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Parker also most recently completed 32 years of service as Executive Director of Kutscher's Camp Anawana, Monticello, N.Y.
- ↑ "Camp Building Ruined by Fire". Middletown Times Herald. 1 July 1946. p. 12. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
- ↑ Haynes, Roy. "Pro Athletes Cashing In on Sports Camps". Los Angeles Times. pp. 1, 3, 29.
Bee, in 1955, joined with one of the camps willing to change. It was Kutsher's on Anawana Lake near Monticello which had catered to the Jewish families of New York City. Kutsher's, a complex of camps including a country club, added sports to its other activities. Today it has the nation's biggest sports camp.
- ↑ "Sullivan County Historical Society History Maker Award 2008 kutsher2The Kutsher Family". Sullivan County Historical Society. Retrieved 24 October 2022.
- ↑ McEnery, Mary Anne (2 April 1995). "Resorts Preserve Catskills' Family Values". The Record. Hackensack, NJ. p. T1.
This summer, he said, Kutsher's is planning "Club Anawana," named after the resort's lake, which will be "a vacation within a vacation," complete with water sports and barbecues.
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- ↑ Shusterman, Neal (21 June 2010). "How I Spent My Summer Vacation". Neal Shusterman's Blog.
- ↑ Pepe, Phil (25 June 1970). "Beake: H.S. Grid Coach Becomes Super Chief". New York Daily News. p. 129. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
In the summer of 1964, right out of Penn State grad school, Beake . . . went to work at Kutsher's Camp Anawana, working with kid high school players.