The boathouse was the place Barb Rehmus loved as a cabin counselor in the seventies. “ I still have memories of the little girls I had. One Dad said he would give me $5 for every pound (she) gained that summer. I knew she would never gain any weight with all the activities and running around and I didn’t want his money. Another girl was acting out for attention and used cuss words, so another girl did the same thing and wondered why she got in trouble and not the other girl,” she laughed. “The involvement was fun and I always had the younger ones.”

“In the evenings, all the counselors would hang out and sometimes we would sit by the campfire. We all knew pretty quickly if someone came into the camp that wasn’t supposed to be there. We would come from all directions and amass pretty quickly to take care of the problem. We chased off a few, but they weren’t there to attack. As a counselor,” said Nancy Sautter (1968-70), “it was nice that it was all girls and we didn’t have to worry about all those after hours activities.”

Karen Selby, early seventies camper turned counselor, loved the campfires. “There were logs we sat on that were tiered into the hillside by the lake and I loved the skits that accompanied the songs. The fire bowl was by the lake and the cabin beyond the fire bowl was  number eight and I was a camper there for two years and the last summer as a counselor, I lived there all by myself. I ran the arts program. I guess there were not enough campers to fill it. I was great for me running that program. I don’t know about them,” she laughed.

Judy Moore, as an assistant director 1970-71, lived in the lodge in the third bedroom. “We would rotate cabins. Some of the counselors who were not in charge of a cabin would be up there and there would be three or four of us up talking about our day, leadership role and people,” she said, as she described several of her competent counselors who did their jobs, but had fun.

Anne Moore lived in Dutton at the age of seventeen between her junior and senior years and was a water safety instructor in the sixties. “It was a great summer of fun. I slept on the screened porch all by myself on a roll away be and since I wasn’t sharing it, I loved it.”

“I liked the younger ones and we were always paired with girls that had a significant age difference, so there would be credibility,” said Priscilla Johns (1968). “I loved the responsibility and authority. I babysat all the time growing up, so this was not new to me.”

What age cabin was your favorite and why?