Tamarack Ties
Fate brings former
camp supervisor back
to Detroit, where career
opportunity beckoned.
Robert A. Sklar
Editor
K
ate Bush, now 26, spent every summer but one
from 1993 to 2004 at Tamarack Camps, first as
a camper at camps Maas and Kennedy and later
as a counselor and supervisor.
By the time she was a teenager, her Jewish roots ran
deep. "I grew up at Workmen's Circle in Oak Park and
stayed involved as a teaching assistant at the Sunday
school after my bat mitzvah," she said.
Today, the Detroit resident is a project manager at
Pleasant Ridge-based ePrize. But she still spends most of
her summer at Tamarack. That's because her husband,
Dan Montingelli, whom she met there in 1999, now works
year round for Tamarack. He's the Camp Maas program
coordinator in Ortonville and a senior staff member. The
couple were married this past June.
During the summer of 1997, Bush and two friends
from Tamarack visited Israel on a teen tour run by
Masada/Maccabi.
In 1998, Bush returned to Tamarack as part of the Teen
Service Staff program. The second night of training was
a Friday night. Bush was sitting with four girlfriends
in Cheder Ochel for Shabbat dinner. Five guys from
Montreal, including her future husband, joined them.
Bush moved to Montreal in 2000 to attend McGill
University. She quickly became involved with the cam-
pus Hillel. During the summers of 2000 and 2001, Bush
worked as a counselor at Camp Maas. In 2002 and 2003,
she staffed the Western and Alaska trips, respectively.
In 2004, after graduating from McGill, she returned to
Tamarack to supervise Sheruth village.
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Kate Bush and her husband, Dan Montingelli
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