The camp aides were Sue Purdue, Sandra Hines, and Norma Hancock. “It was Super’s first year as a staff member,” she wrote,” and this is not always an easy transition to make from camper especially when your friends are here, but Sue hurdled this part of growing up and did eventually become a full fledge staff member.” She […]
Ann Carney
Directors #9
Marge Falvey, camp committee director during the early seventies, had been instrumental in hiring Carol Nieman for the position of camp director in 1975, and had known her family. Carol had been a substitute teacher in the Essexville school system and had done well as a teacher, but somehow her abilities did not seem to […]
Counselors Share Their Stories #1
“I was at Western Michigan University, packing to go home after my sophomore year, with no plan for a job for that summer,” said Ann Carney (1968-72).” Brooke, (a fellow classmate that I did not know), said she was going to camp as a horseback riding instructor. I had just finished my certification as a […]
My____Went There! #1
One of the first questions asked of each camper interviewed was-“Did you go with a friend or relative, and did your mother, aunts, or cousins attend?” Barely a girl asked answered no, because generally girls were influenced by relatives and friends, and it was almost impossible not to know someone. But, if by chance you […]