Cindy Morrison
Tripping Down The River
“One of our canoe trips from Mio to Grayling was spent in a tornado warning,” said Susie Utter, who was a CIT in the fifties. “We went to the banks of the river where it was lower and more protected, and it poured. We looked and saw whatever was holding all the Kotex pads had […]
Gunnell Pumping!
Many of the girls felt like bobbing the canoes or “gunnell pumping” was one of the highlights of their camping experiences with the canoes. “It was a blast,” said Cindy Morrison (1960), “whether we went bow to stern or side to side. I can also remember making a sailboat out of the canoe somewhere on […]
Leeches and What Lurked Under Water
Those dreaded “blood suckers”. Out of all the scary experiences relayed to me by the campers, it was the number one fear. It is as if the little girl nightmare of the monster in the deep could still reach up and grab a leg and attach themselves to poor innocent camping swimmers in Loon Lake. […]
Directors #3
Camp committee notes from December 1960 announced the delivery of Alice Bishop’s contract. Her experience listed a year at Camp Yakowi, three at Camp Cavell, one at Camp Takona, and four at UAW-CIO. She began working right away on the hiring of staff and the drafting of a staff manual for the 1961 season. It […]
Walls That Talk–
The walls did talk, or at least the girls felt like they did, as a tradition developed to write their names on the walls in toothpaste or lipstick. “My Mom always wondered why we wanted extra toothpaste”, laughed Kim Moore (1968-1972), “but you know we just had to write our names on the cabin walls!” […]