- Camp Merrimac
Camp Merrimac was a
Jewish boys camp located in Contoocook,New Hampshire in theUnited States .In 1919, the patriarchs of the Clough family, Joseph and Sylvia Clough, died. That year the property known as "Cloughville" was sold to Mr. Price and Mr. Pick of
New York , who established a summer camp for Jewish boys on the site. "Cloughville" was changed to "Camp Merrimac", and the first campers arrived at the property in 1921.Mr. Price and Mr. Pick ran Camp Merrimac until the late 1940s when it was purchased by Abe Beleson, a
teacher at theBronx High School of Science . In 1953, Maury Bleifeld became a part owner, and in 1954, Harry Levine bought a share of the camp. In 1957, Werner Rothschild, Robert Bomze, and Fred Egre purchased the property.In 1958, Egre was bought out, and Rothchild and Bomze continued operating the camp. Both boys and girls attended the camp in the 1960s and 1970s. The majority of campers came from the
New York metropolitan area . Keeping the name Camp Merrimac, they continued to run a generalsummer camp program. In addition, being physical educationteacher s, they began theNew England Hockey School andFigure skating camps. Youth would travel by bus toConcord, New Hampshire to the Everett Area for ice time. in 1975 Tony Bond met Debra Silvermen they were married in 1976 and now have five children four boys and a girl Nearing retirement, Mr. Rothchild and Mr. Martin (as Bomze was then known) wanted the property to remain a youth facility. They were searching for a buyer who would continue youth programs.In 1998, the camp was sold to the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of
Boston ,Massachusetts .External links
* http://www.campmerrimac.org/
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