Jake is married!

Jake Kerr (middle name is "Carl" - named for Carl Hess) married Tricia in the Cadet Chapel at West Point this past Saturday, June 19, 2010. Jake, born at Frost Valley, is the son of Leslie Black and Doug Kerr. Above you see Leslie and her grandson, as well as Chuck and Joy White's daughter Elizabeth (Liz) with John Ross, son of Rebecca Bordonado, also a daughter of the Whites. Also in attendance, among other Frost Valley'ers: Marie Hess and her daughter Bonnie; Laurie Cobb, Michele Palamidy, Leslie's brother Jeff (10 FV summers), Jon (12 summers) and Chris Briggs, Pam Kerr-McPhee (Doug's sister), Gil Kerr (Doug's brother), and others.

Lakota VC weds

A happy update on Kate Bischoff. As of October 11, she goes by Kate Pristash. She and Dan Pristash were married that day. They live in Princeton, NJ, and will soon move to Roebling, NJ. At Frost Valley Kate was a camper, later a counselor and finally a VC of Lakota. Congrats to Kate!

wedding at Frost Valley

Jeff Daly and Kelly Zingone met at Frost Valley and in early September were married at Frost Valley. The ceremony took place at Reflection Pond and the reception was held in a beautifully transformed dining hall. Great food, lots of dancing, tons of Frost Valley (as well as other) friends, and family. A beautiful day in all. I've seen hundreds of photos of this wedding on Facebook and took a few dozen myself, but thought I'd present three here. The Japanese-style bridge that loops twice across the middle of the pond was decorated with flowers and became the path for the groom and his seconds. Then you see Kelly and Jeff at the key ceremonial moment, Kelly having come down, with the bride's maids, down the old Forstmann stone stairs. Vows were said, huzzahs shouted, a greeting line navigated, and then to the dining hall on a beautiful late afternoon, only to find there that our tables were assigned by villages. In my third photo you see the table set aside for the Susky women (and men). My family sat at Sequoia, which is fine by me, since the whole occasion was a pleasurable adventure.

Pac men for the ages

Well...at least for the age. By which I mean: for the 1990s. At the wedding of Jeff Daly and Kelly Zingone at Frost Valley last weekend, a gang of Pac Village guys - from the early to late '90s - gathered for this photograph. They are: Mark Gottenker, Jim Gibbons, Steve Purkis, Richie Eddings, Brian Butler, Malik Jenkins, Bob Eddings, Matt Buczek, Jeff Daly, Joe Elliott, Bill Baker, Ryan Annettes, and Eric Blum. By the way, I have some great photos from this wonderful event, but I've been crazily busy and am late-ish in getting them here. So I'm thankful to Jeff who today, before heading off on a Hawaii honeymoon, sent me this photo. So: more soon, I promise.

another wedding!

Speaking of weddings... Sarah Chapman (she was a camper and counselor and VC in the Hird) got married this summer, and Sheryl Comet was there. Sheryl (who missed FV this summer for the first time in many many years) went to the wedding, sent us this photo. From left to right: Moira Poe, Sheryl Comet, Sarah Chapman, and Anne Linder.

Forest VC & Susky VC wed!

Attentive readers of this blog may remember mentions of the photography of FV staff alumnus Max Flatow. Max loves shooting Frost Valley weddings! In fact, as he told me this past weekend when he shot the Jeff Daly/Kelly Zingone wedding, he's done three FV weddings in the past week or so! Three. (Contact Max if you want him to shoot your own FV wedding! Click here for more information - and go to http://maxflatow.com/home.html.

One recent Max job was the wedding of Dan Weir and Alison Ryczek, who met at camp some years ago (when Dan was VC of Forest and Ali VC of Susky - brother and sister villages, naturally).

The photo above was taken of the FV'ers at the wedding. From left to right: Kam, Heather, Brekke, Eamonn, Helen, Jeff, Kelly, Gail, Matt, Dan, Laura, Hannah, Brian, Andy, Matt (in the shadow), Lexi, Dylan, Alison, Dan, Dave, Lisa, Matt, Allye, Kevin, Mike, Anne, Moira, Max, Leigh, Iain, Kurt ("$2Goat" was the band).