We went to visit H in Minocqua in 1992. I thought he was the coolest person. We went to Agawak and I fell in love. I wanted to work there but I just didn't have the experience. I later told H of my summer camp wishes and he told me that I was an honorary camper. He later said at our wedding that I was a person who probably wanted to go to camp more than some actual campers he had known. I care about the memories of Camp Timberlane because it makes Gazzoo so happy. And it's also my way of having some kind of camp history of my own. He has selective memory....he doesn't remember grammar school, high school or even past girlfriends, but he remembers camp like it was yesterday!! If I had a time travel machine I would go back and befriend Dorothy Herlitz or Nano or a Hiken sister and hang out at camp...but since I don't...the next best thing is keeping the memories alive for all those lucky enough to have them. Timberlane is special, and it's the people that make it that way. I can say as a wife, who sneaked a peek at the camp reunion...that I saw a lot of little boys (30-50 year olds). I've seen many of them outside of camp (some at our wedding) but the minute they were back at camp, they were just like little kids again. We have H and the entire Hiken family and staff to thank for making our little boys into the men we love...but more than that...the camp memories KEEP them the little boys we STILL love! Although I saw some mopey faces because a lot of the little boys missed their little girls (the wives!). I would like to thank everyone who gave me big hugs and would like you to know how much and WHY it meant a lot to me to take even a little glimpse, to chissle a crack in the ice...to see what camp must have been like, and my little girl inside of me finally got to go to camp and make lifelong friends (Well, Gazzoo is definately my soulmate!). Seeing people at camp was important to me and important to this web site. It will make it easier for me to identify people, and IT WILL MAKE IT EASIER to pour my heart into this project. You just can't describe what Matt Healy, Fred Bierman or Ed Fried are really like in person. Plus, people I've known for years changed at camp this weekend...(I knew 35 people going IN to the reunion) I've seen JP a million times but it was so neat to see him with his counselors and his campers! PUD, who was our best man, looked like he was actually enjoying old pranks (admit it, Pud!)...and the best was seeing my Gazzoo. I've known Gazzoo for OVER 13 YEARS now! I won't call him Bob Gassel now because I saw GAZZOO...he was in his true element. And I want you all to know that Bob Gassel keeps GAZZOO with him every moment of the day. He is my best friend and I have Timberlane to thank for making him who he is. EVERYTHING he did at camp made him the person who appreciates me....and it's great because now I get to go to camp every day...here in our house. And that's my keylog! Now maybe you can understand my passion for sneaking a peek at camp this weekend...it was now or never. Thanks for helping to make a little girl's dream come true.... Love,
Date=2000-08-24    Heidi Gazzoo, , qtcron@aol.com, [Msgid=60751]


To my Timber Brothers

Wow--That was a party--Timber Style. My family could not keep me quiet. The 4-day party still rings in my mind. Special thanks to Ed and Bobbo. Our party started 4 hours before we got to camp as we left Pick N Save in Brookfield when Bobbo didn't have enough money and had to ask 2 beautiful ladies behind us for some change. Seems like just yesterday when Bobbo had to call H from Wausau because he did not have H's credit card to put gas in the car. Sorry H, but these women were much better looking. Special mention goes out to our wounded brothers. Bobbo, you just had to go backwards. Slalom barefoot wasn't good enough. I will say, it did look pretty impressive seeing a 40+, slightly bald, PHD footing on Lake Towanda. Bobby Komisar--How was that drive home? Get out the Ben Gay. Steve Lebau-- Looked good for a while on the hoops court. That cast was just a fake, right? You knew baseball was in the cards and you didn't want to relive those camp memories. To all the rest of my Timber family-- a big Hip-Zoo to all. Glad to know that after 20 years away from camp, you still remember that last lines of the cheer. Barry
Date=2000-08-25    Barry, , wolfschu@execpc.com, [Msgid=61036]


The Next Reunion

The overwhelming sentiment I felt while leaving camp has been echoed by everyone I've spoken to..."I don't want to wait ten years to see everyone again". Well, we can't go to camp whenever we please (MP notwithstanding), but WE CAN do the next best thing. In the spirit of "Camp Heinous", I propose that the midwest contingent hold an annual event. Several ideas pop to mind; a ballgame at Wrigley one year, a picnic in Milwaukee the next. But the one that seems the best to me is a Super Bowl party...we rent out a room and get together every Super Sunday (another option is to do this for a Packer-Bear game). I'm willing to organize this shindig, but I need to know how many would be interested. I think we would need at least 25 people to make it feasible. There are other questions...should it be in Milwaukee or Chicago? Should spouces be invited? Should Pud be invited? Anyhow, mull it over and let me know what you think either here or by e-mail. If I get enough response, I'll try and put something together.
Date=2000-08-26    Gazzoo, 708-660-9606, cmptimber@aol.com, [Msgid=61073]


BLATANT DISCRIMINATION

GAZZOO, I THINK YOU'LD BE SURPRISED HOW MANY NON-MIDWEST FOLKS WOULD COME BACK (MAYBE NOT EVERY YEAR...BUT THEN AGAIN MAYBE) FOR A REUNION PARTY. LEE
Date=2000-08-26    LEE, , BENZACHG@CS.COM, [Msgid=61099]


I LOVE YOU, YOU OLD FARTS!!

I CANNOT BELIEVE IT HAS BEEN A WEEK SINCE WE ALL WERE ON HALLOWED GROUND. ANYONE VISITING THE TWIN CITIES PLEASE DON'T HESITATE TO CALL, WE LIVE ON A VERY SIMILAR LAKE AS CAMP AND JOEY SHNEIDER HAS THE SKI BOAT! WE HAVE CANOES AND PONTOON FOR YOUR ENJOYMENT. TO THE OTHER M.COHEN, THANK YOU FOR KEEPING OUR HOME ALIVE AND LIVING THE DREAM. THE REUNION WAS AN EMOTIONAL ROLLERCOASTER FOR ME AS MY PAST INJURIES KEEP ME FROM SOME OF MY FAVORITE ACTIVITIES. HOWEVER, THE CANOE TRIP WITH JONNY AND STEPHANIE WAS VERY MUCH LOVED.AS FOR THE YEARLY REUNIONS,I'M IN EVEN WITH A 6 HOUR CAR RIDE TO BEER CITY.IF LORCH SENDS ME THE PEARLS NUMBERS MAYBE WE COULD GET THE BRO'S TO ARRIVE AND BOB P. COULD PLAY A LITTLE STRING SOLO ETC.TO ALL:STAY HEALTHY, WATCH YOUR HANDS, AND BE WELL!!> CONER
Date=2000-08-26    CONEHEAD, 612-474-3883, MEDGASCO@AOL.COM, [Msgid=61119]


reunion

It's been a week now since the great reunion and the broken wrist. Both will live with me forever. I can't say how much T'lane and all of you mean to me. I also must agree that I suspect that some of us non-midwesterners will come to other events. As for the wrist, this Tuesday, I find out if I get upgraded to a past-the-elbow length cast so that my entire arm is immobile, though most importantly (because I know what many of you are thinking), I still have movement in four of the five fingers. Pud - how is your ailment?
Date=2000-08-26    lebs, , slebau, [Msgid=61121]


Pud's ailments

Lebau, You've got to be more specific...Pud has a new ailment every day you have to let him know to which one you are referring
Date=2000-08-27    Jeff Mossler, , embensar@mindspring.com, [Msgid=61246]


What ailment?

I feel fine!
Date=2000-08-27    Pud, (309)691-3083, Jon60@mail.com, [Msgid=61255]


Pud enjoys himself

It was an odd day for Pud. He woke up and realized he wasn't feeling himself. Lee
Date=2000-08-27    Lee, , , [Msgid=61269]


Pud Ailment of the Day

I believe Lebau is referring to Pud's ailment for the day on Saturday which had to do with an irritation of his posterior region.
Date=2000-08-28    Red, , gaschatten@comdisco.com, [Msgid=61367]


Its a joke Pud

Pud-itsa joke-lighten up. I deleted the message. I love you too.
Date=2000-08-29    Bobby, , , [Msgid=61557]


Itchy/Scratchy

I guess that posterior thing was diaper rash!!!
Date=2000-08-29    HemRoids, , Immflamation.com, [Msgid=61600]


What a day!

The most amazing thing happened three years ago today...check out http://members.aol.com/dirwuf/index.html...and thanks Heidi for redefining beauty, heart, and sparkle.
Date=2000-08-31    Gazzoo, , dirwuf@aol.com, [Msgid=61904]


HAPPY, HEALTHY...

GAZZOO'S, A BIG, BIG HIP ZOO, RAH ZOO ON YOUR THIRD WEDDING ANNIVERSARY!!! WITH A LOVE LIKE YOUR'S THERE ARE MANY HAPPY YEARS TO COME! LOOK AT ME ,THE CONEHEAD'S ARE GOING FOR THEIR 20TH.THIS DECEMBER, WHAT A RUSH. AS THEY SAY "ONE LONG DAY".^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ CONER
Date=2000-08-31    MIKE COHEN, 612-474-3883, MEDGASCO@AOL.COM, [Msgid=61915]


Anniversaries

Gazzoo, I'm glad we got married!! I will sing you a BRAVO at the Drive-In theatre tonight. And, BRAVO to Richelle and Rick Mossler on their 4th wedding anniversary TODAY. Thank You for sharing your 1st anniversary with us at our wedding...we love you guys!
Date=2000-08-31    Mrs. Gazzoo 4 ever, , qtcron@aol.com, [Msgid=61969]


8/31- End of Summer/Beginning of New Lives

Happy Anniversary to The Gassel's, and thanks for all your work and dedication to the web site. I better wish Rick and Richelle a Happy Anniversary here as well lest I hear from you know who.
Date=2000-08-31    Jeff Mossler, , embensar@mindspring.coim, [Msgid=61996]

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