soccer • adventure • go-carts • kayaking

that would enable Aaron, who is
lenge. That first summer, I was
educably mentally impaired, to grow
already looking into becoming a
and flourish. Silverman Village,
teacher. It affirmed my belief and
which is a part of Tamarack Camps,
my joy in [working with kids]. I
fit the bill.
remember thinking, 'Yes. This is
"Aaron's counselor,
what I want to do and I
Jeremy, really bonded
know I am good at it.
David Zwickl
with him," Ruth
[Teaching] is the place
Sherman recalls. "Aaron
for me to be.'"
shows his hand
came home feeling so
Debbie Landau, assis-
with Camp Ramah
good about himself. I
tant director of Tamarack
Darom buddies,
worried about him. I am
Camps, is delighted by
so protective; I don't
the skills her son Andrew
clockwise, Matt
want
people to pick on
acquired as a counselor
Olarsch, Harry
him. But when he's
at Tamarack. Andrew,
Meisler, Alan
away, he loves the free-
now a sophomore at the
Safty and Rafi
dom to do and say
University of Michigan,
whatever
he wants..
spent nine summers as a
Rosenblat.
Jeremy even tutored him
Tamarack camper and
for his bar mitzvah."
returned last summer on
Of the recent ceremony at Temple
the other side of the whistle.
Emanu-El, Ruth Sherman beams,
"When he came home, he told me
"When Aaron got up there, you
that he had learned to be more
wouldn't have known at all that he
patient than he ever thought he
was a special needs student. He got
could," Landau recalls. "You can
up there and he was wonderful."
spend a summer working at Hungry
Aaron, a stocky and engaging
Howie's. But where else can you
learn to be patient and be nurturing? eighth-grader at Berkshire Middle
School in Beverly Hills, has fond
The skills Andrew has learned —
memories of his Silverman friends.
team building, listening, problem
"They were guys I could relate to.
solving, being a role model — are
We had the same hobbies. It was
the skills of a lifetime."
cool."
Sometimes, trying something new
Last year Aaron went "across the
is choosing to attend summer camp.
lake" to Tamarack's main facility,
When Ruth and Howard Sherman's
son, Aaron, announced he wanted to Camp Maas. That sister Leah was
go to summer camp, she was floored. also there made it nice, he says.
Leah, a fifth-grader at Covington
"It never even occurred to me
School in Bloomfield Township,
until he brought it up," says the
treasures her camp friendships as
Southfield resident. "But if my kids
well. "When you spend so much
say they want to do something, I'll
time together," she says, "it's just
work to get them there."
That meant finding a program
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