Chris McNaboe, Executive Director, moved off grounds in May to her newly built home after 15 years of living on grounds. She often says it still feels as though she’s just visiting her new house but she is slowly getting used to it. Her daughter Hannah is beautiful and now six years old!

‘92-present Lauren Perrotti, Director of Operations (that’s me!) gave birth to a daughter, Taylor Verboven on July 25^th. Lauren & family moved into Chris’ old house in May, family is doing well and Lauren has promised Chris not to have any more summer babies!

‘92-present Michelle Heimall, formerly Michelle Turcotte, is the Director of Health and Camper Services and completing her second year of marriage to another Camp Horizons alumni, Lance Heimall (’97 – present). They now live on the second floor of the Program Center.

‘99-9/01 Eileen Reilly our former Assistant Director of Staff Services, has returned to school for her masters and a career in teaching! We miss her and at the same time are terribly happy for her and the hundreds of students she will undoubtedly help in the future!

‘97-1/02 Jonathon Rondeau our former Program Coordinator will leave us this month to pursue his graduate degree at Springfield College. His organization and dedication to camp since he was just 15 years old will be sorely missed. Good Luck Jon!! And never say never!

‘00-present Beth Mucci---is our new Assistant Director of Staff Services!! She begins the hiring grind for summer this month!!

‘00-present Jay Wetherall---"Weekends" Unit Leader and full time Support Counselor for Camp Horizons Support Services!!

‘95-‘01 Carolyn Westrop is currently in England working in the school system and doing quite well!! We look forward to her return at some future point!!

‘97-present Lance Heimall is living at Camp Horizons, working full time for Camp Horizons, Supported Employment program, and very happily married to our own Michelle Turcotte!! It’s been almost two years!

‘99-’01 Corina Mates---will begin a masters program at Sacred Heart University in Lisbon, CT this month!! Go Corina!

‘99-present Yuri Obedkine--- is currently awaiting a decision on an H visa to be Camp Horizons full time computer man!!

‘99-present Desiree Kramer---"Weekends" counselor now and attending college!

‘00-present Jay Kruzyk---"Weekends" counselor and working full time. We hope to have him here in ’02!! Right Jay?

‘99-present Chaz Irizarry---"Weekends" part time counselor and working full time in town!

‘00-present AndrewYurkevicius---"Weekends" counselor now and will be a returning counselor in ‘02! HE promised me!

‘00 & ‘01 Olga Melkova--- Finishing school in her native country!

‘00 & ‘01 Emily Burditt--- Has now entered the job force in England after finishing school!

‘00 & ‘01 Rebecca Thompson---Has returned back to school for Occupational Therapy!

‘00 & ‘01 Artem Zarachnev---Did a great job in ’01 as a returning counselor!

‘00 & ‘01 Ilia Choutkine--- Did a great job in ’01 as a returning counselor!

‘00 & ‘01 Marina Volkova---Currently here on a fifteen month Visa for Camp Horizons and will be here in ’02!

‘99 - present Rob Moore---Has helped us out during Weekends this year when not at his full time job…thanks Rob!

Ted Nelson ’93 & other years Ted is teaching Special Education on an Indian reservation in the Midwest!!

Alison Hill ‘97- ‘01 She is currently traveling the world, having a wonderful time, emailing us from each country…you go Ali!!

Emma Avery ‘99 She is currently a nurse in England!

Katie LeFebvre ‘00 Katie is pursuing her dream of opening up her own camp!!

Nellie McCarty ‘99 missed her in ’00 & ’01…hope to see you soon!

Michelle Potter ‘00-‘01 Home in Australia and I know thinking about us! Right Mish?

Melanie Daniels ‘99&’00 Working hard and visiting us soon… right!

Phil Axtell ‘00-‘01 Finishing school, will begin work with us in January on weekends & summer!!

Paul Davies ‘99&’00 Is currently in Boston working with folks who are mentally handicapped!

Carl Barnes ‘99---Is currently working & living in Virginia.

Julie Bone-’97 is married to Jamie Roche-’97 and living in Boston, Massachusetts.

David Mastersson’97-’99 – Hey, write to us ok?

Sara Goodrich ‘97-’00 and Alex Gitter ‘97-’00 have graduated from college and have impressive jobs we hear.

Paul Navratil-’96-’98 has graduated from college and working in a super job!

Jasmine Perez -’96& ‘97 is currently teaching people who are mentally handicapped to dance in NYC.

Misti Staib-Popp ‘92-’98 is currently working as a consultant in a Birth to Three program. She is married and doing very well!

Frieda Johnson, Holly Prince, Marina and Gail Fletcher – all are ‘00 alumni and all are on an extended VISA working for a Boston agency that serves special populations.

Kim Zimmerman ‘94-’97 is currently working full time as a Special Education teacher!!

Rafael Guzman ‘93-’96 is married, has a daughter and currently working full time for DMR in Connecticut!

Cary Brown ‘94-present has recently taken a full time job at a group home and starting her own business. We wish her well!

Kirsty Craven ‘96&’97 is currently in Connecticut working at a residential school for troubled children while completing her graduate work.

Carolyn Cohen ‘95-’97 is currently working in Boston Massachusetts at a school for children with special needs.

Roman Androussanko ‘98&’99 is currently living and working in Washington State. He is married with 1 stepdaughter and has a new child! Congrats Roman!

Lindsay Amidon ‘97-’99 is in Germany to study engineering and will be back in 9/02 to complete her degree at UCONN!

Jennifer Lisieski ‘97& some weekends---is currently working as a teacher at a school for folks with special needs.

Rebecca Freeh ‘97-’99 is currently working as a speech pathologist in Boston; way to go Becky!

Michelle Lee ‘98 is continuing her education in Massachusetts???????????????????????

Andrea Medzova ‘98 is married and has a beautiful child!

Kyle Flaum ‘94-’97 is married and has 3 children!

Jennifer Johnson ‘95&’96 is married, has a son Austin, and is attending graduate school.

Jennifer Teller ‘96 is currently attending St. Joseph’s in Connecticut for Special Ed.

Stuart Martin ‘93&’94 has a job flying planes and will be married this summer! Congrats Stuart!

Brian Taft ‘98&’99 is currently working as a volunteer rescuer and pursuing that field as a career; way to go Brian!

Jen Campbell---’97-‘00 Has just graduated from college and pursuing a job in her field, Congrats Jen!

Rahul Mital ‘97-’00 living back in England with an excellent job, way to go Rahul!

Jacquie Arnold ‘98-’01 Currently a school teacher in England !

Ross Moran ' 99 is currently attending high school, and we hope to see him here again in ‘01 working on the care of the grounds & facility.

Simon Wells ‘94-’96 is currently working full time for Camp Horizons Supported Employment as the Manager and is married to Cyndi Price Wells ‘93-’97 who is currently working for EASTCONN/Windham High School!

Sheri Croxford ‘98 & ‘00 is enjoying the California sun as a travelling nurse, bring us back some sunshine!!

Jackie Boucher ’01 currently attends ECSU, living at camp and working for Camp Horizons!

Linda Astvall ’99, ’01 finishing up school and heading back here for another summer!

James Barrett ’99, ’01 ditto!

Nina Chorna ’01 also finishing up school and returning here for another unforgettable summer!

Mike Corona ’01 finishing up school at ECSU and coaching!

Ferdinand Cruz ’00, ’01 working weekends, winning awards in school!

Kevin Devery ’01 going to high school and working with camp on the weekends!

Rebecca Daniels ’00, ’01 going to high school, concentrating on her art and joining weekends when Beth Phillips is here!

Will Diamond ’00, ’01 finishing high school this year, still working weekends and promises to join us this summer!

Dwayne Douglas ’00, ’01working for camp in 3 separate departments, working on making it big in movies and committing to us for the summer of ’02!

Theresa Ekstein ’01 going to ECSU, travelling the world on vacations and working camp weekends!

Jen Foss-Feig ’01 has joined camp for some weekends and trooped thru holiday with an injured leg from her college sports…thank goodness she did, she was great!

Melissa Gesseck ’01 has joined camp for some weekends driving hours & hours to get here! Thanks!

Olessya Karabelnikova ’01 is currently going to school and has already committed to summer ’02…welcome back Olessya!

Barbora Krajickova ’01 has promised to return in ’02 and bring friends!

Melissa Kramer ’00, ’02 has finished up high school activities and now promises to be at all of the weekends…YES!

Nina Krystolfalski ’01 is currently going to high school and working a bunch of weekends!!

Leilani Lanier-Lee ’01 is working every weekend and going to high school and doing a great job!

Donald Leffingwell ’01 going to high school, on the wrestling team and working every weekend in the kitchen!

Dacy Mackenzie (most recently ’01) & tribe are settled out in the midwest and doing well!

Corina Mates ’00, ’01 is going to Sacred Heart University for her masters on a student visa!

Molly Mayo ’99, ’00, ’01 is finishing up school at Springfield and remains on call to help us out, thanks Molly!

Nakia Mitchell ’01 going to school and working weekends, yea!

Andrada Pop ’01 is going to college in Romania and hopefully will be returning in ’02!

Bethany Purvis (too many years to list!) going to school at WCSU, working at a book store and working weekends!!

Allyson Quinn ’00, ’01 is going to high school and thankfully works weekends!!!!

Paul Rimmer and Ruth Gibbs ’01 are promising me they are returning in ’02…right?

Kelly Savastano ’01 has helped out the weekends program in times of need and we continue to stalk her about next summer!

Anh Thieu ’01 continues her grueling schedule of nursing school at UCONN and finds time to work some weekends!

Johanna Wolf ’01 (so we hear through Phil Axtell), is completing school and might be able to join us for part of the summer!

Andrew Yurkevicius ’00, ’01 is completing his high school degree and working every weekend!! He will be here in ’02.

Joachim Hultgren ’94 is working as a computer engineer in Sweden and working out at the gym.

Matjaz Vehovar ’91, ’92, ’93 worked in acquatics; wants to know if anyone he knew is working at Camp now.

Now…if I have not put your name in, it’s because I haven’t heard from you and don’t want to make a mistake in your update! An easy remedy for that is CONTACT ME!!! Email, fax, phone…we have it all! . I will look forward to hearing from every one of you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Love
from Lauren
e-mail - lauren.perrotti@camphorizons.org

P.O. Box 323, South Windham, CT. 06266 USA Phone: 860-456-1032 ext. 13 Fax: 860-456-4721