Picture a sheet music with notes, and then picture the notes of music leaving the page—floating over the camp, through the lodge dining hall, past the flagpole, down to the campfire, back up to Chapel Hill and down through the cabins of all the little campers. Music tied the camp together and those notes were […]
Kathy Baker
Music, Song and Dance–
Music, dance, song and instruments played a huge part of the camp experience during every era, from the early years up until the closing. One of the earliest memories belonged to a camper who stopped by the lodge in 1987. A flood of nostalgia swept over her, as she sat down at the original camp […]
Drama–1975
DRAMA REPORT 1975—Lynne Bigelow and Karen Selby The drama department offered drama games, creative drama plays and skits and the “Loon”. The drama games class was offered with no size limit and never exceeded five people. Lynne felt it was sometimes difficult to interest both older and younger campers with the same games, except for […]
Drama–1974
DRAMA REPORT 1974—Mary Toburen, Director and Val Unger, assistant, “This year I attempted to give the girls a general ideal of what drama is. Most of them greeted the thought of drama with “Ick”. During the week of class I kept things light and fun. There’s so little time that I figured if I could […]
Drama-1973
DRAMATICS REPORT SUMMER OF 1973—Karen MacIntosh Her report in the beginning was a repeat of Christine Foshag’s from the previous year. Under “Physical Facility and Structure”, Karen noted that the costumes that were to be used for drama were moved to the porch and some costumes had been donated by “The Bay City Players”. She […]
Drama-1972
Drama Director’s Report–1972 Christine Foshag “Almost everyone wishes at times that for a little while at least she might become some other person—or a bird, an imaginary creature, or some animal”, wrote Christine in her first paragraph of the report. “A play, skit, creative dramatics or a puppet show may give her the perfect […]