Tighter Bonds Minor bus accident doesn't hamper camp trip. Keri Guten Cohen Story Development Editor Hadas Corey Teen2Teen Intern T Dr. Nelson Hersh of Orchard Lake and his daughter Rebecca as she returns home from the Western 3 Trip. he 25 campers on Tamarack Camps' Western 3 Trip were given a two-day extension on their journey after a minor accident on July 29 required the group to revise their itinerary. They spent Shabbat at Camp Henry Horner, a Jewish overnight camp outside of Chicago, and arrived home Sunday, Aug. 5, instead of Aug. 3. The experience helped draw the group closer, one of the fathers related. The accident occurred at 7:30 p.m., 30 miles east of Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming. According to local police, a truck was driving on the incor- rect side of the highway. It first hit a recreation vehicle and subsequently scraped the side of the group's char- tered Blue Lakes coach bus. As a precautionary measure, six campers reporting minor neck or back pain were checked at a hospital in nearby Cody, Wyo. The six campers were released from the hospital that night and seen by a doctor in Cody on Monday, July 30, said Jonah Geller, Tamarack Camps executive director. They were cleared to rejoin the group without any additional medical treatment. Emily Harris, Tamarack Camps' Western Trip manager, caught up with the group and assisted Barbara Applebaum, the trip's supervisor, and the five counselors. Parents of all campers and staff of Western 3 were contacted by Jonah Geller, Tamarack Camps executive director, or Susie Zaks, director of the teen travel trips program, regarding the incident. E-mail provided updates. Geller also said the campers who had been checked out for minor neck or back injuries following a Camp Kennedy bus accident July 12 in the Upper Peninsula are well. The Kennedy group returned home safely on Aug. 1 as scheduled. Geller praised his staff's handling of both incidents. Dr. Nelson Hersh's daughter Rebecca was a camper on Western 3. "She had a great time, and the camp handled the accident very weir he said. Bruce Shapiro is the father of Sam, one of the campers on the Wyoming bus. Bruce said he thought the expe- rience brought the kids even closer together. "They are already having a reunion," he said. "I think that is was very important that they extended the trip because the things that they saw and did together were just awesome. It would have been a shame if they were penalized by not being able to see more things. After this accident, for them to just rush home would be horrible." Bruce praised the job that Zaks did in notifying the parents involved. "When they let the kids call, I was so relieved:' he said. "I got to hear everything from Sam's side of the story. They also sent out an e-mail message 20 minutes after, explaining the situation in more detail. Susie did a great job and I was very grateful. They turned what could have been a scary experience into something a lot easier to digest on the whole." I I Long Overdue Thanks! A California woman wants help in tracing the surviving family members of a Detroit physician who helped her father's family flee Nazi Germany. Kay Greenwald of Mountain View, Calif., is seeking assistance from the Jewish Historical Society of Michigan (JHSM). "I recently learned from my aunt that Bernard Friedlander, who was a physician in Detroit, sponsored my father's family — thereby allowing them to leave Germany in 1939 and escape the Nazis:' Greenwald said. Friedlander was born in 1870 and died in 1965. "I feel that my family owes a great debt to this man, and I would like his surviving family to know what a wonderful thing he did in saving the lives of my father, my aunt and my grandfather and grandmother," Greenwald said. Her grandfather also was a physician who went on to practice medicine in Cincinnati and teach in a medical school there. In an article published in 1965 in Michigan Jewish History, the JHSM journal, author Allen Warsen noted that Dr. Bernard Friedlander was born in Latvia, received a medical degree from the University of Maryland and came to Michigan before World War I. He practiced medicine first in Sebawaing, in Michigan's thumb, and then in Detroit. He was a member of the Highland Park, Wayne County and American medical associations. "If there are descendants of Bernard Friedlander's descendants in the Detroit area, I want to convey to them my heartfelt gratitude Greenwald said. If you have information about Bernard Friedlander or his family, contact the Jewish Historical Society of Michigan: jhsofmichigan@msn.com or (248) 432-5517. - Robert A. Sklar, editor Grads To Gather At a recent wedding for the son of a pair of Oak Park High School class of 1958 grads, other former grads posed together as a preview of the planned 40th reunion next year. Standing in the back row are: Dennis Liefer and Nancy (Levine) Liefer of Farmington Hills; Jan Kepes and Scott Silver, both of Encino, Calif; Joani (Messinger) Bloom of West Bloomfield. In the front row are: Shelly (Rockind) Gordon; Karen (Saretsky) Adelman, both of West Bloomfield; Linda (Helfman) Warner of Farmington Hills; Margie (Steinberg) Wiener of Waterford; Pam (Siegel) Moloshok of Calabasas, Calif August 9 • 2007 9