Staff:SAR

This page is a record of well-known, beloved, and/or despised Saratogan staff and the many stories collected about them.

Residential Staff

Flava Flav

Flava Flav is one of the most beloved of the RAs at Saratoga Springs, especially during SAR.06.2. His real name is Zachary Heath, and he is coincidentally also a singer like the complimentary pop icon for which he is nicknamed.

No one is quite sure how the name originated. However, Zachary's RA group quickly realized that with a few adjustments (clock, bullhorn hat, darker skin, and grill,) he does actually look like Flava Flav. The rapscallion group of name-changers then began to blurt out "Flava Flav" every time they saw him for the next couple of days, and after about a week, the entire campus was chanting his name, even in the stands during the CTY Talent Show.

He is well known for, among other things:

• "Thanks, you're wonderful!"
• Singing performance at talent show
• White hair (happened after losing a bet)
• Straight hair (happened after the white hair went away)

This is a picture of him

Note: Flava Flav is unrelated to Lancaster's Flava Flav (Dan Estrada), affectionately nicknamed by a group of students in 07.2.

Site Admin

Marty and Chris Hazzard

Marty was the Site Director in 2008 for Saratoga Springs and Chris Hazzard was the Dean of Residential Life. Both of them were all around great guys who partially got the idea that CTY was a place to be happy, not to be burdened by rules and unjust punishment. Their administration was a breath of fresh air for Saratoga after the evil rule of Tim in 2007. Unfortunately, they did not return for 2009.

Chris was known to often play guitar for kids when a lesser DRL would have been yelling.

Campus Staff

Chef Guy

Chef Guy works in the Dining Hall at Skidmore College in Emily's Garden, a salad bar. He often interacts with the CTYers sitting at the circle, or "captain's table"; posting signs, banning rulebreakers from the table, and offering melon (to the delight of many). He also hosts his own YouTube series, under the name chefdad2000, which can be found here.

This may be the same chef that reported a few students to the Baltimore rep for having a "salt war" before the last dance in 09.1, nearly losing them the dance (they were freed from prison half an hour into the dance).

He also happens to be related to someone in the band Cobra Starship, unless he was totally screwing with us.