Camp Mah-Kee-Nac Lenox, Mass.

BOUND COPIES OF T~E CAMP NEWSPAPER

JOSEPH KRUGER, DIRECTOR

137 THACHER LANE. SOUTH ORANGE. N. J. 07079 TEl... 201·762-3536

What Is Not Said

Teaming ripples Shed red shadows From the fallen sun With, this wafer

, am one

Fred Cohen ,A1sonquin

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.ter e we go once again

To another sunnner'g e'1d, Playing ball and doing things

That we enjoy.

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For eight weeks we're as one, Men and boys having fun,

With these memories of camp

Fresh in mind.

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To Joe and Frances we say this. After eight weeks you'll be missed. For forty years we have come

This away.

-Cherokee Song, 1970

and! women w/' 0 kept fh€; ca mp ~ojn3

fDr' e;9hf wee ks.

Many times we have asked.

And your patience has held fast. o Mah-Kee-Nac, you are our home Away from home.

l' Cross the lake. rain or snow •.

The true winds of friendship blow. o Mah-Kee-Nac. we owe to you

A vote of thanks.

BOB BEHRMAN PROGRAM DlRECTOR

MIKE TURNER

SF"-.JIOR WATERFRONT DIRECTOR

STEVE BRAWER HEAD COUNSELOR JUNIOR CAMP

WES ALDRICH

HEA.l) COUNSELOR UPPER SENIOR CAMP

JIM O'NEIL

HEAD COUNSELOR LOWER SENIOR CAMP

MIKE PUGH

JUNIOR WATERFRONT DIRECT0R

Waiters: Paul Malachowski. Chic Rodriguez, Tom Barnett, Richard Fontaine.

Kitchen: Pedro Jacinto, Joe Boulais Vito Jacinto

Tom Boehm

h U h J'eddy Concepcion,

Chefs: Art ur ps aw ,

John Gantt.

Office: David Hochberg. Betsey Chase, Sandy Heft, Victor Kalafa.

Waiters: Silvano Bendinelli, Jay Sterling. Jim Kirkpatrick, Pat Takeda, Terry Cahill.

TOTEM

STAFF

DONALD WILLIAM BUSH PHOTOGRAPHY

JOHN CHERRY CO-EDITOR

"Peace and high pleasure.

Should never be goals in. life.

They should forrn a starting point, And a basis for day to day living. "

John Cherry

ALAN J. GERSTEN CO-EDnOR

"You can't always get what you want.

But if you try sometimes, You just might find.

You'll get what you need. 11

Mick Jagger

OUR SPECIAL THANKS TO THO .. BUESCHER, CARMI'NE LOPEZ AND JOHN MclLVE~NAN

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REOP ENS FOR 1970

... a 'Iong

By Paul Hostovsky-Navajo

We left the South Orange Junior High School at ten-thirty with our goodbyes and farewells. On the bus we met some new friends who we got more acquainted with at carnp, Soon we stopped to pick up more carnp e rs, l.ater on out came the lunches. Everyone was starved. Then we stopped at the Hot Shoppe to go to the bathrooms, and the counselor s brought us orange drink.

At the end of the ride all the kids gathered around, and we talked about camp, and the counselors we wanted to get, and about what the Junior Lodge

... new buildings

By Danny Gainsburg-Cheyenne This year as the campers came rolling down the hill they saw a great change in the Junior Camp. The old infirmary was moved and the new Junior Lodge, which hasn't been completed yet, was in its place. The new infirmary was built next to Bunk 14. This year's infirmary is larger and there is a television.

The wood shop, which is the fifth one , is to the left of the Lower Senior entrance, and the nature shop is to the right. The new nature shop has an enlarged zoo. On the whole I think the camp is much better.

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would look like. Finally, we got to camp. We met our counselors, and got ready for a great year.

.' .. two campfires

By bavid Bagdan-Mohican

On the first night of camp there

was a campfire. All of the Junior Camp counselors and campers had a meeting where all the Junior Camp gathered around a fire. Steve Brawer told all about a lot of this year's activities. Then some of the counselor splayed instrunen1B like the guitar, and all the camper s sang with fh erri,

By Ken Marks-Cheyenne

The Lower Senior campfire was organized by Jim O'Neill, the head counselor of Lower Senior Camp. The Campfire started when Jim made a speech to the campers. Then each one of the counselor s got up and told the cam.pers what he instructed.

Then JilTI gave every two bunks

one bag of marshmallows. The campers toasted them. and ate them. Later everyone sang song s and then went to bed.

By Edward Zalaznick and Philip Gut£leisch - Iroquois

The new Junior Lodge is a combinat.ion of the main office, Joe Kruger's off i.c e , Bob Behrman's office, Steve Brawer's office, the Canteen, the storage r corn., a stage, and a dressing room.

The reason they put up a new Junior Lodge is because the old one burned down last year in a fire ..

The Lodge isn't finished yet but

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rt s corning along very fast. We think it

will be finished in two weeks.

INFIRMARY IN NEW SPOT;

LODGE TO OPEN SOO'N

By Andy Li s s and

Ron Glas s:man- Cheyenne

Camp Mah,-Kee-Nac' s new infirmary has a new location. It is larger

and better equipped than the previous one .. Its new location is right near the waterfront, next to bunk 14. Some of the features are as follows: 16 beds in two separate wards, a kitchen, an examining room, a separate clinical area, 2 bathrooms, an isolation room, and call bells. It is our first infirmary which is heated and carpeted. This year an antenna was put on the roof and patients may now watch television.

Your Stamps, Car'mine

By Steven Granat- Iroquois

On July 1, 1970, a counselor carne around for stamps. His name is Carmine Lopez and he is from Italy. He speaks little English. We gave h irn lots of stamps.

He is collecting these stamps so when he goes back to Italy he can trade fh ern to the Italian people and next year he will show us his Italian stamps he traded them for.

The st arn.ps you give him ar e one s people have already sent you. Make sure there is a piece of paper around it.

(Ed. Note: The totem encourages all campers and staff to save their cancelled stamps. on the corne~ s of th e envelopes -and give them to Carmine during the summer.

Events

A COLUMN OF REVIEW By Doug Auer-Seneca

A review of the fir st week's events at CatnpMah-Kee-Nac reveals that all departments are running smoothly. Nature, woodshop, and art have all adjusted to their new buildings. The water front activities are all going well. The only unusual thing to happen at the water front was the running over of the snapping turtle by a ski boat. Hand sports are shaping up and inter-camp teams have already begun practicing.

The major hitch as Camp Director Joe Kruger sees it is the Junior Lodge. As one can see, the design is unu sua l, The large arches took a great deal of time to purchase, as did the outside wood The carpenters are working hard, and the Lodge is expected to be done in one week.

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g JUNIOR NATURE QUIZ g

g By Jeffrey Coleman-Mohican g

g Our nature shop is starting a new g

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gthere will be a question about nature. g

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JUNIOR CAMP SCAVENGER HUN T

Juniors Go a- Hunting

COUNSELOR HUNT

By Jimmy. Ascher-Iroquois

The Junior Camp had a counselor hunt on June 30. Hendy Powell hid in a tree near Bunk 10. John Davi es sat near the forest reading a book. John Cherry hid under some boards in the shower room, Steve Bick~£f and Tom Buescher hid in a corner in the art room. "Peanuts" an Apache, hid under the trailer next to Bunk 6. Rick Schott hid behind the woodshop un.der some garbage. Alter this all'the campers screamed out that he is garbage!

Bunk 9 and Bunk 12 carne in first place; they both found all of them.

BUNK FIVE

FINDS A ROBINIS NEST By Chip Meyers-Iroquois

At Bunk 5 last week a robin's nest was found in a corner of the outside roof. The small robin's were seen chirping and eating. If you want to see the baby robins, come to Bunk 5.

By Jon Brauer-Cherokee

Not even rain could prevent the Cherokees of Mah-Kee-Nac from being inactive during evening activity of July 2, Under the very skilled announcing of Wes Aldrich, Ben Bloom, and Ronnie Heft. a .2l-question trivia c onte st began. The questions covered sports and theater.

After the questions were finished the answers were h aid ed in, it was announced that Bunk 35 had triumphed with sixteen questions right. They were re - warded with candy for each bunk member.

The winners attributed victory to their use of several Sports Illustrated magazines, and sports and regular alrnanac s ,

By Andrew Flower-Mohican

The first 1970 Junior Camp scavenger hunt was On July 5, It was a fascinating event, Some of the objects of the hunt were almost impossible, yet some bunks found them. One of the thing 5 you had to do was to get a napkin autog r apbed by Bob Behrman and containing a piece of his bubble. gum. Then you had to get

a picture of Harold, the maintenance man. The winners of the scavenger hunt were Bunks 6. 8,. and 10. 1 think everyone enjoyed it.

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Impressiens o'f Camp By Rob Is sow- Cherokee

II ••• I have never worked with a more amiable, intelligent, alive, concerned group of young people in my ertire lifetime .•• 11

Brooks Jones Counselor

1' ••• I think the camp would be a better learning experience, a more

enj oyable place I if it wer e a little Ie s s restrictive and rigid ••• "

Dave Ehle Counselor

1' ••• The counselors push you around too much and m.ake you do things you d on+t want to do •. ,II

David Goldberg

Cherokee

" .•• The kids push you around too much and make you do things you don't want to do •.. II

Dave Shields

Counselor

HOBBIES: A Chance to Experiment

(Editor's note: Hobby nights are evening activities when campers have the opportunity to experiment with intere sting ways to occupy spare time. These stories tell of some of the things,that happened

on this summer's first hobby night.)

By Bobby Litvak - Mohican

The Junior Camp had a hobby night on July 1. In Bunk 5. Paul Golomb and Alan Lewis played Alan's trombone. In ping pong Andy Goldbaum beaz Jon Block for the winners' ch.arrrpi.on shdp, They were playing on the Iroquois table. On the final point they told the trom.bone player to be quiet. The final score was 11-10.

In another g arne of pin pong, Michael Weinstock and Ma.rk Rothenstein played the longest.. There wasn't any winner.

Chess and other games were also played.

Kites to compete

By Billy Fisher-Iroquois

" The Kite Flying Conte at" •••• seem.s to be a hit I The originators were Jon Oliver and George Gross. In the cafeteria some kids (including me) made kites. Well George Gross made a kite that we kept on flying and it broke in three! We had no time to get yearn so we used string (not proper) for the tail. Som.e kites are as big or bigger than the kids themselves. I can't wait until that day. I think it's going to be one of the best events.

(Editor's note: The wacky MahKee-Nac Kite Festival is coming soon. Every bunk will have a kite. There will be a kite ho spital for injur ed kite s, and a kazoo band to inspir'e the kite fliers. Moz-e details are forthcoming. )

By Fred Hazan -Lr oquo i s

On Hobby Ni8ht (July 1), Michael ~atz made a paint shower. He got paint In three places: on the painting. on himself. and on the floor. Mostly himself. Randy Kahn made a coilpot in the art room. It looks like a snake. Ne il Shane's funny robot giant looks like a funny clown.

!Bunks' 6 and 13

Win Radio, Bingo By John Siege. i-Iroquois

(Editor's note: The Junior Camp' s first radio bingo game was won by Bunks 6 and 13 on July 2. The object of the game is to identify songs played on WCM)

The garne was good.. Som.e groups played on the radio were the Beatles and some other 6. They played 11 A Hard Day s Night" and other song s. We didn't win, but we tried our best.

MARY POPPINS IS COMING TO MAH-KEE-NAC'

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Entire Junior Camp Attends Cookout

By Peter Raider-Mohican

The Junior Camp had a cookout July 7. We went to the carrrpsite •. and while the food was being cooked some of us went on a hike. Then we came back to the campsite and we had supper. For dessert we had marshmallows and peaches. After that we sang song sand then had a story in the round. The counselors told a story about the Martians landing at Mah-Kee-Nac. Then we walked down the hill.

THE WRECKING CREW

By David Renmick- Cheyenne

We were very excited about seeing our fir st movie. It was played up as a good detective story, "The Wrecking Crew".

First off the be at thing about it was the girls: Tina Louise and Sharon Tate. Dean Martin was not that well suited for the movie. He was just too rnuch,

First he beats up ten guys at a time and then gets away from a whole mansion full of bombs. It was a mediocrely acted movie.

Some very promising movies are to corne , They are: "Where Eagles Dare". I' Paper Lionll, and "Ln the Heat of the Night".

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Counselors

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THE PROFESSIONALS

By Richard Waxman-Cherokee

The seniors viewed "The Pro-

fes sionals" On July 1 and enjoyed Claudia Cardinale's portrayal of Mrs. Grant.

"T'h e Profes sionals" was an epic western starring Burt Lancaster as a woman- . hungry explosives expert,. Robert Ryan as a horse lover, Woody Strode as the best tracker and long bow scout in the West, and the leader Lee Marvin as expert in automatic weapons.

The four are hired by the wealthy Mr. Grant to try and recover his kidnapped wife from the notorious bandito Raz a, played by Jack Palance.

After two hour s of gutsy and lusty action the movie ends with the Professionals' code of ethics winning out over their mercenary instinct and Claudia Cardinale was returned to Raza and the two rode

into the sunset.

Show

By Peter Grabell- Cherokee

Independence Day here at Mah-KeeNac was celebrated by having the annual counselor show.

Led by "Unc l e Sarn', several singing counselors and four instrum.ents did songs that originated in different parts of the country.

Hendy Powell played Uncle Sam,

the counselors who sang were: Bob Kopecky. John Cherry, Fred McLam,

Jon Oliver, Howard Baldwin, and Jim Christensen. Music was supplied by Tom. Bue sch er on guitar; Don Jenkins, piano; Dave Mebne, sax; and Jon Oliver, trumpet.

As a special attraction a beauty contest was held. Since it was impossible to have a "Mis s America" contest three

coun s e lo r s , John Davies. Ghulam. Hasnain and Ron Heft. participated as conte stants, but none was declared winner. The winner was Bob .Behrman, whose birthday was July fourth.

The festivities were ended by the singing of three patriotic songs: liThe Battle Hyrnn of the Re pubki c'! , II America',' and 11 America the Beautiful".

All in all it was a very enjoyable time for all.

AJgonq u in- Seneca

A' 5 Drop Opener

By Jim Epstein - Seneca

The Algonquin- Seneca A_' softball team started the season off on a sour note with a 6-4 defeat at the hands of a very good Winadu team.

David Katzka did a very good job on th e mound replacing the inj ured Marshall Wi s soff,

Mah-s Ke es=Na c scored first with a two run rally in the first inning. Jim Epstein led off the game and reached first on an error by the first baseman. Mike Wallach forced Epstein at second and Ricky Stengel walked. Robby Kaye reached on an error and Jeff Salkin singled in two runs for the 2-0 lead.

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SPORTS LINE

By Stephen Goldman- Seneca

The first week of sports at Camp Mah-Kee-Nac was used mainly to organize various teams and leagues throughout camp. All the groups were arranged into" A" and II BlI softball leagues. In

some groups basketball leagues were also begun. Instruction in tennis also was organized. The first inter-camp game will be an Algonquin-Seneca-Aide basketball game against Camp Lenox.

The aurnrne r promises to he very r ewa r d'ing for all.

There was no further scoring until the top of the fourth when Winadu exploded for 5 runs capped by Billy DenMah-Kee-Nac came back with two more in the bottom half of the inning On Jimmy Hochberg' s single.

In the top of the seventh Winadu scored again on a tough chance by Hochberg. In the last half of the seventh

with two down Robby Kaye smacked a single. Jeff Salkin then smashed one way back in rightfield and only a diving catch by the right fi.e lde r saved the victory for Winadu.

Sports Word Jumble BASEBALL

By Michael Schwartz- Cherokee

Unscramble the letter sand spe ll out the name of a current well-known baseball player. Answers next week.

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10. A civil war general invented it? (Unscramble the circled letter s , )

To-Ho-Ne Tops Cherokee

Bats

By Richard Waxman and

Steven Altschuler - Ch e r ok e e t

On July 7, fourteen Cherokees led by Coach Gary Caruso went to Cam.p To-Ho-Ne to play softball.

The Cherokees were in a hole almost immediately as To-Ho-Ne took a 1-0 lead in the first inning.

Mah-Kee-Nac carne back in the second with two runs but then the roof caved in. Pitcher Michael Marks lost his stuff and To-Ho-Ne scored 7 runs. Richard Waxman carne in relief and did a good job the rest of the way.

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A four run 4th inning sparked the Winadu B's to a. 4-2 victory Over the Algonquin-Seneca B 1 S.

Winadul s 4 run inning was ignited by a bases loaded triple by the right fielder, John Robbins.

Mah=Kee=Na c' s first run came on two consecutive singles by Rob Samit and Mark Altschuler. A fielders choice by Tom Epstein and Mark Mendel's single brought the run.

In the fourth Mah-Kee-Nac scored again on a Triple by Seth Akabas and Mark Altschuler's single.

In the last inning Steve Jones led off with a single and Charlie Sa lrnorre added anothe r , Bob Sam it flew to left, Mark Altschuler struck out and Tom Epstein singled. With two out and the bases loaded Mark Mendel hit a deep fly'to left but it was snagged by the left fielder.

The Cherokees scored three rrio r e times but could not overcome the margin. The final Score was 8-5.

Kickba II Season's Here!

By Eric TlGoogyTl Gorham- Iroquois

Key hits by Jimm.y Ascher, Spencer King, John Siegel, Chip Myers, Alan Lewis, Billy Rapaport, Mike Steinlauf, Eric Gorham, and the bunting of Lee Weiser, led Bunk 5 to a 28-11 victory over Bunk 2, in a June 30 kickball game.

In the first inning Bunk 2 scored no runs.- Then Bunk 5 carne in with 8 big runs. In the second inning Bunk 2 still did not score and Bunk 5 r s four doubles helped thern score 7 more runs.

Bunk 2 scored 2 runs on errors and s ing les, but Bunk 5 carne back with

6 more which included a triple by Ascher and a two tun horner by King. Bunk 2 scored 3 runs on a triple by Rich Kenyon Bunk 5 scored 2 on Jimmy Ascher! s tworun homer.

In the fifth inning Bunk 2 scored 4 big runs. Then Bunk 5's John Siegel belted a three- run home run. In the sixth, both teams scored 2 runs. That ended the game with Bunk 5 winning 28-11.

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Mendel 4 0 I I
Spector 3 0 I 0
Goldman 3 0 0 0
Lowenstein 3 0 I 0
Akabas 3 1 I 0
Jones 3 0 I 0
Sammons 3 0 1 0
Samit 3 0 1 0
Altschuler 3 I 2 1
Epstein 3 0 1 0
31 2 10 2 'The Ghost and Mr. Chicken'

By Andrew Flower-Mohican

The first movi e the Juniors saw

in 1970 was "T'he Ghost and Mr .. Chicken' It was a funny move. Most of the campers liked it. It is a Don Knotts movie. It had a couple of scary parts. I think the best part was when Luther expl ar e.d the haunted house and strange things began to happen. Luther was played by Don Knotts. I hope in the future we see other .movies like that ..

The New Art Shop

By Jeff Paul-Iroquois

The nev art shop is very big this year. You can do lots of things like making clay and painting picture s. It is very nice.

MY HERMIT CRAB

By Mike Katz-Iroquois

I like my hermit crab Cougle because he is a crab and I like crabs. He lives in a shell. He eats cookies, fruit, stale oatmeal and peanut butter. He does not like a lot of noise.

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WCM- 650 On Your AM Dial

By Steve Granat-Iroquois

Camp M.ah-Kee-Nac has a radio station called WCM. Campers can sing or play records. They broadcast you as you talk on the radio. You can sing or you can talk about sports or news. You can also play an instrument on the radio. The radio station is a nice place. If you want to do it, see Jim Zeiler at WCM.

By Richard Kahn-Iroquois

THE SWIM THAT NEVER WAS SWUM

On Wednesday morning. July I, all Apache s and Iroquois were required to take a recreational sw irn , We arrived at the boathouse. While we were changing into our suits. the Mohicans were changing from their suits. They inquired about why we were going swimming. They did so because the rn aj o r i ty of their tribe thought that the water was cold. When we sat down at the green benches we were lectured several t'irn e s over about the buddy- board systern. We divided into sinkers, dockers, rafters.

and boys who were testing. We were also given life gua.r d s , one life guard to eight camper s , We waited for the seniors to check out. As they checked out Alan Oppenheimer remarked, "By the time we get used to the water, first call will blow."

And he was almost right. We were almost at the buddy-board when first call blew. Many of us were late for lunch. Those of us who waited at the waterfront for something that wouldn't happen returned disappointed in wasting the morning I s free play.

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SUMMER 1970 NO. TWO

BASKETBALL CLIN C:

Head Two D'ay Even't

By Michael Schwartz - Cherokee

At the end of this camp year, when we look back and ask "What were some of the highlights? 1', every answer would probably include the Basketball Clinic.

It was given by Johnny Green, star of

the NBA Cincinnati Royals, and Bobby Sands, former head coach of CCNY. The clinic was held on July 8 and ·9.

The men started the clinic with a question and answer s es s ion , Many many questions were asked such as,

1100 you think the ABA andNBA should merge? 11 llWhat is a loose ball foul? II and "Why was Oscar Robertson traded? 11' to name a f'ew ,

Next the most important basketball fundemental was covered; shooting!

We were shown the correct way to shoot as well as several ways not to shoot. Practice shooting followed th is instruction.

The second day started off with a review of shooting, followed by a drill which use s chairs to practice your rriov e s.

Green and Sands then bad us practice lay-ups. When that was done they talked about the NY Knicks and why they were so good. The clinic concluded with the showing of the ~nick movie which helped explain what h ad been said earlier.

That night at Senior Dinner the two men were given a standing ovation before they left. Maybe it was the best event in the camp ye a r P,

Junior Talent Di.played

By Ken Epstein-Mohican

The Junior Camp had a camper talent show July 12. The people in the show were: Steve Bborn- -he announced the people. Bobl-y Litvak played th e guitar. He played "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot". "Go Down. Moses", and IIHel s Got the Whole World in His Ha nd s!".

Abe, Ira, and Jeff Warshaw sang "Dc -ReMi". Mark Boxer sang "Fun at Camp".

Adam Harmon played the piano.

He played "Guantanarnera". Fred Hazan played the organ. He played "For he' s

a Jolly Good Fellow". Andy Behrman. Randy Kohn , Abe Warshaw, and Bob Burnett all played II Battle Hyrrm of the Republic" on a variety of instruments.

Mike Mintz sang "Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head". Gary Korn played "Oh , Su s a nna!' on the piano. Jeff Paul and Mike Katz were comedians.

I thought the whole talent show was really good.

Tbe counselors who organized it were John Oliver and Hendy Powell. Don Jenkins played the piano.

By Warren Odette - Navajo

Cherokees, Navajos Go on Overnights

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By David Goldberg-Cherokee

On Sunday July 12, eight boys and two counselors, Fred McLam and Bob Morrisette went on an overnight to Kitchen Brook ...

When we hiked up it started raining.

When we got to out' campsite there were people in it so we found anoth e r one.

We had to start a fire and all the wood was wet but the sun carne out" everything dried, and it was a good night. We had steak, potatoes, marshmallows, and popcorn for dinner.

In the morning we had bacon. eggs, and bagels for breakfast. We climbed a mountain called Jones Nose. Then we hiked to the bottom where Frances

picked us up.

SQCCER

By Ken boxer - Cheyenne

Soccer has hit the big t irn e at camp this year as indicated by the soccer clinic put on by Joe Machnik and Ray Klivecka for all th r ee camps. The clink stressed soccer and tried to Int'r odu ce new players to the game.

The clinic was attended by 30 Upper Senior and 23 Lower Seniors and the whole Junior Carn.p.

The fundamentals taught included beading, passing, shooting an~ de.feric e , Now we shall venture a little into the careers of Joe Machnik and Ray Klivecka. Joe us d to play goelie Io r L. I. U. and Ray was center forward for L. I. U. After their years at college Joe remained at L.!. U. as a coach. He also lead the SOccer team to the NCAA finals. Ray now coaches the soccer team of CCNY.

A couple of days ago the Navajos went on the first overnight in the camp season.

There were eight boys that went

and two counselors. When we got there at the park there were three boys cooking dinner for th errrs e Ive s , The three were hikers who were going on the Appalachian Trail. The next thing we knew we were on the trail the next day.

I happen to think that overnight campouts are the greatest.

Ra.y lead his team to win the Metropolitan soccer championship.

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By Peter Levy-IroquoIS

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On 'I'ue s day , July 14 two of the best SOccer players were here. They were showing us how to kick the ball high and low. They showed us how to block the ball and how to kick it in the goal.

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People got two goals off goalie Ray Klivecka. Seri was one of them and the otber was John.

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They showed us how to head the ball into the goal. Well that ties it up for the soccer clinic.

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The Tribal Review ....

Goal!

By Edward Zalaznick-Iroquois

The Juniors' second movie, entitled "Goal" was about the 1966 World Cup soccer games in England .. All the best teams played each other to try and win

the cup. All the teams played gr eat to

try and beat each other and win the World Cup. England won. It was the greatest exhibition of soccer I've ever seen in

my life.

Where Eagles Dare------_·

By Peter Nager & Steven AltschulerCherokees

"Where Eagles Dare" starring Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood. was shown at Mah-Kee-Nac on. JUly 9.

The Senior Camp showed much favor to the spectacular movie wb i ch was riddled with rnach ine gun duels and mystifying escapes and had the audience thrilled and chilled.

Richard B_urton played a major.

the commander of the "m i s s.ion. Clint Eastwood played the American Lieutenant. an assassin whom Burton t.rusted.

Tanglewood Trip: UTommy" & Tull By Mark Philips-Algonquin

On Tuesday July 7th, The Who, Jethro Tull, and It's a Beautiful Day appeared at the Tanglewood Music Center in the first of the 1970 Contemporary Trends Concerts that are scheduled for this summer. The Upper-Senior cam.p was in attendence.

It's a Beautiful Day played first.

A San Francisco group started in 1967, it features David LaFlamme on electric

violin ..

Lower Senior Hu nt

By Mike Zucker -Navajo

On July 9, the Lower Senior Camp had a treasure hunt. The Lower Senior Staff m.ade up the rhyming clues. The Lower Seniors were split up into four groups. They were named by colors (Yellow, Green, Blue and Red). Each team got a clue which lead to another clue someplace in camp. There were twelve clue s in alL The last clue is where the key to the treasure chest was (all teams had the same clue for finding the key

that opened the chest. The chest was in the center of the basket ball court. It had about 40 Su.gar Daddies in it. The Green team won. The Blue team picked up the wrong key. This game was a lot of fun and I hope we do it again next year.

The story dealt with IIMI6", the secret spy organization of B-ritain whicb was infiltrated with traitors. The mission' s job was to find the names of these infiltrators into "MI6"

We recommend this movie to all people who love suspe.nse filled. action packed rnov ie s.

Jethro TuB carne next. Led by the flute and stage presence of Ian Ande rsor., Tull was wildly received.

The Who began with some neweong s but then broke into "T a m.my I! , considered a classic in the new form of rock opera. They brought down the house.

Joshua Television projected a view of the stage on a big screen on the lawn where most of the huge crowd was camped.

The concert ended at 11:15 but the Mah-Kee-Nac buses didn't get back until 12:30 because of the traffic: Otherwise the evening was quite successfuL

NATURE: Its wonders surround us

ttl never knew it could be so interesting ... "

By Jeffrey Col e rn.an+Moh.i c an

I took my first nature hike on

July 1. I never knew before that natur e could be so very interesting. We learned the name s of many plant s.

EXPLORING A FOREST

By Jon Zimmerman -Iroquois

I was on a nature hike during first period and we went over a stream by walking over a log. The stream was called Salamander river which is near Salamander Bog.

Salamander Bog is where the salamanders are caugbt. Now getting back to the log. The log is called Sketchbook Log.. It's called Sketchbook Log because it has Sketchbook rnu sbroorns on it. Sketchbook mushroom is used for a message when you're lost. You take

a stick and scratch the fungus and you'll find the letter you wrote. \' ,\

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By J onny Smolen- Cheyenne

I think rabbits are great pets.

Before you ge~ a rabbit you have to know a little about them, such as holding tberri You have to hold them by their excess skin behind their neck. Rabbits eat a lot but the food is inexpensive. They are vegetarians and will eat any vegetable.

Please don+t handle the rabbits in the shack unless yO"U are standing next to your nature counselors. Please don't feed them.

We also learned not to pick a flower unles 5 there are at least 10 of them. If you pick a lot of flowers where there are very few of them there will be no seeds to form new flowers of thatkind in that area.

We began to focus a lot of attention on the srn al l holes in the ground. We

had learned that if the hole had a spiderweb over it and there were weeds growing in i.t , no animal would be living there. If it was clean there propably would be

an animal living there.

We learned so much mar e that it would take a book to hold all the informatton, We caught frog sand salam.ander.s and sawall sorts of bird s.

Nature is really a beautiful thing and I learn more about it each day.

-HOW TO CATCH A FROG-·

Jon Kirshtein - Apache

F'Irst you find the frog then sneak up on the frog and grab it. If a frog is in the grass stay very still until the

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grass m.oves.

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V When you pick flowers there ought 6

to be more than 10 around. And think

V why do you want this flower, think hard. A

Do you just want to be mean and pick it

V or do you really want it. Remember this A n when you c orn e across a flower. __ ~.

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... but too often they go unseen

.. . Galls?

By Abe Warshaw - Apache

There are a lot of different kinds of g aUs. Some a r e on stem s and some a.r e leaves.

Do you know what a gall is? It's a house where ins e ct s a r e , 1£ you want to see galls you c an look on the -c hart by the nature hut at ni~ht or look on the leaves in front of Bunk 10 on the left side.

A VIEW FOR AN ANT

By Eric Dobbin- Apache

Today Bunk 13 had nature. We went through the woods and over a brmok and into a field, Then we got down on our hands and knees and started to crawl It was like being an ant. The three feet weeds looked like trees. It was then time to go back to camp. We went Over the brook and through the woods and the period was Over.

Caution- Skunks Bite!

By Jon Siegel-Iroquois

I just got bit by my brother's skunk so to put it simply I'd advise you to stay away from him.

Even though he knows me very well he still bit me.

I was just cleaning the cage and I reached in and "Candy" bit me on the left thumb. The blood turned one towel red and my shirt was stained with blood.

By Jeffrey Coleman-Mohican

When you go on a field trip there is equipment more important than a canteen, m.ore im.portant than a flashlight, and more important than many other things. They are: 1) a nose for smells; 2) hands for feels; 3) ears for sounds; 4) eyes for sights; 5) a tongue for tastes.

You can srne Il flowers and the fresh air. You can feel slimy salamanders, dry toads, wet frogs, and other animals. You can feel bark on trees; you can feel plants and othe r thing s ,

You can hear birds singing and you can hear the wind b l.ow irig; You can see flowers, animals, water, and more.

You can taste wild strawberries and other fruits.

These things are the most important equi.prne nt for a field trip.

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By Fred Cohen

are looking at each other; never having met before

yet knowing each other eternally because mankind binds people

as long as mankind

does not destroy them ..

st.ao.di ng far away barely able to see each oth er

yet staring into each others eyes and seeing into one another.

Perhaps not under standing what they see but having ins ight

because they are two people.

Cherokee,s See All-Star Glame on TV

By Jon Wedeck-Gherokee The score stayed 4-4 into the

bottom of the 12 th. Pete Ro se of the

On July 14, some 35 to 40 Ch e r o » kees packed the downstairs of the library to watch the National League All-Stars beat the Am.erican Leage All-Stars, 5 to 4, in 12. inning s .

Going into the bottom of the ninth, the American League was winning, 4 to 1. The Nationals lead off with a walk followed by 3 singles. Then the score was 4-3. Robert Clemente of the Pirates then hit

a long sacrifice fly to right field to drive in the tieing run. That was all the scoring on th e ninth.

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Junior Swim Team's First Meet Cancelled By Michael Cnarash-Mohican

The Junior Camp competitive swim team has eigbt people in it.

It was a bad day with scattered showers. We went to Greylock but the two other two other camps.

It was a bad day with scatter showers.

We went to Greylock but the two other camps did not want to swim because of the weather so we went back,

The other people on the team are:

Mark Magod, Andy Wedeck, TonyDoblin, John Dav irn o s , Eric Orland, Peter Levy, Steven Bloom, Andy Goldbaum and

Coach Jon Block ...

Reds lead off w i.th ia single for National League. Then Billy Grabarkewitz of the Dodgers singled Rose to second. Jim Hockman of the Cubs hit a single to left field. Rose came barreling around

third and knocked down the American catcher, Ray Fos se of the Indians. to score the winning run. The winning· pitcher was Claude Osteen of the Dodgers. The' loser was Clyde Wright of the Angels. The M. V.P. was Carl Yastrezemski of the Red Sox, who went 4 for 5 for the Am.erican League. It was a very

exciting game.

ALGONQUIN -SENECA- Basketball

By Tom Epstein- Aide

Led by Mike Wallick's 26-points, the Algonquin-Seneca basketball team beat a tough Lenox squad 61- 58.

Lenox led through the first halibut Mah-Kee-Nac rallied to tie Lenox 29 -29 at the half.

In the third period Steve "Moos e " Goldman led the way with a barrage of rebounds. Ricky Stengel the high scoring guard (14 points) got into foul trouble and was replaced by Jim Epstein. Tommy Stern did a good defensive job and scored two pointe.

In the fourth quarter Stengel poured in eight points as did Mike Walllck to a s s u re the victory. Seth Akaba s and J'irnmy Hochberg posted two and eight points respectively. Moose Goldman added 10.

Two free throws by Mike Wallick with 30 seconds left assured Mah-Kee-I'ilac its first victory of the season.

CHEROKEES <Ba sket ba Il

By Michael Marks and Josh Farber -

On Friday. July l Oth the Cherokee "A" Basketball team suffered a defeat as they lost to Lenox 43-22.

At the end of th e first quarter

Mah -Kee-Nac was down 1)' fi ve, At the beginning of the second quarter Lenox broke the game open with a 13-4 scoring streak.

At the end of the half they were up by 14 points and from then on the game was all Lenox.

Mike Schwartz had a hot hand and got 10 of Mah-Kee-Nac' s .22 points. Th e rest of the line ,,\p con si sted of F. Rosenfeld, T .. Farber, M. Cornfeld,

and B. Haft.

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CHEROKEE SOFTBALL By Mark Cornfeld-Cherokee

On a beautiful rainy day in July we traveled to Camp Lenox to reveal our might and show the world the reknowned Cherokee softball team.

While allowing four runs rno stly on errors, inside the fir st four innings, our vaunted offense was being held scoreles s with the help of six strikeouts.

The Lenox pitcher hurled a fine game only giving up singles by Josh Farber and Steve Silverman. The final score? 4-0 Lenox.

ALGONQUIN ·SENECAS TOP WINADU

By Tom Epstein-Aide

A tough Mah -Ke e= Na.c basketball team crushed Winadu 64-54, led by Rick Stengel's 24 points,

Mah-Kee-Nac never trailed but a tough press brought Winadu within three, 51-48, early in the fourth quarter. A com mendable coaching job was done by former Mah-Kee-Nac camper Jeff Rubin for Winadu.

Rick Stengel scored 10 of his points in the third quarter to give Mah-Kee-Nac a 51-40 edge.

Steve Goldman poured in 18 points, Mike Wallick, Tom Stern, and Jim Hochberg added six each. and Seth Akabas scored four.

WATER SAFETY

By Ken Boxer-Cheyenne

A number of actions have been devised to stop camp drownings. These actions are done with speed and accuracy.

Fi.rst there is the buddy board where all the trouble starts. Everyone is supposed to check in when entering the water and check out when leaving the water.

Then there are the procedures, Check I and Check 2.. Check 1 is get every ch ild out of the water and check

2 is check the areas. An these are done with great speed ..

I just hope that nobody is ever hurt.

Jun;o,.s~T"; p

By Donny Sandler - Mohican

On July 16th the Junior Camp was supposed to go on a trip. Instead it rained, so we went to a movie.. The bus ride up was good. The movie was good and the ride back was good. When we carne out of the movie it was sunny, but when we came out of the bus it was raining.

tribal dodge ball

By Fred Hazan -Iroquois

On July 16, 1970 on tribal night. the Iroquois played dodge ball. Louis Hazan {writer! s cousin} won extra candy for dodg e ball.

Counselors aga m at campers .. Louis Hazan left on the campers side, no one left On the counselors.

Campers 13, lucky winners, counselors 0, unlucky losers.

HATCH£Di

By Billy Fisher -Iroquois

Recently, a bird! s next has been found behind bunk 2 and eggs were in. it. IJust on July 15th birds b ave been found in it. They were black and their eyes were shut. We decided they were hatched on July 14th. But they were just lying the r e, but there lunch was soon to COITle. Well on July 16th they were chirping. There has been another nest 1 be Ii eve , behind Bunk 5. PLEASE DON'T GO NEAR THE ONE BEHIND BUNK 2! or the babies will die.

FLYING A BOX KITE

By Peter Raider- Mohican

A box kite made by George Gross was in the air on July 15. It went 300 ft. up and then it fell.

MY HAMSTER

By Howard Ke.lrnan=Moh.ican

I call one of my hamsters "Si.Ily' because one day he escaped and the next day he came back in the cage.

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Totem Pole Felled: A

By Andrew Flower-Mohican

The totem pole has been standing for 25 years. Last week Joe said it was

, weak so he arranged for a guy to corn.e and push it down. So at dinner time, July 21, they pushed it down, Now there is only a big stump.

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By Tom Epstein-Aide

With great doubles t<!a111', Camp Greylock won the Mah-Kee-Nac invitational tennis tournament, stopping M.ah-

Parent Visiting Ends

By Peter Grabell-Cherokee

Parent visiting has just ended with campers corning out on the heaven side.

On Saturday, July 18th, the first parent visiting day was held. Carrrpe r s' parents arrived at camp at 9:15 a. rn , to watch their sons at their first activity of the day.

After lunch, rest hour was spent with the boys I parents. When the aft e r noorit s activities were over, the family could retreat to Joe's cabin to have a snack and have a friendly conversation with Joe and Frances.

At 5:15 p.m., the camper must bid his parents goodbye as "the voice" directs all parents to leave!

SUMMER 1970 NO. THREE

Kee .. Nacs two year winning streak.

Jon Spector was the lone victor

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for Mah-Kee-Nac; Jon took first in the

under 14 singles. To get there, he defeated Grelocks No. 1 man, Taconic I s No.2 rnan, and Mah-Kee-Nacls No .. 3 man. In the finals, T'a corri c ' s No. 1 man put up

a good fight, but was beaten 6-2, 6- 3.

In the under 16 singles, David Newman took a second to Peter Levy 2-6, 3-6. Levy, nicknamed lithe m acb ine ", returned almost a11 of Newrnan's shots.

The under 12 singles event was

won by Greylock l , 6-1, 6-1, over Taconic. Arthur Haft of Mah-Kee-Nac m.ade it to the s errri= Hna.l s ,

In under 16 doubles probably the most exciting match of the day, Taconic 1 defeated Greylock .2, 5-7, 6-4, 9-7, Rick StengeJ. and TOITl Epstein reached the semif ina.l s . The final team scores:

a'reylock 37 Winadu 16

Mah-Kee-Nac 25 Lenox 10

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Vermont Trip

By Mark Alts chuler and Doug Auer - Senecas

One July 20 the Algonquin and Seneca tribes visited tne girls' camp Kinni-Kinnic, The camp is located in Vermont. After a long four-hour bus

ride, in which we ate the usual Mah-Kee- I Nac box lunch, we finally arrived. Then. all the campers played in a mixed

doubles tournament. Some of the

campers enjoyed a cool refreshing swi.m

in nearby Lake St. Catherine. We all enjoyed a cookout dinner consisting of hamburgers, potatoe chips, and cokes.

At 8 p.m we embarked on the long

journey back to carnp. We stopped at

a Friendly's for a snack. We arrived

back at Mah-Kee-Nac around 11:45 p. m.

It is generally felt that the trip could

have been worked out with a closer

girls camp.

Ham Radio

Our WA2BCN/l MKN Ham Radio Station has had two e specially exciting experiences.

La stwe ek a number of campers were able to talk to their parents through the courtesy of a ham operator in New Jersey.

The ham operator in New Jersey called each parent by phone, and our

c arrrpe r stalked th rough the ham set, over, the phone to t~eir parents. The boys were: Andy Li s s , Michael Isermann, Jimmy and Tony Doblin.

A couple of days later, our boys went on the air and their signal was picked up by an autornobi.Ie ham set. The driver of the car was nons oth e r than Ernie Curry. who was our ham radio counselor in 1957.

By Neil Shane -Moh i c an

N ~il Shane rri ade arnod el plane"

, The name of the plane is the "Japanese

•• .... Zero". He made another plane na:med

the SE5A.

Greased Melons

By Steve Altschuler-Cherokee

On July 20, with the AlgonquinSenecas out of camp. the Cherokee tribe was faced with the problem of what to do for evening activity.

On the suggestion of Ben Bloom, greased watermelon contests were held.

That evening 48 Cherokee s put on their bathing suits and were broken up into two teams. One was headed by Ronnie Heft and appropriately named "Th e Whalers". The other was led by Greg Jones and J. B. Neel and were called the "Sharks".

There were three main ev errt s , each one based upon a greased waterrne lon, Events involved inner-tubes, ropes, and one requiring the teams to push the melon to the opposite end of the tank.

~he Whalers swept all three events. The wate.r me Ion s were cut up and pieces given out for everyone.

Rope Bridge

By Peter Grabell- Cherokee

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Directed by Bob Morrisett of the Tripping Dept., Adam Steiner, David

I Goldberg, Mike Schwartz, and John Ruskin have constructed a rope bridge. The true name is a "rn o nke y!' bridge.

The bridge is located between the Senior Lodge and the Upper Senior cookout site. It was started about one week after camp opened and was completed July 21. Campers may go on it only when Bob Morrisette is there.

These campers built the monkey bridge for fun. Axes were used to cut the log s needed. They were lashed together with rope. Rope was then tied across and down to form the bridge. The bridge is about eight feet off the ground.

According to a camper who has mastered the art of crossing the bridge, David Goldberg, it takes practice to make perfect!

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PAPER LION

By Jon Wedeck-Cherokee

On Saturday, .July 18,. the Upper Seniors saw nPaper Lion", a movre

based on the book Paper Lion, by George Plimpton.

The movie is about a sports writer, George Pf impton, who is trying out in training cam.p with the Detroit Lions and tries to make it as a quarterback. The idea is for Plim.pton to get an inside view of training cam.p, and eventually get into a game. Plim.pton stays with the te am going into the first exhibition gatne. He gets into the g arn e with the Lions Leading 21-7 I and one m.inute left. George 10 st

41 yards on 3 plays, and ended up knocking himself out by running backwards into a goal post. It was an interesting ansi very funny rnovie- -not only for football fans.

The Secret War Of Harry Frigg

By Peter Berg -Mohican

liThe Secret War of Harry Frigg" which the Junior Cam.p saw July 20, starred Paul Newman. It started off at the beginning when they were loading

army trucks and they were going som.eplace. Then they stopped and played a football game. When one guy pas sed to Paul Newman he caught it and never stopped running. Some Germans shot at him but mis s ed . At the end, Paul Newman and some of his men got away from a

Ge r rn.an camp. The movie was good.

Junior Movie Trip,

A Boy Named Charlie Brown

By Donny Sandler-

On July 16th the Junior camp was suppos ed to go on a tr ip. Instead it rained so we went to a movie. The bus ride up was good, the movie was good, the r id e. back was good. When we carne out of the movie it was sunny but when we c arn e out of the bus it was raining.

Tanglewood:: Sebastian & Chicago

By Alan J. Gersten-Counselor

Tuesday I July 24 saw the Upper Senior Camp attend the second Contemporary Trends Concert at Tanglewood.

The evening began with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band f r orn New Orleans. The group played several old jazz standards and some "Hello Dolly" types.

John Sebastian entertained next.

His winning style and selection of both the old and new elements in rock and folk music delighted the overflow crowd.

Irrte'rrn i s s i on highlights included a rn irn.e act and a movie entitled' I Love

Thy Neighbor!'. The concert was concluded by Chicago who drew heavily on their a.lbum material.

The Mah-Kee-Nacer's were thrilled by a special appearance by

Joe Kruger who took per sonal charge of camper evacuation before the encore.

A Day At The Races

By Robert Barrer-Cherokee

Beginning early July 16, the MahKee-Nac sailing team. began to arrive at the wat e sfr-ont , awaiting the arrival of

the four invited camps which were: Danbee, Lenore. (which as all good Mah-KeeNacers know are girls camps) Mohawk and Tohone. The occassion for this was the Mah-Kee-Nac Invitational Sailing Race.

Despite our hopes only the two girls camps showed up. All competitors then sailed ac r o s s the lake to the Yacht Club.

As soon as we arrived the rain began to come down so the girls camps and the Yacht Club girls began to fix lunch for everyone, which was thoughtfully supplied by Joe.

:DN ENVIRDNMeNT:

By Alan J. Gersten - Counselor

Thursday July .23 .•.. A large group of lower and upper senior carn.pers led by a group of counselors fished

1, 030 sunfish out of the lake in a short time in th e m.orning.

The event was spurred by camper complaints over being bit by the fish, none of these bites being at all serious, however.

De spite the Fish and Garn.e Department's recommendation of the event, one wonders if during a time of national arrousal and guilt over ecological exploitation of Our environment it might have been a better idea to let the population balance take care of itself and not afford to campers an impression fanning glimpse of individuals looting nature, governmental blessing or not.

After lunch the weather began to clear up and the rac e s started. The first 3 races went well and then on the last leg of the 4th race, Mike Turner raced over in the ski boat and "o r de r ed" everyone to the docks because of a forthcorningelectrical storm.

At this time sails came down and so did the rain. The rain kept coming down while Ben Bloom and member s of the sailing staff raced back to camp to have us picked up in cars. As soon as the cars arrived the rain stopped and the sun came out.

The girls called their cam.ps and we were soon picked up. Our boats were towed back at the end of an unusual day.

w- C - M Airwaves

By Louis Brawer-Cherokee

On July 18, 1970- a terrible thing happened at W. C. M. The papers with a:ll the shows and the people who do the shows were missing. Soon after Jim started looking for the papers.. At first Jim thought that he would have to c lo se down the station tem.porily. But with the help of the ca-rnpers in W. C. M. Jim got the names of the people who had shows and got them back on'tneir right show s. Within a week the station was running smoothly again.

(NOTE: If anybody knows anything about these papers please let Jim Zeiler know.).

A nurn.ber of our c arnpe r s who take drum "l e s s o n s at horne were pleased to see the campi s new set of drums and cymbals. The drum set is housed atour radio station WCM, where it is being used when the talent show is broadcast.

--- A LETTER FROM INDIA ---

1969 COUNSELOR WRITES TO HIS BUNK

(Don Comstock, was a counselor in the Junior Camp and a mernne , of our Waterfront Staff last summer. He ' snow tea.ching in th e school for children of American Officials in India. )

Dear (Return Campers from Bunk #9):

Cam.p will have started by the time you get this and I hope everybody is settled down. happy. and having a ball. Here I s hopes for a little less fire and a little less rain. I would enjoy hearing who is bunked together- -what counselors you have- -who has returned and the like.

I am writing this from a camp but in this camp I am mostly a cam.per.

We are in a family ,camp at Balagham in Kashmir. Kashmir is the northernmost state in India, famed for its beautiful mountains, exquisite views and interesting people. There are over 200 here, all Americans from New Delhi, and our stay will be about two weeks.

There are tall, majestic, snow-capped mountains on all sides. The roar of two rapid rivers below us is always present. The grandeur and beauty can+t be rmagiried, We are camped in large tents at a height of about 8,500 ft.

'We have gone on several trips. One to a glacier fed lake full of blue ice at 14,000 feet plus--all but the last two miles by horseback. The last climb was~difficult, almost straight up and the altitudemcakes o.xygen scarce. I would take two or three breaths. stop to catch 111.y wind, decide to quit. but sorn.ebody would go on and I would follow; only about 1/4 of us

made it. ,

Also to Shrinagar where we rode on the canals and lakes in man powered. boats , beautiful but not like Venice I don't think. Many naked children swimming as we passed by boat. We went to aswirnrning boat where everyone swam and. water skied. I took a few boys in and taught four

to ski for the first tirn.e. There are no boat engines in India so the boats were all powered by auto engines. They moved • - -fast, The handicrafts were also

Jantastic, particularly carved wood. I wish I could send you sorrie . .

I hear boys your age up on the hill singing and watching their herd of cattle now- -ju st like thousands of ye.ars ago. Most kids start to work at 10-12 years old. Feel lucky you are an American.

I a111. already dreading going back to Delhi. It is a high of 700 to 800 here during the day and a high in Delhi of 1050 to 1160.. That is bot. I do have my job and the year has been fantastic. I will work next year rno s tly with boys aged 9-14 and we will be able to use a poolfur SOITle swirnrning etc. This should be nice.

I leave in two weeks for another vacation- -Nepal- Thailand -Hong KongPhillipines - the island beach of Bali - Singapore - Indonesia and back to Delhi. Will take about 25 days and will write you in route. Save the atarnpa, Write either as a group or individually. I miss you all. Maybe I'll see you next summer.

June 19, 1970

A fellow Camper and Friend, Don Comstock

FROM TH£ NATUR£ SHACK

By John ("Nature Boy") McIlvennan

Our cari~ Nature Shack is taking shape. It's kind of a home away from home for all kinds of living creatures. It's a home for gentle rabbits, all kinds of mysterious snakes, a skunk that prefers to be left alone, lots of gerbils, a big mama hamster ready to have babies, a shy he rrnrt crab, and lots of common and weird plant specimens found by boys with sharp eyes. The nature shack is also a home for boys who love nature. Anyone is welcome any time.

By Abe Warshaw-Apache

On July 22 Bunk 12 went on a nature hike. We went to the lake. A boy in my bunk wanted to hunt for crayfish. So we took off our shoes and socks and went into the lake. My friend got two crayfish. After he did that we stayed in the lake till it was time to go. So we started to go back. We went to

the Nature Shack and my friend started

writing about his fish. *

Crayfisti

By Jon Kirshtein-Apache

F'i r st you look under a rock and if you don't find anything pick up another rock and if you do find a crayfish quickly pick it up in the middle.

Rock

By John Davimos-Apache

I found a rock that looks like a face.

By Jon Zimmerman-Iroquois

The Nature Lodge has all sorts

of animals. It has types of rocks. too. The newe st thing in the Lodge is the forest floor display. It has plants of all types. Now the fish- - we have tropical fish and fish from the lake. The fish from the lake are surmi e s , Now, some of the arrirna l s . One boy brought two beautiful rabbits to cam.p and they are very gentle. One pair of gerbils had four babies. Two died, but there are a lot of them. There is a nice skunk which is descented. There are harn s te rs and they had one baby except it died. A fieldmouse was caught and it's very wild and it had thr ee babies. There are snakes and they give off an odor" when you hold th erri, We have frogs and s al.arnande r s in the lodge. There is a wasps' nest in the lodge. too. There was an animal called the Shrew .• but right: now he's on his way to Boston on frozen express because he bit a boy.

The Nature Lodge is a Home Sweet Horne away from home. COITle on in and sit down and learn something a fun way.

Sea Horses

By Abe Warshaw-Apache

One day I got a packag e of sea horses so my counselor fixed the tank. Then I kept the sea horses in my bunk for one day. Then I brought them to the Nature Lodge. I came back the next day and two sea horses had babies. Three died .

?'5 Needed

By Billy Fischer -Iroquois

1£ you have a question for the "Nature board", bring it to one of the nature counselors.

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CHEROKEES GO T'O COOPERSTOWN HALL OF FAME

By Steve Silverman-Cherokee

On Monday morning, July 27, the Cherokees left camp on their annual tr ip to Cooperstown. It started with a very pleasant bus ride on a Mercedes-Be~z bus. When we got to the Otsego Motel, we all unpacked and got settled. Then we ate lunch andhad cokes. After lunch. we went to Doubleday field to see the annual Hall of Fame g arne between the Expos and the White Sox. It was very hot and when the galneended, and we saw that the Expos had won 10-6. we were all glad to get back to the motel.

As soon as we got back, we changed and went swimming. It was a delightful dip before dinner. Alter dinner we went swimming and it was' really nice.

Tuesday morning we went to the Hall of Fame and there were many famous re-·

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Mohicans See Story town·

Ijy .ron Be an -Mohi c an

(Editor's note: This story was written during the course of a day-long trip the Mohicans took July 23 to Story. town at Lake George, New York. )

On Thursday it is Trip Day and we are going to Story town at Lake George,' It's an amusement park. Bunk 6 had to go b,y car while every other bunk went on a bus ...

Now we are in New York. We are passing through hills and mountains .. , Now we are passing the Hudson River ... Now we're at Story town.

First we went to Ghost Town and went on a ride called ,the Tornado. We went on it twice. Then we went to the Jungle Safari. Tha:t was pretty good. 'I4en 'We went on the ferris wheel, and then we went on the Spider.

The ride I wanted to go on most was the drive-yourself car that you steer your~ self and go as fast as you want.

. . . Now we are coming back by bus ..

Apaohes, I,.oquois "islt Ga.ma Farm

By Alan Oppenheimer- Iroquois

The Iroquois and Apaches went to Catskill Game farm and had a grand time, looking at and feeding the anirn al.s on

July 23'. 1970.

First of all, after the bus trip up the Iroquois and Apache s had a lunch of salami and bologna sandwiches cheese, potato chips and cake s.

After this the I;roquois and Apaches split up into bunk groups and went to see the animals. There were hundreds 0.£ anirna.l s , s orne of which include Yaks, llamas, zebras, porcupines, alligators, antelopes, deer, bear cubs and buffalo.

Some of the bunk s went to sort of a little amusement park. Most bunks w.ent down a slide that everyone liked, other bunks went on rides and bought things with theil;'25¢ spending rnoney,

At 3:0.0 the hunks met at the main gate and left .

----Camper Council Airs Opinions----

Carn.per Council was begun last week in Lower Senior Camp when twelve bunk r epr e s entatrve s met with Head Counselor

Jim O'Neill.

In Camper Council, campers discus s all aspects of camp and make recommendations to Joe.

Here are sorn.e of the items of th i s first meeting:

1) Lower Senior campers would like to stay to watch Upper Senior Camp night basketball g·am~s.

2) Campers voiced approval of the pizza and coke lunch, and asked for more.

3) An interest was expressed in day trips out of camp.

4} Camper 5 .recomm.ended larger portions to save trips for seconds. New larger se;rving bowls considered fine improve-

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5) Campers urged more work on the golf greens and baseball infield.

6) Camper s w ou Id like to go to at least one Rock Concert, and are willing to go to an afternoon rather than evening concert.

7) The boys prefer ices at evening snacktime rather than chocolate covered

ice cream,

8) They prefer to have choice of morning or afternoon rec. swim.

The repre sentatives at th e m.eeting were: Larry Katin ( 21), Jeff Perkoff (22), Harry Miller (23), N e il Gordon (24), Bobby Werner (25), Torn Laskey (26), Scott Frank (21), Pe'te r Feldman (28), .Neil Gubin (30), Danny Gainsburg (31), Steven Taft (32).

Cherokees Triumph in 4th Annual Sing--

By Peter Grabell~Cherokee

On Saturday, July 25, the whole camp assembled on the Junior field to participate in the Fourth Annual Tribal Sing.

The fir st sing was held in 1967 and. once a year since that time a person or persons write the song and cheer for each tribe. Mo st song s ar e to the tune of famous hit records with the lyrics being changed to fit in with camp life.

Fir st, each tribe p·re s ented its cheer, starting with the Apaches and on up through the Senecas.

N ext, the song of each tribe was heard. Many of the songs were hum.orous.

Counselors of the Junior Cam.p and Lower Senior Camp then presented their songs while the judges made their decisions as to who the winners were. The

judges were a counselor from Indian

Hill Camp and the Carnp Director from that carnp, Indian Hill is a music camp so the judge s were well qualified.. Also, judging the sing was Waterfront Director Mike Turner.

Before Bob Behrman. moderator of the Sing, announced the winners, he informed the camp that aU decisions were unanimous.

The Apache tribe had the be st song in the Junior Camp with the Mohicans having the best cheer.

The winner of the combined Senior Camps was the Cherokee tribe who had the best cheer and top song. They were led by Ron Heft who hasaccurnulated quite a few wins in the past years. The award-winning song was written by

Al Gersten with the aid of Ron,

The show 'of talent was a great lift to camp as all tribes were engaged.

----A LeTT£R

Dear Mr. Kruger I

I must say that last summer was one of the best summers I ever had in a long time. I am sir that young man from Kenya who came to meet the Americans, and I can assure you that I met some of th be st people I will eve r corn e ac r o S s or those I have come aero ss during my travels through out the World.

I at last settled down in Kenya. I do hope to be on the rno ve again, and, may be I will be in the U. S. once again. I do hope your Camp is in the best of its Summer Mood. I do often remember the boys at the Camp. That fantastic cook Arthur, head waiter Earskin,. and the rest of the boys, I do remember them all. Would you be kind enough to pass my fondest regards to all if they

FROM KeNYA

are with you this summer. Also my best regards to Bob and Diane,. Ron Heft and Sandi, and rno st of all to your wife, Frances.

If Danny Tublitz is still with you could you please give him my address.

I have to say good bye now, and in doing so may I wish you a very happy and successful surnrn.e r at Camp MahKee- Nac , And of course a trouble free summer as far as th e little boys are .concerned.

ALL THE BEST. I hope to hear from you soon.

GOD BLESS.

(Anup) A. K. Vidyarthi POBox 4466 Nairobi, K.enya

A Ta./e 01 Two enemies: PHIL O. SOPHY vs. C.ANDY

There once was a sad boy named PhilO. Sophy who was a descendent of the Kugers of Mickey-mac. Now the reason Phil was so sad, is be c au s e no one would pay any attention to him, especially the parents of all his friends.

/. fOLD FRIENDS/ /

Though th e summ er is young I already a number of fo rme r caInpers

and counselors have visited camp.

Among the visitor s thus far were

Michael Klimpl, Ronnie Roth, Danny Golden, fuddyrblperin and Roger Kruvant.

Our c arnpe rs were also pleas ed

to welcome Corinne and Charlie Schneider, who spent two days with us. Charlie

spent 16 years as head counselor here before retiring in 1966.

(Two of their grandchildren are here to carryon the Schneider tradition. One is Steve Reichman, Junior Carrip counselor, and the other is Bob Re i chman, our waterfront maintenance man. )

By Fred Me L.am

Phil I s job was to keep a certain temptre.s s (named C. Andy) out of h is friends I bunks. At first his job wa sn+t too difficult, because Phil had two allies in each bunk. Suddenly it happened! With the start of the visiting days, Phil saw his destiny as inevitable. The drastic influx of the

black market items of his enemy, C. Andy, was ov e r wh e lrn i ng , Yes, Phil and his allies were defeated. To Joe, Phil sends his regrets. To the parents, C. Andy sends a hearty II Thank you",

Paul Golomb Visits Is,.ael

By Bobby Litvak-Mohican

Paul Golomb left for Jerusalem, Israel on July 27. He was a counselor for Bunk #5 and was also an advanced beginners swhnming instructor.. He has been leading the Junior services until he left. He will be back sometime next June. He was a counselor at Mah-KeeNa c for 2 years. Paul has been studying to be a Rabbi. That is why he went.

Pittsfield

Tourney - 1 W in - 1 Place

Cherokees Just Miss

By Michael Schwartz- Cherok~e

The Cherokee s , led by Coaches Quackenbush and Heft went to the Pittsfield Basketball Tournament.

In the first gam.e the Cherokees defeated Winadu by eight, 34-26. Mike Schwartz and Johny Spector were high scoreS with 13 and 12 points respectively.

This brought the "green men from Mah-Kee-Nacl! into the semifinals. They won, beating Potornac 44- 36 with Mike Schwartz and Johny Spector again having the hot ha:nds with 21 to 11 points.

In the finals, Mah-Kee-Nac finally met it ' s match and lost 36- 28 to Lenox.

Ricky Stengel

Algonquin--Senecas Triumph

By Mike Marks and Mike Schwartz

11m. sure you all have heard of Casey Stengel. Welve got a Stengel too, h i s name is Ricky Stengel. He led Our Green men from Mah-Kee-Nac to victories against Winadu and Lenox.

In the first game it Was iii. see- saw battle with Winadu leading most of the way until the last minute of play when Mah-Kee-Nac pulled it out. The final score was 38- 36, with Ricky Stengel scoring 16 and Steve ("Big Moose") Goldman popped seven big points. Mike Wallack was also in there with eight. Tommy Stern played a beautiful defensive game against a man five inches taller than himself.

In the finals it looked bleak for our men in green as they got off to a slow start. At the hali Mah=Ke e e Nac was losing 37-34. In the second half it was

all Mah-Kee-Nac, as they won by 20 points, 83-63. It was a much closer

game than the score showed. Ricky had

iii. very hot hand with 38 points per sonal high. Moose Goldman had 15 points and pulled down 23 big rebounds. The fans absolutely went wild when we won as Ricky was ca r r i e.d off the court.

To top the night off, the game was broadcast by our WCM staff and directly to carrrp over telephone wires. Campers in camp thus listened to the g arne , The next day the taped program was played over WCM. The cornm ent.ator-s were Gary Caruse and Larry Fisher.

The individual play of Ricky Stengel was the rno st outstanding play in the history of our camp.

ANOTHER TRI,UIIIPH

FOR OUR ATHLeTES

THE GREAT FISH KILLING

By David Weinstein-Navajo

On Thursday July 23, a group of

boys ages 11 to 15 went fishing in the dockers and rafters area. The total number of fish caught was a very large num.ber of 1,.030. The day before Mike Turner had gone to the State Board of Conservation and the Department of Fish and Gam.e, and

they said to get rid of some of the fish.

So we did. The number of fishermen was 30 boys all day. On the rnorning shift Mike Pugh was pulling out fish hooks, and on the afternoon shift Bill Mueller was 'pulling them out. The kinds of fish were

surmi e s and blue-gills. These fish are territorial fish. It means they stay in one area,

A JAPANESE WEDDING

By' Jon Zimmerman-Iroquois

On a nature hike we saw a wedding.

It was a Japanese wedding. Two Japanese beetles were having a date on a leaf. Our nature counselor said to c Io se our eyes because it' s private. (He was just kidding.)

These beetles carne from Japan long ago on boats. Now they have produced into hundr e c.s , The beetles were black and not white. This is strange because you usually wear white at a wedding.

THE MINNOW EATER

By Bobby Perl-Mohican

One day when I was at nature one

bey brought his minnow net. That boy and I went out into the water and caught a tiny minnow. Then we tried again but did not catch anything. Then we tried again and we caught a big one. We put it in a jar with the other one.

He asked me if lId like to see him eat one , And I said 110. K. II He swallowed the little one. I thought it was strange so I told the nature counselor and he thought it was strange, too.

-L to R - Mike Turner, Ronald Gordenstein, Jay Topuroff

By Andy Lobsenz-Mohican

On July 23 they caught 1, 030 fish because they were biting, and on July 24 they sprayed the lake. That was the erid of the fish. Corne and swim in the lake; itl_g fup.

BUILDING A FIRE:

SAFETY'S IMPORTANT

By Robert Berkman-Mohican

To build a fire you should clear away the area so if the fire gets out of control nothing will catch fire. You should also put stones around it just £01' safety.

The twigs you start out with should be thinner than your match. Be sure to have a good supply of wood. Never leave the fire alone.

When you lay the sticks, make it like a bridge. A fire needs air, so make sure the sticks are spaced apart a little. If there is birch bark around put it in. It will light fast. Also brown pine needles are good.

Light the match and light the birch bark or pine needles. Then when you get the fire going, feed it.. Give it small sticks at fir st. then give it bigger and bigger. 1£ the fire goes out blow on the, coals and it will start up again.

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"Moon Pilot"

By Adam Harmon-Mohican

The Juniors saw a movie, "Moon .F'i Iot!", and it was very good. The best part of the rnovi e was when the girl bit his ear and when the boy said "I am your boy' I. I think the couns elo r s liked w;- en th ey were kissing. It was funny .when th e girl was following the man and when the girl was in the rocket and when they were singing.

"In the Hea t of the Night"

By Steven Altschuler and Josh Farber-Cherokees

On July 28 the Upper Seniors viewed the showing of IIIn the Heat of the Nrg ht!", starring Sidney Poitier an? Rod Steiger who received an Oscar for his performance.

The story deals with a Negro policeman from the North in a small Southern city. It tells how he trie s to solve a murder and earns the friendship of some prejudiced whites, It was a very good movie,

THE LIBRARY

By Any Lo bs enz vMoh ic an

The Library is for f i lrn clas se s I bingo, the TOTEM main office, reading, rela.zing and a counselor lounge downstairs. The New York Times are in the library for people who are interested in

• sports, weath er, and news, There are aboutl300 books in the library. Corne in and visit the library .

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WHAT HAPPENED TO ME AT THE ---WATERFRONT---

By Mike Mintz-Apache

We went swimming and we had to do laps in the water. When 1 was resting by the ladder a fish bit me. Then 1 jurnped out and said l'Ilrn not going in the

water, II and I haven't gone in the docker's yet.

'~DON'T TOUCH tHE SIDEBURNS!"

CAMPERS GET MID SUMMER CLIPPING

By -Pet e r Grabell- Cherokee

On Monday, July 2. 7; Joe b r oug ht in several local barbers to cut the boys hair.

Joe has promised that this would be the only manditory haircut but some boys have yet to have their haircut.

For a few boys, probably very few, the haircut was good but most felt that they rather have not gotten the haircut.

FRIDAY NIGHT SERVICES ARE

EDUCATIONAL!

By Peter Gordenstein-Algonquin

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Both the Upper and Lower Senior Carnps gathered for services July 10, 1970, Friday night'to have a different type of religious service. It consisted of Lucio Fantini, of Italy, Rick Henderson of

Cher?kees Visit Camp Danbee

By Mark Silbey-Cherokee

On Thursday, July 30 the Cherokees set off on their trip to Carnp Danbee for Play Day.

In the afternoon we began with vollyball, softball, and a waterb~lloon fight. After the games we could either swim or play tennis.

Later on after dinner we had a dance. I think that rno st of the Cherokee s enjoyed the dance the best of everything. The Play Day was great, but all too soon we had to leave. At 9:'35 our big yellow bus c arn e rolling along.

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After that the group went to the

F'a r-m e r ' s Museum. There were ITlany items for sale such as rock candy or soap. They were sold at cheap prices.

We then left back for horne and on the way back w e jstopped at a Dairy Queen for lunch. Wh en we got back to camp everyone agreed it was a fine trip.

A Long-Distance Chat By Jeff Liss - Algonquin

On Monday, July 27 • while working with the Ham Radio equip:ment, station WA3KVV in Baltimore, Maryland called us. After talking with him for about twenty minute s. I told him I had s OITle relatives in Baltimore. He offered to send a free radiogram via ham radio to my aunt there. He said that held call her immediately. We have made a schedule to speak with him another morning ..

England, Seri Lago f'r orn Africa, and

Ghul arn Hasnain of India, talking about the religions of their countrie s, It was very interesting to hear about religions of these countrie s , Weare fortunate to have so rnany counselors f'r orn different countries with different religions.

Pete Russo, who is studying to be a Catholic Priest, discussed the changes in Catholic life in this country as a re suIt of the Vatican Counc i l,

Jim OlNed l l , Lower Senior Camp Head Counsellor, closed the program by discus sing the Vatican Couric i l ' s effect on Pr ote st ian i srn in tee U. s.

For Friday night service s on July 17, the Upper Senior Camp went to services down at the waterfront. When we got there, Joe told us the real name of Lake Mah-KeeNac which is now Stockbridge BowL He said when the Indians came over from Albany they saw a lake with a full moon over it and called it Lake Mah=Ke e=Na.c which means Ilwater of the moon, This is

a very appropriate name for this lake.

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Hot, Horrible Weather Brings Altered Schedule

By Jon Zimmerman-Iroquois

In the beginning of camp we had cold weather. Now it is hot and our plans are changed.

We go sw imrrung three or four

'times a day. In this hot weather w e l r e not supposed to play ball or gaITles which get you tired and everything. We play,ed gaITles around the bunk. We used SOITle

t irrie for carnival, but we mostly swam.

We had all- star practice in the hot weath,er and that wa s strange.

Thursday night we took showers to refresh ourselves and to wash off the sweat. It was fun but 1 like our regular

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CARNIVAL

By Peter Grabell - Cherokee

On Sunday the second of August, the annual carnival was held. It was originally scheduled for the pr ec e edrng day but was postponed because of rain.

Bunk groups started preparing Thursday and had a full day to work on Friday.

Saturday nothing could be accomplished.

We still saw the carnival movie, "West Side Story' I,

Sunday morning we awoke to find the sun out and Roy out constructing the frames. The morning was spent setting up our booths, After a brief rest hour which gave the Juniors and Lower Seniors a chance to change. They assembled in the Lower Senior Camp for the parade.

Meanwhile, the Upper Seniors and judges assembled on the Mess Hall hill to view the parade.

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First, "Zach" led a group of clowns to the reviewing stand. The maintenance truck followed filled with the five member carnival hand.

Then, bunk by bunk past in their costumes, were Bunks 4. 5 and 20,

A gun was fired twice signalling the beginning of the carnival as over 300 campers plodded the Midway.

camper s paraded Parade winner s

There were several popular attractions induding the Fribble and Coke.

Six booth s voted the be st were bunks 9, 13, 23,. 26, 34 and 38.

Aft.e r what seemed like minutes, Bob Behrman announced the end of the Carnival. After cleaning. up some campers went swimming. Soon after, the tribes as sernbl ed at ('Hamberger Heav en" for dinner.

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Carnival Commentary -Through the Looking Glass

By Rob Shore-Mohican

The 1970 Carnival was one of the best ever. This year we had an added attraction: Jim. Zeiler played mu si.c through the whole carnival.

First thing in the morning. Roy started putting up the booths. Later in the morning the whole camp decorated their booths.

Then in the afternoon we had a parade. II Za ch!' Obe r r ei ch was dressed as a clown. Aft e r the 'parade, Bob Behrman fired the gun which sta.rted the carnival.

On hand was F'r tendly ' s with FRIBBLES. We also had coke. At night we had a picnic supper and a scavenger hunt.

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Thirty- six years ago, Mah-Kee~Nac enjoyed its first Carnival. It was quite different from the ones of this day and age. It was held on the porch of a building,

now torn down, that surrounded the now remaining fireplace near the dining hall. Ropes were tied to poles dividing the porch into about eight divisions. Across the ropes b lariket.s were hung. this for-ming booths.

My own recollections of Carnival

as a camper go back one decade to 1960. From then until 1965 when I left, Carnival was a festive occasion with games, prizes. a cookout and a movie. Today

it is about the s arne as five years ago

with one exception, an added attraction, "The Fribble". As a camper I took and had fun, as a counselor I give and have fun.

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THE 1970 CARNIVAL BOOTHS

Bunk 1 - Ball Player s ' Circle Bunk 2 - Bobbing for Apple s Bunk 3 - Pin Ball

Bunk 4 - Softball throw Bunk 5 - Shoot and Spell Bunk 6 - Guess the Day Bunk 7 - Ping - Poppe r s Bunk 8 - Bache Ball

Bunk 9 - Bornb s Away Bunk 10 - Kissing Booth Bunk 11 - Beat the Stunt Bunk 12 - The Boat Float Bunk 13 - Gravity Grip Bunk 14 - Roman Forum Bunk 21- Pendulum Golf Bunk 22- Ping-Pong Pogo Bunk 23- Aunt Sally

Bunk 24- The Swinging Salami Bunk 25- The Hoop

Bunk 26- Diarrhea of the Mouse Bunk 27- The XY Z Affair

Bunk 28- Frisbee throw

Bunk 29- " Th e Mah-Kee-Nac Wail Bunk 30- Dart 1 em

Bunk 31- Complete the circuit

Bunk 32- Obstacle Course

Bunk 33- The Ba r on+s -Den

Bunk 34- Poindexter's Gallery Bunk 35- Mah-Kee-Nac Wall Street Bunk 36- Frisbee Throw

Bunk 37- Suez-Israeli Cup Races Bunk 38- Duck the Counselor Bunk 39- Match-a-Car

Bunk40- Mah-Kee-Nac's Monte Carlo Bunk41- Stare-down

Bunk 42- Ghost Word

Bunk43- Horse races

Bunk44- Win or lose

Bunk 45- Fribb1e Booth

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Tribal Review.

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By Jon Brauer and

Peter Nager - Cherokees

On Satur-day, August 1, because of rain the Carnival was cancelled until Sunday. However, the rrrov i e , "West Side Story" was still shown to the Senior Camp. The film, a musical, had a lot of music and modern dance.

"West Side Sto r y'", a modern version of Romeo and Juliet, starred Natalie Wood Richard Brynner, George C'ha'kaz i s , Russ Tamblyn, and Rita Merino.

The movie take s place during the late fifties. It shows the struggle for domination of the local "turf" between two ethnic Juvenile gangs, the Jets and the Sharks.

THE BOY WHO FEELS LI KE THIE WOODS

By Kenneth Rosenberg-Apache

I feel like a part of the woods ..

FILM MAKING

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By Donald Bush

This year Mah -Kee-Nac has experimented for a second time in a Film :making program that looks like it's here to sta.y. Each person involved in the program had the opportunity to make a short film of one to four m.inute s in length. Neil Gubin shot a monster movie titled IITh,e Mark of the Werewoli". Danny Gainsburg' s movie is about a boy whose parents never show up on visiting day. Other campers made "rno tif'" rriov i.e s, The se are movies which do not have a plot. Instead the se films are of one subj e ct , Andy Lis s fihned

only faces, while David Stone took pictures of legs. The program has been a. wonderful succes s , We are looking forward to more camper interest for next summer's program.

JUNIOR CAMP SCAVENGER HUNT

By Rob Shoz e= Moh i c an

To end c:t great Carnival Day the Junior Camp had a scavenger hunt. Some of the m.aterials we had to get was a Montana driver's license, the last Micky Mantle baseball card, a silver 25¢ piece, three watermelon seeds and one yellow

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unbelievable materials.

Now for the winners. In the Apa.ches Bunk 14 won in a close match with Bunk 12. In the Iroquois Bunk 2 pulled it out. Last but not least, in the Mohicans Bunk 7 won. All in all it was a fun game.

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delight of al1.

A few hours later we reacht:d Great Falls where Reid Lifset and Hal Weinstein damaged their canoe~ We portaged our canoes around the falls and went for

------ Canoers

By Richard Waxman-Cherokee

Eight campers and two coun s el.o r s left early Er orn camp on a six hour drive to Camp Takajo, Thi s was to be the first part of a four day canoe trip.

After many stops for refre shments we finally arrived. We had a night on

the .town and Mario' s Pizzeria only to return to sleep in a giant teepee. Irria.g irie, that, ten people in a teepee.

After breakfast we left for Lake Saco with the use of Takajo canoes. We paddled for four hour s on still waters.

Stopping to swim every Once in a while we continued on untill we reached the town of Hiram. We camped on a small farm for the night.

Thursday morning we started again and finally found a few rapids to the

( Senecas Visit ) Nearby Co/leges

By Mark Altschuler - Seneca

Eleven Senecas headed by Clark 'Reisinger visited nearby colleges on

July 30. The trip started as we left in the camp van and headed north to Bennington, Vermont. Once there, we went to the' top of the Battle Monument where we enjoyed the great vi ew, Then we toured Bennington College. On our way to Williamstown we went for a swim in a creek. At Williamstown we were given a tour of Williams College.· We ate dinner at the 1896 House. We all enjoyed the good meal.

The eleven campers on the trip were Jeff Salkin, Marshall WisoH, Larry Leff, Mike Wallick, David Katzka, Jim Epstein, Dan Tublitz, Tom Epstein, Rick Stengel, Steve Goldman and Mark Altschuler.

a swim.

While swim.ming Fred Rosenfeld lost h i s bathing suit and sneakers. He was just about to change Into his underwear when a girl happened by. Fred, not knowing of his secret admirer kept on changing until finally he realized the girl's pre sence. With that knowledge in hand he dove over two canoes and waited for the girl to leave.

We then continued on down the r rv e r until we rria d e calTIp for the night.

The next and last part of our trip took place Friday morning where we came to East Himnerton rapids. These rapids were the roughest and longest

'that we tl.!countered. With only rnirio r difficultie s such as Reid 10 sing his paddle 'in the middle of the rapids.

We were picked up, returned Takajo's c ano e s and then started on the long trip :horne,

TLc counselors were Paul Schneider, and Dave Ekle. The campers were Richard Waxman, Fred Rosenfeld, Jay Toporoff, Reid Lif's et , Hal Weinstein, Evan Tublitz, J'on Siegel, and John Ruskin.

ALGONQUINS SEE BASKETBALL HALL OF FAMe

By Jim Hochberg and

Tom Kruger - Algonquins

We went on a trip to the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass. We saw various relics of basketball history from past to present. The things we saw were such as John Havlicek's high schoo ... uniform, some original baskets, and the type s of basketballs used down through the years of ba skefba Il ,

After the Hall of Fame, we ate lunch and went to the Springfield College Cafeteria.. There we had a chance to get drinks, etc. We also had a chance to go to the Springfield College bookstore where we could purchase souvenier s,

From here we progressed on our journey to Look Park. Here the facili-

justice Done

By an Anonymous Contributor

One day a boy of 13 in Bunk 37 wrote Ihis name on the bunk £1001' really big. His counselor, Gary Caruso, rriade him sand it off. It took him three weeks. It was funny watching him. Now the boy hate s Gary mol' e than the dev i 1.

Another Playday

By Ivan Kane and

David Lauten - Cherokees

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To our ama.zement we were invited back to Danbee one week after playday and returned the following Thursday (on the right day this time) for tennis and a dance.

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Our only regret was that it was too short.

We are back horne again and things have returned to normal.

tie s provided to us were varying from paddle boats to a refreshing dip in the swimming pool that had diving boards and a sliding board. As our day came to an end, we stopped off for a bite to eat at "the Massachusett' sown Flavorland.

NlKNe,.s Guest-Sta,.

DnTV Show

Campers on TV screen wUh [)avid Allen

By Ken Marks - Cheyenne This year the Cheyennes went to the I· capftal., Albany, to the radio station WPTR.and the channel 6 TV station.

We. were on II Pick A Show"; David Se arrian from Bunk 31 was picked to

c o'Il.ec t the money and later go on the Jerry Lewis Show.

We also had a tour around the ,.Capital and WPTR.

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. azy, a.z.y, crazy eta ys ...

By Bobby Litvak- Mohica.n

August 6 was Lazy Day. The Juniors could eat 8:00 - 10:00. The Seniors could eat 10:00 - 11:00. All the Juniors had a

full lunch, but the Seniors had a snack

. about 1:00 that was juice Or milk, potato chips, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. After breakfast we had a long free play. After that we had Cafeteria Day.

Foreign Counselors Share Experiences at Camp

This year we have twelve counselors from foreign lands, the largest in the history of our camp, and everyone in camp is happy about this.

We have a very fine group of people who have proved to be excellent bunk counselors, as well as men of special talents for camp programs.

Two of the men are returnees f'r orn. last summer, both from England. One is Phil Carruthers and the other is Dick Henderson.

Phil Carruthers, Our nature counselor, last year worked with the nature tent, and this year has a fine Nature Lodg~ Phil was in the Air Force and then an English Bobby, and now is studying to be

::I. science teacher.

Phil Carruthers, Dick Henderson, Greg Lyrnbery

Dick iienderson was on Our tennis staff last year. and this year heads up our Senior Camp soccer program. Dick will now start teaching in England.

Phil and Dick were joined by five other men from the British Isles. Howard Rees and John Davies both corne from Wales. Howard is a member of our art staff and John heads up our Junior Camp SOccer program.

From Dublin comes Eoin Gaffney, who is a. medical student at 'the Univer s ity there. Eoin is a rnernbe r of our tennis staff.. Then there is Greg Lymbery, a member of our sailing staff. Greg is in his final year of studies in the field of education. Mike Gamble, studying to be

a physical education teacher, has spent

Twelve Men Come From Six Ncti ons

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Ca rrrune Lopez

Eoin Gaffney

six years as an officer in the Third Dragoon Guards. He is on Our tennis staff.

For the fir st time, we have two men. from Italy. One is Carmine Lopez, who works in arts and crafts in the Junior Camp. He is a teacher of Electrical Engineering

in a technical school. With him is Lucio Fantini who is On our Senior Camp soccer staff. Lucio teache s in a language institution in Italy.

Another first this year is a counselor from Austria. He is Wolfie Stockinger, a member of our waterfront staff.

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And there is Ghulam Hasnain who comes from India and who has just corn.pl e te d graduate wo r k in this country. Ghulam works in Junior soccer.

Finally, there is Seri Lago, a student from the Ivory Coast, East Africa Sed is quite an accomplished SOccer player and is a member of our soccer staff.

Seri Lago

Ghulam Hasnain

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Carmine Lopez

By Lenny Russell-Cheyenne

New to Camp Mah-Kee-Nac is Carmine Lopez f r orn Milan, Italy. He was born in Catanzaro, Italy 31 years ago. This is his first visit to America; he

says he c arri e for a new experience.

In camp he helps in all different activities such as art and woodshop.

After camp Carmine will go back to Italy. I asked Carmine what he thought of the counselors and th e camp and he said, IIBoys, counselors, head counselors, and Joe, and all other people who live here are very friendly. They are always happy to help me. Thanks for all that I shall remember in every occasion. 'I

Lucio Fantini,

Mi ke Gamble

Dick Henderson By Ken Boxer and

Richard Schlesinger-Cheyenne

The man commonly known as Tricky Dicky come s from Newcastle, in Northeast England. Dick Henderson has been a counselor for two year s at Ma.hKee-Nac. He teaches tennis and soccer. Dicky is 22 years old and has gone to the University of Birmingham for 3 years and the University of Durham for one year.

This winter he plans to teach chemistry in England. His favorite pass time is ping pong. He likes the Mets and his favorite soccer team is Sunderland AFC.

If you ever see him walking along, stop and talk to him. He is a really great guy.

CAMPERS TOUR WILDLIFE SANCTUARY

By Jeffrey Coleman-Mohican

Eight Junior s and some senior s were chosen to go on a trip to Pleasant Valley Sanctuary. Joe drove us there.

When we got off the bus we met our guide. He told us we were going on the Nature Trail, which was about threequarters of a mile. There are about

15 trails there. They extend about 11 miles.

At the beginning of the trail we saw an owl in a cage. Then all of a sudden the trail became very narrow. We had begun.

THE YELLOW-BELLIED SAP SUCKER

By Abe W.ar shaw - Apache

On August 4, 1970 a group of boys went to the Pleasant Valley Bird Sanctuary. We saw a tree with a lot of holes in it.

A man told us a yellow- bellied sap sucker did it. He said after the woodpe cker pecks holes and he gets the insects, he goes

away for five hours. Then he comes back and drinks the sap. By then the sap has turned into wine.

So if you see a bird making a crash landing. you know what happened. He is drunk.

The Crow in the Library

By Joe Schwartz-Apache

After dinner we went into the library.

We listened to the Mary Poppins record. Jon Oliver brought us down there. Bobby Litvak, Andy Behrman. Randy Kohn and I listened to it. Unfortunately, there was

a crow in the library. It went "Caw-Caw! When the song II Feed the Birds" went on, Andy Behrman threw a pencil at the bird.

It was a good night.

First we came to a man-made pond that had been built sometime in the 1930' s. Beavers helped build it bigger and bigg er, We talked about frog s and toads after seeing a frog. Then we went on. We crossed a small log bridge.

We saw quite a few trees on the trail that a yellow - bellied sapsucker had pecked in. We talked about mold and fungi. We talked about poi son ivy and how to identify it. We talked about the different cycles

in nature.

Then we went into their smal museum and saw butterfly collections and porcupines. Then we worked electrical quiz boards in the museum. They were really fun. We sawall sorts of turtle s, We even saw a flying squirre1.

I learned that I will never forget about the beauties and wonders of nature.

HOW TO MAKE A WHISTLE

By Eric Dobbin-Apache

Take an acorn, put your two thumbs. on it and blow.

Strange Noises By Jon Mann-Mohican

I heard a noise that sounded like a loa s e guitar string. It turned out to be a Bullfrog.

A SMALL TOAD ---------

By Ken Kohn-Apache

I found the smallest toad that I ever saw in my life; It was so srna l.l it was smaller than my thumbnail and I named him Tiny Tim ..

Our Nature walks

By John McIlvennon

There is a hidden delight in life in the outdoors. That's why we go on nature walks. It's like being on a treasure hunt - -you never know what you're go ing to find. But it' 5 also good to be out in nature because its quiet and re stful and refresh

The weirdest thing happened when I was on a nature h ik.e , I caught a moth and I saw another one n e a.r my hand. I though the one I caught got out, but it didn't, but

I did not know that and I went for the other One and they BOTH got away. But I would ha.ve let them go.

And the moral of the story is:

They're tricky.

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By Douglas Coleman-Apache

Bunk 13 went on a nature hike on August 3, We started off on a narrow ditch. When the ditch ended we found some raspberrie s that we could eat. We came to a field where we caught a lot of little creatur e s , We found crickets, butterflies, grasshopper s ,. and other tiny thing s ,

By Alan Oppenheimer & Billy Fisher - Iroquois

On August 4 a group of campers went on a nature hike around the red barn.

First of a.II the group found a hole pecked by a woodpecker. After that the roup found SOITle white birch bark and e stationery. Then we heard birds and bull f r ong s and a mouse.

To end it all we all skipped down the i i II into the Junior Camp.

When I crossed the log I crossed it on my behind.

THE BIRD WALK By Randy Kohn-Iroquois

On Monday some people of the Junior Camp went on a bird walk at six. in the orning. We saw a few birds in the woods and two nests of a barn swallow at the barn. I thought it was really fun.

By Jeff Paul-Iroquois

At six in the morning the Nature counselor carne in and woke us up. We went out and it was cold. We saw lots of •••••••••••••••••••••• lIIIlbirds and woodpeckers. It was a good walk. I Hk ed it when Alan Rudolph came.

By Chip Myer s -Iroquois

The week before last, Bunk 5 went on a nature hike. We crossed the Salamander River.. After crossing the river there was a field. We crawled like bugs. and we saw a few. We finally pas sed the gras s. There in the clearing was a gigantic hedgeberry bush. Our bunk started collecting berries during the nature counselor' s speech of how not to eat the berries 'cause "hedgeberries are poisonous". After his talk the fight began. Everybody got hit, mostly the counselor.

By Abe Warshaw-Apache

Today Bunk 12 went on a Nature hike. We were walking in the woods and we saw a path, so we went to see what it was. Then we stopped and we saw about 13 spider webs. Then our counselor told us they were fairy spiders.

He said to take a spider web and look for the spider. So we looked for it. Then my friend saw a spider and he also found the entrance to the web. Then we

ent into the grass.

Uppe,. Senio,.s Down Junio,.s, 6-5

By David Bagdan-Mohican

The Juniors' fielding was pretty good. The positions for the Junior s were:

Hendy Powell, Pitching; Charlie Blanco, catching; Big Bi c , first base, Dave Buck, second base; Bob Ecker, sh c r-t s top; Jim Christenson, third base; Steve Reichman, left field; Buck Blankner, centerfield; Chuck Par touch e , right field.

The Serrior s won, 6-5.

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Junio,.s

Rout Navajos, 3-'

By Peter Berg -Mohican

On August 5, the Junior All~Stars faced the Navajos All-Stars.

The Navajos were up first. The first inning both teams did not score.

In the game the Navajos only got one run across the plate on a single. The Juniors got three runs. One wason a bunt, and the re st were on singles. The final

score was Juniors 3; Navajos 1.

The winning pitcher was Mark ( ("Peanuts") Rogovin, who pitched the whole game and gave up three hits .. This was the first victory for the Junior Camp since 1966.

TAKAJO TOURNAMENT

By Mike Marks - Cherokee Torn Stern - Algonquin Steve Jones - Algonquin

Twelve Mah-Kee-Nac campers went to Naples, Maine to play in the Takaja Inter state Invitational Tennis Tournament

After a s ev en hour Greyhound Bus ride with an interval at Boston. the 12 campers and counselor finally reached Camp Takajo.

We dined at the Mess Hall and then went to the Takajo Playhouse where we saw a benefit show.

After a restless night full of anticipation the day of the tournam.ent came.

The camps that participated were:

Powhatan, Greylock, Mah-Kee-Nac, and T'akajo ,

After the fir st round of competition Mah=Ke e= Nac had five teams left. They

were David Newman. John Spector, Andy Bass, John Roth, and Rick Stengel and David Katzka in doubles.

After the semifinals only Stengel and Katzka remained in the finals.

For the finals it was all Takajo with Stengel and Katzka going down after a great match 6-1, 6- 3.

After the presentation of awards in which Ricky and David received runnerup trophy's the team left for "hcrne"

When we reached Lenox we were greeted by a Mah-Kee-Nac car. We were then transported to Friendly's and then to camp.

The team members were Coach Bob Wolff. Rick Seng e1, Dave Katzka, Dave Newman, Andy Bass. Jon Roth,Jon Spector,. Mike Marks, Joe Abrams, Torn Stern. Steve Jones, Jim Arnold. and

T am Epstein.

Ninth Annual M,ercury Nationals

ED. NOTE

By Jeff Liss and Charles Samons - Algonquins

For the second year ina row, Mah-Kee-Nac entered one of its Mercury Sail Boats in the National Mercury Class Regatta. This year the crew consisted of campers Charlie Samons and Jeff Li s s , with Director Ben Bloom.

The Nationals were held this year at the Nahaut (Massachusetts) Dory Club, and our Mah -Kee c Nac team sailed in three races, two on Saturday and one on Sunday morning.

The sailors arrived at Nahaut on Friday afternoon. and rigged the boat without difficulty. Our sails were measured inside the Club-house and found to be o. k,

Then we checked into our motel and went to a seafood restaurant in nearby Glace ster for dinner. Then we walked around the 'docks of Glouce ster, a quaint, interesting seaside village.

We arose at 7:00 a. rn , and were at the club at 8: 30 a. m, for a skipper s I meeting. _ The race committee explained the rules and procedures of the regatta.

There was a slight d r i.z zl e, but we got out to our boat, raised the safl.s, and headed for the starting line. We got our sailing course from the committee boat but had to wait for the Mercury keelboats to start before us.

The first leg was a moderately long windward one. After rounding the mark we broke out the spinn.aker for a three-mile-long run, We then rounded the last buoy and tacked several times to clear an obstructing peninsula. We finally cleared it and sailed for the finish line. We crossed it ninth out of ten boats. Then the three of us went to the dock for a box lunch.

After lunch we got back to our boat and sailed to the race com.:rnittee boat. There we found out that our next course was a six mile windward leg which, with tacking, was about 10 miles long. After we rounded the marker, it was a run in which we could sail the spinnaker home. We finished this race seventh.

We then found a mooring at which we took off our sails, straighten.ed up the boat, and got a ride back to the dock. We loaded Our gear into the car and headed for the motel for an houri s rest before dinner.

-1 After dinner.we spent some time touring the area before heading back to the

motel for a good night I 5 sleep.

At nine o+c lo ck the next morning we got up, had a good breakfast, and headed

for the club. When we arrived we headed out to our boat, rigged, and sailed for the starting line where the course was displayed. The course was a windward leg, two runs on which we used our spinnaker to catch up to the other boats, and another windward one. On the last leg, the wind died completely. After awhile we became becalmed and

hailed a passing power boat to tow us in. Then in back to camp, after a great experience.

Voices Ring ...

CHEROKEES-TOP SENIOR soNG & CHEER I

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the pvening

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a good note

LOWER SENIOR CAMP

SENIOR C;OUNCILS HEAR C£lMPER OPINION

UPPER SENIOR CAMP

A meeting with the Upper Senior Camper- Council. Bob Behrman received many interesting comments about all aspects of camp.

The campers spoke highly of their trip to Camp Kinni-Kinnic and the party with Camp Danbee , Peter Gordenstein

is to write a thank you to Kinni-Ki nni c, and Barry Haft and David Goldberg were asked to send a note to Camp Danbee.

The Algonquin and Seneca representatives asked that there be bunk by bunk meeting s to determine how many boys really wanted dances. Boys asked that they not be forced to dance.

All of the representatives asked that Joe give his decision as to whether or not the campers can attend the James Taylor, The Mountain, and The Santana Rock Concerts.

Several camper s talked about missing laundry items.

It was suggested that for next year toilets be added to the Senior Lodge, so that boys won't be using bunk 40.

D iscu ssion of shortage of towels in the shower house indicated that the problem rested with camper carelessness and the USe of more than one towel.

The bunk representatives w e r e ; Bernie Mancuso (33), Ivan Kane (34),

Jon Brauer (35), Paul Feldman (36).

Barry Haft (3,7), David Goldberg (38), Steve Haubenstock (39). Mark Phillips (40) Fred Cohen (41). Peter Gordenstein (42), Jimmy Gluckson (43), Marshall WisoH (44L Steve Goldm.an (45).

Interesting discussion of camp program took place at the C'arnpe r= Council meeting of the Lower Senior Camj; on August 3,

There was much discus sion of this year I s evening program, and the general concensus was that evening program was excellent this year.

The trip to the Albany Radio and T. V • station s re cei ved favor able cornrner as did the bowling trip for the non- WCM campers.

Radio Bingo and Quizarama are very popular. and the delegates asked for rnore of these ..

Bunk overnights were discussed .• and a number of bunk groups are to be scheduled.

The representatives of bunks 31 and 32 thought that there ought to be a Cheyenne social with a girls camp. It was explained that socials start at the next age level.

There were other suggestions regarding :maintenance needs in various bunks.

Meeting with the Head Counselor.

Jim O'Neill were;' Larry Katin (21),

Jeff Perkoff (22), Stu Denholtz (23), Bobby Klingon (24), Mark Mintz (25), Richie Friedlander (26), Scott Frank (27), Steve Go chrna.n (28), Jay Blumberg (29). Neil Gubin (30), and Ira Rubin (31), and Steve Taft (32).

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SUMMER 1970 ISSUE; No.6

OLYMPICS

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By Alan Gersten - Counselor

The 1970 edition of the Camp Mah-KeeNac Olympics was run on the weekend of the eighth and was won ,by Jordy Cohn's outfit, nThe NUbs".

Clear skies prevailed for the two

day event which featured the most intense competition of the summer.

Friday afternoon was devoted to breakdown wiehcampers of all tribes equa.Uy distributed among e.ight teams. Besides

The Nubs they were: Ken Kruvant's "'Panther's Pack", Jimmy Farhe);"s "Crusin' For Burgersll, Dave Shields' "Meshuganas", Clark Reisinger's "Kosher Kids", Larry Fischer's "Tsouris", Hendy Powell r 8 "Up Against the Wall", and "The Tijuana Smalls" captained by Steve Blokoff.

After Friday was spent on team organization and practice, the Games officially opened Sat.urday with the

Water Olympics. All the squads were fairly close after these events.

The Land Olympics held the balance of the points and midway through Sunday the contest developed into a three way race between! Burgers', 'Tijuana', and' Nubs'.

The eventual winners parlayed a victory in the Decathlon by Jeff Salkin with team 'strength in the various land races to edge their rivals at the wire.

Olympic Coordinator was Danny Metzger with the remainder of the counselor staff serving as officials or team assistants.

Water

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Land

Olympics

JOE'S ADDRESS BEFORE BREAKDOWN

DE.CA THLON CHAMP JEFF SALKIN WITH WINNING CAPTAIN JORDY COHN

DANNY METZGER OLYMPTC COORDINATOR

FIRST PLACE ••••••• THE NUBS

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TORCT-T CARRIERS: STEVE GOLDMAN AND RICKY STENGEL WITH BOB

·FINAL OLYMPIC TEAM STANDINGS 1970

1. NUBS

2. TIJUANA SMALLS

3. CRUSIN' FOR BURGERS

4. PANTHER'S ,PACK

5. KOSHER KIOS

6. UP AGAINST THE WALL

7. MASHUGANAS

8. TSOUR,IS

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CAMPERS CONQUER MT. WASHINGTON

By 'I'orn Kass and

On Monday, August 10 at about

9:30 'a .. rn, , two counselors: Bob Morissette and Greg Jones, seven Cherokee campers.: Mark Silbey, Reid Lifs et, Tom Kass •. Bernie Mancu so, David (Peanuts) Goldberg, Adam Steiner, and Steve Altschuler boarded the White Wayward bus and arrived at the White Mountain National Forest in New Harnpshir-e at 5 :00 p. rri,

We set up camp on an appropriate site o££ the Cancamagus Highway, which is the major means of transportation "through the White Mountains.

The following day we drive to Mt.

Washington which is the highest mountain in the Northeastern part of the United States.

At 11:00 in the morning we started

Mark Silbey - Ch e r o ke e s

our climb up the mountain. At 1 :00 we reached r av me which is the half-way point up the mountain. After a half houri s rest, we climbed up the re st of the mountain.

At 3 :00 that a£tern.oon, the climbing party reached the peak after having lunch at the available facilities at the peak.

The group decended back down to Tuckermans ravine where we set up camp. The following morning the party climbed down the mountain and ate a brunch at a nearby 'restaurant. We then drove to our original

campsite where we relaxed and washed up in a nearby brook. On Thur sday morning we left for camp and arrived there a little before dinner.

The trip was surely an exciting

and memorable experience which 11m sure no one who c l irnbed Mt, Washington will ever forget.

NAVAJOS SPEND DAY AT

By Robert Klingon - Navajo

It finally was Thursday, August 13, and the talk of the Navajos was all about Look Park. The swim meet scheduled for that morning n.eeded three boys, so the tribe left later than planned. Because

of that, the only thing we could do was swim; there was no train ride and no peddle boats at all for us.

This is how the trip went:

First we left on an air-conditioned bus. We were lucky about the bus •. because the ride was one and a half. hours long.

We then stopped for a lunch of two hamburgers, a soda and a large platter of french-fries. The restaurant was somewhere in North Hampton. After our filling meal, we resumed our drive.

After numerous stops we finally got

LOOK

PARK

to the park. Each boy was given two quarters and told to go to the locker room where we changed and took a cold shower after which we started swimming.

The giant- sized pool was pretty crowded. The slide had a long line in back of it. Weld climb up the ladder and after we were halfway down the slide weld get a feeling that our atornach.s were back at the top.

One would jump off the high- diving board and have the same feeling as the slider s I. After an hour or two, the lifeguard said over the P, A. system, HAll Mah-Kee-Nac campers out of the pool. II That was the end of a great swim!

Before .we left there was a flurry of busine s s in the snack bar. The bu s driver woul.dri'f a.Il.ow food on the bus.

This ttip will last in the minds of the Navajos.

Let's

Go Fly a

Kite

By John Cherry

One hundred twenty m.en and boys tangled themselves up in a mile and a

half of twine on a gusty afternoon last week as the First Annual Mah-Kee-Nac Kite Festival m.ade its debut on the Junior playing field.

Within the first fifteen minutes of the event, its organizers saw their high£lying dreams shattered as 120 kites hit the dirt. Before the end of the afternoon, however, perseverance and good fortune held forth rewards for about a dozen kite-pilots who managed to keep their craft ai rbo r n e despite the sporadic

nature of the afternoon breeze.

Pete.r Levy gained recognition for having the highest-flying kite, and Peter Raider had the most original. Peter

made a tiny kite which actually flew better' than many of the standard kite sather campers had.

In addition to the individual kites flown by each camper, every bunk had a large kite m.ade from scratch. None of the bunk kite s ever got off the ground, although the I'We Try Harder" Award must certainly go to Pete RUE so and Bunk 3' s "Sh aIorrr' kite. Pete spent the entire afternoon trying to get his kite up, long after all the other bunk kites had been abandoned, and even after his Own kite had broken.

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(/e"s go buy a kite)

As told to Hobby Litvak (Mohican) By Counselors Jon Oliver and Hendy Powell

Our Mission was to buy 120 kites, of different shapes and sizes. Buying 120 kite s is not easy. We really got some funny looks f r orn the clerks when we asked for 120 kites. We wound up buying 30 kites at one store, 30 at another, six at another and 48 at the last store.

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We were disappointed when we didn't get green stam.ps when we bought the kites. Many kites later we returned

tr iurnpb ant'ly to Mah=Ke e c Nac unharmed,

but unhappily we diu!l't get any green stamps. Now ",11 we have to do is buy some wind.

We are looking fo'rwa r d to the great Mah-Kee-Nac kite festival.

Broken kites (there we'r'e marry] were administered first aid at a thoroughly modern kite hospital. Mortally injured kites were replaced. Several kites were racked up on local kite-eating trees, and one met a tragic end on the waters of Stockbridge Bowl.

Despite the ~act that failures far outnumbered successes, spirits flew high. In the words of festival originator Jon Oliver, "We're already looking forward to next year r S Kite Fe sti val. "

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featured an all- star cast of 20 Junior campers. Mary Poppins was portrayed by Elaine Aldrich, the wife of the Senior Camp head counselor. It was her first experience in acting, as was the case with most of the campers in the cast.

The sc r i.pt, written by Jon Oliver, encornpa.ssed songs from the musicals "Ol i ve r l II and II Bye, Bye, Birdie". as well as "Mary Poppins". In writing the script, Jon says he strove for light

satire relating to life at Camp Mah-KeeElaine Aldrich, right, sings out.~ Nac.

An ingenious set de signed by Brooks Jones added to the atrno s phe r e of professionalism. that surrounded the show. The highlight of the evening I s entertainment carne at the end when balloons were released from a net

The show

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suspended over the audience. was enjoyed by all who saw it.

Bobby Litvak as Bert

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we went to the TV station WRGB Channel 6 to see a program. called "Pick-A-Show", but as we got there they told us that we were too early so we walked down the street and had a soda at a soda shop.

Later we went back to the station and saw the the program which was fun. Finally we started on our way home but something

had happened to the bus and there was

s.orn eth ing the matter with the tire so we

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switched buses at about the hali-way part

of the trip and we finally got back to camp. Sorn e of the boys though that the bus ride was too long but all in all the trip was quite enjoyable.

SENIO'RS SEE RADIO, TV STATIONS

By Johny Roberts

On Thursday the 13th,. the Upper Seniors who wanted to go went to Albany to see two radio stations and one TV station. As we left camp after breakfast with 31 kids, ·we took the busride to a radio station called WRPI.

We saw how they controlled everything. This is an F. M. station and you can sometime s pick it up her e if you tune in to 91.5.

After we left th e r e we went to McDonalds for lunch. Then we went to another station called WTRY; they showed us around and it was allC],u'ite nice. Finally

ARTHUR UPSHAW:

By Eric Wollan - Navajo

Arthur Upshaw,as most of the campers know, is the Head Cook. Arthur had been at one other cam.p for a period of ten years before coming to Mah-KeeNac which might have something to do with his knowledge of what campers like to eat.

Every year also im.prove s hi s cooking to a certain extent.

Arthur said, "you can't cook well without liking what you are doing. II This statement not only holds true for cooking, but for everything.

Some kids are wondering why Arthur repeats a meal exactly every ninth or

tenth day. Well, the reason is, Arthur uses a rotating menu.

Another question is "When does Arthur know the food is ready? II The answer is, he tastes the food unti l he

~fYoU can't cook well if you

don't like what you're doillg!'

likes it and thinks the campers will like it.

One last and final item: Arthur's assistants and waiters. The second cook is Teddy, who has been here for two years and the third cook is John who has been her here for five year s ,

Head waiter is Jim Kirkpatrick.

The other waiters are Chico, Tom, Paul, Jay, Terry, Pat, Silvana, and Giovanni.

A Message from the Promised Land Paul Golomb Writes from Israel

To One and All! The address again:

Paul Golomb

So here I am in Israel. av.c.

13 King David Street, Jerusalem to be exact.

There were two camp-related items of interest associated with my flight here. On the transatlantic portion the pilot awoke me from a semi-dormant state with the announcement that we were over his native country of Wales. So, Howard, 1 dutifully waved, but it was a usual Welsh day, overcast. and I didn't see rnu ch of the countryside. Then, in 'Paris, I struck up an acquaintance with a gentleman from the Ivory Coast (he was the only person at Le Bourget Airport, he spoke English). We took the bus together to Paris,' oth~r airport, Orley, but there parted as he

was going North and I East.

We are having m.oderate weather in J'e ruaal.ern: Temperature in the ninety's and not a cloud in the sky since I got he re five days ago.

I spend my day going to "' Hebr ew cour se (they call it an "Ulpan II) for four h~rs in.the mornings. Then studying" aightae eing, reading, writing letters, or sleeping in the afternoon, finally'I go to some friend '5 house at night.

To Michael Waterfront: I haven't as yet found out whether or not an Israeli Naval Flag exists, but I'm going to Tel Aviv this weekend and will try there.

Of course, I'm. inte.rested in what's going on in camp. and at the ri sk of writer's cramp I'll answer any letter written to me. 1£ no one writes from

Bunk 5~ Woe Unto *hee, If I am a Mohican counselor next year.

c/o Hebrew Union College 13 King David Street Jerusalem, Israel

Paul

p.S •. Oh yes. I have never m.oved from one plac e to another without forgetting som.ethixfg. In this case, it was my skip rope. If you have found it in the back of Bunk 5 som.ewhere, give it to Stuart or Jimmy Fishman and I'm sure it will get to my parents. Thanks, PG.

Another Pleasant VaUey Sanctuary Trip----

By Steve Si lverrrian - Cnerokee

On Tuesday, August 4, part of the nature class headed by Phil Carruthers went to the Pleasant Valley Nature Trail.

We saw many interesting sights including a beaver pona, beaver lodges, and also, a 'small canal dug by the beavers themselves.

Also on the trail we eawrrrany types

of trees and flowers. Some of the trees

had holes in them put there by yellowbellied ~apsuckers and piliated woodpeckers.

After the trip around the trail was over we stopped at the 'I'r-a il.' s Museum. We saw a few' interesting anhnals such as a rattlesnake and copperhead.

After the trip we discussed a new

one.

The cam.per s who went were Reid L'ifset, Jon Bernstein, Steve Silverman, Robert Weinstock" Scott See, and Jeff

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!lUOHWHO RUNS THIS CAMPm,_ Jim. 0' Neil, Bob Behrman, Stevt! Brawer, Wes Aldrich

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JIM O'NEIL

By Jay Blurnberg- Cheyenne

Jim Ol Ne i l at the present is the Lower Senior Head Counselor. Jim has been at Mah-Kee-Nac for six years.

His first two years (165 - 166) were spent as a swim instructor. In 1965 be was in bunks 3.2 - 22.. In 1966 he was in bunk 21. In Jim's third year at Mah-KeeNac, he was the Senior Waterfront Director. Since 1968 Jim O'Neil has

been Lower Senior Head Counselor.

His most bappie st time tb is year was when the Lower Senior Counselors beat the Upper Senior Counselors 7-0 in softball.

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Jim says that the most aggrevating questions asked him are IIWhatl s evening ac t iv ity'" and "when do we get our candy? "

Here are some comments he made.

"Carnp is a great place for boys to go in the summer and get a break from school. 11

"My experiences at camp make me understand boys more at school. 11

During the winter,. spring, and autumn months, Jim teaches. He has taught in Chicago for two years, teaching eighth grade English. Next year h e is going to teach aeverith and eighth grade Social Studies .•

BOB BEHRMAN By Peter Grabell- Cherokee

Bob is an old timer here at Mah-Kee-Nac as LJ",caust:; it is an all-around camp. All act-

he has been here fourteen summers.

In 1957 he was Group Leader of the Cheyennes of Senior Camp. There was no Upper Senior Camp at that time. The following summer he was Group Leader of the Algonquins.

1960 found Bob holding the position

of Head Counselor of the Junior Camp. The following year the Upper Senior Camp was complete and Bob was given the task of running it. He did this through 1966~ Since then he has been Program Direc tor and assistant to Joe.

He feels this camp is an excellent: 'One

ivities are emphasised instead of bl"ecializing in one or two areas~

Bob feels the camp would be complete with the addi.tion of a Lower Senior Lodge.

During the winter Bob is Director of Athletics at G,G.N.Y. He is also a professor of physical education and Health education. He resides in Oradell,. N. J.

When asked what was the most exciting thing for him this summer Bob replied tha.t it was when the Upper Senior basketball team won the Pittsfield Tournament. "Not only did they prove excellent in athletics, but they kept cool and ca.Im" •

STEVE BRAWER

By Steve Altschuler and Josh Farber

Cherokees

This is Steve's first year as Head Counselor of the Juni·or Camp. Previously he was Apache Group Leader twice and a camper for five yea.rs.

Steve will be a senior at the University of Pennsylvania this fall.

He believes in a varried activity schedule and the Juniors seem to enjoy

the program. He has brought several new programs to Junior Camp this summer; tennis and canoeing for the Mohicans and paddle tennis for all Juniors.

St·eve has tlgO brothers; Dave was a counselor here at Mah-Kee-Nac last year and Louis is currently a Cherokee in Bunk 34.

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\yES ,ALDRICH By Jon Brauer- Cherokee This year the Head Counselor of Upper Senior Camp is Wes Aldrich.

Wes is back for his fourth year here, his third as Head. The first year he was a basketball and softball coach.

Wes was born and grew up in Upstate New York. He attended college in Springfield, Mass.

He feels this suunner was' an exc.ellent one, "it was much better than last year" (partly because of the weather). This was

the best year ever for him in U.S.C. as the kids were the "best everH.

For Wes the most exciting event of the summer was the winning of the Pittsfield Tourney and the succe.ss of the team.

Wes lives with his wife Elaine and two sons in Stratford, Connecticut. He was formerly a coach at Andrew Wards High School but this fall will coach freshman basketball and phys. ed.

at Quinnipiac College in Connecticut.

TENTH SUMMER FOR DR. (ORNFELD

By Andy Liss and

Ron Glassman-Cheyenne

Mah-Kee-Nac h a s hall. three doctors this season. The first was Dr. Philip Holtzapple. the second Dr. Robert Bierman. and the third Dr. David Co r nfe.Id,

Dr. Holtzapple earned his M. D. at the University of Pennsylvania. He is

32 years old. The most common Il.lne s s , he said, is homesickness.

Dr. Robert Bierman resides in Princeton, No J. He went to Amherst College and Columbia Medical School.

Dr. Bierman is 38 years old and is the father' of two campers here, Todd (a Navajo) and Brad (a Cheyenne).

The third and present doctor is

Dr. David Cornfeld. Dr. Cornield att ended attended University of Pennsylvania Medical School. He makes his home in Philadelphia. He is 44 year s of age and is the father of one Mah-Kee-Nac cam.per, Marc, who belongs to the Cherokee tribe.

Anothe,. T,.;umph Ove,. Natu,.e

By Jay Blumberg-Cheyenne

Arnie Feldman after 3 years of unsuccessful fishing at Mah-Kee -Nac (1958, 1961, 1969) caught a largemouth bass on August 1st 1970. He caught the fish off of the new sinker s area dock, casting out towards J'o e ' s cabin using a jitterbug lure. The fish weighed 3 lb. and measure to be 11 3/4 inches.

Dr. Cornfeld is Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Universi ty of Pennsylvania r.,edical School. This is his tenth summer as our Camp Physician during August.

Our two nurses are RN's from Brighton, ~~ass. They are Terry O'Stigv1 and Ann lViarie Weiss. ,- ,

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REBUTTAL TO MR. GERSTEN'S EDITORIAL ON FISHING

By .Jim Glucksman- Cherokee

Mr. Gersten stated that no campers should have been involved in the llfishing out" of the lake because they shouldn't be exposed to the "looting of nature. II

In rebuttal, I state that the docks loot nature also. Docks attract an unnatural concentration of fish. Eventually those fish will starve to death. Dead fish are a form of pollution and are quite ugly.

The display of these fish was the only bad thing that happened during the fishing. If many fish are starving to death, shouldn It we remove the surplus fish to increase the food of surviving fish?

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BOYS

PASS HAM

RADIO TEST

By Ron Gla s smarr-Chey enne

Ham Radio is in its second year here at Mah-Ke e-Nac after having been idle for several year s, After being in the program for both years now .• I must say it has improved a lot.

During regular clas s e s , like last year, we go on the air and operate the radio equipment under Al Bianchi's supervision. This year. though, we get on the air more and everyone gets to operate more.

Also like last year, for five weeks or so we had code practice. Then .• the official exarnirre r , Mr. Stan Lang of Pittsfield carne to give us our novice

class tests. Novice tests consist of copying and sending Mor s e code at five words per minute plus a written theory test.

So far, 14 boys have passed the code test and are awaiting arrival 0·£ the written exams. The boys who passed are: Rob Werner. Howie F'r i edne r , Larry Katin, Sam Roberts, John Ruskin, Jordy Weinberg, David Har-mon, Harry Miller,

Lenny Russell, Nick Mandelkern, Larry, Wallick, Richard Scheyer, Ron Glassman, and Frank Moore.

'I'ru s year, two r-ecor-ds have been set.

Number one: All the boys in Bunk 21 passed the test. Coincidentally, that is

All s Bunk. Second: One of the persons who passed, Frank Moo r e, is a counselor!

Mr. Lang, the examiner, started in Ham Radio in 1912. In that year there

Connecticut Trip B'y Neil Shane- Mohican

Jeffrey Liss went on a trip 'on a sailboat in Connecticut. I notice he went on Monday. He went by car, and he came back Thursday. He had fun, and also he 'brought me back a souvenir.

wasn't a law written for radio operation and the F. C. C. wasn't even established yet. His early call sign was 1 GK.

Today his call sign is WlIW. AI's call letters, which we use here, are W A2BeN /1.

Back to the program though, A1 is starting something new. We are going to make radio s and other electronic projects. You can see the Ham Radio program has improved and I am sure it will continue to do so.

A Pai'nt·ed Butterfly By Neil Shane .... v:..ohica~

Neil Shane made a butte cfly with paint and paper. You dip some paint on

it, you fold it, you open it, and it become s a butterfly.

LSCFree Play

By Robert Klingon-Navajo

During_free play if one goe 5 to the Lower Senior Camp he will se most of the Navajos and Cheyennes playing ping pong or its new rival--Nok Hockey. The four Nok Hockey sets have all but used up the extra room in the back of our heads. Ping Pong and "Slam" (a type of basketball game) are also very popular. The tennis courts are used up; too, but by campers and counselors. Some quiet gaInes of chess; checkers or Monopoly are played -but most of us are pretty active. Some

of us like to go swimming.

1 do, for me. Half at our bunk usually goes down together to swim laps in the Docker s Area or shoot baskets

in the Sinkers. One also sees many people playing catch with a Frisbee.

All counted, whatever we do we., flave a lot of fun during free play.

M.-K.-N. Tankers

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By David Lub:man - Cherokee

Thursday August 13, was a 'brg day here in camp for the swim team. It was the day of the "First Annual Camp Mab.Kee-Nac Triangular Swim meet".

I am writing this article mainly about the Upper Senior swim team! s progress. Coach Rick Schott got so excited that he fell in the small docker s tank backwards.

Coach Shields had the team come to the waterfront at 10:30. At 10:35 camps Half-moon and Greylock came.

We took second place 'but the Upper Seniors took 6 out of 6 first places. The Upper Senior s and events are:

50 yd, Back

-Hal Weinstein 1 st Place

50 yd. Breast -Jay Toporoff

1 st Place

50 yd .. Free -Seth Akabas

1st Place

50 yd. Butterfl,?Dave Lubman 1st Place

100 yd. Medley Relay 1 st Place

Back Hal Weinstein

Breast Jay Toporoff

Fly Dave Lubman Seth Akabas

200 yd. Free Relay 1 st Place

'Philip Richards

Dave Lubman

Tom Stern

Seth Akabas

After the meet the 6 Upper Seniors ate Junior lunch and gave Steve Brawer

a scand ing ovation after one of his famous speeches.

Fi n i sh Strong

By Phil Richards - Cherokee Seth Akabas- Algonquin

For years Mah-Kee-Nac has finished last in swimming but this year was different; we placed a strong third.

The time was 3:00 p. m , The place was Greylock.

It looked dismal for the team, for it' is hard to win with an incomplete squad. But through the hard work of Dave Shields--head coach of our team. We gathered volunteer s to fill in the open positions.

After a 45-minute bus trip to Greylock we arr ived just in time for a

short warm up. ~ .~

Upon orders from Rick Schott, assistant coach, the first swimmers stepped up for their events.

We started off with a second and third followed by Hal Weinstein! s first place in hack stroke. This along with fine swimming by Dave Lubrnanand Seth Akabas, who each took firsts in their individual events, plus two relay t e arn s ' victories led us to a final third place.

To most teams third place seems rather rrie ag e r ; for a team that never came in better than last' it.' s a great success. This gives us high hopes for our .ne xt meet.

To-Ho .. Ne Outguns Us

By Jeff Salkin - Seneca

In their second appearance against To-Ho-Ne, first with the To-Ho-Ne Invitational, the Mah-Kee-Nac rifle team faced a tough To-Ho-Ne squad. Even though Coach Gary Cunningham brought

his 13 and under squad, Mah-Kee-Nac still faced a defeat. The Mah-Kee-Nac squad tried hard and posted a429 which beat

their score in the To-Ho-Ne Invitationals, but the. ToHoNe squad was even tougher

as they posted a 454 b eat ing their score

in the Invitationals. Camp To-Ho-Ne is known as a riflery camp and showed it

with their beautiful rifles, riflery j a ck.et s., As the match went on Coach Chandler explained to Coach Cunningham about his Civil War Revolver (Replica). .Mter the match Bill shot his "Cannon!' revolver off for the To-Ho-Ne squad. Mter this Bill let To-Ho-Nels coach, Gary, shoot the "cannon!', After that Coach Gary Cunningham and his 13 and under riflery team

left Mah-Kee-Nac with another victory. Next year Bill Chandler hopes to get at least a dozen matches and rematches for the Mah-Kee-Nac Riflery team.

VOLLEYBALL

By Billy Ch ar a sh

On August 4, Camp Mah-Kee-Nac played Carnp Onota in a two-out-of-three garne volleyball series.

Mah-Kee-Nac's powerful tearn of nine player s and one substitute swept the series with a 15-4 victory in the first garne and a 15- 5 victory in the second game.

Coach Saslow and Coach Feldrnan played a big part in leading our team to victory.

The players of our team were:

Billy Cha.r a sh, Richie Pelsrnan, Marc Mintz, Paul Hostovsky. Matt Z'irnm er man , Ira Rubin, Steve Haupt, Scott Frank.

Andy Liss and David Se arrian ,

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Cherokees Scalp Winadu

By Scott Shane and

Fred "Tush" Rosenfeld

The Cherokee "A" Basketball and "A" Hardball teams went to Carnp Winadu on August 11. The teams were coached

by Coach Quackenbush and Coach Caruso.

As we arrived we were greeted by our opposition. First carne the basketball game. The .game began with

Mah-Kee.Nac taking a. quick

lead but at the end of the half Mah-KeeNac switched to rnan to man defense and broke the game open. Michael Schwartz lead in scoring with 14. Mike Marks was second with 9, Josh .Farber had 6, and Fred Rosenfeld chipped in with 4.

Mike Rozyne came in in the fil~~l\ quarter and played a great defensiJe ~\ game. Final sc o r e was 35- 27 wit!l Ma -

Kee-Nac on top. ..

Then Mah-Kee-Nac had its usual cold cut lunch and then re sted tor 2 1/2 hours between g am e s ,

Gary Caruso went with a Right handel" Fred Rosenfeld. Mah-Kee-Nac opened up with a 5 run first inning. The rest of the garne was a see- saw battle between the two team.s. Steven Silverman led the team in batting, going 3 for 4. Mike Schwartz picked up the save, and Fred Rosenfeld got the win. Final s co r e was 15-11 with Mah-Kee-Nac on top again. That was the end of the Mah-Kee-Nac sweep.

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By John McIlvennan Welre on a voyage, you know.

eire spinning through the vast ocean

of space. Earth is our ship. Man is the captain of the ship. But he ' s not the only pas senger. And that's what nature study is all about- -finding everything we can about the millions of other passengers that share the good ship Mother Earth with us.

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BANQUET 70'

SUMMER 1970 ISSUE NO.7

Upper Seniors A1arvel

BY ALAN J. GERSTEN

Entitled II Marvelous Mah-Kee-Nacll and held on the last evening of camp

the Upper Senior Banquet was well r eceived by boch camper and counselor alike.

After receiving the Invocation by Captain "Joel! Marvel a steak dinner was

served.

The r erna'ind e r of the program included a Waterfront m.onolog by

Brooks Jones, 11 Book Titles'! by Bunk 45, the Camp Movie put together by Don Bush. Camp Awards presented by Jeff WisoH, the Counselor Song sung by Brooks Jones, Alan Gersten. and Ben Bloom, the Last Wills and Testirnents of the Algonquins recited by Larry Leff and Jeff Salkin, and the Cherokees sung their award winning Camp Sing song.

Jeff Wisoff served as Master of Ceremoniies for the occassion and

was aided by a tape recording by Larry Fischer and Gary Caruso which ran through; the highlights of the summer.

Brooks Jones was in charge of decorations and filled the dining room with hugh colorful representations of the more famous characters of the Marvel Comics Group.

A spe c ia l attraction to the banquet was the presentation of an appreciation gift to Wes Aldrich from his Upper Senior Staff •. Ron Heft presented the coat to which Wes received a standing

ovation.

Lower Senior's

By Robert Klingon

It became the last Friday of the

1970 camp season. Finally this summer day dawned as II Banquet Day"; All

day the Navajos and Cheyennes rest-

l e s sly awaited dinner time.

The decorations were very well done. Don Jenkins did a great job on place cards and such.

Zacherly did an act. He got

d r e s sed in his v arrrp'i r e! s suit and said a prayer of some kind over the skull of some unfortunate camper

6£ old. Todd Bierman and Bobby Toporoff also got into the act.

We then had a delicious rrre a.I of steak and french fries. We all applauded Arthur and his staff. The se rneri have given us excellent service from beginning to end this summer.

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Mac-Kee-Nac OpO/y

We then saw a skit written and directed by J'Irrirny Farber. It was about Scrooge N e IIo, The s ki.t was a riot.

After a day of splicing, Don Bush finally finished revising the film that

the Jurrio r' s saw into the one that the Lower Seniors saw. The film was mainly about the highlights of MahKee-Nac1 s 1970 season. George Gross and his tennis raquete found their way in

also.

We fini sh ed with Me 110n N ella telling us his daily routine. He then said to the delight of all of u.s, ttWill you please? It

The banquet was great.

SUPER JUNIORS.'

The summer of 1970 reached a climax for the Junior campers the evening ~-:.s1F&ZZ-4"f 34 ;rr.ZLel7 Lbe dining rOOID was transformed into a banquet haIl fo r tile Junior Camp Banquet.

Following a high-class "'Sizzling Super Steak" dinner, the campers and counselors broke into a plate-rattling rendition of "Supercalifragilisticexpialidoc ious, II Next came two songs from the July 4th counselor show. sung by Jon Oliver, Hendy Powell, and John Davies.

In repeat performances from last month's Junior Talent Show , the Brother s Warshaw sang "Do ReMi'! and Bobby Litvak led the audience in I'He' s got the Whole World in His Hands. 11

The highlight of the show wa s the "Ma r y Po p-cup" skit, a spoof of " Ma.r y Poppins Co:mes to Mah-Kee-Nac. II

As an extra added attraction, Photography Counselor Don Bush showed his docu:mentary fil:m about the surnrrie r at Camp Mah-Kee-Nac.

It was a fitting finale for a fabulous summer.

JUNIOR CAMPFIRE

ly revie.wd the Junior Camp basketball program, and John Davies did the sam.e for soccer.

The Juniors ended their summer in memorable fashion at a campfire on the last night of camp.

The Juniors ended their summer in memorable fashion at a campfire on the last night of camp.

The program began with the presentation of awards for archery by archery counselor Al Rudolph. Next, Coach Rick Schot t introduced his competi ti ve swim team,and Junior Waterfront Director Mike Pugh presented swimming awards.

The last awards of the evening were Dave Buck1s riflery awards. This was followed by the introduction of the Junior All-Star softball t.eam and the reading of the Iroquois and Mohican last wills and testaments.

To make the evening complete, Thorn Buescher led the campers in singing folk songs.

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After a few final words f rom Head Counselor Steve Brawer, the group joined together in singing Taps, and then headed back to bed for a good night's rest before the long ride home.

The mood was changed temporarily for the reading of the Apache last wills and testaments. Then Hendy Powell brief-

SENECAS

VISIT BOSTON FOR ANNUAL TR.IP

By Mark Altschuler - Seneca

When the Senecas remember 1970, the Boston trip will surely be in the front of their minds. The annual Seneca

Boston trip began on August 24th. Counselors Clark Reisinger and Lee Quackenbush headed it.

After getting settled in the motel, many of us went for a swim in the pool. That night we saw the movie "Catch 2211, which was very enjoyable.

The second day we spent the m.orning touring Harvard University in Cambridge. We walked through Harvard Yard which is enclosed by some of the oldest buildings of Harvard. One of the hewer buildings, Carpenter Hall, was very Irnpr e s sive because of its design.

It had a long stone ramp on both side s

of it.

That afternoon we toured M. I. T. which has a much newer campus than Harvard. The Student Union Building had a modern architecture and was

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Bunk 2.9 Camps Oul

By Andy Lis sand

Mike Isermann - Cheyenne

Bunk 29 camped out on the night of August 14. We were up at the carrips ight and all the Juniors came up for their cookout. We built a fire of our own and cooked hamburgers and hot dogs.

After we ate we listened in on Junior services. Then we had a gam.e of touch football. Before we hit the sack we roasted marshmellows and Rob Reynolds, Danny and Even T'ubl.i.tz play their guitars.

When we got up we went to the mess hall and Arthur gave us breakfast

to cook. There were hardly any mosquitos.

impressive. We went to the top of the Green Building where we enjoyed an excellent view. That night we went to

I 1 Antho.ny , sPier 411 a fine seafood restaurant along the dock section of Boston. Afterwards we saw the Boston Red Sox beat Chicago 8-4 at Fenway Park.

On our final day we went to the Boston Museum of Science. They had

a collection of animal exhibits ranging from birds to wolverines. They also had displays of elements, astronomy and space capsul s, Before leaving Boston, we ate at Durgin Pa.rk, an old established restaurant in the south side of Boston. Soon after we left for camp. Everyone agreed that the trip was excellent.

The following camper s went: Doug Aue r , Jeff Salkin, Larry LeU, Steve Goldman, Dave Katzka, Jim Epstein, Mike Wallick, Tom Epstein, Marshall Wisoff and Mark Altschuler.

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TANGlEWOOD- BEETHOVEN

By Warren Odette - Navajo

On. August 15th some of the Cheyennes and Navajos went to a morning rehearsal at Tanglewood. We heard Beethoven' 8 9' choral Symphony and the

5' Symphony. For people who have never heard Beethoven's music, I think this would have been an excellent experience. The music was like, well it was just great. It was a rehearsal so we heard everything at least twice. At the end we heard a piano 8010 which was really fantastic to see. In the night the real concert was played and Rick Saslow saw it with his friend George. They both love Beethoven and said it was great. That was the last concert we saw out of four con ce r t s, It was really great.

At Last!

Junior Lodge

Completed

By Robert Klingon - Navajo

Sorry, Apaches but you'll have to rewrite your tribal song! The Junior Lodge IS done, finally. The finishing touch (the cuppola) was put on the lodge during the week of August 2 - Aug ust 8. This building shall be the recreation hall for the Junior Carrip, The Junior Lodge also house 5 the stage that the whole carnp will Use for theatrical work. This new stage is considerably larger and deeper than the old stage that we 10" st la st year. The stage and building was dedicated by the magnificent play, "Mary Poppins comes to Mah-Kee-Nac", which was put on by the Juniors.

The lodge has identical porch_es

on 3 of 4 sides. The lakeside porch has the mail box and the mail and canteen window. There is an office for the

drama director (Zach, this year) which also acts as the dres sing room. Steve Brawer (the Junior Head counselor) also has an office, and the camp adrn ini st r a.tive

offices are in a separate wing. There are also two washrooms.

The architecture of this structure is extraordinary. The inside lighting is also strange. The 34 light fixtures in the main room all shine at the ceiling which refiects tho s e rays that they give off. The style of roof supports is also very rare. The building is made TIlO st ly of wood. If

one looks at the main ceiling, he'll see most of the metal (besides the nails) used in the building of the lodge •.

If anyone in camp is waiting for Joe Kruger to hire someone to paint the

lodge then he's wasting his time. Joe plans to have the building weather to a dark grey such as the library has done. I think that natural color is beautiful.

Well. all of us in Mah-Kee-Nac do hope that Joe's new Lodge will live' up to Our expectations and serve us well. We also wish the building to stand longer than the last Junior Lodge.

Woodshop Show Closes

By Peter Gordenstein - Algonquin

All through the year, campers c arrie to the wood shop and made a large assortment of projects. Lazy susans to tables to letter holders were made.

Boys work very hard with George

and Paul all summer. Some boy s make more than one project. There are about

13 major projects and many miscillaneous things like sailboats and wind chime s made.

Then on August 19 the woodshop show is held. It consists of many of the projects put tn catagories and compete

in 1st, Znd , 3rd prize for each category of proj e ct s, Then there is the grand prize given to the best project and person that worked the hardest and put the most time in it.

Shop

Thank you to George and Paul for being here and helping so much. We thank you so very much.

An overall num.ber of projects made in the shop were 130 by the Senior 5 and 80 by the Juniors, This is the most projects made ever in the shop. This is due to the large s iz e of our new shop.

Then the grand prize went to

Rich Friedlander who made a great meat board. Then a picture of Geo r g e ' s

'rno.th e r won 1st prize in rnothe r picture s.

This ends our wood .. shop show for the 1970 year. We hope that your project came in one of these places .•

This year 15 chessboards entered, this is more than any other year.

Here is a list of awards:

* Lazy Susans

1. Don Morr is s

2. Andy Radcliff

3. Carl Seiden

*Chess Boards

I Richard Friedlander

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2. Ronnie Gordenstein

3. Ried Lifset

*Trays

1. Bobby Litvak

2. Lee Weiser

3. Mitch Shames

*Stools

I. Ronnie Gordenstein

2. Todd Bierman

3. Ray Winston

*Book ends

1. Brett Goldberg

2. Spencer King

3. Jeff Paul

* Letter Holder s

1. Tom Lehman

2. Scott See

3. Mark Toporoff

1. 2., 3.

1.. 2. 3.

):<Meat Boards Richard Friedlander Mark Ross

Peter Levy

*Bread Boards Andy Corwin Brad Nager Scott Frank

*Pump Lamps Mitch Rosenberg Mark Roqouin Neil Shane

1. 2. 3.

*Napkin Holders

1. Bobby Shore

2. Lee Weiser

3. Mike Steinlauf *Bird Houses

1.

2. Alex Friend

3. Randy Kahn *Bird Feeders

1. Jon Rich

2. David Dennison

*Boxes

1. Billy Ch a r a sh

2. BObby Perl

3. Andy Corwin *Miscellaneous

1. Peter Gordenstein

2. Jo sh Singer ~<Shelves

1. Andy Lobenz

2. Andy Flower

~'Silverware holders

I, Chip Myer s

2. Donny Uffner

3. Jim Arnold - Wind Chime

BATTENt<ILL RIVER CANOE TRIP

By Mark Cornfeld - Cherokee

August 15th started out as any other normal Mah-Kee-Nac morning other than getting up at Junior reveille and having a good breakfast, two raritie s at camp. The biggest change, however, was y t to come. To David Cantor,

Billy Kern, David Lubman, Mike Marks, Rob rt Barrer, Phil Richards, Peter Nager, Mark Cornfeld and counselors Jeff WisoH and Paul Schneider this day was to house the beginning of a two-day canoe trip through 30 miles of Vermont and upstate New York.

After "enjoying" a two hour car ride we arrived at the banks of the Battenli'ill just North of Arlington, Vt. From there we loaded the canoes and paddled approximately half an hour

before reaching our first rapids. Here our canoes received their first dents and scratches with many more to follow. An hour later we stopped for a lunch of cold cuts, iced tea, and plums with a refresh-

ing dip afterward.

We continued down the river finding many

more rapids and rocks and after several stops searching for a campsite, we found

one at about 5 o'clock.

Our cooking and eating area consisted of an island just across the river from our sleeping area on the mainland. We used a makeshift shuttle, one canoe, as a ferry between the two. We had barbecued lamb chops as our main course

that night.

The next morning after a prebreakfast swim and a delicious breakfast we were off again on the river. We paddled for two hour s before stopping

for lunch at a magnificent camp s ite, equipped with a deep swimming hole, rapids and a beautiful beach for cooking. After our lunch of hot dogs and beans,. we paddled another hour before reaching the conclusion of the trip - ~ a 1 /8 of a mile hike, with canoe s , straight up a hill.

We were fortunate to have only one capsized canoe, this being 100 yds from the end of the trip. We all enjoyed thi s trip and hope for another.

PLEASANT VALtEY BEAVERS

By Reid Lifset - Cherokee

Five Senior s and Phil Car ruther s , the nature counselor, learned how curious beaver 5 are, when they went to Pleasant Valley Wildlife Sanctuary on Sunday the

l5th of August.

When we arrived at the sanctuary, we immediately went to Pike's Pond where the beaver s live. The fir st beaver we saw was in the middle of the pond. It slowly swam towards u s until it was about lOft. away, then it stared at us, turned around

and calmly swam back.

A bit later we saw four beavers at one time, two adults and two young

ones. A few minutes later a beaver swam over to us and walked up on shore, then followed a path down to another small, nearby pond. A seco nd beaver got up on shore but went back into the water when a third beaver gave the warning signal by slapping its large flat

tail on the water.

All together we watched the beavers for an hour, then we were picked up by Bob Behrman. We would have liked

to stay longer.

Sailing On The Sound

By Peter Gordenstein - Algonquin

During the camp season the sailing department at Mah-Kee-Nac gives a test in the sailboats to see if campers are eligible to be skippers. The boys that pass are asked to go on a 43' Trimarane trip on Long Island Sound. It lasted from August 10-13. Seven boys (2 counselors) went.

We left Monday after lunch and arrived at about 5:00 p. rn, at Westbrook, Conn. We unpacked and soon ate dinner. That night, under motor power, we pulled out of dock and dropped anchor off a breakwater. The next morning we raised sails and were off to Mystic Seaport. It was very windy so the counselor s steered. One of Our hatches broke on deck so we took in a lot of water and had to pump it an out. We agreed that Mystic was too far to go so we tried for Old Saybrook, Conn.

We anchored and ate lunch behind the breakwater. We pulled out to try for harbor but only 1 of our engines worked so we just kept going in circles. We could have got in in a matter of time but we grew impatient so we called the Coa st Guard to pull us in.

The dock was called Terri Mar. It was a dock for Cargo yachts. We saw an III ft. ship. It was so big and nice. We stayed in dock over night and fixed our engines,

We pulled out the next day after drying all of our clothes. It was a real nice day and we all sailed the boat. Again our engines failed but we dropped anchor again in the breakwater. We swam in the ocean while Ben Bloom and Mike Turner (the counselors) went fishing in our life boat. Then three of us rowed over to an island

to look for fire wood for the fish they caught, but the island was all sand, rock, and grass. We tried for the harbor. Our engines stopped when we were half way in so we threw an anchor in our life boat and rowed out, dropped anchor then pulled us to the anchor. That was fun but took a lot of work and time so a man ina motor boat came and towed us in.

We woke up the next morning and found I" of water on our floor and 2" below the floor in the haul. The water tank leaked so we drained the boat, packed, ate and left our 43' Trimarane. It was much fun and we really enjoyed it.

Then we loaded up the truck and went to Mystic Seaport by car and saw old ships and ate lunch. Then we were off to Mah-Kee-Nac for supper. It was very exciting and was enjoyed by all.

The boys who went were:

Jeff Li s s

Charlie Samons Jon Ruskin

Louis Brawer Fred Cohen Robert Barrer Peter Gordenstein

The counselors were:

Ben Bloom Mike Turner

SINGLES TOURNEY

UPPER SENIOR TENNIS

CHEROKEE DOUBLES

By Bob Koenig sberg-Cherokee

Bo b WoUf embarked on the idea of setting up a tennis tournament for Upper Senior Camp. The tournament was set up with many boys involved in it.

David Neuman was seeded number and Andy Bass number tw o , It turned out that the predictions were correct as Neuman defeated Bass in two sets 6-2

and 7- 5 for the championship.

After the exciting match, Bob Wolff presented David Neuman with the paper on which the score s of previous matches were scored. A final handshake with his adv e r sary and a photograph flashed for the record books m.ade it an official ending.

My per sonal opinion is that the tournament was an asset to the summer. Not only did it determine the finest tennis player in camp, but in encouraged many boys to get on the courts and play. Tennis is a great sport and highly competitive. The tournament, more than anything else, gave all boys of all athletic abilities some good competition.

A Cherokee double s tournament has been set up now and I am sure it will be equally successful.

By Ivan Kane - Cherokee

After the first elimination there were sixteen pairs of tennis players left. The results of the 2nd elimination matches were as follows: Hait and Abrams v s, Farber and Altschuler. Haft and Abrams won with a total score of eight to one. Hoffman and werner v s, PHshton and Rosenfeld. Plishton and Ro senfeld won with a total score of eight to four. Marks and Lauten v s, Brauer and Corfeld. Marks and Lauten won with a total score of eight to three. Waxman and Goldberg v s, Soloman and Roz yn e , Soloman and Rozyne won by a score of 8- 3.

In the semi-finals it was HaftAbrams v s; Plishtin-Rosenfeld. Haft and Abrams defeated them by scores six-two, six-four. Also in the semi-finals was Marks - Lauten vs. Solomon - Rozyne. Solomon and Rozyne defeated them with scores seven-five, two- six, and eight- six. Down to the finals now with Haft and Abrams v s, Soloman and Rcz yne, It was a close match with Haft and Abrams winning the first set six to two. Solomon and Rozyne came back by winning the next two sets six-three. six-four. After the match, I

hot quotes from the champions. They said as follow s:

Rozyne: III think that we played a hard team to beat but our spirit gave us the victory. Our opponents were good sports until the end and I'd like to thank them for a well played match. "

Solomon: "Barry and Joe played a good match and it was exciting up to the last point. II

,.

Our special thanks to Fred Mc Larn for heading this touznarnent,

TENNIS TOURNEY WINNERS

CHEROKEE DOUBLES

MIKE ROZYNE AND NED SOLOMON

UPPER SENIOR SINGLES

DAVID NEWMAN WI TH BOB WOLFF

GUESS wao=s COMING TO DINNER By David Weinstein - Navajo

On Thursday August 20, 1970, we saw a movie by the name of II Gue s s Who's Coming to Dinne r!", It was really great.

It was about two people who wanted to get married, one black and one white, but the parents 'of the kids wouldn't let them.

At the end they did get married.

THE LOWER SENIOR COUNSELOR HUNT By Mike Zucker - Navajo

In the lower camp we had a counselor hunt. Mo st of the counselor s hid some place in camp. While they were hiding all the boys unscrambled the nam.es of counselors given them by Jim O'Neil.

Then we all went out to look. We looked all over camp.

The Bunks that won were Bunk 28 in the Cheyenne and Bunk 23 in the Navajo. Both found all the counselor s,

THE LIGHTS ARE SHINING

By Mike Zucker - Navajo

Mah-Kee-Nac played four games under the new basketball lights this season.

It was a lot of fun to watch outdoors and outside. I hope we will have many more games next season.

THE ALPHABET GAME Mike Zucker - Navajo

The lower senior camp was split into four groups. They were named by colors. Their names were: Black, Blue, Red, and Green.

The gam.e was played with each team getting all the letters of the alphabet

on cardboard cards. Each boy got one card. The questions were with last or first

name answer s;

The final standings were as follows:

Red-23 Green-19 Blue-I8 Black-16

Riflers

Take

By Roger Stern - Alg o'nqui.n

After a day's delay because of the c a.r ni va l the Mah-Kee-Nac riflery team \V mt to Camp Tohone to shoot in their invitational riflery to ur n arn ent ,

There was an A and B division; the A division for people over thirteen years. of age and the B division for people under thirteen. Our team, entered in the A

d ivi sian, fired on the line with Camp Deerwood.

After a five minute getting ready period and a ten minute sighting in period, the contestants had ten minutes to fire ten rounds of ammunition at a ten bull target. The Mah-Kee-Nac team scored as followed:

Steve Adler 90

Roger Stern 86

J e£f Salkin 86

Danny Gainsberg 85

Robert Fately 77

Jay Toporoff 76

The best five scores were taken giving the Mah-Kee-Nac team a 424 out of a possible 500 and third place.

sturbr'idge ViUage

By Brad Bierman - Cheyenne

On Thursday the Cheyenne tribe visited Sturbridge Village. This village shows how life was during the time between 1790 and 1840.

The bas ride up was long but pleasant. Our fir st stop was a restaurant. After a delicious lunch we headed for the village. The first thing we saw there was a movie showing us life between 1790 and 1840. Next all five groups went out on their own way to see what they wanted to. Just before we got on the bus for the ride back we were allowed to buy gifts at the gIft shop. Then we headed for the bus for

th o r ' . -': to cam.p.

Place

Tohone

al

A division
Tohone Gold 485
Pontiac 428
Mah-Kee-Nac 4.24
Deerwood 408
Half Moon 361
B divis ion
Tohone Silver 441
Lenox 421
Pontiac 409
Deerwood 291
Crane Lake 231 Fat Mal1~ Tennis

By Phil Carruthers

Today saw the opening battle in yet another historic Mah-Kee-Nac "first"

when Jumpin' Jim O'Neil coached Fightin!' Phil Carruthers 6-2 in round one of the Fat Man I s Tennis Tournament.

This unique contest was set up to test a scientific hypothesis that tennis ability is di r e.cfly related to waist rneasurement- -the fatter the better. The result of the first game certainly hears out the theory as it is obvious that J'urrrpiri ' Jim has at least six inch advaritap-: e over Fightin' Phil.

The only eucr aric e qualification is that each contestant must have a waist rneasurem.ent o{ not les s than 36 inches.

The valuable trophy donated (or mher manufactured) by Mr. George Gross attracted the following entries:

Ju.rnpin Jim OINeil Fightin' Phil Carruthers Gorgeous Ge:orge Gross Rollin I Ron Heft

Bounc in ' Bob Behrman Dancin' Don CornfEfld Dangerous Don Bush Jovial Jim. Zeiler Gentleman John Oliver

QUIZARAMA

Hello, my name is Tom Lehman.

I am going to tell you about a game called quizarama. During this summer we had about 3 or 4 quizarama games. The games are so much fun.

Jim O'Ne rl l usually tells us a certain amount of questions, and we try to answer the questions correctly. Whichever bunk in the Lower Senior camp that gets the most questions answered correctly will get a treat, such as a candy bar or maybe they will get extra snacks.

These people say that they like quizarama, think it ' s ok, th ink that it is fair or poor.

GREAT OK FAIR POOR
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By Alan Lewi sand

Spencer Kling - Iroquoi s

We flew a kite and used up seven balls of string on Sunday August 16. It was a bat kite with a psychedelic de sign. When it was time for dinner we tied the str ing on to the Me s s Ha Il,

After dinner we started rolling it in. Steve Reichman and a senior helped us role it in. After about 45 minute s we finally got it down in flying condition.

Ham Radio

By Howie Friedner - Navajo

Even though Ham Radio may not be well known it can be a very interesting hobby.

In 1969 and 70 Al Bianchi was ham instructor, Al holds an Amateur Extra license which is the bighe st amateur license.

At the beginning of the year we just made calls on the rig. The campers

talked to people from California to Germany, the farthe s t ca11 was to Nue r nb e rg ,

g e r many,

Later on we started to work on the Novice Test. To receive the license you have to send and receive morse code five words a minute. That took a lot of practice and study time. Once we knew the whole alphabet we went to paper copy.

Al would send a paragraph from a book in code and we had to get the letters; at

the test 14 passed but tha.t ' s only half of it. The 14 that pas sed had to start studying again for the written test!

There are 50 questions you rnu s t

rn errio r i.ze even though there are only twenty questions on the question paper. Twenty out of 50 questions are computer picked. The questions are tricky. The questions are the rules and regulations of the Federal Communications Commission better known as the FCC. The FCC are the police of radio, They listen on every frequency to every conversation.

I

Al hopes that every boy will pass!

Nobody knows if they passed or not until September, because our papers must go to Gettysburg, Pa. to be processed.

I think Ham Radio at Mah-KeeNac has been s u c c e s sful this year thanks to Al Bianchi. Good Luck to everyone tak i.ng the written test.

BOBBY RIGGS' eLI Nle

Bunk 9

Bunk 1

JUNIORS

MAsaUER.ADE

LS C~qnse'r{)rs

Slemp U~ CO~Melo"'s

By Seth Price and

Rich Schlesinger - Cheyennes

Behind the brilliant :t'our~hit

pitching of Bill Mueller, the Lower Senior Counselor s won the camp softball championship by shutting out the Upper Senior Counselor s by the score of 7-0. The Upper Senior coun selor s entered the garne confident of victory since they had Just beaten

the Junior counselors in a very tight gam.e. But after last years hard loss. the lower senior s were after revenge.

The garne itself was very close with the lower seniors opening up a 2-0 lead after five inning s; But in the sixth and seventh innings the Lower Senior bats really began to hit. Jordy Cohn and Danny Metzger lead the team with two hits each as Cohn had the biggest hit of the day, a booming triple. The lower senior defense was also superb as Steve Nash and Don McLam excelled in the outfield.

It was a great win for head coach Jim Ol Ne i.H and as for Coach Wes Aldrich, well It There's always next year!"

By Peter Berg - Mohican

On August 19 the whole Junior Camp in each bunk made up skits. I think all of them were great but the winner s were Bunk 13, 1, and 9. Bunk 1318 was in a subrna r-in e , Bunk 91 s was Indians in a train and Bunk 1 sang about the eight weeks of camp. The winners got prizes.

Edi to r ' s Note: It was wonderful to see how each Bunk group of campers, and counselors, entered into the spirit of the masquerade. It was fun to be part of it, and fun to watch.

MkiN Tenn;~ PI~ce.$ 'q~ r!)f ~ t

:Ll of Greyloc.k

By Larry J. Fischer

Mah-Kee-Nac rna de a very inauspicious debut in the 1970 Greylock Tennis Tournament due to the fact that its lineup was severely d e pl.eat ed, Our top eight tennis players were up in Takajo, Maine playing in their annual tourney which just happened to be held

the same time as the one in Becket, Ma s s,

The boys that went to Greylock this year were: John Jaffee (Sr. Singles);

Mark Mendal and Bobby Kaye (Sr. Doubles); Bernie Plishton (Jr. Singles); Barry Haft and David Lauten (Jr. Doubles). John

Jaffe had "little troubles disposing of the Scatico .ent r ant, but was ellirninated in the quarter finals by Or irr-Bekw a, Haft and Lauten be at Onota in the fir st round. The two points we received were good enough

to put us in ninth place out of eighteen teams.

On the way home the team dined at F'r-i end ly! s which made the day, as far as the kids were concerned.

JUNI'ORS

AWARDED

RIFLERY

RATINGS

This year four Junior Carrrpe rs -- Larry Br u sk u., Michael Ch ar a sh , Andrew Flower. and Robert Shore -. won the Bar II riflery award. Below is a list of Junior Campers and the awards they won this summer. The awards are pro-marksman, marksman. marksman fir st class, sharpshooter, Bar I and Bar II.

David Bagdan - MM, MIG Jon Bean - MIG, SS

Peter Berg - PM, MM, MIC Robert Berkman - MIG

Jon Block- PM, MM

Steve Bloom - PM

MOHICAN RIF LE AWARDS

Andy Lobsenz - MM, MIC. SS Marc Magod - MIC, 5S

Robert Maltz - MM, MlG, SS Jon Mann - PM, MM, MIG, SS Brian Marks - MIG, 5S

Gary Mittleman - PM, MM Brad Nager - MlG, S5

Ro be rt Perl - MM

Peter Raider - MM, MlG

Mark Ragovin - MIG, SS, Bar I Mitchel Ro senberg - MIG, SS Hank Ross - PM, MM, MIG

Mark Roth en at e in - PM, MM, MIC Donald Sandler - PM

Gary Sass - MIG, SS, Bar I Richard Schulman - MIG, SS Neil Shane - MIC

Larry Bruskin - SS, BAR I, II

Brian Caplan - PM,. MM, MIG, SS Michael Char ash - Ml C, SS, Bar I, II Jeff Coleman - PM, MM, MIG

Jeff Engel- PM

Ken Epstein - MM, MIG, SS

Andy Flower - MIG,· SS, Bar I,. II Adam Harmon - PM

Seth Harrison - PM.

Robert Hoffman - MM, Ml C David Holtzman - PM, MM, MIC Doug lng be r - PM

Howard Kelman - PM, MM, MIC Robert Kenyon - PM, MM .• MlG Jordan Ki s Ia k - MIG, 5S

Steve LeaH - PM

Robert Les ser - PM, MM

Gary Levine - MIG, S5 Robert Litvak - MlC,. 55,.

,

Robert Shore - 55, Bar I, II

Josh Singer - MM

Jeff Spivak - PM,. MM, MIC Rodney Taft - MIC, SS, Bar I

Mark Toporoff - MIC, 55, Bar I Andy Wedeck - M IC,. 55

Sandy Weinberg - PM, MM

Bar I Mark Weinstock - MIC. S5

IROQUOIS RIFLE AWARD5

Scott Agran - PM

Jimmy Aldrich - PM

John Aran - PM, MM Jimmy Ascher _ PM,. MM 1"'1.11 Assael - PM, MM Jon Brainen - PM

Jimmy Brochin - PM Michael Broder _ PM Bobby Cooperman - PM Tony Doblin - PM

Jimm.y Fishman - PM, MM Billy Fisher - PM

Alex Friend - PM

Andy Goldbaum - PM

Eric Gorham - PM, MM

Steven Granat - PM

Phil Gutfleish - PM, MM David Harrison - PM Fred Hazan - PM, MM Louis Hazan - PM

Paul Holtzman - PM, MM Jeff Jacobs - PM, MM Richard Kahn- PM Michael Katz - PM Richard Kenyon - PM Spencer King - PM, MM Randy Kohn - PM

Tommy Kohl - PM

Brad Lamel - PM, MM

Peter Levy - PM

Alan Lewis - PM, MM Chip Myers - PM

Alan Oppenheimer - PM Eric Orland - PM, MM Jeff Paul - PM

John Perkoff - PM, MM Billy Rapaport - PM

Neil Rubenstein - PM, MM John Siegel - PM, MM Mike 5teinlauf - PM

Lee Weiser - PM

Ed Z al asnic k - PM, MM Jon Zimmerman - PM

ARCIIIE RY AWA,tD>S ANNO~JV(tl)

By Alan Rudolph--Counselor

After a rocky and totally disorganized beginning, some fine archers emerged this year.

The Senior archery program nearly, but not quite, got off the ground, due to the lack of an archery counselor for the Seniors, so the Juniors carried on alone.

Several boys nearly got to take their American Archer tests, but ran out of time; Tom Kohl was was just passed for best archer in the last week by Ivan Assael. Top. Apache was Mike Mintz, who just made it to thirfy yards. Tom and Ivan are Iroquois now, so maybe they will be the next Junior American Archers.

Below is a list of this year's archery awards.

JUNIOR YEOMAN PIN (15 yards, 60 points)

Jon Kirshtein YEOMAN PIN

andy Behrman (15 yrds . , 100 pts.)

Robert Burnett Russell Glass

Joe Schwartz Ira Warshaw

Tom Echikson Peter Aldrich Steve Granat Randy Kohn

Tony Doblin Peter Levy Jinnny Aldrich Brad Lamel Bobby Cooperman Paul Holtzman Robert Kenyon Peter Berg Sandy Weinberg Bobby Perl

Gary Mi.uelman Robert Lesser Hank Ross

Marlt. Toporoff Jeff Engel

Seth Harrison

John Davimos Scott Corwin Andrew Kohn Steve Aaronson Eric Gorham' John Perkoff Chip Myers

Mitch Rosenberg Mark Rothenstein Neil Shane

John Mann

Peter Raider Steve Bloom Robert Berkman Jon Block

JR. BOWMAN PIN

(20 yds .. , 60 pts .. )

Abe Warshaw

Mark Sass

Doug Coleman
Mark Boxwr
John Arum
Mike Steinlauf JUNIOR YEOMAN ARROW (15 yards, 80 pts.)

Spencer King Alan Oppenheimer Jim Brochi.n Rodney Taft

Frank Kern Eric Dobbin Pau~ Orland Jon Zimmerman Jeff Paul

Rich Kenyon Andy Wedeck Jeff Spivalt. David Holtzman Robert Maltz

JUNIOR BOWMAN ARROW (20 yds.; 80 pts.)

Rich Kahn

Mark Weinstock Gary Sass

BOWMAN PIN

(20 yds. 100 pts.)

Louis Hazan

Rick Schulman Mark Ragovin

BOWMAN MEDAL

(f 20 yds., 130 pts.)

Mike MIntz

Alex Friend

Jimmy Fishman

Scott Agran

Brian Caplan

Brian Marks

BOWMAN PIN (Sharpshooter) (20 yds., 160 pts.)

Fred Hazan

Philip Gutfleisch John Seigel

Larry Bruskin

David Bagdan Mark Magod

ARCHER PIN

(30 yds. 100 pts.)

Gary Levine Andy Goldbaum

ARCHER MEDAL

(30 yds.; 130 pts.)

Rob sbore

Ed Zalaznick

SILVERBOW PIN (40 yds., 100 pts.) Tom Kohl

SIJ.VERROW PIN 1st RANK (40 yds., 130 pts.)

Ivan p,ssael

SENIOR RIF LER Y

Under the guidance of Bill Chandler, the Lower and Upper Seniors improved their skill on the rifle range. The highest rating obtained by a Lower Senior was Andy

Li s s+ s Bar IV. The highest among the older boys was Robert Fately' 5 Bar Vll.

SS-Sharpshooter •. MIC-Marksman 1st. MM-MarksITlan PM- ProMarksman

LOWER SENIOR RIFLERY AWARDS

Philip Milton-55 Peter K1ebanow-SS Robert Silver-55 Ken Maries-55

Paul Reader-Bar 111 Jay Blumberg-Bar 1 Andrew Li s s- Bar IV Danny Gainsburg-Bar 1 Mike Iserman-MIC Mike Adesrnan-MIC Jon Liebrnan=Ba.r 11 Mitchell Shame s -MM Peter Feldman-MIC Steve GochrnanMIC Mike Kopelowitz-MIC Lenny Russell-SS

Eric Wollan-MIC

Steve Bleiberg- Bar I Ron Gutfleish-MIC Dave Remnick-MIC Richard Scheyer-MIC Todd Bierman-SS

Billy Echelson-MIC Carl Seiden-MM

Torn Laskey-MIC Michael Zucker-SS Neil Gubin- PM

Arthur Haft- MM

David Newburger-MIC David Denison- SS

Doug Kahl-Bar 11

Jon Rich-MIC

Dave Weinstein-55

Bob Toporo££-PM Brett Goldberg-SS

Mar k Mintz - MM

Howard Russell-SS Scott Frnaks-MM Stuart Fishman-MM Richard Pelzman- SS Andrew Fately- Bar 1 Danny Uffer - MM

UPPER SENIOR RIFLERY AWARDS

J ef£ Salkin- Bar VI John Jaffe-Bar V

Jon Spector-SS

Bruce Gharash-SS Robert Fately- Bar Vll Robert Samit- Bar 1 Roger Stern- Bar VI Bill Barnard-SS

Lar ry Leff - Bar III Mark Philips-SS

Evan Tublitz-Bar IV Adam Steiner-SS

John Roberts-Bar 111 Jon Siegel-MIG

Steve Haubenstock-SS Robert Issow-SS

Torn Kass-SS

Steve Adler-Bar IV Bob Konigsburg-MIG David Soloway- Bar VI Jay Toporoff-Bar III John Wedeck-Bar 11 Robert Spelke-Bar Il l Phillip Richards-Bar 11 Steve Silverman-SS Steve Kurens-Bar n

SWIMMING

Campers from our three campus divisions rnade progres s at the waterfront this summer, with seventeen carnpers passing the Red Cross Advanced Swirnmers rank. Michael Charish passed both Basic and Advanced Survival.

These campers are:

Harold Weinstein Jay Toporoff David Lauten Barry Haft

Mark Gornfeld

Jon Bernstein Basic Survival:

David Seaman Don Morris Seth Price

David Luhman Rick Waxman Reid Lifset

Mike Rozyne Ned Solomon

Ivan Kane Bob Barrer

Fred Rosenfeld

M~ ke Char ash Ad=-v-. a-n-c-e-':d~S-u~r-v-=i-v-a-::l-:""'M:-::-':i:":"k-e-Char a s11 -

Forty' boys pas sed Red Cross Swimrner s this aurnrn er , They are:

roe Carnpanelli ;teve Taft

?eter Klebanow iteve Haupt fohn Lowell vIike Ade srn an ,am Strober ~reg Bennett Zan Glassman \ndy Fately

Todd Bi e r m.an

Don Uffner

Scott Shane

Paul Feldman Richard Pelzman Jon Siegal

Mark Silbey

Peter Grabell Bernard Mancuse Robert Koenigsberg

David Soloway Steven Silverman James Shenwick Larry Bruskin Steve BloOITl Mark Magod Roddy Taft

Mark Toporoff William Charash Bill Echikson

Doug Kohl Robert Hahn Paul Ho stovsky David Dennison Carl Seiden Sandy Weinberg Hank Ross .Robe r t Silver Drew Corwin Mike Zucker

Those who passed the Red Cross lnterrnediate tests were:

Jirn Lyons Steve Bleiberg Tom Lehmen Stuart Fi shman Scott Frank Pete Steinweg Rich Scheyer

Bob Klingon Bruce Winer Jon Block Hank Ross Gary Levine Brian Marks David Stone

Jon Smolen Larry Peck Andy Wedeck Mark Sass Jeff Li s s AndyF'z ank Mike S.chwartz

Philip GUtfleisch Bobby Kenyon Gary Sass

Josh Singer Jordan Kislak Bobby Perl Mitch Rosenberg

The boys who passed Advanced Beginners were:

Brad Lame!

Jon Perkoff Jimmy Aldr ich Robert Berkman Eric Doblin

Jeff Coleman Mark Rothenstein Garry Mitte lrnan Jon Liebman

David Holtzman Billy Fisher Randy Kahn Fred Hazan

Bobby Cooperman Abe Warshaw

Ira Warshaw

Chip Myers

Do Coleman

The boys who passed the Beginners test. are:

Steve Aronson Larry Wallick David Newburger Henry Ginsberg
F.rank Kern Howard Kelman Bobby Lesser Joe Schwartz
Jeff Warshaw Robert Burnett Drew Kohn John Arum
Jimmy Brochin Neil Rubinstein Lee W'-iser Mike Steinlauf
Jimmy Ascher Alan Lewis Jeff Jacobs Paul Holtz:man
Steven Granat Robert Kaufrnan Scott Sokolow Scott Agran
Richard Kenyon Alex Friend Eric Doblin J. L.S.

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Our Junior Life Saving classes worked hard all summer, and the end of the practical and written tests found thirty five campers passing the Red Cross Junior Life Saving Course •.

There were a number of classe s, the instructor s being Bill Mueller, Bill Streit, Don McLam and Dave Shields.

The campers who earned this Red Cross Junior Life Saving emblem were:

Jay Blumberg Jay Goldbaum Mark Mintz Ken Marks Scott See

Steve Gochman Dave Dean Lenny Russell Dave Remnick

Kenny Boxer Torn. Kass

Dave Cantor Bernie Plishtin Phil Richards Bob Spelke Josh Farbor Mike Marks Phil Milton

Neil Gorden David Hannon Harry Miller Dave Weinstein Bob Toporoff Arthur Haft

Nick Mandelkern Jeff Pe r koff

Ron Gordenstein

CANOE.ING

Rich Friedlander Brad Bierrnan Rich Schles singer Nre l Gubin

Roger Su s sman Joe Abrams

Peter Nager

Ken Werner

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With three c ario e trips as an incentive, eighteen campers passed the Red Cross Basic Canoe Course this summer.

The canoe program was under the director of Paul Schneider, certified Red Cross Instructor, who 1 e d the three canoe trips.

Campers who passed are!

Robert Barrer William Kern Peter Nager David Cantor Mark Cornfeld Michael Marks

David Lubman Phillip Richards John Ruskin

Jon Siegel

Reid Lif s et

Jay Toporoff

Richard Waxman Fred Rosenfeld Harold Weinstein Evan Tublitz Peter Klebanow Rog er Su s sman

SAILING

Our fleet of eight Mercury Sailboats and staff of five sailing Instructors, plus the fine weather all summer, kept our sailors out on the lake a great deal of the time.

Sailors must pass Basic Sailing.. Helmsman. Crewman before they can become skippers. Ben Bloom, our Sailing Director, sailed here for a number of years as a camper, and completes his third year on our sailing staff.

Campers who passed Basic Sailing were:

Mitch Shame s Bobby Toporoff Jack Ba.r ba sh Ken Werner Billy Kern Mark Cornfeld

Doug Auer

Steve Gochman. Roger Stern Harold Weinstein Jeff Liss

Peter Gordenstein

Robert Barrer John Ruskin Charley Samons Fred Cohen Louis Brawer Mark Mintz

Working with Ben on the Sailing Staff were David Ehle, Greg Lymbery, Alan

Kelman and Jeff WisoH. Campers who pa ss ed Crewsman are:

Peter Bleiberg Ken Boxer

Andy Corwin David Dean Bernie Mancuso

Robert Fately Billy Echikson Peter Grabel Jon Roberts Steve Taft

Robert We.rner James Shenwick Robert Spelkie David Weinstein

Campers who passed Helmsman were:

Mitchell Shames Jack[e Barbash

Mark Gornfeld Doug Auer Steve Gochman

Roger Stern Hal Weinstein Billy Kern

Nine carnpe r s passed the final glory of becoming skippers, with seven passing in time to sail onlnng Island Sound in a large s a i.Iboa.t, The men Are:

Jeff Lis.s Robert Barrel' John Ruskin

Charly Samons Fred Cohen Louis Brawer

Peter Gordenstein Mark Mintz

Billy Kern

Bobby Toperoff