WHAT IS TAMAKWAS CONTRIBUTION TO SOCIETY?
Our alumni span the range of professional life. Former campers have gone on to become some of North America’s most respected members of the political, medical, legal, business and entertainment communities, just to name a few. Tamakwa has produced a U.S.Senator, Congressman, federal judges, and a NASA space shuttle astronaut. Among Tamakwa’s most notable alumni in entertainment are Chevy Chase and the late Gilda Radner. Dan Aykroyd became an honorary Tamakwan when he visited in 1986 to do a special Tamakwa rendition of the Blues Brothers. And three alumni still very involved with Tamakwa are filmmakers Sam Raimi, Mike Binder, and Warren Zide. Sam’s most recent success was directing Spiderman. Binder is a character actor and writer/director of HBO’s Mind of the Married Man. Zide is a producer, best known for American Pie. Sam and Mike are connected with the film INDIAN SUMMER, a Disney/Touchstone picture based on — and filmed at — Camp Tamakwa in 1992. Mike wrote and directed it; Sam
