Dean Gitter(1935-2018)
- Producer
Dean Laurence Gitter graduated from Phillips Academy in Andover, MA, Harvard University, the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, and Harvard Business School.
Gitter earned his MBA from Harvard, started the renowned Orson Welles Cinema, which he sold after a couple of years, and went on to a number of innovative business ventures around the Boston area before moving to the Catskills in the early 1970s to manage an ashram in Big Indian, including its restaurant.
The larger-than-life developer and former folk singer and manager who built the world's largest kaleidoscope at what is now the Emerson Resort & Spa in Mount Tremper, envisioned and pushed forward the controversial Belleayre Resort at Catskill Park, put a television tower with a red light on top on Overlook Mountain and proposed both a steam train village and then an Epcot-like world resort for the Catskills, passed away at the age of 83 in Questa, New Mexico, where he eventually settled after leaving the Ulster County hamlet of Big Indian. He spent some time outside of Baltimore near kids and grandkids, then shifted his life back to the passions he had held as a younger man.
Gitter earned his MBA from Harvard, started the renowned Orson Welles Cinema, which he sold after a couple of years, and went on to a number of innovative business ventures around the Boston area before moving to the Catskills in the early 1970s to manage an ashram in Big Indian, including its restaurant.
The larger-than-life developer and former folk singer and manager who built the world's largest kaleidoscope at what is now the Emerson Resort & Spa in Mount Tremper, envisioned and pushed forward the controversial Belleayre Resort at Catskill Park, put a television tower with a red light on top on Overlook Mountain and proposed both a steam train village and then an Epcot-like world resort for the Catskills, passed away at the age of 83 in Questa, New Mexico, where he eventually settled after leaving the Ulster County hamlet of Big Indian. He spent some time outside of Baltimore near kids and grandkids, then shifted his life back to the passions he had held as a younger man.