All Star 1 Family Conference

Welcome to All Star I 2025!

Sunday June 29th to July 5th, 2025

All Star 1 is a family-friendly conference at which you may start your summer with a restorative and relaxing week full of intellectual, musical, and other thoughtful and artistic pursuits that promote personal growth and inclusive community, where families, couples and singles return year after year and where newcomers are warmly welcomed.

Chairs: Ali Walton and Phil Quatrochi

Ali Walton and Phil Quatrochi are both long-standing members of the All Star I community and are excited to be chairing this year’s conference. Ali started coming to All Star I in the 70’s with her parents and sister. Phil married into the experience in the 90’s and has been coming faithfully ever since. While they live in the Denver area, they make at least a couple trips a year out to the Island. Ali is President of the ISAUU (which runs the Shops on Star) and Phil is serving as the Shops treasurer. Their children both attend Colorado College and maintain close ties to the Island. Cooper was a Pelican in 2023 and 2024 and will likely be back in 2025 and their daughter Macy may be a Pel (fingers crossed) for the first time in 2025. Ali and Phil cherish their Star Island family and look forward to hosting the awesome party that will be All Star I 2025.

Theme: US Immigration: How we got here, where we are, and where we might be going.

Speaker: Ron Abramson

Our committed speaker is New Hampshire attorney Ron Abramson. Ron began his career with the New Hampshire Public Defender’s Office in 1993 before establishing himself as one of New Hampshire’s preeminent immigration lawyers. In a career spanning over three decades, Ron has handled a multitude of immigration, criminal defense, civil litigation, and international legal matters. He has received numerous awards, been recognized as a top immigration attorney, served as an international trade consultant, and has taught law courses, both in the United States and abroad.

As a native of Chile and a naturalized United States citizen himself, immigration is close to Ron’s heart. He has successfully obtained all manner of business and family-based visas; has successfully brought post-conviction relief cases in state and federal courts; has taught at local, regional, and national training programs; and has litigated several appeals before the New Hampshire Supreme Court, Board of Immigration Appeals, and U.S. Circuit Courts. Ron’s work involves helping clients with investigations undertaken by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services [USCIS], U.S. Customs & Border Enforcement [ICE], the U.S. and New Hampshire Departments of Labor [DOL], Social Security Administration, State Department [DOS], and other federal and state agencies.

Given his keen personal and professional understanding of the challenges and hardships resulting from an outdated legal framework, Ron regularly advocates for meaningful, comprehensive immigration reform. When the media have questions about high-profile immigration cases, they often call Ron. Ron has appeared countless times on television, radio, and throughout local, national, and international print media.

The exact nature of Ron’s program for us will greatly depend on the results of the election in November, but he currently intends to focus on the following topics:

Background and history of immigration in the United States.
Common facts and fictions in our perception of immigration laws and policy.
What laws and policies are being pursued by the new administration?
What could we fashion as an ideal immigration system?

Your day at All Star 1 might start with morning meditation in the Summer House, a polar bear dip off the dock, or a cup of coffee on the Oceanic Hotel’s expansive porch. Your evening might end by attending (or even participating in) a show, chapel service, or late-night music. In between, you are served three nutritious family-style meals, and can attend a morning lecture, catch an afternoon talk-on-the-rocks or nap, commune with nature, complete your crafts or puzzles on the porch, create your masterpiece in the art barn, or rock on a chair or in a band (so bring your musical instruments, whether acoustic or electric!). While each day is full of scheduled and impromptu activities, what and how much you choose to do is entirely up to you.

All Star 1 parents and their children – from newborn Nestlings to Senior Teens – benefit from our Children’s Program which provides age-appropriate activities led by dedicated teachers from 9:30-11:30 AM and from 1:30-3:00 PM on most days. Age-based bedtimes between 8:00 PM and 11:00 PM are non-negotiable and hall monitoring during this entire interval is provided on the Oceanic and Atlantic corridors of the hotel’s second floor where infants, young children and their parents preferentially sleep. All this support allows parents to have a vacation with – and admittedly fleetingly from – their kids. Additional activities include the Children’s Talent Show, the much anticipated Great People Hunt, the Quadrathlon, and – for Junior Teens – a prolonged project building a raft together and paddling it to Smuttynose Island and back!

Please join us for a communal week of camaraderie, conversation, recreation, entertainment, laughter, learning, enlightenment, and discovery through cherished traditions and chance encounters that connect us to each other and to our spirit’s home.