The Council Room

[Steve Hood]

I've been trying to figure out some of the things that happened, and-- when they happened. My memory is foggy at best, but here we go.

1959 I was the JC for Gunnar Engstrom in J-1. I know that there were still a number of windabouts, and one of Gunnar's tasks was to work his restoration magic and repair and restore them. For nearly the entire summer there was a windabout across the dirt road from J-1, and next to where the temporary J-16 cabin was located. I think Petre Sawin was the J-16 councillor.

I think that Dick Rothmand was in charge of the sailing problems from about 1957 until about 1959. Later, when I was a full councillor, I took over the sailing program. I would GUESS that conversion from windabouts to sprites took place between about 1958 until about 1961. (????)

I remember telling Mr. Bentley and Bob Fox that I really hoped that they would keep at least one wind about in the "Wyanboke Fleet." The sprites were great boats for the younger sailers: great for one or two campers. But they were small, and not conducive to teaching. I loved the big, bulky, windabouts because I could put 3 or even 4 of the younger, smaller campers into a wind about for a sailing lesson -- which was not possible in the tiny confines of a sprite.

As for the comment about swimming and bathing suite. I remember that there was a picture in the annual Wyanoke YearBook of a kid in the water, looking up at the camera, and the printed saying in the "Go Away, Camera Man..I have no trunks on."

I know lots/most of your wyanoke.com readers were at camp from 1965-75, so this is probably a pathetic attempt at an ancient history lesson.
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1951: C-9. F. Whitemore, P. Durkee.
1952-53: J-11. E. Wilkins.
1957: S-7 D. Irons, JA
1958: J-4 W.Dann JC
1959: J-1 G.Engstrom JC
1960-61-63: J-6. Councillor
1964: JA-2. Councillor

[Jim Culleton]

I would not have considered myself much of a "sailor" but did enjoy the times spent with Dick Rothman and others at the Wharf learning all of the technical terms (i.e. Red Boad House, White Boat House and the "Broads"! ! Seriously I would have probably never learned any sailing techniques if it were not for Wyanoke! Above all else . . . . . . . . . . the "Flying Jibe" was not to be executed under any circumstances unless one would want to be sent home early!!
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'56 - J-9 J. Moulton
'57 - J-11 J. Moulton
'58 - J-4 E. Web Dann, S. Hood
'59 - S-6 P. Leavitt
'60 - S-2 F. Avantaggio
'61 - JA-1 RK Irons
'62 - C-9 JC with P. Freeland
'63 - C-1 JC with S. Borger
'64 - C-6 Councilor

[Mike Freeland]

Hi Guys,

I've been so busy with a million other things to have had time to do much maintenance and keep up with the board, but it's good to see some activity from the good old guard.

Steve, I think you're right about the councillors those summers, but they can be easily confirmed through the rosters in the galleries. I do remember Pete Sawin in J-16 (I'm not entirely sure of it now, but I think at that time it was J-12). And I DO remember a Windabout in the area where J-14 and 15 eventually wound up (whereupon J-12 became J-16).

In '59, I was 12 years old in the Junior Camp, I think in J-11 next to J-4 (are these "J"s starting to get confusing?) with Bob Vaughan. Harold Peavey was (briefly) our councillor. He quietly departed after a request from me for lemon with our swordfish dinner. He got the lemon, but also a boot. I always felt bad about that, but suspect that there was something more going on than I was allowed to know. Anyway, do you believe that we had swordfish at CAMP?!?!? I have never in my life experienced "institutional" food as good as what Phil and Mrs. Morin prepped for us every day!

I digress. I do remember the Windabout across from J-1, but had no idea until now why it was there. Those boats scared the wind out of me. I did get my sailing checkout through a grievous error on someone's part, and the first time I soloed it was in a Sprite, and with a healthy wind in my sails, headed across the harbor and out of sight over the horizon. I couldn't figure out how to turn around into the wind. I was scared to death I'd capsize. DMB had to come get me in the wharf boat.

You remember that Dave?

If it'd been a Windabout, I'd have fetched up on the rocks where the white boat house used to be, and my parents would have owed Wyanoke a BOATload of dough. No pun intended.

So, were there any surviving Windabouts after the arrival of the colorful Sprites?

Well, I just looked at my own signature and I was in J-11 in '59 all right, but with Greg Wood. Harold Peavey was '58, J-14, next to the LJP. How could I have possibly have forgotten something like that after a mere 58 years?
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'56-C-9 C. Mosher '57-C-9 Bill Feaster
'58-J-14 H. Peavy '59-J-11 G. Wood, C. Duncan
'60-S-8 R. Leavitt, D. Hemphill '61-S-1 E. Slocum
'62-JA-1 H. Dunbar '63-C-2 (JC)
'64-C-5, (JC) Councilor
'65-C-9 '66 - '72-J-8
'73-JA1 '75-J-6

[Bob Kennington]

[Mike Freeland]

Here it is, August 23. Kids here in Colorado are back in school, the Fall music season started for me last week.

It all seems too early, because right about now at camp the final season competitions are over. "The Golden Arm" was told at the last campfire Saturday and Spy Night was last night.

The Farewell Banquet is tonight and the JAs and Aides are moving tables from the dining hall to Boyden Chapel. Blue flannel shirts and shorts are called for tonight. The smell of actual roasting turkeys fills the air around the dining hall. The cold cut lunch was just to hold us over til the banquet.

Morning swim isn't compulsory today. The sky is intensely blue and cloudless but it's too cold to swim anyway. Windy too. White caps on the Winter Harbor. All boats in.

The wind will die down in time for everyone to carry their candles in quiet, tight-throated procession back to their tents and cabins for one final night. You'll need an extra blanket. Tent areas are devoid of sneakers under cots, towels on tent ropes and Revell model parts on the floors. Everything but the fishing rods is in trunks and duffel bags. All around you can hear the scrape of the kerosene lantern chimneys being lifted for last-night light.

Echo Taps puts the period at then of the day, and the summer, and Wyanoke.
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'56-C-9 C. Mosher '57-C-9 Bill Feaster
'58-J-14 H. Peavy '59-J-11 G. Wood, C. Duncan
'60-S-8 R. Leavitt, D. Hemphill '61-S-1 E. Slocum
'62-JA-1 H. Dunbar '63-C-2 (JC)
'64-C-5, (JC) Councilor
'65-C-9 '66 - '72-J-8
'73-JA1 '75-J-6

[Bob Kennington]

[Bob Kennington]

Well, I haven't forgotten everything!

Unless I've mis-remembered, weren't "The Pines" toilets of this early design—but with a dark wood tank?

Or am I thinking of a different place and time?

[Mike Freeland]

Nope, you're right on. The Sr. Pines was constructed in 1927 and those gravity-fed toilets were all the rage. As they failed, they were replaced by standard toilets over the years. When I was a senior, there were two or three of those remaining, it was considered great fun to pull the chain while someone was parked on the seat. Remember, there were no actual stalls down there so a quick grab 'n' yank 'n' run was very easy.

Here's the picture I'm using in the History (which is very close to completion!)



By the way, those wooden tanks were lined with a soldered-zinc insert tank.
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'56-C-9 C. Mosher '57-C-9 Bill Feaster
'58-J-14 H. Peavy '59-J-11 G. Wood, C. Duncan
'60-S-8 R. Leavitt, D. Hemphill '61-S-1 E. Slocum
'62-JA-1 H. Dunbar '63-C-2 (JC)
'64-C-5, (JC) Councilor
'65-C-9 '66 - '72-J-8
'73-JA1 '75-J-6

[David Bentley]

Reading Mike's post, and the lack of privacy, I guess Wyanoke, at least as manifested through the Sr. Pines, was "transparent" before "being transparent" was politically correct.
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C-1 49 J-7 52 S-3 55 J-10 58
C-7 50 J-7 53 S-2 56 J-8 59
C-8 51 J-4 54 S-7 57 (JA) J-8 60 - 64
1965 - 1968 Military service
Pine Cone 68 - 75 (with wife,Sherry,
and daughter Tracey)
Wolfeboro - full-time since 1997