Counselors had entirely different reasons for attending camp. Some had been counselors at other camps, as Nancy and Tricia Sautter had, before their years at Maqua (1968-70), but many had never been to camp. A summer job on a lake was enticing, but also utilized skills and talents they possessed that were geared toward […]
Month: June 2016
One Hundred Years of Happy Memories
The Centennial for Camp Maqua, on the grounds of the Loon Lake property, was celebrated on June 25th with seventy-five ex-campers, counselors, current residents and even the last camp doctor. (William McCadie) This day was not only a celebration of a happy camp for the campers and staff, but also for the ten resident families […]
Escaping Home–
A great many girls found camp to be their escape and distraction from their tumultuous lives at home. Dawn Kober’s father had just remarried a woman she was not fond of, so her grandmother brought her to and from camp in 1977 with her friend Kelly Kirk. “It was totally foreign to me”, said Elaine […]
Camp As A Life Adjustment
Many families sent their daughters off to camp during or after moving to the area to make new friends before school started. Marcia Kessler (1959-61) remembered her friend Buffy, who had just moved. Had she met her at school and not at camp, she still would have been an instant friend, she admitted. For Priscilla […]
Where The Girls Are–
Girls who came from homes as an only child, homes with all boys or even a house filled with children—the reasons were varied as to why campers loved being with all girls for an extended period of time. Elaine Levinsohn spent three wonderful summers from 1927-1930 and loved being away from home. She had one […]
It’s A Tradition!
Some of the girls were dropped off at camp and loved “being free and away from home”, said Carolyn Stanton, who spent glorious years during the late forties and fifties when her parents took their vacation in July. Debi Gottlieb’s parents had a cottage in Tawas, so they would drop her off and go to […]