 1903 - 1992 (88 years)
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| Name |
Isadore Zarakov |
| Born |
29 Nov 1903 |
Cambridge, MA  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
20 Jul 1992 |
Providence, RI |
| Person ID |
I25 |
Zarakov Family History |
| Last Modified |
20 May 2016 |
| Father |
Simon Zarakov, b. 20 Mar 1876, Kiev, Russia , d. 01 Jan 1964, Boston, MA (Age 87 years) |
| Mother |
Sarah Sheik, b. 15 May 1878, Novokraink, Hason, Russia , d. 17 May 1949, Boston, MA (Age 71 years) |
| Married |
15 Jan 1897 |
Novokraink, Hason, Russia |
| Family ID |
F11 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Lillian Silverman, b. 19 Feb 1903, Boston, MA , d. 16 Feb 1998 (Age 94 years) |
| Married |
UNKNOWN |
Brookline, MA |
| Notes |
- Married in a hall on Clinton Road.
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| Children |
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| Last Modified |
6 May 2016 21:45:35 |
| Family ID |
F21 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- ISADORE ZARAKOV, FOUNDED CAMP FOR BOYS ON MAINE'S LONG LAKE
Date: Friday, August 5, 1988
Section: OBITUARY Page: 50 (Boston Globe)
Isadore Zarakov, founder and for 43 years the director of Camp Zakelo, a summer camp for boys in Maine, died July 18 in Miriam Hospital, Providence.
He was 84.
He opened the camp in southern Maine at the northern end of Long Lake in 1928, a year after his graduation ended one of the most distinguished and
versatile undergraduate athletic careers before or since at Harvard College.
Mr. Zarakov, with help from his wife, Lillian (Silverman), created a heady environment every summer for 125 boys aged 6 to 15.Besides the usual assortment of activities on land and water, boys under Mr. Zarakov's tutelage could choose to spend most of their time playing in an orchestra, working on a newspaper, producing plays in a theater, learning astronomy, racing in
four-man and eight-man sculls or learning French or Spanish. But the director required each youngster to sample every offering.
The songwriter Burt Bacharach is said to have composed "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on my Head" at Zakelo the summer he was 8. His cabin, like most others, leaked. The holes, Mrs. Zarakov recalled, were caused by the spikes on the boots of workmen who cleared snow off the roofs in winter. A heart attack and bypass surgery in 1971 prompted him to sell the property. The Zarakovs lived in Brookline until moving to Providence a few years ago to be near their daughter. Mr. Zarakov was born in Boston and prepared for Harvard at Cambridge Latin School and Phillips Exeter Academy. In 1925 and 1926 at Harvard he won the coveted Wendell Bat, given each year to the baseball player making the greatest overall offensive contribution. And in the game against Yale in 1927, the slugging third baseman came to bat with two outs in the last
of the ninth with a man on first and the Elis leading, 5-4. He hit a prodigious home run to put the Crimson on top, 6-5.
Mr. Zarakov was also the starting left wing on Harvard's hockey team and a reserve halfback on the football team. He received three letters in baseball, three in hockey and two in football. During the 43 years Camp Zakelo was open, its founder spent the off season as a self-employed consultant, helping youths and adults find the schools, colleges and jobs of their liking. Besides his wife, Mr. Zarakov leaves a daughter, Dr. Lillian Mason of Providence; a brother, Barney of Yucca Valley, Calif., and two granddaughters.
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