The Council Room

[Alec Stansell]

I just came across this old chestnut today... enjoy and best wishes to all, Blue and Gray alike! Alec




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[Mike Freeland]

Hi Alec,

Wow, it's been quiet in here for a while. Thanks for posting that bulletin.

I love to read those things. This one contains the most down-to-the minute weather report I've ever seen in one of those. I suspect Bob "Looks-like-it's-going-to-clear-up" Fox had something to do with it.

I wondered at first about why there were boys arriving on June 27, and then again, merely 2 weeks later. In the olden days the second round would have come around July 25 or so. I forgot that the boys-only season had been reduced to 6 weeks, with the addition of the girls in Cabintown for the last two weeks. Boys could remain for those two weeks if they wanted, and if their parents were willing to part with the extra five dollars.

I used to have a recurring dream after Wyanoke closed, that camp was still in operation, but that all the land beyond Boyden Chapel, including the Senior camp, had been sold. We were no longer allowed to go there -- no Sr. Camp, rifle range, Land's End overnights, searches for the "Bean Hole". I suspect that the arrival of the girls and the virtual closing-off of Cabintown was the source of that dream.

Interestingly, several people I talked to after camp closed had the same dream, or a close approximation of it. In fact, that very thing did happen at Camp DeWitt, if I remember correctly. DeWitt's owners sold some camp property in the off-season. The returning campers and staff actually lived that dream. For those of us who connected so profoundly with these places, we considered it "our" property, and to be chased off part of it would be terrible. (Parts of Wyanoke were never our property, like the ice house, the back room of the Little Guest House where Brad napped, the kitchen etc, but those places didn't count.)

When I was a kid I used to have a rubber-stamp-like thing which you pressed into some red grease paint and then slapped on someone's cheek, leaving a lip-shaped facsimile of the juicy, lipstick-and-perfume-laden remains of the dreaded "Aunt Clara" kiss. The red stain on this bulletin is a dead ringer for that thing. Is that what it is? Or did Aunt Clara kiss it?

Also, is your letter home on the back of it? C'mon, let's see it.

Anyone remember "80 Steps to Johah" (1969)? IMDB has the following:
Tagline: It's "G" whiz willikers wonderful!
Plot: A young man hiding from the law takes refuge in a summer camp for blind children.

It starred Wayne Newton(!), Mickey Rooney and Sal Mineo. Sounds really sugary, and I'm bettin' ALL the Aides and JAs went to town, or whatever they were allowed to do to avoid the movie.
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'58-J-14 H. Peavy '59-J-11 G. Wood, C. Duncan
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[Chris Gill]

was I think the worst movie I ever saw at camp. I remember we made fun of it for a long time afterwords.
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