Year-Round Staff
Director, Lewis Sohinki
Lewis earned his Masters Degree in Social Work and Jewish Communal Service from the University of Maryland and the Baltimore Institute of Jewish Studies and was a recipient of the Jewish Community Centers Association Scholarship for Graduate Studies. While attending graduate school, he worked as the Baltimore Council Director at the JCC of Greater Baltimore. For three years, Lewis was the Teen Services Supervisor at the Jewish Community Center in Houston, Texas where he was directly involved with all aspects of the JCC’s teen programming and the Director of Teen Texas Travel Camp and Teen Trek Camp. He also served as the Assistant Director for the JCC Maccabi Games held in Houston in 2007. Lewis is excited to be returning to Perlman Camp, where he spent 13 summers as a camper and staff member. Along with the leadership experience he gained as a PIO Counselor, Unit Leader and Head Counselor, Lewis brings his enthusiasm, new ideas and commitment to overnight Jewish camping with him to Perlman Camp, a place that has always held a very special place in his heart.
Associate Director, Pete Golden
After a way too long absence, Pete Golden is returning to Perlman to join Lewis as the Associate Camp Director. For you old timers, Pete was at Perlman in 1990 and 1991 as the Program Director and then back again in 1999. Pete comes to camp with 25 years of camping experience. Most recently, he has been working at our sister camp, B'nai B'rith Beber Camp as the camp social worker, where, by the way, his daughter Becky is the Assistant Camp Director. Pete lives in Deerfield, Illinois and has worked as a school social worker with all aged children for the past 34 years. He has just retired, but the call of camp has beckoned him and he is going to pursue his love of camping. Pete will be traveling out east to meet our campers and parents and start helping with staff recruitment. Pete has been married 41 years and he and his wife Flo have 4 children and 5 grandchildren.
Assistant Director, Phil Liebson
Phil is joining the Perlman family after many years of being involved in the camp industry. He started his camp career at the age of 6 attending Camp Blue Ridge. After 15 years at Blue Ridge his path lead him up the eastern coast, from Florida then to Georgia and then onto Virginia. Along the way Phil earned his Masters degree in Camp Administration and Outdoor Adventure from Florida State University. Currently Phil is living in Rockville, MD and you can almost always find him throwing a ball to his dog Lou. Phil (and Lou) is very excited to be joining the Perlman family; his background and enthusiasm for camp are great additions to the program.
Registrar, Brent Stoller
Brent joined the Perlman Camp team in November 2008. He spent the previous two years working for the B’nai B’rith Youth Organization and Jewish Community Center in his hometown of Houston, TX. Prior to that, he worked for Octagon, a sports’ marketing firm, and the Houston Golf Association, where he oversaw the junior golf program. Brent is a proud graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, and you can always brighten his day by flashing him the “Hook ‘Em Horns” sign!
Business Manager, Lynn Robinson
Lynn Robinson, CPA, joined the Perlman Camp office in 2007 as the Business Manager. Lynn received her Bachelors of Science in Retailing from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. She has held a variety of positions/roles which have contributed to her breadth of skills and talents. Lynn brings to Perlman Camp assorted accounting and management skills from positions in retail, service and volunteer organizations, both large and small. She has served as Financial Administrator on a multi-million dollar Department of Energy contract for a Fortune 500 company, worked as an accountant for moderately sized Maryland CPA firm, acted as a Committee Chair for the JCC of Greater Washington’s Annual Book Festival and is currently the Treasurer of the PTA at her daughters’ school. Lynn is a native of the Washington area and lives in Maryland with her husband and two daughters (both Perlman campers!). She enjoys water and snow skiing and bike riding.
