 To bring their vision to fruition, Dr. Hexter and Mr. Lemberg enlisted an committee of artists and educators, including Mr. McKinley, the camp’s founding executive director, and Dr. Jerrold Ross, the chairman of the Department of Music Education at New York University, who was appointed Usdan’s education director.Together, this team attracted a faculty of prominent artists and teachers from the country’s leading conservatories and universities—a tradition that continues to this day.It was Suzanne who coined the phrase in the early days of Usdan that remains a camp mantra to this day