Barb Haggart and Sue Wiegand created many program skits. “You could say I was the creator and she acted upon it, but she was a funny girl,” said Sue (1966-67). “She could make a fool of me and herself. We were like Laurel and Hardy—a good team. She was the assistant director at the time. I was a terrible singer and my fear was that “Beanie” would make me sing the “Froggie” song, but I learned that it was okay to do stupid things and I learned to laugh at myself. She loved to laugh!”

Lines were remembered by Laurie Cone (1962-68)—“What kind of pepper does youz want? TOILET PEPPER!” and pillow case people in a talent show or skit was a memory for Jennifer Fenton from the seventies’. Cindy Eigner (1967-68) had a memory of her in a skit in the lodge playing a dead bull on the ground with her feet in the air.

“There was one skit where girls came in and would be asked,”Where did you get your pants?” and the other girl answered “J.C.Penny” and then the same was asked of the girl about her shirt and another girl about the shoes and the answer was always the same. J.C. Penny” laughed Debbie Tweedie (1965-72). “All of a sudden a girl appeared in nothing but her underwear and all the girls asked, “Who are you?”, to which she answered, “J.C. Penny”.

In her second summer, Amy Falk (1971-74), had fun with the theatre group and had the starring role in a skit called “Trigger Fish”. Her friend played the role of Blow Fish and Trigger Fish was the hero. They had two lines and one was “I will dilute you” and Blow Fish responded with “I will blow you away”. Amy laughed at the fact that she could still remember the lines and the water guns they used as props.

Randi Topping loved the singing after meals and recalled four counselors dressed as two people, one the legs and the other the arms. “It was hysterical,” she laughed. “They also did a skit where they all talked in pig latin—again, hysterical. I still remember “Beeping Shooty. They also put makeup on, which was pretty funny because the arms could not see the face and the end result was a very funny makeup job.”

“I was a bit of a ham and was involved in one of the skits,” said Valerie Monto (1964-68), who also remembered a girl singing “The Ship” with a lisp and thinking it was the funniest thing in the world.

Deb Wilkinson sang the sixties’ songs to me that she loved the most, but the best one was “Maqua Socks”, that was developed for one of the skits that she participated. “I can still remember what I wore. A tennis outfit that had a pin and white top with shorts.Our group did the Supreme’s movements, and let’s put it this way—we worked the floor, “she laughed. “All eight of the girls in our cabin participated. The other day on the way home from Midland, one of those old songs came on the radio—John Denver’s “Today” and I sang right along with it.”

A cabin with eight girls laughing themselves silly over their own brand of entertainment was a memory for Jeri Smith in 1965, when the counselor had slipped out. “We entertained the girls with some unorganized skit, but there was always a night where we had real skits in the lodge and the counselors would dress up. I know one thing, we always went to bed exhausted from our daily activities and we knew they would play “Taps” as we settled down.”

What do you remember of the crazy skits in the lodge?