Treetops Cente n nial Fu n d

Honoring the long tradition of providing access to the Treetops experience for as many children as possible.

Gifts to the Centennial Fund help position Treetops as a leader in providing need-based scholarships for campers of today and tomorrow. The Centennial Fund, a component of the Annual Fund, will also strengthen our endowment.

Please make a Centennial Fund gift today. Visit www.camptreetops.org/100fund or contact Emily Eisman at (518) 523-9329 x 5450 or eeisman@ncstreetops.org

In Memoriam

Thatcher M. Brown III

1936-2020

Thatcher M. Brown III (Trustee 82-89, CTT parent 76-84, Grandparent) passed away on June 25, 2020. A native of Rye, New York, and a graduate of the Westminster School, Simsbury, CT, Tim spent a memorable year at the Stowe School in Buckinghamshire, England, returning to attend Yale University, Class of 1958. He enlisted in the US Army, MP Battalion 728, serving in Seoul, South Korea, until 1960, when he joined the Wall Street office of Brown Brothers

Harriman & Co. Tim received his MBA in Business and Finance from New York University's Evening Division in 1966. At a waltzing party in 1961, Tim first met his second cousin Sarah (Sally) Louise Brown. They were married in 1963. Their dance together lasted 56 years and was enlivened by three children, Geoffrey Hewlett Brown, Thatcher

Gihon Brown, Eliza Eleanor Brown, and six grandchildren: Alexander Staunton Brown, Elizabeth (Elsie) Adams Brown, Hollis Burling Brown, Crosby Doubleday Brown,

Stephen Keiser

1958-2020

Stephen Keiser (CTT 70-74), a lifelong resident of East Aurora, NY, passed away May 22, 2020. Mr. Keiser was an audiophile, inventor, and entrepreneur who went to Clarkson University and became an electrical engineer. Soon after college, Mr. Keiser began building amplifiers and marketing them to audiophiles. Under the B&K brand name, he sold hundreds and acquired a reputation for building natural-sounding amps at a reasonable price. Mr. Keiser loved science, particularly astronomy and astrophysics. He would often venture out on cold nights with his telescope. Mr. Keiser hooked his nephews on science and astronomy, too. He loved to opine on the physics of the early universe. He is survived by his brothers Michael (Rosalind), Bruce (Helena), and Thomas (Victoria) Keiser, and many loving nieces and nephews.

NCS ALUMNI/AE

1945

Donata Coletti Mechem

Like everyone we are sheltering in place, wearing masks, social distancing, hand sanitizing, and praying for an end to all this death and suffering, most of which could have been minimized or avoided. Our two granddaughters, Sophia and Lucy Carroll, devoted Treetoppers, are missing their counseling summer, but possibly next summer they can do it.

1961

Fred Rea

I finished building a traditional Adirondack Guideboat last winter and have been enjoying rowing often on the lake in front of my house in Maine. Fred