“We were always singing,” said Kimela Peck (1966-74), who said she could still see “Beanie” with her guitar by the fireplace and the girls in their “whites” swaying back and forth to “High On Chapel Hill”. “The lodge was filled with kids all summer long from Bay City, Saginaw, Flint and Detroit and everyone seemed […]
Tracy Topping
Floating Food and Bug Sandwiches–
“I can remember piling eight kids and two staff members into an open truck with all the food and supplies and they would drop us off at Rollways. I look back now that I am a Mom and think—there were no cellphones, no place to contact anyone in an emergency, “ said Laurie Cone, (1962-68) […]
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 […]
Homesickness–#1
“We used to have homesick campers, but like everything else in the world, the words keep getting changed, so now the camper who used to be homesick is lonely”, wrote director Barbara Haggart in her report in the early seventies. She suggested counselors look for these symptoms—poor appetite, wandering off alone, and stomach-aches and headaches […]