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ATTENTION TAMAKWA ALUMNI
MAKING
MEMORIES
Lasting Legacy from page 14
75TH ANNIVERSARY
BANQUET
A celebration of the history, spirit
and people who shared
the most magical times of their lives!
Join us for an unforgettable evening of camp entertainment.,. songs,
slideshows, movies and several surprises you won't want to miss!
Saturday, October 23, 2010 at 7:00pm
Rock Financial Showplace, Novi, Michigan
$125 per person - minimum age 17
Registration / Information:
www.tamakwa.com/75th
Questions? (248) 335-6400
or alumni@tamakwa.com
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special things we offer kids in this really
quickly changing, pretty complex and
sometimes hostile world we live in. We
embrace and nurture campers and try
to protect their innocence. We also push
them outside of their comfort zones so
they can accomplish things they never
thought they could"
Alumni Memories
"Tamakwa has been the source of so
many positive things in my life,' said
Michael Budman, 64, co-founder of
Roots Canada, who grew up in Detroit
and spent 13 summers at Tamakwa as
a camper and staffer. He has lived in
Toronto since 1969.
"It was a great meeting place. The
friendships and sense of camaraderie
were remarkable,' he said.
At Tamakwa, Budman became
friends with fellow Detroiter Don Green,
with whom he would establish Roots
in 1973 in Toronto. The company is
Canada's leading lifestyle brand.
"It's likely there would never have
been a Roots had there not been a
Tamakwa," Budman said.
As a boy in Detroit, Jerry Cohn
(no relation to Avern) first attended
Tamakwa in 1946. Today, he's a pharma-
cist in Napa, Calif. He was at Tamakwa
for the anniversary weekend.
"Tamakwa was a fantasy world come
true,' says Cohn, 72, who spent 12 sum-
mers there."It was like a whole society
was created at camp for two months.
You could be something that you
couldn't be on the outside world."
Film director and actor Mike Binder,
now living in Santa Monica, first heard
of Tamakwa one winter evening in 1966
at age 7. His father had invited Handler
to their home on Seven Mile Road in
Detroit to introduce them to Tamakwa.
"I remember Lou bringing his
movie projector and screen into
our living room:' says Binder, 52, of
California. "Lou was this big, gregari-
ous, fun guy who told my brothers
and me stories about Tamakwa. After
his presentation, I told my father I
want to go there."
Starting that summer, Binder went
to Tamakwa until 1975, when he
was a counselor. In 1992, in a tribute
to Tamakwa filmed on location, he
made Indian Summer, starring Alan
Arkin as Handler. In a Hitchcockian
wink to camp, Binder usu-
ally includes a Tamakwa T-shirt or
sweatshirt in a movie scene, as does
his friend and fellow Tamakwan,
filmmaker Sam Raimi.
"If it weren't for Tamakwa, I would
never have gone into show business:'