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Date Posted: 14:10:35 12/06/09 Sun
Author: Charlotte Bidwell Bacon
Subject: Remembering the forties and fifties.
In reply to: Sylvia 's message, "Q & A with Bob and Charyl Hanson in Summer 2008 VT Life" on 17:15:23 05/19/08 Mon

My aunt was a camper in the 1920s and I donated her riding trophy to the camp several years ago. I was an intermediate in '46, '47 and a senior in '48, '49 and a jaycee in '50, '51 and a counselor in '52, '53. (I think I have the dates remembered correctly!) I remember Mary Louise Lockwood, whose message the owners received. My camp nickname was "Charlie" (Bidwell) and I played reveille and taps some of those years. Getting up and putting that freezing cold bugle to my lips is a lingering memory.

We wore copen blues for every day and navy wool shorts and white blouses for Sunday. The teams were the Whites and the Blues...I was a White. Campers accumulated points for their team when they passed certain tests. As has been mentioned, it was competitive.

A few years ago I visited the camp when it was closed and walked around. Such vivid memories!

Some of the many campers I recall: "Peanut" McQuade, Nan Tobin, Parke Perkins, Marilyn and Carol Turtle, Phyllis Fraser, Donna Johnson, Allene Shore, Liza Lee Culbertson, Helen Schultz, Joan Nash, the Yingling twins, Jannie Atwood, "Lucky" Luckner, Arlene Williams, Carol Kormendy. If I thought longer, I could come up with others. What has become of them? I am 75 and some of them were older than I am. How difficult to trace female friends when many have changed their names. Did you younger ones know that Debbie Reynolds (the actress) was a camper in the '40s?

"Charlie"

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