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Alan Friedman - Executive Director
Alan Friedman is thrilled to bring thirty-one years of successful camping experience to Camp Mountain Chai. His summer camping career began as a child, at the age of ten, when he first attended Camp Mah-Kee-Nac, a private boy's camp in Lenox, MA. Over the next eighteen years, Alan continued to spend his summers at Camp Mah-Kee-Nac, as a camper, CIT, group leader and program director. In 1993, he became its first full-time Assistant Director and in 1999 was promoted to Director. Alan began working as a consultant for CampGroup, the largest group-owner of private summer camps in United States, in 2005.
Alan grew up outside of Princeton, NJ. He attended Ithaca College where he earned a degree in Communications Management. In addition to camping, Alan has had a prosperous advertising career, selling television time in the New York City, Boston and Harrisburg markets. Moreover, he spent ten years working as Senior Youth Group advisor to four different Reform congregations in the northeast. He looks forward to sharing this Jewish education experience with us, as well.
Alan moved to San Diego from West Orange, NJ with his lovable four-year old Golden Retriever, Einstein. He is very excited to join the Camp Mountain Chai family and become part of the Jewish Community in the San Diego area.
Joanne Morgenthal - Camp Director
Joanne has been involved with Jewish Camping for most of her life. She was a camper for 7 years at B'nai B'rith Perlman Camp, and then went on to work as staff for an additional 7 years. During this time Joanne held every position, from working in the programming office to being a bunk counselor to running a teen leadership program to being a Unit Leader. In 2003 she joined B'nai B'rith Perlman's full time administrative staff as the Assistant Director.
Joanne graduated in 1997 with a B.S. in Applied Social Sciences from Binghamton University in New York. After graduation she worked for three years in a small New York City private school in order to keep attending camp in the summer. She then moved on to be the Marketing and Sales Director for a small conference management company in New York. But her love for camp never died, so in 2003 she moved to Washington, D.C., to take on the position of Assistant Director for B'nai B'rith Perlman Camp.
Joanne moved to San Diego in the winter of 2005 to work for Camp Mountain Chai. She brings her passion and excitement for Jewish camping. She is excited to be part of the new and exciting opportunity at Camp Mountain Chai.
David Zimmerman - Administrative Director
Jewish summer camping has been a part of David's life for as long as he can remember. He began as an 8 year old camper at Shwayder Camp outside Denver, Colorado. After 7 years as a camper David began to develop his professional skills with the completion of the highly competitive CIT program in 1991. Over the next 12 years David greatly expanded his skills repertoire by serving on staff in many specialty positions including Kitchen Manager, Wilderness Specialist, Ropes Course Director, CIT Coordinator and Assistant Director. Additionally he spent a summer at Camp Hess Kramer in Malibu as the Adventure Sports Specialist.
David was born in Los Angeles but primarily grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah. David moved to Colorado for college and received an Associates degree in Outdoor Recreational Leadership from Colorado Mountain College. He later continued his education at Colorado State University, receiving a B.S. in Natural Resource, Recreation and Tourism Management.
David moved to San Diego in the fall of 2007 to join the Camp Mountain Chai team. David is excited to apply this great breadth of camping experience to his exciting new endeavor at Camp Mountain Chai.
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