Session one in 1949 posted an article about a newly organized council. “For many years there has been in existence a council composed of camper representatives, but this year the two councils have worked cooperatively on many problems,” it stated. The council first periods was composed of Lucille Harding, Jerry Fleming, Helen Hasty, Nan Lipscott and Bertie Van Welt, and represented a “wide diversion of interests”, attempting to be fair and objective with their decisions.
The agenda listed items such as setting up camper schedules, dealing with grievances, settling counselor problems, presenting questions of procedures at staff meetings and store hours. Their goal was to “widen opportunities for campers and extend the democratic system at Maqua” and they agreed that the first meeting was considered a success.
In 1950, the Camper’s Council consisted of Joan Beers, Janice Cameron, Karen Temple, Connie Fisher, Eileen Salmond, Pat Hubbard, Nancy Kula, Judy Harrison, Janie Hale, Judy Waldorf and CIT’s Judy Alcorn and Ann Malloy. Counselors Ann Hayden and Shirley Piguet joined “Dicky” the director planning the morning and evening programs and the frog races.
Hut 1 in fourth period of 1950 housed all the CIT’s and they joined the council, along with Louise Kibble, Karen Temple, Jan Mosier, Mary Brown, Alicia Roberts, Frances Kendrick, Mary Calopsis, Sylvia Jones and their director “Dickie”. They planned all the evening programs, which included a baby party, a water pageant, a chuck wagon style dinner “in true Western style”.
The councils were still operating in 1952, according to articles in the “Loon”. Mary Day, Mary Neal, Ann Martin, Lynne Brown, Sally Macey, Penny Nickel, Roberta Richardson, Nancy Penoyer, Rosemary Michaels and Mary Jane Keschman planned a square dance, a taffy pull, a silent meal, a treasure hunt and another chuck wagon dinner.
