Summer Lovin'

Camps play matchmaker
to couples now married.

JENNIFER FINER STAFF WRITER

Above: Maly Schuman:
At camp in 1970.

Left: Art Schuman in his
camp days.

Far Left: A more recent
snapshot of the Schumans.

Bottom: Art and Mary at
their wedding.

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heir friends took bets
on how long the camp
romance would last.
The wager was called off
on Oct. 16, 1994, the day
Margery Siegel and
Howard Klausner got married.
"No one thought it would last be-
cause we met at camp, he was 3 1/2
years older than I was and we were at
different schools," Ms. Klausner said.
The Klausners are not the only
couple who have met at camp. Many
camps have indirectly played match-
maker to unsuspecting staff who never
dreamed they would meet their hus-
band or wife during a summer session.
"It seems like there are millions of

people who met at camp and are now
married," said Joan Lipsitz of West
Bloomfield. She met her husband Bob
during the summer of 1974. "It's a
great place for people with similar in-
terests to meet in an easygoing and
friendly atmosphere. For every 10
camp spouses, there are hundreds of
people who ended up as friends. We're
still friends with a lot of the people we
met there."
Mary Schuman met her husband Art
at Camp Tamarack in 1970. Today, the
couple lives in Ann Arbor.
"I have very fond feelings about
meeting my husband at camp," Ms.
Schuman said. She was an 18-year-old
counselor working in Fishman Village

and he was 29 and in charge of the
Western Trip.
Their paths would not have other-
wise crossed. She was a college student
in Colorado with the summer off, and
he had a few extra months between the
end of a job in New Jersey and plans to
move to Israel. Both decided to work at
camp.
The first time Ms. Schuman saw
him, he had just returned from the
Western Trip and was spending the
rest of the summer doing maintenance
work. He was painting in one of the
camp villages when she decided to talk
to him.
"I had an apple, which we normally

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