Binder 1985

A SUMMER CAMP FOR BOYS
THE TOTEM

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Camp Mah-Kee-Nac For Boys Lenox, MA 01240

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Directors:

Joe Kruger. Jim O'Neill. Donny and Nancy Metzger 190 Linden Avenue

Glen Ridge, NJ 07028

(201) 429-8522

Volume 49, Number 1


July 3, 1985

Opening Day A Smash Hit

Camper Justin Lehman gets off the bus on Opening Day.

By Ken Bloom, Seneca 46

This year's Opening Day has been a great success, and has started off what should be an excellent summer.

There were only a few problems with the departure. The bus company, based in Massachusetts, mistimed the trip to West Orange and when they arrived, parents cars were already in the lot, so the buses had trouble maneuvering. However, all other aspects of the trip, including the co-departure with Camp Danbee, went very well.

Mah-Kee-Nac has a well trained staff this year with a good mix of rookie and veteran counselors, who had been busy preparing for the camper's arrival.

An important change this year will be our sister camp, Danbee.

It promises to be an exciting and rewarding summer for all involved.

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• Camp Danbee

• DannYt Jim, Mark, Ralph, Andy and Sarah.

• Opening Day Photos

• Campfi res

• USR Social and Archery

• Improved Nature Center

Mark Toporoff Back Fo,r Eighth Year /

The six foot, 175 pounder has black hair and brown eyes to go along with a beard. He is a former nature counselor who would gladly come back simply as a counselor if they would let him.

During the winter Mark worked at a private school in Tallulah Falls, Georgia, as a dorm counselor with Mr. IBM. Mike Dale, where he will teach science this coming year.

By Jon Gol dberg Cflerokee 39

Mark Toporoff, Head Counselor for the lower seniors, will be celebrating his 25th birthday on August 12th along with the. end of his eighth year here at Camp Nah-Kee-Nac.

Mark's family is also a part

of the Mah-Kee-Nac family. His father is now entering his second year as a doctor here, and his brothers Jay and Bob, were also campers.

He's certainly come a long way since his two years spent here as a camper.

"I always try to bring in new ideas and things that the campers want to do" said Mark.

Commenting on Mah-Kee-Nac, he said, ItI've seen other camps but this one is the best".

Mark would gladly remain as a head counselor, but every once in a while he goes back to the Nature Center to check on the bunnies.

Ralph Wilcox Is Now Program Director

Carnival, Olympics" Intercamp Games, Socials and both day long and extended trips.

This is Ralph's eighth year at Mah-Kee-Nac. He came first in 1975 as a soccer counselor and served as Cherokee group leader for three years. After that, Ralph was Junior Head Counselor in 1979 - the same year that he met his future wife Barbara, the present head nurse at camp.

By Ken Bloom Seneca 46

Ralph Wilcox is Mah-Kee-Nac's Program Director this year. As Program Director, his job is two-fold. He ensures quality instructions in each activity and plans special activities such as the

Following three years in Canada, he came back to camp as Upper Senior Head Counselor in 1983, where he remained until his promotion this year.

Danny And Jim Offer New Directions

Mah ... Kee ... Nac And Danbee A Perfect Pair

By Andrew Pitman Seneca 46

By maintaining the camps as individual units, Jim hopes to eliminate the possible problems of a co-ed camp and emphasize the positive, thus providing the best of both worlds.

Mah-Kee-Nac, a camp in constant motion, has recently acquired a sister camp.

The idea for a sister camp is not new. For several years, beginning withJoe Kruger, and continuing with Danny and Jim, parents have been asking about a Mah-Kee-Nac for girls.

Jim further said, "The ownership of Danbee has streamlined procedures here at Mah-KeeNac" .

The purchase of Camp Danbee

was the response to these requests. According to Jim, Danbee was chosen out of the other available camps primarily for "availability and quality".

It is probable that many exciting and new programs will be made available that were previously impossible, due to this merger.

Andy Cole Returns As Head Counselor

camp since 1972. If he didn't get the job here, he probably wouldn't have applied to any other camps.

Andy says that being Head Counselor is very rewarding and that we have a great bunch of kids at Camp MahKee-Nac.

Greg Tiefenbrun Iroquois 8

Andy Cole has been a camper and a counselor for 10 years spending five years at each position before becoming the Junior Head Counselor this year.

He comes from Great Neck, N.Y. and has been coming to

As a youngster he began when he was 11 as a Navajo for 1 year. He moved up to being a Brave. When he was

younger, he was into archery and basketball and he was in all the drama shows. He was also writing in the Totem.

Sarah Bradford Likes Her Guys

People in her bunk - both campers and counselors - feel that Sarah's nice. The counselors in bunk 4 with her are Rik Martinec and Rodgers Allison.

Rodgers said, "Sarah is a very good counselor and an asset to Junior Camp".

She has brown hair and green eyes and is 5 foot 8".

Sarah is 22 and lives in New Philadelphia, Ohio, and goes to Bowling Green State University. Her school is in Bowling Green, Ohio.

Jedd Fisch and

Seth Schwartz Iroquois 6

Sarah Bradford feels good about being a counselor for boys.

She teaches art and crafts.

Sarah is speech pathology major and she just graduated. However, she is planning to go to Grad. School.

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Summer Starts With Campfires

Indians Welcome Juniors

Skipper Vine and Jeremy Tiefenbrun

The junior camp had a campfire on the first night near the lake with something special thrown in - indians coming ashore to light the fire from a canoe.

Three coun se Lo'r s , Joe DUBoi s (Ra~bo) Danny Cramer and

Peter Marcil, were in the canoe and we were supposed to think they were real indians.

In addition to the fire, we

sang songs. Rodgers Allison

led "Circle"' a song by Harry Chapin, while Natalie Ascherlbach led a song called the "Legend of Glory Gulp". Ellen Neff also led a song. But before the campfire, the junior camp met

in the junior lodge for three skits using old television shows, Family Feud, Fashion Show and

To Tell The Truth to introduce the new counselors.

After the campfire songs,everybody roasted three marshmallows. Then we went back to our bunks.

USRs Bombarded

Because of rain last week, the Upper Senior Camp did not have a campfire.

Instead, the campers went

to the field house where Don Siegel introduced the Upper Senior Counselors.

At the end of the night, everyone played a few games of Bombardment.

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Joe Burns

Navajo 25

Lightly falling rain didn't damper the spirits of the Lower Senior Campers as they gathered around a blazing campfire their first night here at Mah-Kee-Nac.

The entertainment began with "Aunt Milly's Cake Mix" performed by Big Joe La as the film director, Rick, "Rocky" Patanella as Aunt Milly, Joe Burns and Tim Jones as the sons,

and Ken Handelsman as t.he doctor.

Joe came back with his guitar and sang "John Jacob Single Heimer Schmitt" and John Denvers "Country Roads". Rick also reappeared with his ever popular and always intriguing magic acts and held the crowd spellbound.

Closing off, the talent for the evening was Mah-Kee-Nac's version of "If I Were Not a Counsellor" which had t.he gang in stitches. Performing the skit were Scott "'Gumby" liles, Stan Benvin, Chris Cradock, Alan Friedman, Winston Leslie and Big

The rain began to fall harder and the sky darker as the gathering broke up. Hopefully such gatherings will continue throughout our summer season.

USRs Hold First Social

Tony Cooper Cherokee 34

The first Social of the sununer between Camp Mah-Kee-Nac and Camp Danbee occurred last Friday at the local roller rink in Pittsfield. Although the social was unscheduled, the weather factor helped make it possible to the delight of both Camps.

Many of the counselors tried on roller skates for what appeared to be the first time in quite a while. Their inexperience was highly visible by the number

who found themselves planted on their backsides, self included.

Alan Rudolph On Target

David Levithan Cherokee 39

This year the archery class is back in good form and the person responsible for that is Alan Rudolph ..

This is Alan's 13th year at Mah-Kee-Nac, but he shows no

sign of weakening or slowing down. One reason for Alanis success with campers is that he seems to know how the campers act, he should for he is a former Mah-Kee-Nac camper himself. Another reason for his success

is that he can put up with anything!

Alan, as usual, seems to show enthusiasm for this year's archery program, and if the program is as successful as it usually is, part of the credit should go to our senior archery counselor, Alan Rudolph.

Both Camps seemed to have geared up for the occasion. Not only with fine clothes, but also with high expectations of meeting that someone special. The girls had deftly arrayed themselves with those special feminine touches that so captivated the guys that many found it difficult to choose between skating and watching the more scenic attractions.

During the skating social, lots of old friendships were renewed and new ones made. Rumor has it that a few pecks were given out although the author has no proof of this. For those of us not so lucky, the sununer's still young and our hopes are still high. All in all, it was a very good time in which everyone was well behaved.

Totem Staff Members

Ken Bloom, Andy Pitman,

Jon Goldberg, David Levithan, Jeremy Rubin, David Herman, James Burger, Mattthew Bird, Casey Safron, Jeff Levine, Jonathon Roth, Jedd Fisch, Seth Schwartz, Paul Leinwand, Geoff Goldschein, Ricky McKenzie, Jon Adler, Greg Tiefenbrun, Tony Cooper, Daniel Engber, Mike Damast, Jon Weinstein, Claude Meyer, Greg Donoghue, Jason Faltings, Dan Katch, Matthew Fraiman.

Photography in this issue of the Totem by:

Rodgers Allison, Ari Kempler, Ilan Kempler, Andy Pitman, Patrick Kelly and Ken King.

Special Thanks to Phil Bucknall and Dave Bramer.

Nature Center Is Better Than Ever

A Nature Center gerbil

gets a finger-tip view.

By Jeff Epstein Seneca 44

One of the most interesting artimals in this menagerie is Tom Arnold's chinchilla, Max. Chinchillas are one of the largest members of the rodent family and primarily found in South America.

If you haven't already visited the Nature Center - go. It's the best it's ever been.

The two counselors, Ellen Neff and Tom Kolberg, are confident that this summer wil-l be a successful learning experience.

Other members included 1n this wide assortment are five rabbits, four gerbils, two turtles, one fish, many tadpoles (ranging in size from five milimeters to four centimeters), one garter snake, a few sumanders, two noisy parakeets, one small common brown bat (soon to be set free) and more.

III guess as far as the nature program is concerned, II says Ellen and Tom, "we want to share nature with children, encouraging them to develop their senses of curiosity and wonder about the world we live in and in turn they will learn more about themselves.

So, come on down and discover.

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Volume 48, Number 2


July 10, 1985

British Win Junior Camp Revolution Day

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The winning Junior Camp team of "British" troopers.

Revolution Day for 75

Junior Campers meant dividing into American and British teams for the day and competing in a wide variety of games.

The British began the day by winning in one-pitch softball by a 26-22 score. They went on to surprise the Yanks in basketball as well, 26 to 19.

The Americans, in turn, upset the British in cricket, 30- 29, with Patrick Kelly coaching the winners.

In the afternoon round, the Americans drenched the British in the bucket brigade race by winning all three heats.

The British bounced back in human stratego, though, to win by an 89-84 margin.

After a series of rope pulls, the British came a.way as overall Revolution Day Winners by a 169 to 164 score, thus returning the colonies to Her Majesty.

Despite loosing, the Americans l.n Junior Camp had spirit.

British Win LSR Wide Game

By Ben Hirsch,

The game started in the afternoon with each team organizing. The object of

the game was to get a bomb - really a box of clothes pins

Navajo 26

On the first of July the Lowen Seniors played a game called the Wide Game.

The camp was divided up into two teams, the Americans and the British.

- which is worth points when gotten from the opposing team.

The American captain was Gumby and the British captain was Gary Potts.

In the end, the British Team won by 47 to 37 score.

POSSIBL.E ADDITION TO M-K-N

Ellen Neff and Tom Kolberg, the nature counselors at Camp Mah-Kee-Nac, aren't

certain yet, but one of the gerbils could be pregnant.

The Totem will keep you informed about this development

as it continues.

Donoghue Guarding The Waterfront

By Jason Faltinqs and Gregg Donoghue

Navajo 26 and 25

Jim Donoghue is the head of the waterfront and loves his job very much.

Big and burly, he likes kids most of the time, but he hates the waterfront on rainy days and kids who lose their chips.

The head of swimming by the way, is his wife Martha.

Jim likes tennis, music, softball, basketball and reading.

A new thing on the waterfront this year is the new blue

ski boat.

Jim and daughter Meghan share

a special moment.

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By Claude Meyer Navajo 28

Everybody liked the "TOUCH" table where you could touch all kinds of armor.

Navajos Sweep Through Western Mas

At 9:39 a.m. on July 9, 68 restless Navajos,

11 counselors along with the Navajo Group leader Joe LoTemplio, boarded two buses to go on a day trip to

the Higgins Armory Museum and then the Worcester Science Center.

When we boarded the

bus, we went on to the Worcester Science Center.

Then everybody went on a mini-train ride around the center.

It took approximately two hours and 19 minutes to go the 97.4 miles

to the Armory, then

an additional 28 minutes to the Science Center.

N~xt, it was on to the Science Museum where

we saw many interesting exhibits.

As we left the bus at

the Armory, Joe Lo handed $2 to each of the campers.

Finally it was off to the planetarium to se.e an Indian Legends show about how the stars got in the sky.

In the Armory we spent about 40 minutes looking around.

Cherokees Amused On Trip

By David Levithan Cherokee 39

shooting exhibit, however it was an unsuccessful part of the trip because

it was very disorganized.

On Monday, July

8th, the Cherokees went on a day trip to the Basketball Hall of Fame and Riverside Amusement Park in Springfield, Massachusetts.

One camper, Jon Goldberg, said, "Although it wasn't as fullfilling as many campers expected, most of them enjoyed it."

The first stop was the Basketball Hall of Fame which has

many pieces of memorabilia from the history

of basketball.

They also had an interesting foul

Next was a visit

to Riverside Amusement Park, where the highligbt was an awesome roller-coaster called the "Cyclone".

THE STOQ\( OF M'K. SPOON

By Adam Greene and Ilan Kempler

Iroquois

Mr. Spoon was at Camp MahKee-Nac, living in Bunk 5 as a Mohican with Rambo. He was just a working class plast.ic spoon.

One day as Jim called everyone to breakfast, Mr. Spoon was having a meeting with

his friends in the dining hall. The call to breakfast caught Mr. Spoon by surprise.

He looked up and said, "Oh no, here come the kids. I'd better hide."

Mr. Spoon was hiding in the large box of big cereal spoons when "OK" Andy started down the line. First, he picked

up a napkin. Then he took a spoon, but it broke. Finally, he picked up Mr. Spoon.

"OK" Andy then picked out three boxes of Raisin Bran Cereal, got milk and a bowl, then went to table nine to eat with Jim, his head counselor.

Andy opened the first box. Mr. Spoon, very slowly, tried to crawl away, but got tangled in the napkins. Andy picked him up and Mr. Spoon said, "Don't do this to me." But "OK" Andy didn't hear him.

"Yuk," said Mr. Spoon, "he's going to stick me in his cold cereal."

And "OK" Andy did that, too.

"Ugh, now he's going to stick me in his mouth."

Worse than that, Mr. Spoon!

"Ouch, he bit me," Mr. Spoon said.

And it went on and on, box after box of Raisin Bran Cereal, all dipped mooshy in cold milk.

After the meal, "OK" Andy picked up his tray, went to the exit and dumped all the dishes, all the boxes, cups and Mr. Spoon into the trash.

"Oh nooo," said Mr. Spoon.

"It smells in here. What will become of me now?"

And no one knew.

The Totem Needs Your Help

This year we'd like to make the Totem a vehicle for total camp expression - in the arts as well as simply a record of the goings on at Camp Mah-Kee-Nac. So, in that vein, we'd like to invite you to contribute short stories, poems and artistic endeavors that may not normally fit into

a newspaper format.

We need correspondents in both the upper and iower Senior camps, just to keep us up to date on

the events that are.taking place

each day. The stories don't need to be long, but we would like to have something on each camp each day.

If you have ideas about subjects that you think will fit into the Totem, either news or artistic material, contact Bill Moore at the Totem office (in the back section of the Nature building) or reach him in his Bunk - No. 7 on the Junior Campus.

A Doctor's Stay At M-K-N

By Eric J. Ruby, M.D. Camper '59, 160,

161, 64 •.

Pediatrician '85.

Being the pediatrlcian at Mah-Kee-Nac the first two weeks of

the 1985 season has been a memorable

and rewarding experience.

The camp has improved physically with its offerings of computer, rocketry, lacrosse, wind surfing, and

rope course as well as new fields and

new field houses. These only add to

the basic superlatives of softball, tennis, riflery, archery,

and wa.terfront.

The kitchen, the infirmary, and the staff in general, seem to care just as much now as they did 21 years ago. Joe and Frances can

be proud of the work Jim and Danny are doing. 11m pleased that my son Ethan,

a Mohican, my wife, and my daughter Abby,

age six, could appreciate this exceptional experience.

Our infirmary and

camp philosophy of medicine (academic

and T.L.C.) have expanded my professional scope. Personally,

I have been able

to visit Tanglewood and the homes of Melville, Wharton, Hawthorne, and French. I have been able

to read, write, and recreate ..

A. vacation is complete when I can feel rested, worked, and involved with my family all

at the same time.

Thank you Mah-Kee-Nac for wonderful summers

- past and present.

The Nurses of Mah-Kee-Nac

By Claude Meyer

Navajo 28

Everybody at Mah-Kee-Nac has to go to the Health Center for various reasons. When you go there, you will find either Barbara Wilcox, Eileen Lynam, Gretchen Nobis or Kim Green, a rotating nurse who works at both M-K-N and Camp Danbee.

The head nurse is Barbara Wilcox. She has been

a nurse for six years and her specialty is pediatrics. This is her fifth year at camp.

Barbara lives on Long Island in New York,

with Ralph Wilcox the Program director at M-K-N. Ralph and Barbara met when he brought

her a donut for a counselor snack.

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Mac-Kee-Nac Nurses

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Barbara is 30 years old and graduated from Boston State College.

Her horne town is Squantum, Massachusetts.

Speaking of the other nurses, Barbara said, "I get along very well with them. They are lovely."

The next nurse is Eileen Lynam, She has been

a nurse for four years

and specializes in pediatrics and med/surge. This

year is Eileen's second

year here.

She lives on Long Island

as well, but her horne

town is Broooklyn, New

York. Eileen is 24

years old, unmarried

and she graduated from Nursing School in !I1anhattan.

The third nurse is Gretchen Nobis who has been a

nurse for three and

a half years. She specializes in pediatrics and med/surge

as well. This is her

first year at M~K-N.

Gretchen lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, which is also

her home town. She is

24 years old, unmarried

and has graduated from

Christ Hospital School

of Nursing and now goes

to Xavier University

where she is majoring

in education.

Take Gretchen's word for it, "Camp is fun because of the people and the nurses. II

Barbar~ Wilcox, Eileen Lynam, Gretchen Nobis and Kim Greene.

Our last nurse is Kim Green , who is a rotating nurse between Danbee

and M-K-N. As a nurse for three and a half years, Kim specializes

in surgical nursing.

This is her first year here.

Kim lives in York, Pennsylvania, which is also where

she was born, She is

24 years old, single

and graduated from the University of Delaware.

When asked how she got along with the other nurses, Kim said, "Just fine. We have a lot

of fun."

In the Health Center they have 75 to 100 patients per day with

some sore throats, stomach aches, sprains, colds, cuts, allergies~ mosquito

bites and lots of routine medications.

Barbara, Eileen, Gretchen and Kim ar~ always glad to see you.

Ed Schneider Controls The Courts

the moment there

are seven intercamp tournnam~nts planned, plus the Lipton

and Avis tournements during Upper Senior Specialty Week.

Also for Specialty Week, Ed intends

to lead a trip to Stratton, Vermont, to see the Volvo tournement. Of course, there's always the tennis ladders and the camper-counselor tournament.

Ed Schneider Teaching.

So get ready for the u.S. Open, or our Mah-Kee-Nac Open with Ed at tennis.

By Ken Bloom Senca 46

A fresh can of yellow balls, firm clay

court, graphite

raquets and white clothing. All symbolic of the great sport

of tennis. And presiding over the

game this year is

Ed Schneider.

This is Ed's first year as Mah-Kee-Nac's tennis dirrector.

He winters in Teague, Texas, where he coaches t.enn i s, basketball, track and cross country.

Ed worked as Winadu's tennis director

in 1982 and 1983

and decided to take the job when he

heard about the opening in our staff.

Ed has many plans

for the tennis program this summer. At

Ken Bloom, Andy Pitman, John Goldberg, David Levithan, Jeremy Rubin,. David Herman, James Burger, Matthew Bird, Jeff Levine, Jonathan Roth, Jedd Fisch, Seth Scwartz, Geoff Goldschein, Ricky McKenzie, Jon Adler, Casey Safron, Greg Tiefenbrun, Daniel Engber, Gregg Donoghue, Jason Faltings, Mike Damast, Jon Weinstein, Claude Meyer, Dan Katch, Matthew Fraiman, Brian Perla, Danny Jewel, Marc Hochstein, Aaron Golbert, Matthew Gabin, Ben Hirsch, Josh Adler, Adam Markowitz, Paul Leinwand and Adam Levithan.

Photography by Andy Pitman, Ken King, Mike Kahn, Paul Leinwand, Patrick Kelly, Mike Friedman and Jeff Wilcox.

Cheyennes Tie In Intercamps

By Mike Damast Cheyenne 30

by Brandon Hollenberg and Jeff Schwartz. The coach was Ken Handleman.

On Wednesday, July 3, the Cheyennes went Ito

Camp Greylock for Intercamps in basketball, baseball

and soccer, with the

final score being 4-4.

M-K-N also slaughtered Greylock in softball, 24-2, behind the fine coaching of Mike Thornton.

In basketball "A". Greylock defeated M-K-N 21-17.

Our team was coached

by Mike Thornton and

the MVP was Brandon Hollenberg.

In basketball, Mah-Kee-Nac lost a close game, 16-14, with Billy Wright named the MVP. The team was coached by Randy Thorn.

M-K-N was also beaten

in "B" basketball 21-8, with Randy Thorn coaching and Mike Willner getting the MVP award.

In soccer "All, the two teams fought to a 3-3

tie after two scoreless overtimes. Mah-Kee-Nac won the game by outs coring Greylock, 3-1, in a shootout.

In soccer, the "BII t.eam lost 6-1, but the "A" team won 2-0.

Scoring in the shootout for M-K-N were Dave Wolfman, Todd Zeff and Eugene Pena. The MVPs were Howard Dlugash, Todd Zeff, and goalie David Small.

In afternoon play, the Mah-Kee-Nac "A" baseball team trounced Greylock,

9-0, on a combined no-hitter

The Mah-Kee-Nac Cherok~es got the upper hand against Camp Winadu on Wednesday, July 10, by winning

three of the four games played between the two camps.

W~nning pitcher Eric Nanes and shortstop

Adam Karp were the co-stars of the game.

Winadu won the second "A" game, 12-2, with Jeff Schwartz the losing pitcher. Eric Nanes

led the attack with

two hits and Greg Zucker, the player of the game, driving in both runs.

In the "B" games, M-K-N won 4-3 and 11-8, with Les Meyers and Barry Osherow both pitching winning ball. Osherow was the Most Valuable Player in both "B" games.

Cherokees Defeat Winadu

In the "A" games, Mah-Kee-Nac won the opener, 10-4,

with Adam Karp leading

the attack with three

hits, followed by a

pair from Brandon Hollenberg and single hits from

Jeff Schwartz, Eric

Nanes, Mike Willner,

Matt Feldman, Chris

Dupree and Greg Zucker.

Mike Dale Is "Mr. IBM"


and Jon Weinstein Cherokee 3S

Mike Dale is the Mah-Kee-Nac Program Coordinator for the second year.

He uses an IBM personal computer to help store the schedules and to print them up ..

Mike has been here altogether for 13 years. He has been

a water skiing instructor, a group leader and head counselor for Lower Senior Camp before getting his present job.

Part of his job is planning days off for the counselors and he makes up their

Mike Dale and his computer.

schedules.

Mike makes his home in Tallulah Falls, Georgia and enjoys working with kids.

Green Team Wins LSR Stratego

By Josh Adler Cheyenne 33

On Monday, July 8th, for evening activity all of Lower Senior Camp was divided into two teams for the game of human stratego.

The green team was captained by Tim Jones, while Joe Burns was the captain of the white. Each group had 55 players, with one flag. The two flags were Brandon Erdos for the green team and Danny Lundy for the white.

Each team had a base, the green at the lower softball field and the white at the upper baseball d:j..amond.

After the two IS-minute

attack periods, white pulled it out with a score of 169 to 155.

What's it like at Camp MahKee-Nac?

Well, Ben Hirsch said nothing exciting happened the first few weeks in Bunk 26.

But he might be wrong.

Jason Faltings has a mouse living in his wall and. there's a racoon under the floor. There was also a bat that landed on his divider and flew around the bunk.

Juniors Want Their MTV!

Blair Caughley

Noah Tarnow

By Adam and David Levithan Irogouis 7 and Cherokee 39

On July 7th the Juniors (and some freeloading Seniors) went into the Junior Lodge to watch MTV, but without a TV set.

You may be wondering how. The answer is

it was Junior MTV Night, in which every Junior bunk put on their own video to a popular song.

Once everyone got into their seats, the emcee, Blair Caughley, announced a special guest. It

was none other than

Bruce Springsteen, We never noticed before

how much he looks like Andy Cole.

After Bruce finished singing "Born To Run," bunk 10 gave a funny interpretation of the Matthew Wilder song IIBreak My Stride."

Michael Hauser

To round off the Apaches, Bunk 9 did a wild video of "California Girls".

Bunk 8 then put on a

video based on the song/movie "Ghostbusters".

The next video was Bunk 7's "I'm Going Down", which started off the wave of Bruce Springstein videos and was continued by Bunk 6's "Dancing

in the Dark".

Bunk 5 did a parody

of school and hard rock to the tune of "I Wanna Rock!".

Another excellent. Spring stein video, Bunk 4's "Born

in the USA" followed.

Bunk 3's rip-roaring "Rhythm of the Night" was next.


MTV Night Is Big Success

(continued from previous page) Bunk 2' s "I Want A. New

Drug", based on the

Huey Lewis song, came

next.

Bunk 8 topped the Iroquois. Bunk 5 was the winner

for the Mohicans.

The final bunk entry

was bunk l's Roy Rodgers spoof of "Happy Trails".

Winner or loser, all agreed Junior MTV Night. was a great success.

"It was really fun," said Brett Weiss in Bunk 7.

Afterwards came the showstopper of the evening. Noah Tarnow did such

a wild and crazy rendition of "Girls on Film" it would make David Lee

Roth look tame.

"It was totally awesome," declared Justin Kovics, also of Bunk 7.

To end the evening,

Bruce Springsteen carne out and did "Glory Days".

"It was great! Noah Tarnow was fant.astic," said Bunk 81s Casey Safron.

Everyone then went back to their bunks to hear the winners announced on the PA system.

And so the Junior MTV Night carne to a close, with all the Juniors feeling g.reat.

Bunk 9 was the winner for the Apaches, while

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July 24, 1985

WeAre The Champions

By Blair Caughley Apache 9

- 12 and under, 14 and

under and 16 and under. About 200 tennis players fit that description and descended

upon the tennis courts from Winadu, Greylock, Kenmont, Lenox, Wah-Nee, Crane Lake

and Taconic.

One of the glamor events on

the tennis calendar each year is the Mah-Kee-Nac Invitational Tennis Tournament, which was held here on Thursday and Fiiday, July 18th and 19th.

Play in the early rounds was keenly contested and success


Seven camps sent teams in three different age divisions

rHE CHAMPIONS: Back row: David Levine, David Evenchick, Matt Dermer, Andy Kaplan,Neil Alexander, Michael Friedman, Mark Glogoff, Scott Wolfman, Adam Karp, Chris Simon, Eric Nanes and Eric Pitchal. Front row: Nick Dibari,

Scott Silberfein, Seth Gordon, Mike Pearlman, Jeff Schwartz, Brandon Hollenberg and Fred Gros.s.

Tennis Tourney Goes Smoothly

(continued from previous page) was evenly spread around most camp s , Mah-Kee-Nac, Lenox

and Winadu started to take hold of the teams event by

the end of the second round.

extremely high during the closing stages of the tournament, and with some players ranked in the Eastern Zone

of the USTA, the numerous spectators were treated to tennis that is normally associated with older age groups.

By the time of the finals on Friday morning, an interesting situation had evolved where Mah-Kee-Nac needed to win one of the finals to win the team trophy - and that's exactly what we accomplished with the help of Brandon Hollenberg

and Michael Bernstein who won the 14 and under doubles championship_ It was one of the most closely fought teams events in many years.

Ed Schneider and the tennis staff ran the tournament

very smoothly and professionally, but they were certainly

helped in this area by

fine, hot weather, and the complete cooperation of

the visiting teams and coaches.

In conclusion, an exciting tournament was enjoyed by all, winners and losers alike.

The standard of play was

Scott Wolfman, left, hits a backhand during the tournament, while Freddie Gross gets set while Mark Glogoff serves. In between, the trophies emblema of a championship effort.

And the Navajos and Mohicans truly had the imaginations and voices on Saturday, July 13th. Oh, did they ever have them!

Mohicans And Navajos Tie In Sing

By Erik Pitchal Cherokee 39

The Annual Camp Mah-Kee-Nac Sing started in 1967 because there "wasn't enough singing at camp," and at first winners weren't announced so as not to make the losers feel bad.

It has continued over the years with the winners being announced because it became "Healthy Competition," and this year was no exception.

For the first time in 19 years there was a tie for first place. The winners were the Mohicans and Navajos.

The sing is important because this is one of the few times when the whole camp gets together for an evening. It's a time when Joe and Frances Kruger return to the camp for a night of fun. It's a time when imaginations come to life, when voices go to work.

Dave Pawlowski leads Algonquins .

And according to judges Barbara Wilcox, Nancy Metzger and Ed Schneider, they also had plenty of originality

and clarity of expression

for a tremendous overall effect.

And to everyone there, the field house was filled with wonderful voices of 10 and ll-year-olds.

From the Apache cheer up to the Braves' cheer and back down the row with the song competition, each tribe had some.thing totally different from the others.

For instance, the Senecas fooled all with the introduction to their cheer. In years past all they would

do was shout out "SSSSeneca" as they walked into the field house in the form of

a snake.

They did the same this year, but then they got into their lines and gave an IISSS" an "EEE," an "NNN" and so forth until they shouted, "What does that spell?"

At this point the sly lS-yearolds shrugged their shoulders and sat down. Interesting.

The Cherokees' song was very different. Rather than a true song, they performed a "rap", wr Lt.t.en by Mike Rais as a last minute desperation song. It got a few laughs, but didn't go too well with the judges.


M-K-N Swims Away With

if'le


On Tuesday, July 16th, Mah-

Kee-Nac won its own Aquatic Relay Meet, with excellent performances by the entire team.

Since this was only the second year of the meet, M-K-N has been able to win everyone so far.

Tom Arnold, the coach of the swim team, feels that we have an excellent team overall.

"We can have two or three quality swimmers in each race," said Tom, "compared to maybe one when I first s t.a r t.ed h e r e . II

M K N won 10 of the 24 relays and-finished with 161 points, while second place went to

Camp Emerson with 123 and Danbee was third with 117 points. Taconic had 111 points for fourth and Crane Lake was fifth with 99 ..

Those contributing to the

M K N swimming success were: 9 and under, Jon Adler, Brett Weiss, Geoff Goldschein.,

12 and 13, David Shaw, Dan Welt, Chris Depree, David Deutsch, Leith Nippes, Arih Penchina, Jason Alpin, Les Meyers, Alex Tisch, Ross Schindler, Jamie Wolf.

14 and up, Ken Bloom, Roger Scwartz, Brett Katzner, Ari Hait, Jon Katz, Dan Axelrod, Neil Alexander, Harvey Keene, Adam Patti.

Singers Tie

(continued from previous page) The cheer competition was won overall by the Mohicans, who also won the Junior cheer. The Navajos won the Lower Senior cheer, and the Braves were surprise winners in the Upper Senior camp.

The Apaches took the overall song competition, as well as the Junior title. The Navajos took a sweep over the Cheyennes in Lower Senior

camp by winning the song with a theme set to Lionel Richie's "All Night Long".

In addition to having a tie for first, there was also a

tie for third place. Those two talented tribes were the Apaches and Iroquois.

So overall, the 8-year-olds through ll-year-olds took a sweep of the top four tribes. And they all dese.rve a round of applause.

In any event, the 1985 Sing was a true hit, from the time host Jim O'Neill introduced the Apaches' cheer until the counselors sang their different songs.

It all started in 1967 and will continue forever as something to remember, this Mah-Kee-Nac Sing.

Juniors Jested By Questers

The Juniors and a few Upper and Lower Seniors were treated to a play by the Questers and Jesters Company on Sunday night, July 14th.

This New York-based acting troupe painted the story of a good, but boring character named Illuminatus, against a

wicked, but exciting sorcerer named Moniacam.

The clank of swords, along with some awful singing, was wrapped around a worker's plunge into the dark underfround. Manual Labor, a worker, dug a hole too deep in Brooklyn and got caught up in the struggle between good and evil.

Moniacam and friends.

Group For-rued To Save Spiders

with the idea for something called "Project Spiderwake."

Four Navajos from Bunk 24 have formed a new group to save spiders.

"We want others to join us," said Jon.

The four, Brandon Stranzl, Jon Gosberg, Michael Wexler and Ramin Missaghieh, just like spiders.

Brandon came up with the idea of a special white headband with a spider on it, and a wristband worn on the left. "If it's on the right," said Jon, "it's invalid to us.1I

They had a nice spider with a perfect web in one of their bunk windows and were watching him one day last week when yet another camper discovered the green and yellow web-spinner. He tore down the web and flushed it away in the toilet.

Jon continued, IIwe feel if other people join us, we can save spiders. It sounds dumb, but they're living things, too.

"He murdered it," said Jon.

Michael had a sign around his neck which read: We are the spider savers. Anyone who messes with a spider will have to deal with us, AND a. curse will be put on them for life!

Upset by the move, they agreed to take action. First, there was thought of scaring the other bunk mate with spiders. But they reconside.red and came up


TRIVIA -- 45 POINTS 1. Who played Alice in the TV show of the same name?'

Rules -

1. Answer all problems.

2. When done hand in to box in Totem office or in box on the front of t.he cafeteria.

3. Camper with most points for corredt answers will win a prize.

2. What is the address of the White House?

3. How many water fountains are there in camp?

Fill in answers to clues both horizontally and vertically in grid

7. What was the Eurythmics first number one song?

4. Who won the 1983 Heisman Trophy?

5. Who sang the song "Bette Davis Eyes?"

Square Roots

(30 points)

6. What is the capital of California?

1 2 3 4
2
3
,4 i 8. Who was the only unmarried president?

9. Name the first three states to enter the union.

10. What is the chemical name for wat.er?

11. What does the ZIP stand for in ZIP Code?

Clues

1. What you push in supermarket

2. Length times width

3. Coke is the thing

(or genuine)

4. To speak

12. Who played the Skipper on "Gilligan's Island"?

13. What is a group of oysters called?

14. Who is said to have invented the scissors?

Word Search (1 point per word)

15. What was Hitchcock's profession?

Make as many words as possible from the following letters

BONUS -- 15 points *Name all of the James Bond films.

A W T S E MOO PET Y L

Todd Jennings Revisits Surnmer Horne

By Ken Bloom Seneca _46

A look across Junior Camp on July 5 found Andy Cole keeping an eye on basketball. Sorne~ Juniors were playing soccer. Todd Jennings was on the

mound in softball class. Some were. leaving camp on a nature

hike .

Todd Jennings on the mound? But Todd doesn't work here this year!

True, but he did spend his vacation here on July 4-7

Todd worked at MahRee-Nac from 1981 to 1983 as a Mohican counselor, and in 1984 as Junior Camp Head Counselor, He now works as a quality engineer with the Department of Defense in Morris County, New Jersey.

White Team Wins

In a Junior Camp wide game played on Thursday, July 7th, the White Team defeated the Green Team, 79-64.

Todd lived in Bunk #3 while here and spent his time observing classes, teaching baseball and juggling.

The captains of the White Team were Joe Dubois (Rambo), Rodgers Allison and Rik Martinec. Pat Kelly, Steve Canter and

Jim Horky were the captains for the Green Team.

He admires the job being done by his good friend Andy Cole. He believes that even if campers are rough on their Head Counselor during the summer, everyone is friendly to him in the end.

Now to the game. The White Team wanted to get

a point on the Green Team's base, and the Green Team wanted a point on the White Team. They each had defenders and attackers.

Todd said that he enjoyed his vacation here, and expects to visit again later this summer. He also is impressed with the camp's consistency and he said

. '

"Junlor camp has 50 percent

new campers and 90 percent new staff, but it still is very much the same from year to year."

The attackers were those who attacked and gave a point to their team. Some tried Kamakaze runs, which meant that they had to run down

to the other team and give their team a point. If they were tagged, they didn't care.

The defenders would tag the person who tried to give his team a point.

By Marc Hochstein Cherokee 39

S· egel Settles Into New Job

Candy Sweetens Mohican Trip

Don Siegel reflects a moment.

The Mohicans took a trip to Sturbridge Village on Thursday, July 18th in what was supposed to be a.journey back to a rural New England village in the 1800s.

What it turned into, instead, was a quest for candy.

Riding in a large airconditioned coach, the Mohicans made the trip to Sturbridge, Massachusetts, in about an hour and 50 minutes, had lunch and then spent three and a half hours in the still living village of our forefathers.

Freeman Farm was the first stop for many, and there the campers saw an 1830 farm, complete with animals, along with people dressed in period costumes.

After that, the quest got serious. The only store on the

This year the new Upper Senior Head Counselor is Don Siegel. Don has worked as a counselor for a total of 11 years. He is 37 and married. During the year he works as a teacher for Smith College.

Don became a Head Counselor because he likes kids and thinks he is a good organizer and has perspective.

That is, he understands kids.

Don says that his job was difficult at first, but it is getting easier as the routine starts.

town green that sold food and candy was Grant Store, and that's where most campers took their three dollars to stock up on candy.

After that, and munching candy as they strolled, the campers visited old banks which printed their own money, old meeting halls, an old tavern and even

a print shop.

Even though it was a look backwards, in the end the campers were all looking forward to dinner at Camp Mah-Kee-Nac.

Gerbils Corning

Yes, Nature Counselor Ellen Neff thinks the gerbil IS pregnant.

She reports that the female has been building a nest, and that's a good indication of upcoming motherhood.

Judy Witter was the story teller, and she stood on the beach with a fire burning softly behind her and told two tales. But before that, Alan Friedman took the group on an imaginary lion hunt.

Despite being knocked down, strangled, chopped into little pieces, the bird continued its mock of "Nana-na-na-na-na". In the end, the bird's body was thrown into a fire - and a large white bird appeared from its smoke.

Story Teller Delights Juniors

Judy Witter has Juniors entranced with story_

The magic of story telling carried Junior campers all the way from a lion hunt to Thailand and beyond to a magical land on Monday, July 15th.

Astonished, the king asked, "Who are you?" And the bird replied, "I am the bird of Freedom. You cannot kill the bird of Freedom."

The first of Judy's stories involved the King of Thailand and one of his hunts through the jungle.

A small bird mocked him

by saying, "Na-na-na-na-nanail The angered king threw a spear at the bird, but missed.

Judy's second story was about an impoverished man and his three daughters and how the youngest ultimately saved a prince who had been turned into a bear.

"Na-na-na-na-na-na" mocked the little bird. Next,

the king fired an arrow at the bird, and it struck the little creature squarely in the chest.

To round off the night, Patrick Kelly told a story about stopping a scary coffin with cough drops. "Cough drops stop the coughin!"

That was followed by a joke telling session - and everyone left with a smile on

his face.

The Green Furry Monster Story

By Daniel Engber

Iroquois 8

Before you read this, I'd like you to know that this story takes

It. was a u.sual day (but it was going to be very . unusual in a few minutes) I, but I didn't know that. My brother did, because he's the greatest, or

so he says. Anyway,

I went in to my building, got in the elevator

and went up - 2,3,4,5,6,7.

I got off, opened the door and said, "Hi"

to Mom, walked into

my room and looked around at the car I hadn't driven for weeks (or

was it years?). I also looked at the tools

I never learned to use, the books I never read.

Isn't this sort've like the Phantom Tollbooth by Northern Juster I read 11 times? To get to the point, I also noticed a Green Furry Monster. I thought about this for a moment, then decided it was

a present from Santa

Claus. But then I thought, "Hey, it's not Christmas!"

So I decided Santa Claus's watch was broken (and

he must be early). I picked up that monster

and hugged it. Unfortunately the monster wasn't a

present from Santa Claus and took out a gun from nowhere and pointed

it. at my head.

The monster put something on my shirt. It was

a translator, but I didn't know that. "Hello," it said, with the gun still pointing at my head. "Hi," I said.

"Why are you here,"

I asked. It said, "To study humans."

He pulled a piece of paper out of nowhere. This time I saw where "nowhere" was, a hole behind his left ear. "This is what I found out about humans so far. " He handed me the piece of paper.

It read: On a rating

of 1 to 100, 100 being

the best. Strength - 50. Speed - 10. Intelligence(extremely dumb). Personali very nice.

Then the monster said, "I "d like you to come to my home with me." "OK," I said.

Suddenly there was a whizzing noise and all went black. When I woke up I saw a green furry face. "Hi," it said, "this is Balex

2 .. II 11 Hi," I said. 11 I must be dreaming,"

I thought.

"You are dreaming," my mother said. "Oh, good, II I said. "It was a dream."

BUT little did I know - it wasn't a dream!

Gordon Leads Greylock Sweep

By Jesus Junco Cherokee 34

With Seth Gordon leading the way, Mah-Kee-Nac swept the singles title at Camp Greylock. It was Doug Chernack who was .Mr. Cool, never missing a ball, along with Neil

Harris, who beat Camp GreyLock in the Finals.

This is Gordon's second win of the summer, and he made the finals of the Mah-Kee-Nac Open. Even though Seth is only 10 years old, most of his opponents are about 12, but that does not stop Seth from winning or having a good time while doing it.

At the end of the day we had all the trophies and all the fun.

Rifle Team Named

The following campers have made the 1985 Lower Senior Rifle Team : Randy Lowenstein, Daniel Katcher, Ethan Kleinberg, Jeff Goldblat, David Goldbrenner, Jeff Cordover, Randy Weinstein, Darren Lilien, Brandon Stranzl, James Burger, Andrew Weinberger, and Nick Dibari.

These campers have been chosen for the Upper Senior Team: David Miller, Peter Eisen, Jason Pollack, Les Meyers, Robert Gutman, Kenny Meltzer, Paul Leinwand, Kenny Berland, Brian Gitkin.

Showing off Greylock trophies are Erik Nanes, Micha.el Bernstein, Jon Pearlman, Jeff Schwartz and Seth Gordon.

Juniors Win

The Junior Intercamp baseball team, named

the Tides by coach Patrick Kelly, defeated the Winadu baseball team 16-6 on Wednesday, July 17th at Winadu.

Of the eight intercamp games played that day, Mah-Kee-Nac could muster only two wins. The other was in basketball.

Winning pitcher Brett Ferdinand hurled for two innings. He was troubled by walks in the second inning and allowed six runs. Relief pitcher Ricky Halper pitched

the final inning for the Tides, and kept Winadu from scoring despite loading the bases.

P,HOTOGRAMS

By Ari Clare and Jamie Fox Navajo 25

on the special paper and turning on the timer for the correct amount of time which decides the color darkness of the objects.

One of the most enjoyable things about photography is the photograms.

The best part about the photograms is that they are a very fun activity and everyone who wants to make one can participate. In fact, they turn out very beautifully when they are finished.

After it is finished, it goes through a chemical bath which develops the picture. The first is the developer which is used for a minute and a half. The second step is the stop bath which takes 30 seconds_ The last step is the fixer which takes two minutes. Finally, the picture is soaked in water

for about five or more minutes.

A photog ram is a type of picture made in photography class. No cameras are required in making one, but a special image machine is used in the process, called an enlarger.

By this point, the photogram is done. See the samples here.

What you need for this proces~ is a special photography paper and some transparent objects, such as sun glasses, plants, flowers and leaves.

All there is to it is laying the transparent objects down

IE l

lume 49, Number 4


August 2, 1985

It's Fun, Fun, Fun at Carnival

Campers line up for chance at Moon Shoot.


Mohicans Marc Liebert, Jon Hoss and Jon Adler f lip pennies.

theme "It's a Small World" proved enjoyable for Upper Senier and Cheyenne spectators.

Fun came to Mah-Kee-Nac en July 27, in the form of the 1985 Carnival.

Bunk 9 Apaches strut their stuff.

After a much needed Lazy Morning, the whole camp prepared for the afternoon's Carnival Madness.

After the parade, the campers rushed to the. Midway t o begin the second stage of the Carnival -- the booths.

The Carnival began with the traditional parade. From Bunk la's "Ghostbusters From Around The World1l to Bunk

28 r s "All-.Americans", the different displays .of the

Every bunk from I to 46 had a beoth and many beoths from Carnivals past were back. These included 37's Rat Race Bunk 24's tennis ball toss, Bunk 32's Haunted House,

(centinued on next page)

Midway Booths Were Popular

Bunk 6 dressed up like African tribesmen, while Joe LoTemplio was busy on the rope Maze as Ross Mopsick did some serious supervising. Nancy Metzger painted Bill Dobias' head and Bunk 25's Dave Luzner herded in an anonymous dragon.

(continued from previous page) Bunk lis Sponge Throw, Bunk 3's Put out the Fire, Bunk 7's Shave the Balloon and Bunk 45's Bagel in the Haystack.

There were also many original booths. These included Bunk 34's Coke Challenge~ Bunk 27's Marshmallow Find, in which you had to find a marshmallow in a pan filled with flour, Bunk 42's PingPong Bounce, where the participant would have to bounce a ping-pong ball over the net and into a bucket.

Some booths, like Bunk 39's Global Toss, Bunk 44's Guess Your Weight, Bunk 31's Colored Cup Toss, Bunk 38's Pop the Balloon, Bunk 22's Penny Throw and Bunk 28's Softball Throw were reproductions of popular amusement park games.

The other original booths were Bunk 6's Jail, in which you could throw a sponge at


Campers Impressed By Carnival

(continued from previous page) an "Outlaw" that you chose, Bunk 10'5 Matching, in which you had to match two parts

of a country together' Bunk 4'5 Batting Cage, Bunk 21's Video Game Challenge where

you picked a video game to score points and Bunk 8 had Camp Trivia where you had

to answer questions about

the camp.

Bunk 43 had Song Trivia, which was like a Rock and Roll It Name That Tune", Bunk 25's Astra Bowl, in which

you tried to throw a ball into a certain cup, Bunk 12's Sk~et-Ball, Bunk 23's Rope Maze, Bunk 30's Shoot The Moon where you had to maneuver a rocket.

But there was still more! Bunk 5 had Sling Man in which you had to slingshoot a doll into certain containers, Bunk 9'5 Batting Booth where you had to hit a ball coming out of a pipe and Bunk 26's Soap Slide (also called Gimrne Anot.her), in which you had to slide a tennis ball can into a circle on a table covered with soap.

Bunk 35 did not have a booth because while their counselor was digging a hole for their putting green, he struck a water pipe. The ensuing water break flooded their booth and caused the water in Mah-KeeNac to be shut off for a half hour.

"It was a real calamity," said one member of Bunk 35.

There were two other big attractions at the Carnival. One was £he food stand, which was run very well by the Braves

this year. The other was the Moonwalk.

After the Carnival, which was superbly run this year by Dave Pawlowski, all agreed that they had a great time.

"It was great. I especially loved the booths with the shaving cream," said Navajo Roger Black.

"The Carnival was definately a step above last year'sH said Jon Goldberg.

"It took a lot of time and effort, but we did it and had fun," said Evan Goetz, a Cherokee.

"The Carnival must go down as one of the most spectacular events of this camping experience,1I said Upper Senior Head Counselor Don Siegel.

"It was well organized and a lot of fun!" exclaimed James Burger.

ItI say it was pretty good," said Daryl Crow, a. Mohican.

By Brian Perla

Cheyenne 32

Parade Started Things Off

By James Burger Navajo 27

Jim also said that he liked the theme.

Carnival Day arrived with a parade, which started the whole thing off.

"I thought it. was the best parade Mah-Kee-Nac ever had, II said David Evanchick, an Upper Senior.

This year's theme was lilt's

a small world" and a lot of people did Indians, Americans, Captains, Australians and more.

"I thought it was the best

one we've had in a long time," said Jim O'Neill.

The winners this year were the campers in Bunk 27 who dressed like Australians. In line they had a kangaroo, a sailor, a drinker, a platypus and an Australian citizen.

Most people thought it was great.

The Totem toasts all those who made the 1985 Carnival a roaring success. (Photo by Ken King)

There Were Some Winning Booths

By Hike Damast Cherokee 30

In Lower Senior Camp, Bunk 30's Shoot The Moon was the winner. A rocket with pins on its nose was attached to a fishing line and had to be directed downward to a board with balloons on it. If you popped one of the balloons, you were a winner.

On July 27th all of the camp came to the Midway at Junior Field for the start of the 198.5 Carnival.

The winner of the Junior Camp was Bunk 4's Batting Cage, which used the new whiffle ball machine.

Bunk 12's winning booth was called Skeet-Ball. The object was to roll the ball up a board onto a second board, and if it fell onto a 10, 20, 30 or 40 you got that many points. The scores were electronically calculated by a computer. You had to have 10 points above average to win.

Junior's playing the game had to connect on 2-outof-5 swings at the balls to win, while the Lower Seniors had to get 3-out-of-5 and the Upper Seniors were hard pressed to get 4 hits in .5 tries.

Juniors SawTheir Sister Camp

By Casey Safron Iroquois 8

puppet. show mixed with singing until the joke competition.

On Saturday, July 20th, the Junior Camp went

to Mah-Kee-Nac's sister camp, Danbee.

The show was about people from outer space that

own Moon Camp. Moon

Camp has Ice Cream Parlors, Video Game Rooms and

lots of other things.

At Danbee they saw something that was supposed to

be a puppet show, but

it wasn't. It was more

like a singing class

for girls. When Junior

Camp got there, they

sang a cheer for the

girls. When the Juniors were done with the cheer, the girls had a cheer

of thier own.

In the story, they lost one of the Moon Camp campers they had brought to earth. At the end

of the show, the campers walked out of the back door and met Andy.

On the way back, everyone was shouting about the girls.

After that, the show started. They had the

By Golly, There Was Gold Out There!

By Adam Greene Ma.rk Waqner Blake Zeff Apache 10

there was also a mother lode which was an automatic winner. Bunk 10 found

the mother rock.

On Thursday, July 25, all of Junior Camp was involved in a Goldrush, competing by bunks as

part of the camp's special activities.

At the Junior Lodge

steps there was a computer which constantly changed the value of silver,

gold and ruby, with

the counselors from

each bunk selling their stones in the stock market when the values

were highest.

Not only did the computer change the values every five minutes, but it

also kept score for

each of the bunks.

The boundaries were the whole Mah-Kee-Nac campus, excluding the roads. The day began with each bunk trying to get the most points during an are find.

The rocks were assayed, and each bunk earned points.

During rest hour, the

rocks were painted gold, silver or ruby and distributed throughout the camp.

At the start of the

goldrush, "Big ~ac"

explained the rules,

and one of the rules

was that you could only

claim one rock at a

time. In addition to

the point values for

each type of stone,

The final results found Bunk 9 with the most points, while Bunk 7 had the second highest score. Since Bunk 10 found the mother lode and Bunk 9 had the most points, both Apache bunks were winners.

Afterwards, everybody went back to their bunks and then went to the watefront for a free swim, to complete a very successful day.

Juniors Beaten

The Junior Intercamp baseball team, the Tides, was de.feated at Mah-Kee-Nac by Ken-Mont, 8-2 ..

Ruby. Ethan pitched

the final three innngs and allowed two runs.

The other high point

was a home run by Ross Markowitz to right-center field. Ross, a right fielder, has continued

to hit consistently.

Mah-Ree-Nac starting pitcher Brett Ferdinand walked seven batters and allowed one hit

in two innings to give six runs.

In addition to Ross' home run, Ethan Ruby singled to center and later scored on a passed ball to complete the scoring.

High points of the game included the finding

of a new pitcher, Ethan

Camp Barber oes Snip-Snip

By Spock Apache 10

Kathy Godfrey's name may not sound familiar, but the snip-snipsnip of hair probably dose.

Kathy, you see, is the camp barber. She and her cousin Holly Papa, clip about 30 people each Tuesday afternoon for $6. apiece.

She has been cutt ing hair at Mah-Kee-Nac for four years now, and she cuts it as a profession at Shear Design in Pittsfield.

Talking about camp, Kathy said, "I love the campers and think they are great."

As far as those getting hair cuts, Chris Cradock said he was pleased. "I look like I have more hair now than I

did before it was cut. She does a wonderful job."

Bill Dobias, another fellow with a receding hairline,

said simply, "Going. Going. Gone."

Jeff Cordover, though, was a bit critical. He said, Don't ever get a camp hair cut."

Leslie Meyers was ambivalent.

He said, "I like it, but it could have been much better."

Still, For only $6 the hair cut is a real deal.

Ken Bloom, Andy Pitlllan, David Levithan, Casey Safron, Claude Meyers, Jon Goldberg, Brian Perla, Jonathan Roth, James Burger, Jeremy Rubin, Dave Herman, Matthew Bird, Jeff Epstein, Jon Adler. Seth Schwartz Greg Tiefenbrun, Daniel Engber Jedd Fisch, Ari Kempler, Jason Faltings, Jon Weinstein, Mike Damast, Dan Katch, Matthew Fraiman. Dan Jewel, t1arc Hochstein, Matt~ew Gabin, B~n Hirsch, Aaron Go1bert, Gregg

Don 0 9 hue, Jp s hAd 1 e r, JI, dam Markowitz, and Erik Pitchal.

PHOTOGRAPHY r1Y:

Ken King, Paul Letnwand. Andy Pitman anr' Mike Kahn

Mickey Has A Special Birthday


There are 29 birthdays in

camp this year - each one is special, each one is different.

One of these occured on Thursday, July 25th, when a member of Mah-Kee-Nac's next generation celebrated his birthday.

Michael Met~ger turned one year old that day and friends from allover camp came to honor him at a private party that afternoon.

I was able to arrange an exclusive interview with Michael and he turned out to be a quiet, enigmatic young man. Unfortunately, he was not eager to speak with me.

When I presented my first question on how it felt to be one year old, he just shook his head. He also had no comment on any future plans to work at M-K-N or at

Danbee ..

Michael's mother, Nancy, talked to me about him. "He's sweet, loving and non-aggressive," she said. "The year with him went very fast."

Mike is well known around camp and well like by most.

"He has good table manners, but he's bad at letter writing," said his mother's friend, Jim O'Neill.

"I've known the Metzgers for five years, and he's easier to take care of than the others," said Rosie, the Metzgers' babysitter.

Everyone enjoyed the party, including the traditional refreshments of cake and ice cream. After the sit-down dessert, everyone went out for a final romp on the cafeteria hill to end a funfilled afternoon.

1-1ike Metzger enjoys some birthday cake (Photo by Andy Pitman)

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August 8, 1985

kets Fill The Sky

By Claude Meyer, Navajo 28 and Jason Faltings,

Navajo 26

This year at M-K-N, rocketry has become a popular activity, thanks to Steve Shepstone,

who is also known as "Shep".

Shep lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and while at Camp he lives in Bunk 21. He is 19 years old and goes to Edinboro University and is majoring in Criminal Justice. The "Shepsterll is in the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity.

He came to M-K-N because he loves to work with kids, and he also loves rocketry -

and as Shep says, "This is

the only place I can get both."

While in high school, Shep was in the Norwin High Band from 1981 through 1984 and it was No. 1 in the country. He was in the percussion section.

Talking about rockets, Shep said they use different kinds of engines, A through D, with "A" being the smallest and liD" being the biggest.


Rocket Program Is A Blast

Rifle Team Is Looking Sharp


The rockets go 400 to 1,200 feet high, depending on the engine size. Shep averages 12 kids per class and has 20 classes a week and they fire off one to three rockets each class.

Shep says it takes seven classes to build a rocket.

Inside the rocket there is a parachute. When the engine backfires up through the tube, the gasses force the parachute out. Air opens the parachute and the rocket glides to the ground.

The biggest model rocket anyone can build is 6-foot-6 and is called "The Mean Machine" and Shep has built one. He said it went up 800 feet with a "0" engine.

Botht.he Upper and Lower Senior rifle teams opened their season on July 24th here against Camp Half-Moon from Great Barrington.

In the morning the two Upper Senior teams squared off

against one another. Mah-Kee-Nac won handily, beating theLr opponents, 482-367. Our

boys took the first seven

places. Paul Leinwand took

first with an 82. Second

was Kenny Meltzer with a

77 and third went to Mike Pearlman with a 75.

Later that afternoon, the two Lower Senior teams met

and M-K-N was again the winner by a 383-253 score.

Shep puts a nose on his rocket. (Photo by Jason Faltings)

Mah-Kee-Nac took first and third place, with Jeff Cordover leading the way with an 80 while Nick Dibari was third with a 74.

Both matches were IO-shot prone matches at the five Bull targets, with unlimited sight-ins.

The Lower Senior rifle team wasn't so lucky in its second match of the season, losing to Scatico by a 928-692 score. Scatico captured the first six places, with Mah-Kee-Nac's Nick Dibari our best shot

in seventh place with an

80.

A Parent's Day ReIJection

By Eric J. Ruby, M.D. Camper - 159 '60 '61 '64 Pediatrician - '85 Father of Mohican - '85

Parent's Day at Mah-Kee-Nac was the most exciting, gratifying, and enjoyable experience I've had in a long time.

The weather was warm and beautiful. All guests - parents and siblings, grandparents and friends - seemed to smile from early morning

to late afternoon. Lunch, tea and cookies, and an abundant supply of lemonade kept everyone refreshed throughout the day.

As a camper years ago I felt like everyday was Saturday -

a freedom to play from morning to night. As the Pediatrician earlier this summer I felt a certain satisfaction through

my professional responsibility. As a father now, I could hardly contain my pride and enthusiasm to see my son, Ethan, age 10 participate in archery, waterskiing, tennis, swimming and baseball.

Counselor instruction took into account physical maturation and social interaction. Conversations with parents and

friends - past and present - reflected similar views: how wonderful it was to see healthy, athletic, intelligent, suntanned, well-fed children have so much fun!

Danny and Jim have combined an excellent staff, outstanding physical facilities, and some very exceptional boys.

To provide this opportunity to my son could not make a father

more happy. To have participated in the Mah-Kee-Nac experience in so many ways has enriched my own life just that much more. Our house is empty and quiet without my son, but my heart is filled with pride and joy, and in my mind I

have the knowledge he's well cared for and happy at MahKee-Nac.

LSR MNNighf

By Matt Gabin

Navajo 24

The Lower Seniors held their first annual MTV Night on Saturday, July 23rd.

Each bunk chose a song and one person lip-synched the song while the others "played" the instruments. Drums, keyboards and mikes were provided, but the campers

had to provide other instruments.

The three judges for the night were Jim Donoghue, head nurse Barbara·W~lcox and

the Metzger's babysitter, Rosie.

Bunk 26 won with Twist.ed Sister's "We're Not Gonna

Take It", with Corey Bobker

in the lead. Bunk 25, with

a close second, performed "Magico" by the Cars, with

a black-haired Ari Clare leading the way. Third went

to Bunk 23 with Ross Mopsick playing the role of Bruce Springsteen singing "Darlington County" .

It was a great night, and Lower Senior camp hopes that we will have another one.

Parent's Day Images

jumping down. Andy Hyman was the first to complete this stunt.

The third ropes course 1S harder than the first two.

You must climb up a rope ladder alongside a tree and go across a log to another tree and jump down. Again, Andy Hyman was the first camper to complete the course.

Ropes Course Is A Challenge

By Marc Adam Hochstein

Cherokee

A new addition to the program at Mah-Kee-Nac this year

is the Ropes Course, which

is also known as the Challenge Course.

The Ropes Course consists of six low ropes stunts and four higher ropes stunts.

The low ropes includes a fidget ladder and something called the hickory jump where you have to jump for a swing from a log.

The first high ropes stunt includes going up a log, climbing up these pegs on a tree, walking across a wire to another tree, and

then jumping down. Of course, you have a rope on you tied

in a "Swiss Seat". Matt Applebaum, a Cherokee, was

the first to go up that one.

The second high ropes stunt includes going up the pegs on a tree, walking across

a wire to another tree and

The fourth high ropes stunt, zipline, is ye.t to be completed by any campers.

Dan Cramer, the Junior ropes counselor, says that the Ropes Course this year is "excellent" and "gratifying" for campers. Rick Patanella,

one of the Senior ropes counselors, says that the ropes course

is good because it gives non-athletic campers a sense

of accomplishment.

Scott Lyles and Stan Benvin

are the other two ropes counselors, and both are in the Senior

camp

A Story Of Space And Heroism

killed them with his gold light sabre.

Casey Safron

Iroquois 8

One day Zelchor was put on

a quest to stop the Muculods from killing the King and Queen of Crystal Castle.

Suddenly 20 more appeared behind him. He tried to

get out the sides, but Muculods appeared there, too. They kept appearing until every Muculod was t~ere.

As he flew away on his giant ladybug he saw 20 Muculods coming to invade the Castle. He stopped and floated down. The Muculods came charging with the~r horns to kill Zelchor, but one by one he

Would he die? Never! His giant ladybug brought him

up in the air and he shot every Muculod with his laser cannon. He saved himself and he saved the King and the Queen.

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Juniors Trip Off To Greylock

By Adam Weinstein Iroquois 8

Next, we noticed van 1 was lost, so we got a bus and drove to the Berkshire Museum.

On the Iroquois Junior Trip to Mount Graylock, we left right after inspection in two vans. We drove up the road for 10 minutes and we climbed up the tower at the top.

The museum had some interesting pictures of some Presidents of the united States, along with some silver cups.

Then we went downstairs and saw the movie "Tom Sawyer. II After that we went to the gift shop and bought glow-in-thedark bugs and masks, but some of us didn't get to buy anything.

Near the tower, those who were in van 2 got snacks. That happened while van 1 was fishing from a boat. Then when van 2 came to fish, van

1 went to Mount Graylock and the campers got candy and

soda at a super market.

After that we went back to Mah-Kee-Nac and put our cameras and fishing rods away and washed up for dinner. We all had a fun day!

Then we ate a tasty ham and cheese sandwich and some cold drinks and then we had some potato chips and finally some peaches for dessert.

Bunk 7 Tries Camping

By Danny Richman Iroquois 7

hamburgers and cheese-burgers. Tim Jones, from the Pioneering staff, cooked the meal.

Bunk 7 went on an overnight camping trip to the camp site at the Challenge Ropes Course on Tuesday, July 30th. The trip was a surprise because we were the first to go from the three Iroquois bunks.

After that we went back

down to camp and watched the Talent Show. The Talent Show was great and we went back up to the camp.

We had a tough time

carrying our flashllights, sleeping bags and cant.eens up the hill past the putting green. Bill, our counselor, brought the food and we had

Patrick, another of our counselors, started the fire and we roasted marshmallows. After that we went into our tents and went to sleep.

Juniors Strut Their Stuff

By Josh Trauner Mohican 4

For Junior evening activity on the night of July 20th,

we had the annual talent show. What talent? Almost nobody knows about the talent

that Junior campers and counselors have.

There were all sorts of things, from the saxaphone by Danny Minchoff to juggling by Bunk

7 and Dave McKinley from

Bunk 8.

There were also comedy acts. Jeff Levine and Matt Klatsky told jokes and Andy Cole

and Big Mac did the Abbott

and Costello "Who's on First" routine. Ari and Ilan Kempler played piano while Danny Foodman and Max Marantz break danced. Jeremy Tiefenbrun played clarinet, while his brother Greg played trumpet.

Noah Tarnow from Bunk 2 said, "It was really awesome". Blake Zeff, who emceed the first half of the show, said, "It was fun being the emcee and the actors were very good. "

David Lewis, the other emcee, said, "I had fun because

I liked meeting people backstage and saw the acts first."

Little John Donoghue said,

"I liked the break dancers."

Out of all the acts, I thought the lip singers, with Ethan

Ruby leading was qood, including Jordan Safirstein on lead gui~ar, Erik Kussiluk 6n keyboard and John Elias on drums, plus dog holder Jason Rudnik.

Jordan said, "I liked our act and really ~iked the whole show. Ethan said,

"I liked the show and I loved the jugglers. I thought

the counselor act was very funny. "

Jim Horky of bunk 6 said, "It was a really interesting experience and I was amazed at the amount of talent that exists in junior camp."

Pokey from Bunk 3 said, "The show was very well run and all the Junior acts were wonderful."

Cool

It!

On a hot day, nothing looks bet than wate.r. (Photo by Mike·Kahn)

We next went to the Gloucester House restaurant for a meal

of either roast chicken or sole stuffed with shrimp.

Cherokees See Boston Sights

By David Levithan

Cherokee 39

The Cherokees found fun and happiness on their annual trip to Boston from July 29th to July 31st.

After a patience-testing three hour bus ride from M-K-N we got off the bus

to see the Boston Naval Shipyard. The two main attract.ions

at the shipyard were a modern naval destroyer, named the Cassin Young, and a very

old naval ship (from the eighteenth century) named

the U.S. Constitution.

Our next stop was the Boston Museum of Science. He.re

we saw such things as a lightning demonstrat.ion, an exhibit

about telephones, and many

boxes of optical illusions.

We also got to see a planetarium show about the stars of the season.

A.fter our visit to the museum, we went to Tufts University where we would be staying

for the next two days. We then went and ate dinner

at McDonald's, and then we

saw a movie, either "Back

to the Future" or "European Vacation" .

After a tiring day we returned to Tufts to get a good night's sleep.

But soon, at 6 A.M. we were awakened to go on a whale-watching boat. Once on the boat we

saw many varieties of whales,

such as the humpbacks. After

the four hours on the boat

(in which nobody got sick) everybody seemed satisfied.

After lunch we went back to Tufts and relaxed. At night we went to see the Red Sox lose to the White Sox in extra innings.

The next day we bid adeau

to Tufts and went to the

New England Aquarium. In the aquarium were many tanks filled with fish. There were big fish, small fish, red fish; blue fish, etc.

To cap it off we saw a terrific dolphin and seal show.

Our next, and last, attraction was Quincy Market. Here

we shopped and ate and shopped and ate and shopped ••.

And so we left Boston, satisfied and happy!

It's A Bu//'s-Eye

By James Burger Navajo 27

At Camp Mah-Kee-Nac there are two rifle ranges, one for the Juniors and another for the Seniors.

The Juniors use air guns and the Seniors use .22 calibre rifles. No matter what type of rifle they may be using, riflery is very popular.

"I think it's a fun sport because a lot of kids don't get a chance to use rifles," said Aaron Goldbert.

Obviously, riflery is a big hit this year.

The Stupid Shark's Story

By Jeremy Tiefenbrun Mohican 4

strange." thought the man. "No shark here would attack like that." Then a blue dolphin came to his rescue. It had a collar saying Sea World.

There once was a great white shark who wanted nothing but food. He was bored of ramming ships and eating the people who survived. "I know," he said, "1111 go to Sea World and eat something there.

The man grabbed the dolphinls fin and went back to shore. Meanwhile, the shark was very annoyed.. "This was definitely a bad idea," he thought.

He swam down the coast. "Look at that human, II he thought.

He went toward the man. The guy couldn't get very far because sharks can go faster. Lucky he did eat him. It was an arch-criminal. Only the man I s jack knife rema.ined on the bottom of the water.

He was right because the man, who now had a bomb, then came to the shark. The shark opened his mouth and the man dropped in the bomb. The blue dolphin moved away and two seconds later ...

Ka - Boom!

The shark finally made it to the Sea World aquarium. A man went in to feed the dolphins. Most of the sharks wouldnlt bother him. UThatis

UNa-na, you're dead, 50 bullets in your head," said the man.

Dinner: 1. Steak, 2. Spare Ribs,

The following is a poll taken of campers on the foods they like or dislike at Mah-KeeNaco

3. Turkey.

LEAST LIKED FOODS

MOST LIKED FOODS

BREAKFAST: 1. Eggs (scrambled), 2. Eggs, 3. Cinnamon Toast.

Lunch: 1. Macaroni, 2. Tuna,

3. Heroes.

Dinner: Chicken (roasted

or barbequed), 2. Cold Cuts, 3. Lasagna

Breakfast: 1. Bagels and Lox (though some wish .the Lox would be better), 2. Waffles, 3. Cinnamon Toast.

Lunch: 1. Pizza/Coke, 2. Steak-Urns, 3. Turkey.

Cradock Leads The Cheyennes


Chris Cradock, otherwise known as "Fanny", is

the Cheyenne Group Leader for the 1985 summer.

He has been at M-K-N

for three years and

is in Bunk 30.

UFanny" teaches soccer, badminton, and volleyball. He said, "I was chosen Group Leader because

I have funny looking

hair. II

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But Mark Toporoff, the

Lower Senior Head Counselor, said, "I chose Chris

as Group Leader for

the Cheyennes because

he's dependable, organized and well liked by kids. 11

who works at Danbee. Over the winter Chris works with juvenile delinquents. He enjoys working with kids.

Chris lives on the Island of Wight in England,

and has a girl friend

Chris enjoys Mah-Kee-Nac and plans to come back next year.

C h r i s

Navajo Joe

By Mike Damast Cheyenne )'0

Joe LoTemplio is back at M-K-N for his fifth summer and his third summer as Navajo group leader. He teaches baseball, swimmimg and hockey this year, but in the past he only taught baseball.

J o e

Joe enjoys being group leader because he is dependable and gets along with campers.

This summer he is living in Bunk 23.

Joe is 23 years old

and lives in Rochester, New York. This past spring he graduated from Plattsburg College

onment. There we also saw several trained animal shows, including an excellent exhibition on birds of prey.

USR's Travel To Toronto

By Andy Pitman and Ken Bloom - Seneca 46

An opportunity to get out of camp is welcomed, but a chance to get out of camp with Danbee girls for five days in Toronto and Niagara Falls would be eagerly snatched up by any Mah-Kee-Nac camper. Recently, 32 Senecas and Braves got

thi s chance ..

On July 29th, our group climbed on a bus and set out for a secluded rendezvous at the Pittsfield Plaza. After a brief wait for Danbee, the

two busses set out on the trip to Niagara 'Falls.

The 8-hour ride was broken up by a lunch break at Fort Stanwix, a restored Revolutionary War fort ln Rome, New York (Bocci ball capital of the World) .

Once we arrived at Niagara and settled into our rooms, we headed for Maple Leaf Village for dinner at Rosie O'Grady's. The remainder of the evening was spent at a nearby amuse-

m ent park.

The next morning we piled into the busses and toured the Falls. The afternoon was spent taking a cable car across the Niagara River, and visiting Niagara Gorge.

In the evening we went to the Clifton Hill tourist area and the amusement park again, thus ending our stay at Niagara.

The next day we turned north to Toronto. On our way, we stopped at the African Lion Park, a reserve for nearly extinct animals that are cared for in their "nat.ural" envir-

That evening after an excellent dinner in Toronto, we saw Agatha Christie's long-running play "Mousetrap," a mystery with a surprise ending.

The morning afterwards we toured the Toronto area, eating lunch at the Eaton Center, a large downtown Shopping center.

Our afternoon was spent at Canada's Wonderland, a large amusement park north of the city. We all spent hours on end riding rollercoasters, inclUding a stand-up rollercoaster, and gorging ourselves on food.

Back at our hotel, everyone joined in a large pool and pizza party, making a happy ending for our stay in Toronto.

On our last day we got up at 5:30 (5:30??) to go around

Lake Ontario, heading to Watertown, New York, for an afternoon of Whitewater rafting on the Black River. We all enjoyed going through the rapids, and emerged wet and hungry - and that required an emergency stop at a local Burger King ..

We finally arrived back at camp at 9:30 that evening (three hours late) to be greeted by a small band of counselors to end the trip of the swnmer.

Back at the Oakes we played the "How many people can you fit in Room 7311 Game. The answer is all of them. The following morning it was rise and shine at 7 a.m. and off to Toronto we went. The IIMidway stop" was a 'safari in the middle of Ontario. Noteable events included riding and breaking a Kiddie Coaster, the "Safari Burger" and tying the tail of a "walk around" park lion to a fence.

Toronto: Another View

By Mark Hudis Braves 11

The day was warm, the feeling was anticipation and the hour was an unbelievable 6:30 a.m. It was July 29th and the scene was that of a pre-trip frenzy.

Bags piled up on the steps of the Junior Lodge, money was being dispensed like "freesample items" at a super market and campers ran around checking for last minute items. After a quick breakfast, everyone boarded the bus.

Following a quick stop in Pittsfield to hook up with our female party guests, Toronto was a mere" six hours and 45 minutes away. The snoring permeated the air until we arrived in upstate New York at Fort Stanwix.

Fort Stanwix turned out to be a largely reconstructed fort built mainly in 1979, but originally constructed in 1700s.

Once we arrived in Ontario we were greeted with an aweinspiring view of Niagara Falls which also reminded many people that they needed

a bathroom really badly. The bus pulled into the oakes Inn and the inundation of 50 kids was probably quite distressing to the honeymooning couples staying there.

At 10:30 we arrived back at the Oakes and went to bed

after a brief stay in the hotel disco. We awoke the next morning really tired, and then proceeded to view Niagara Falls from every conceivable angle:

In, above, below, around, over, through, behind, between and

so forth.

After our brief 8-hour sojourn ther, we went the distance to Toronto. In this beautiful city, we stayed at the Venture Inn. This was equipped with pools galore, saunas, Continental breakfasts and a phone system that rivals NASA's.

The next day was the shopping day of the year. Eaton Plaza was the target and this mall was INCREDIBLE. Noteable events here included "No Bozo" and FMO shirts, Lisa Pearlmutter getting lost and Matt Dermer coughing.

On the ride home, we all decided that Jodi and Jamie will be the next Calvin Kelin girls.

The final day of our trip consisted of ham sandwiches and white water rafting. The rafting was great. The ham left a little something to be desired. After rafting and tearful goodbyes, we boarded our busses and returned to good 01' Massachusetts just

in time to bother Jim and Danny as they were ready to go to sleep, and to tell Don that we hadn't been missing assemblies while we were away for

a week.

What a trip!

M-K-N Outruns Winadu

By Michael Pearlman Cherokee 37

Eighteen Mah-Kee-Nac athletes, ranging in age from 11 to 13, boarded a bus on August 2 for a track meet against Winadu. As it turned out, we were victorious with a close 96-

86 victory.

There were four events for each age group and a 6-man relay at the end. The events were the long jump, the softball· throw, the 100-yard dash and the 220-yard run.

For the 13 year aIds, Chris Dupree won the 100 and the long jump. Eric Nanes

placed second in the 100 while

Somethlnq Special

By Erik Pitchal Cherokee 39

Something special is happening in Upper Senior Camp this week.. The campers are stirring, and the counselors are getting ready. Specialty

Week has begun.

Specialty Week is a time when Upper Seniors get a choice of one out of eight activities

to do from Monday, July 5th, to Friday, July 9th. They go to regular morning activities, but in the afternoon only do their specialty.

The choices include tennis (the most popular), golf, sailing, basketball, baseball, tripping, fishing and cycling. In each activity, different things are planned. For example, Ed Schneider has a trip to a professional

also winning the softball throw. Adam Mopsick came in third in the 100. Les Meyers rounded out the scoring by winning the 220-yard run.

Coach Dave Shaw said, "The maln reason for winning is that everyone on the team gave 110 percent and more."

The 13 year aIds also won the 6-man relay, led by Eric Nanes. The 11 and 12 year aIds did equally well, being led by Danny Katcher, Brandon Hollenberg, Jon Pearlman and Dejuan McIlwain.

All in all, it was a successful day at Camp Winadu.

tournament planned for tennis. There is an overnight in cycling and plenty of hiking is on the agenda for tripping.

All in all, Specialty Week looks like a good thing for Upper Seniors.

Patrick Kelly pitches a little batting practice.

Rich Makes Woodshop Hum

By Jason Faltings, Navajo 26 and Claude Meyer, Navajo 28

This year we didn't have a woodshop counselor for a long time until Rich Rosenbaum came around. Rich was a real life saver.

Thanks to Rich, we have woodshop now.

Rich, who is 23, comes from Pittsburgh, Pensylvania. He goes to the University of Pittsburgh and is majoring in Theater, Film and TV production. He's also a member of the pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity.

Explaining why he came to Mah-Kee-Nac, Rich said, "I was in L.A. and needed a job until September, so I came here. "

He picked woodshop because he has a lot of experience working with wood. In wood shop you can make three things this year - first you have to build a plaque, then a bird house and finally whatever you want.

Ken Bloom, Andy Pitman, David Levithan, Casey Safron, Claude Meyer, Jon Goldberg, Brian Perla, James Burger, Jeremy Rubin, Dave Herman, Matthew Bird, Jeff Epstein, Jon Adler, Seth Schwartz,· Greg and Jeremy Tiefenbrun, Jedd Fisch, Ari and Ilan Kempler, Jason Faltings, Mike Damast, Dan

Rich Rosenbaum cuts some wood. (Photo by Jason Faltings)

Katch, Matthew Fraiman, Dan Jewel, Marc Hochstein, Matthew Gabin, Gregg Donoghue,

Ben Hirsch, Aaron Golberg, Josh Adler, Adam Markowitz ,. Erik Pitchal, Noah Tarnow, Michael Pearlman, Danny Richman, Adam Weinstein, Josh Trauner, Kevin Walters, Blake Zeff, Mark Wagner, Adam Greene and Patrick Kelly.

Photography by: Ken King,

Paul Leinwana, Andy Pitman and Mike Kahn.

The Gazebo: A Moving Experience

By Kevin Walters Navajo 26

The gazebo isn't the only building that has been moved. Did you know that the tennis shack used to be the porch of the old dining hall?

But the porch was taken away so it could be used for the head counselors office by the tennis courts in Upp~r Senior Camp. And the Health Center used to be where the Woodshop is now.

Everybody thinks they know a lot about the gazebo - or do they?

The gazebo's original location was at the tennis shack where its builder, Joe Peretti, placed it in 1955 .. Then

the gazebo was moved near

the Junior Lodge, and finally it was moved to the waterfront, where it is now.

Not only do the Mah-Kee-Nac campers and staff move, but so do the buildings!

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Volume 49, Number 6


August 16, 1985

The Play's The ~n.iug:

Tribbles OOver Grease

Tribbles Take Up Space

The Enterprise crew looks at scanner.

By Josh Trauner Mohican 4

On Friday, August 3rd, it was Lower Senior Play night. The Lower Seniors did "The Trouble with Tribbles" from the Star Trek Series.

It was about two things: A shipment of wheat that was the only kind that grows on a

The sign of Spock (Steve Gandel)

(Photo by Ric Martinec)

starving planet, and a socalled harmless animal called a tribble which one of the crew of the Enterprise brought from a Klingon agent in disguise.

The tribbles multiplied and multiplied, so finally they gave a tribble to Bones, the doctor. He could only find out that if you fed a tribble too much, you don't get a fat tribble, you would get a bunch of hungry tribbles.

They finally found out that the tribbles got into the grain which was poisoned by the Klingons, gave birth to a lot of tribbles, and then died of starvation.

The next day, the guy who sold the tribble, instead of going to jail (because it was against the law to sell a harmful animal) had to get rid of all the tribbles.

The play ended when Scotty threw all the tribbles into the Klingon ship. The play was directed by Maryann and Mike Cohen, and we all had a great time.

Oliver Is A Big Hit

David Levithan - Cherokee 39

This year the Juniors put on another extraordinary musical, "Oliver" .

While the recent Broadway revival of "Oliver" took five months to stage, the producers of this play, Mike and Maryanne Cohen, and the Junior cast, put the play together

in six weeks, an amazing feat!

"Oliver" is the story of an orphan and the strange people he encounters in 1850's London.

The play starts out with Oliver (Noah Tarnow) at an

orphanage run by an evil taskmaster named Mr. Bumble (Jon Steiber).

But soon, when Oliver has angered the taskmaster, Mr. Bumble decides to sell him. Before that could happen, though, Oliver ran away_

Oliver, after singing the sweet ballad "Where is Love?", befriended a young con-man named the Artful Dodger (Jason Rudnick). After some smooth talking, the Dodger convinced Oiiver to work for an aging pickpocket named Fagin (Ari Kempler) .

After considering himself part of Fagin's family (Ilan Kempler, Larry Berenson, Daryl Crone, Adam Greene,

Mike Kent, Jason Rudnick,

Josh Trauner, Brett Weiss, Scott Kissel, Jeff Levine, Adam Levithan, Brett Marks, Lee Patti, Daniel Penchina, Jon Roth, Seth Schwartz, Matt Taback and Blake Zeff),

Oliver sets out on his first mission with the Artful Dodger. But while picking pockets, Oliver is framed and caught by Mr. Bownow (Jedd Fisch), who is secretly unaware that he

is Oliver's grandfather.

While lodging at Brownow's house, Oliver is kidnapped by Bill Sykes (Daniel Foodman), a man Fagin has sent to make sure that Oliver doesn't tell anyone about the pick-pocket operation.

In the end, Mr. Brownow saves Oliver and busts Fagin.


Songs Sparkle In Oliver

(continued from previous page) All of the actors performed professionally in amateur roles.

In the central and demanding role of Oliver, Noah Tarnow displayed his versatile and raspy voice and his excellent acting ability. He sang the ballad "Where is Love?" and the song "Who Will Buy" with great poise and style.

Ari Kempler gave a fiendishly delightful performance as. the elderly pick-pocket Fagin. He brought alive such wonderful songs as "Reviewing the Situation", "I'd Do Anythingll, and "Be Back Soon".

Jason Rudnick's fine acting and wonderful singing brought alive the sly, smooth Artful Dodger.

Daniel Foodman was excellent as the evil Bill Sykes, using his powerful voice to sing the song "My Name n •

As Mr. Bumble, the mean, crabby taskmaster, Jon Steiber proved himself a great stage presence. He sang his solos, "Oliverll

and "Boy For Sale" with great strength and versitality.

Jedd Fisch showed great emotion and acting ability as Oliver's lost grandfather, Mr. Brownow, while Skipper Vine brought the stage alive as Dr. Grimwig.

Ilan Kempler was exceptional as Oliver's possible buyer, Mr. Sowerberry, while Lee Patti was enjoyable as Charley Bates.

Adam Levithan was prompt and lively as the Boy with Books,

Noah Tarnow is a hungry Oliver. (Photo by Ric Martinec)

as was Seth Schwartz as Gauel Service.

But the show would not be complete without the most vital part, the Chorus. These kids, Larry Berenson, Daryl Crone, Jedd Fisch, Dan Foodman, Adam Greene, Ilan Kempler, Michael Kent, Jason Rudnick, Josh Trauner, Brett Weiss, Scott Kissel, Jeff Levine, Adam Levithan, Brett Marks, Lee Patti, Daniel Penchina, Jon Roth, Seth Schwartz, Matt Taback, Skipper Vine and Blake Zeff were the backbone of the play.


The Plays

Grease Gets off The Ground

OLIVER

By Marc Hochstein Cherokee 39

Believe it or not, it got off the ground.

After a whole Specialty Week

of 10-hour rehearsals, the MahKee-Nac Upper Seniors and the girls from Danbee finally put on their production of the

19501 s rock musical, "Grease".

The play was about 1950ls greasers at Rydell High School. In it, Danny Zucko (Jeff Epstein) finds out that his summer girlfriend, Sandy Dumbowski (Bria Casell) goes to his school.

lOWe had a fabulous time," said one camper. "I loved it, II said Nancy Metzger


As a group the chorus beautifully chimed out such hits as "Food, Glorious Foodl! and "Consider Yourself", while supporting the leads on almost every song.

Other thanks must go to the Art Staff for their wonderful scenery, the Stage Crew, the

Jason Pollak plays macho.

(Photo by Ken King)

Lighting Crew, EVan Damast and Andy Pitman.

Also congratulattons to the Cohens for putting on a great play after much toil and work.

And so, as the Junior and Lower Senior Campers left the Junior Lodge on the night of August 9th, everyone felt that this year1s Junior Musical was an outstanding hit!

The Players

Grease

Danny Zucko - Jeff Epstein Sandy Dumbrowski - Bria Casell Miss Lynch - Alexander Marshall Eugene - Robert Korall

Patty Simcox - Alexis Glaser Jan - Wendy Travis

Roger - Jeff Harris

M.arty - Lauren Bayer

Sonny - Erica Frank

Rizzo - Leslie Sherman Kenickie - Jason Pollack Frenchie - Mylissa Braun Doody - Les Meyers

Cha Cha - Jamie Clare

Vince Fountain - Jon Goldberg Johnny Casino - Mike Rais

Pink Ladies - Lisa Pearlmutter,

Kim Finkelstein and Debbie Switzenbaum.

Stage Crew - Phil Ende, Suzanne Sherman, Josi Tull and Jon Weiss.

The Band - Mike Cohen, Director, Ross Schindler, flute= Ken Bloom, clarinet; Dan Minchoff, saxophone~ Steven Selick, saxophone; Ralph Casey, guitar; Ed Schneider, bass; Brian Gitkin, drums; Brandon Erdos, drums.

Staging and Directing - Laurence Cazzaroa.

Musical Directors - Mike and Maryanne Cohen, Bria Casell

The boys of the band - Ed Schneider, Danny Minchoff, Mike Cohen, Steve Selick, Ralph Casey, Kenny Bloom, Brandon Erdos, Brian Gitkin and Ross Schindler. (Photo by Paul Leinwand)

Captain Kirk - David Applebaum, Matthew Gabin, Matthew Perry and James Stammer.

Mr. Spack - Jason Palmer, Steven Gandell and Corky Stone. Dr. McCoy - Claude Meyer.

Lt. Uhura - Jason Faltings. Checkov - David Goldbrenner.

Ensign Freeman - Ari Clare. Koloth - Kevin Walters

Korax and Trader - Corky Stone. Scotty - Ross Mopsick. Commander Lurry - Brandon Erdos.

Baris - Gregg Donoghue. Cyrano Jones - Aaron Golbert and Jed Resnick.

Cooperstown Was A Smash

By Claude Meyer Navajo 28

Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio and Roberto Clemente

Wow! Amazing! Stupendous! Those were the expressions of the Navajos as we entered the Cooperstown Baseball Hall of Fame on Wednesday, August 7th.

In the Hall of Fame they had different artifacts from baseball's history, including the new 1985 uniforms and the '85 set of Topps baseball cards.

The movie "E.T.' was the highlight of the evening, besides the food. Af te r t.he movie, it was "Beddy-bye". Some campers watched David Lettermen while others just fell asleep.

Sixty-seven Navajos from Camp Mah-Kee-Nac had the two and three-quarter hour bus ride to Cooperstown, stopping on the way to eat our delicious homepacked sandwiches and Coke. Along the way, we also stopped at. The Farmer's Museum where we saw a miniature farmer's village. Some people thought it was good, but most thought it was the worst part of the trip.

Dave Luzner and Hall of Fame friend. (Photo by Paul Leinwand)

In the highly popular Hall of Fame gift shop, 95 per cent of the campers spent most of their $20.

At 7 a.m. Joe Lo woke us up

and we quickly showered and prove to McDonald's for a great breakfast.

In the Doubleday batting cage, you could hit a 35 m.p.h slider, a 40 m.p.h knuckleball, a

50 m.p.h fastball or a 65

m.p.h curve. That was one

way of killing yourself!

Then we went on another one hour bus ride to Howe Caverns. It was amazingly fun, despite the 52 degree temperature. Howe Caverns is a group of underground caves, found by Mr. Howe in the mid-1800s.

The Navajos took a boat ride down the lake inside the cavern and nearly fell down the waterfall.

The batting cage, along with the snack bar, were very popular. After about a three hour stay, we AGAIN got on the busses for a 3D-minute ride to the Oasis Motel where the soda machine drew a crowd.

Again, the rest of our money was spent on souvenirs and food.

Afterwards everyone got ready for a REAL dinner at the Ponderosa Steak House. It was So, So, delicious.

For lunch, it was to McDonald's or Burger King's, whichever you prefered. After lunch we drove back to camp.

The trip overall was 110 per cent successful.

Mohican Booters Fare Well

By Calm McDermott Iroquois 6

The Mohican soccer squad climbed aboard a bus on Wednesday, August 7th, for the ride to the Winadu Soccer Tournament.

A somewhat overcast day greeted us on arrival at Winadu as we assembled at

the field for the day's games. The weather, however, proved to be conducive to fine soccer playing on fields that were in excellent condition.

Mah-Kee-Nac tore into the first match, gaining an 8-0 victory over Crane Lake with outstanding goal scoring from Eric Kusseluk and Brett Weiss.

In our second game this attacking duo continued where they left off, helping us to a 6-0 win over Lenox before lunch.

After refreshment and rest, the scene was set for a semifinal against Winadu "AU. Early in the game, Mah-KeeNac gave up two goals to the talented Winadu attack, but fought back well in the second half.

The game proved more closely fought than the 4-0 score suggests, and there were some excellent performances from Danny Chodosch and Brett Ferdinand, our goalkeeper.

The team stayed to watch the final between theWinadu nA" and Greylock, which Greylock won 5-3 after a tense penalty shoot-out.

During the day while the youngsters were playing on

the fields, the British coaches

from several of the camp~ managed a good reunion by enjoying accents and comments from allover England.

Overall the tournament was well organized and a pleasure to be part of. Congratulations to all who took part.

30 Navajos Go See Cubs

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By Tal Oren Navajo 27

Thirty lucky Navajos went to see the Pittsfield Cubs on the night of August 3rd. Not only were they lucky to get away from camp for an evening, but they also got free Cubs' shirts at the ball park.

Everyone got a good seat and during the course of the game some campers got to go into the press box and talk on the radio.

As usual, we all enjoyed having soda pop, hot dogs, nachos and pop corn. Unfortunately, we had to leave in the eighth inning because we had to get back to camp.

Everyone enjoyed the game. Rowdie Embrie of Bunk 36 said that it was very interesting and he liked it a lot. So did Jamie Fnx of Bunk 25.

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trips, and due to the fact that you can get exercise in a pleasureful atmosphere" Bill said.

The cycling class is finding new popularity this year and part of the credit for that should go to Bill Dobias.

This is Bill's first year at Mah-Kee-Nac. During the winter he is a civics teacher, which is very boring compared to camp, according to Bill.

Bill, who is 50, but as fit as a 25 year-old, just doesn't seem to falter. If anyone

can ride up steep hills, he can.

"I believe the new excitement for cycling is due to many

"You know what is so good about cycling?" Bill asks. "It's that you make yourself fit while you learn and have fun. "

Big Mac's No Burger

By Casey Safron Iroquois 8 Jeff McElroy, who's

known as "Big Mac;!! because of his name and the

fact that he managed

a McDonald's restaurant for five years, carne

to camp because he could program computers and loves kids.

Whenever he broke things he tried to fix them.

He is 21 years old and 6 feet tall.

Jeff was born ~n Lynchburg, Virginia. When he is

done with camp, he will

go back to his school,

the University of South Carolina.

His favorite hangout is not McDonalds

It's Myrtie Beach, because of "the sun, fUn and girls," he said, with

a smile on his face.

His favorite food is spaghetti.

When he was asked what he wants to do with

his life, he answered, "Bridge the gap between man and machine."

Jeff fixes lots of things to learn how they work.

Pass The Ham - Radio

By Mark Hochstein Cherokee 39

campers might take a test for their licence this year.

Amateur radio, ham radio for short, is a hobby. It is

also a non-commercial use of the airwaves. Most of all, it is a way of communicating with almost anybody, almost anywhere in the world.'

Every ham has a call number (the camp is KA4BGX/l) for his or her equipment. The number is given to you by the Federal Communications Commission, along with your licence.

There is a ham radio program here at Mah-Kee-Nac. Inthe radio shack, counselor Jeff McElroy teaches you Morse Code (the Universal language of hams), contacts other ham radio stations, and some

You can get cards printed to send to people you meet on the airwaves. The wall in the ham radio shack is filled with cards from everywhere from Short Hills, New Jersey to Boni, Italy.

Peter Blumstein in the "A" Divisiun was won by Adam Patti and David Levithan.

Speeialty Week Was Good TUne

By Erik Pitchal - Cherokee 39

As Specialty Week wound up on Friday, it seemed that all Upper Seniors had a very good time at their various specialities.

In tennis there were two major tournaments, a singles tournament sponsored by Avis, and a doubles by Lipton.

The singles tournament was a round robin tournament with four divisions by ability. In "Championship" singles,

Andy Kaplan beat Scott Wolfman. In "A" singles, Pete Greene defeated Brett Katzner in a tough three-set match. "Open" singles was won by

and "tournament" singles by Evan Goetz.

In doubles, Andy Kaplan was victorious again with partner

Bunk 10 Tents Out

By Blake Zeff Apache 10

Bunk 10's campout was great!

First of all, we gathered wood for our campfire, then

we cooked our food in the fire. We had hamburgers, beans,

red bug juice and special dessert.

We went to see the play, "The Trouble with Tribbles", theri

we went back to our campout and played a game. By the time we went to bed, skunks were at our tent.

In the morning, we took showers at about reveille time.

There was also a consolation draw for the first round losers which wasn't finished.

In cycling, the campers went to Great Barrington on Monday with counselors Bill Dobias, Mike Neale and Rick, the Riflery counselor. They then started on a three-day, two night overnighton Tuesday. However, it rained Wednesday night, and they all came back to camp by van on Thursday morning.

In sailing there was a Regatta within the camp and golfers had a tournament.

Overall each activity had plenty of things planned and each camper had a good time.

Matt Klatsky nets him2elf a photo.

Psyching themselves up for the snipe hunt are members of Bunk 7, which include Alain Lapter, Scott Kissel, Mark Platt, Justin Kovics, Bill Moore, Jon Roth, Marc Oren and Adam Levithan.

Larry Berenson cahts with the distinguished Lowell McAllister of the Audubon

.Society.

(Photos by Ken King)

Snipe Hunt

By Max Marantz Apache 10

On the day of the snipe hunt, 'we received a letter from a man named Lowell McAllister of the Audubon Society.

Andy told us to dress up weird and not look human.

Mr. McAllister told us to look for snipes in the woods by Mah-Kee-Nac. At the end, Bunk 4 won because they found real snipe doody.

Mr. McAllister said that the doody was green, and so is snipe doody.

Bunk 5 made up a story that they had captured the snipe.

The bunk 2 snipe hunters seem lost by the lake. They include Noah Tarnow, Ross Markowi t.z , Erik Kllsseluk, Brett Ferdinand, Ethan Ruby, Jordan Safirstein and Paul Wilkinson.

Sailing Was Special

By Michael Kahn

Seneca 46

The wind flawed through our hair as we stood

on the Mah-Kee-Nac beach looking at the lake

water, and this is how sailing specialty started.

The small ripples on the lake told us there was plenty of wind for sailing. We all piled into the motorboat and Frank Cole drove us

to our boats. We rigged the boats and sailed

to the racing course.

The first day consisted of sailing races and boat maintenance. You

might think that maintenance is a big pain, but in actuality we learned

why it's so important

for us to do it and

we also learned the different parts of the

boat.

The second day we woke up at 6 a.m. to go to

Lake George for an all-day sail. All of us were split into groups of

five. Each group got their own sailboat with

an instructor and a counselor. We sailed

on the large 32-mile

lake for three hours

and at noon we went

to one of the islands

for a lunch of soggy turkey and Swiss cheese sandwiches, three quarters of an ounce of potato chips and no drinks.

Otherwise, lunch was great!

A couple of sailors prepare their boat. (~hoto by Ralph Wilcox)

After lunch we sailed for another six hours. The wind was heavy and all the boats heeled

to more than a 45° angle. We carne back to the

docks and jumped on

the bus for a dinner

at none other than Burger


Their Specialty Was Sailing


King. A two hour ride later, we were back

in camp.

The next morning at period one, all the sailing specialty kids drained their boats for another race and completed some skills that were needed to complete Sailing Part

I and 2 and Instructors Aid. In the afternoon we sailed three slow races and carne back

to the moorings.

On Thursday we had crummy weather which made it impossible to sail any races, so Frank took

us to the library and taught us some racing strategy and right of

way rules which are

very important. Finally the sun came out and

we were able to sail

one more race.

Sailing Counselor Frank Cole directs his men while Scott Levy stands by.

breeze carne along and we did the last race of Specialty Week.

The scores for all the races were calculted and the awards were

given out. In the Phantom Class boats, Michael

Kahn was first, Scott

Levy was second and

Mark Glogoff and Josh Schnall were third.

Friday came to us as

a surprise when we looked at the lake and there

was NO wind. Some of

us finished up on our skills and others lounged around. After lunch

the wind picked up a little, but not enough

to do anything.

In the DCs, the winners were Andy Pitman, Paul Leinwand and Matt Selick. The overall winner with the lowest score of

14 and a half points

was Michael Kahn.

It was then decided that weld do some light air races. After two very slow races, we

all hooked up to the committee boat and went swimmimg. It was cool and refreshing, but only lasted about two minutes because a large

The past week in sailing was really something special and we thank

Frank Cole for all his time and effort in sailing.

Even after a hard day's work, the staff's job is not done because then there is time for counselor snacks beginning at 10:15 at night.

Dining Hall, Like It Or Not

By Matt Boyer

The one place everybody goes to at Mah-Kee-Nac, at least three times a day, is the dining hall.

While the food is pretty good, many people think it could be better. However, for the amount of food the dining hall staff has to cook, and the amount of time they have to cook it, they do a pretty

good job.

In all there are 13 people working there. The head'server is Mildred Greenleaf, and the other three servers are

Jackie Rogers, Phil Bucknall and Jane Heap. David Braemer, Ian Wallace and Raymond serve part time. Harvey Keene is

the head cook.

There are several other people who do various little jobs, such as making bug juice and tending the salad bar.

The people who do these jobs in the dining are very hard working and dedicated. On an average day, cooks begin work at 6:30 and servers report in at 7. The dining hall cooks

a variety of things like eggs, waffles, pancakes and on lazy day, the people there make apple turnovers and bring out the Captain Crunch cereal.

You can also find a variety of things to drink in the dining hall. It carries seven kinds of bug juice for lunch and dinner and milk with every meal. They also serve hot cocoa and orange juice for breakfast.

In addition to hot foods, the dining hall also carries a salad bar with everything from bacon bits to radishes.

All these people are nice in different ways. Most of them are very nice, and if you needed help, one place to find it would be Mah-Kee-Nac dining hall.

Ham,Again

By Darren Lilien Navajo 27

In ham radio you can learn many interesting things like the Morse Code. Morse Code is a series of dots and dashes put together to make letters.

You don't always have to use Morse Code for communicat.ing, though. There is a microphone that is used by talking into it instead of using Morse Code.

Big Mac is Mah-Kee-Nac's ham radio counselor. When Mac was nine years old he got his licence. You need a licence to use ham radio. It doesn't matter how old you are to get a licence.

A few years ago Mac helped

save his town by using ham radio because all the telephone lines were down after a tornado.

In ham radio you can talk to people thousands of miles away. Mac even talked to the space shuttle a few days ago.

I think ham radio is a fun hobby and Mac is a good counselor.

Gerbil Finally Delivers


and David Levithan Cherokee 39

It finally happened! After weeks of anticipation, eight gerbils were born in the

. Nature Center on Friday night, August 2nd.

The gerbils were discovered the morning afterwards. A short time later, they were placed in the old Totem office so they wouldn't be disturbed. Ellen Neff, one of the Nature counselors said that they were separated from the other animals so the mother wouldn't be tempted to eat them.

She also pointed out that a lot of activity around the newborns might cause tension

A gerbil's babies are UGLY. (Photo by Ken King)

or nervousness in the

mother, and that would make her eat the babies.

The new addi tionst.o Mah-KeeNac are about two inches long and are turning brown from their original red.

'Hiking, Anyone?

By Ben Hirsch Navajo 26

Tim Jones, one of the Pioneering counselors, took us on a hike to Pleasant Valley.

The whole trip up and down was four miles. On the way up, the hardest part we had to climb was over slippery rocks and

through mud.

On the way we found frogs and new~s and all that stuff.

Tim Jones

Tim has been making the trip to PleaSant Valley almost daily. There were seven people on the Saturday, July 6th trip.

For equipment, we had canteens, good hiking boots, two pairs of socks and warm clothes ..

We saw a lot of animals, different trees, lakes and rocks. The whole trip was fun. We heard birds and crickets and the trees shaking in the wind.

We also had a scale of one to 10 of how good we were and how we got along with the other hikers. I got one of the highest scores.

The trip lasted half a day.

One of the hikers, Sam Rhodes, said he liked the hike and wants to do it again.

Volume 49, Number 7

ASUMMER CAMP FOR BOYS

August 20, 1985

lympiCs Goes "OuHa Co

trol"

David Lev~than - Cherokee 39

Outta Control, the team headed by Joe "Rambo" Dubois, beat the Technicolour Burps and Genuine Wallies to win the 1985 Olympics.

In the closest Olympics in recent years, four teams (Boycott, Outta Control, Tech. Burps and Wallies) had been in first place in the course of the two days, compared to two teams (Toxic Waste, Say Hey!!) last year.


Flashlight display gets things rolling.

An Olympics To Remember

(continued from previous page) The final standings were:

Outta Control - 582 points, Techni~olour Burps - 535 points, Genuine Wallies - 531 points, Second Wind - 479 points,

Chill - 465 points,

Censored - 465 points,

Boycott - 462 points and

Gary's Gnu's - 436 points.

Two events that boosted Outta Control to the top were the Decathlon and the Grand Marathon.

The Decathlon is one of the premier events of the Olympics, in which one Upper Senior from each team competes against others in Running, Fitness, Riflery, and much more.

Taking the gold medal this year was Dave Maitlin from Outta Control. Micah Goldberg from Boycott came in second and Neil Alexander from

Second Wind took home the bronze.

Other participants were Ari Hait (Censored),Benji Silberman (Chill), Jon Harris (Wallies), David Levine (Gnus) and

Michael Freidman (Technicolour Burps) .

The Grand Marathon, a race across camp in which the whole team participates was also won by Outta Control.

Other important events:

Lower Senior Greased Watermellon - an event like football with a twist. It's played in the water and instead of a football, you use a slippery watermelon - won by Wallies.

Upper Senior War Canoe SplitTug of War in a canoe - won by Wallies.

Junior Bombardment - Dodgeball -won by Boycott

Junior Water Marathon - Obstacle Course in the water - won by Wallies.

Junior Greased Watermelon - won by Gary's Gnus.

Junior Camp Newcombe - Volleyball with catching - won by Chill

Lower Senior One Pitch - Softball with only one pitch per bat - won by Technicolour Burps.

Junior Rope Pull - Tug of War - won by Wallies.

Lower Senior Rope Pull - won by Boycott.

Upper Senior Rope Pull - won by Technicolour Burps.

On the last night everyone gathered in the Field House for the Olympic Sing. Here each team gave a cheer, a song, and displayed their banner.

Wallies won the song and cheer competition, while Chill won the banner.

And so, Olympics came to a close, with everybody (especially the Outta Controllers) feeling great.

The Olympic Photographers

Ken King

Rik Martinec

Paul Leinwand Andy Pi trnan

An Olympic Diary

A greased watermelon brings smiles to many faces.

Olympic Diary - Day I

be very successful as day turned into night.

By Ken Bloom - Seneca 46

liThe Olympic Committee has produced an extravaganza that outdid itself once again," said Jim OINeill.

Olympic Breakdown was very quiet, but the teams brought the day to a climax with

the parade and opening ceremonies. Thi s was the second year of the parade, and the noise level was higher than ever as the teams arrived with their colourful banners on the Junior Field, but the noise was just a fraction of the excitement that was to come.

"It was an enlightening experience," said Mark Toporoff. Of course the coordinators gave credit

where it was due. "We thought it was a great success," said Paul and Chris, "and weld especially like to thank Beverly and Carolyn. Thanks also to Vern for the loan of his truck.1I

The Opening Ceremonies featured Danbeels Beverly and Carolyn, Ed Schneider, the Seneca torchlight ceremony, the head coach pickup truck, and the

newest event, the flashlight display. This turned out to

The coaches went to the Dining Hall to fill in their team forms and the night went relatively quickly. But no one knew until 6:30 the next morning that chaos was about to strike.

Day Two of the Olympics

But surprisingly enough, all the ~eams survived M-K-N's most serious computer failure .. "The coaches and officials overcame any possible hiccups," said Paul Saunders, which led Chris Cradock to say that the most important factor of the day was "adaptability".

Most other people thought that having fun was most important, but the fun and excitement seemed to have

Jim on edge. "I have to hold my breath every time an accident could happen. Accidents could possibly happen in every event and there are events going all day, so I haven't breathed all day."

Panic ensued as coaches quickly switched back to the index card scheduling method and people far and wide grumbled about the existance of computers. "Who the heck needs them," said official Mike Weiss.

Hip-Hip Hop ln the sack race.

Paul Wilkinson urges on Larry Berenson an¢ crew.

But it was probably head official Jo Lo who put his finger on it when he said,

liThe weather is an important factor." Day Two was one of the hottest days of the summer, causing huge losses of water and endurance.

Olympic Diary - Day 2

But the competition was even harder, because by nightfall every team had a good chance of winning.

As dawn broke on Mah-Kee-Nac, there was trouble in the computer room.

"It took about 15 minutes to print three schedules," said scorekeeper Steven Selick. "At that rate, it would take

us until 2 to have it finished."

Day Three of the Olympics

Olympic Diary - Day 3

again put things in perspective, when he said, "fifty yards at the waterfront is like 300

yards in running."

"I think the Olympics is running like an express train, and we're not off the tracks yet, n said Paul.

But it all carne down to the final evening in the Field House, where each group presented their song and cheer. The excitement hit a climax when Jim O'Neill was crowned

a Wally. Jim said, "Nothing else ever felt like it."

Very true Pa ul . As the

Olympics entered the last morning, the only major problem since the computer failure was Upper Senior reveille, which carne one hour late. But by 9:30, the Upper Seniors were awake and even the computer

was alive for the final day.

Also at the closing ceremonies were the decathlon results - and the decathlon was different this year in both scoring and spirit.

As the day wound on, it became obvious that Andy Cole's Olympic Motto was true -"Every event is winnable for every team, if they put the right people in the right slots. "

"The decathlon," said Mike Dale, "was a very good event. The participants were not so much competing against each

other, but against a standard."

When the final results were in, Jim clearly expressed an overall feeling when he said, "When teams work hard to play well, then everyone wins, no matter who has the highest score."

This became more and more crucial as we came to the ~nithons, Junior Water Marathon and finally, the Grand

Marathon, where placement is vital - especially in the Waterfront legs.. Andy Cole

David wolfman, Michael Wilner, Sam Rhodes and Josh Hirsch tugging for all their might.

My first Olympics, over 8 years ago, was a new experience. I joined by team in its meeting place with excitement and trepidation. I was a youngin'. The Senecas were the big guys, the tough ones. Legends in their own minds. My team won that coveted first place position and my summer was made.

and night. "Hey,.11 a judge would yell, "stand away from the finsih line!" "I don't have to," was the reply, "I'm an upper senior!" Well, 5 minutes ~nd 20 decorum points later, even I realized that upper seniors were not made of gold.

Camper Faced Olympics 8 Years

Harlem Wizards Lead Basketball Clinic

Mark Hudis - Brave 11

W~ll the following two years I participated as a lower senior. Old enough to step on the juniors, but young enough to recoil when our head coach reprimanded us. Those two years I place 2nd and 3rd respectively.

Now the time had finally arrived. "I am an upper senior." This phrase reverberated through my skull day

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Working with Scott Silberfein

For the next two years, my eyes were filled with the glory of the decathlon. "Go for the gold" was my motto and nails were my staple diet.

On August 14th, 1984, I clinched my gold medal in that years decathlon. It was ecstasy.

As a brave, I was given a clipboard, whistle, coaching position, and an incredible

ego boost. If Olympus is the home of the Gods, then surely Olympics are their game.

Larry Lawrence, Sam Worthen

Decathalonwinners allsmilesl. to r. : Micah Goldberg {silver); David Maitlin (gold) ; Neil Alexander (bronze)

lohn Goldberg gi ves shout of glee as kayak race ends

~eg Zucker and Danny Axelrod paddle in canoe split.

Brian Frenzel looks on as USN's Jeff Harris, Phil Endeand Jeff Epsteinpaint team banner

Sam Rhodes takes a stand on fishing in Olympics.

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M-K-N At Skiing Tourney

Jason Ganz - Cherokee 39

Terrie Smith and Gregg Weinberg. Terrie jumped 47 feet., whi Le Gregg jumped 42 feet, a personal best for him.

On Saturday, August 10th, a group of water-skiers went to see a water-skiing tournament.

After a two-and-a-half hour bus ride, we arrived at the lake, just in time to see the slalom competition. In this, skiers would go in and out of buoys at different speeds and rope lengths.

We then went to McDonald's for dinner, and then finally went back to camp.

All-in-all, it was a trip no one will forget.

The trick competition was next. We saw kids that were younger than most Upper Seniors jump over the wake, turn 360 degrees, side-slide, etc. The adults were even better!!!!!

Fribbles Day!

By Casey Safron - Iroquois 8

On Monday, August 12th, the whole camp went to the dining hall for fabulous Fribbles!!!

Then came the event we were all waiting for, the jumping competi tion! !

Also participating in this co competition were Camp MahKee-Nac's own counselors,

Jon Morowitz drank two large Fribbles and felt like he was going to puke.!!!

Most people got large ... but could not drink it all. So they gave the other half of their Fribbles to other people in their bunk.

We witnessed jumps that were up to 150 feet long!!

Junior Campers in OLlV.ER

Bunk 9 Goes Camping

By Jason Silberfein Apache 9

When Bunk 9 went on an overnight, we had hamburgers and watermellon.

When we went back down to Junior Camp we saw the smoke from our camp fire. After evening activity we went back up.

While we were telling stories by the camp fire, we saw a

raCCoon. It was about one and a half feet long and the tail was another foot longer. It was trying to get into our food, but there was nothing left for it to eat.

There are new tents this year. They are round and they were wet from the rain the night before. They were also small, but we fit three kids into them.

We didn't go to bed too late.

Berkshire Cup RegaHa

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In July, camps Wahtitoh and Greylock sponsored the first Berkshire Cup Regatta, an entire afternoon of sailboat races on Center Lake in Becket.

Ten camps from the area competed in the many individual races that took place

on both ends of the lake.

Mah-Kee-Nac brought two counselors, Frank Cole, who was put in the commodore's boat, and Joe Burns, who supervised boat strategies.

During the day many racing skills were learned and demonstrated.

Ken Bloom, David Levithan, Casey Safron, Claude Meyer, Marc Hochstein, Erik Pitchal, Kevin Walters, Andy Pitman, Jon Golberg, Brian Perla, James Burger, Jeremy Rubin, Dave Herman, Matthew Bird,

Jon Adler, Seth Schwartz,

Greg and Jeremy Tiefenbrun, Jedd Fisch, Ari and Ilan Kempler, Jason Faltings,

Mike Damast, Dan Katch, Matthew Fraiman, Dan Jewel, Matthew Gabin, Gregg Donoghue, Ben Hirsch, Aaron Goldberg, Josh Adler, Adam Markowitz, Noah Tarnow, Michael Pearlman, Adam Weinstein, Josh Trauner,

Blake Zeff, Mark Wagner, Adam Greene, Patrick Kelly, Brandon Erdos, Jeff Levine, Mark Rudis, David Lohman and Jason Silberfein.

Photography by: Ken King, Rik Martinec, Paul Leinwand, Andy Pitman and Mike Kahn.

Totem Counselor-Advisor, Bill Moore

Special thanks to Ann Gormanley. Without the letters, there could be no words. Without the words, there could be no Totem.

Tom Arnoldi In, Fourth Year As S,wim Co,ach

Ken Bloom - Seneca 46

Tom brought the Camp Swim program back in 1983, and since then it has grown in numbers and interest. "In our dual meet with Winadu this year, we had one sixth of the camp swimming", said Tom.

For the past three years, Tom Arnold has been running MahKee-Nac's Competitive Swimming program, putting the Camp in the forefront of the intercamp swimming world.

Tom has worked at Mah-Kee-Nac since 1982, when Joe LoTemplio recruited him from Irondequoit, New· York where Tom teaches social studies and coaches swimming. He has based his swimming program here on his high school program.

liThe purpose of the compet.itive programll, said Tom, lIis to improve the swimmers' strokes mchanically, and make them

more efficient, and to improve their endurence".

The Camp Swim classes form the backbone of the Camp's Swim Team, which has won the MahKee-Nac, Wah-Nee, and Winadu meets, and with fine performances in the Lenox and Greylock meets.

Torn wants as many people as possible in competitive swimming. II It's a great

acti vi ty," Torn said. II It involves large numbers, it's exciting and it's one of the few times when all three camps are working together. II

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By Blake Zeff - Apache 10

fighting. Bunk 6 did a very funny act of IIEat Itll, with David Lewis exercising.

On Junior MTV Night It, Joe (Rambo) Dubois emceed.

The first act was Bunk 10 with a funny video of HLike A Virginll. Then Andy and the crew did a Billy Joel song.

Bunk 5 did "The Reflex". Bunk 4 did a funny act with "Like A Surgeon. Bunk 3 did an act with no song or talking, called "The Secret Guest". It was James Bond.

Next Bunk 9 did "Flash Dance", with Jeff Levine the lead singer.

Bunk 2 did liThe Heat Is On". Bunk 1 did "Separate Ways". All and all it was great.

There were a lot of individual songs, but they aren't listed here.

Bunk 10 won for the Apaches. Bunk 6 won for the Iroquois. Bunk 2 won for the Mohicans.

Bunk 8 did "On The Dark Sidell, with Casey Safran the lead singer.

Overall, Bunk 7 was in third, Bunk 2 was in second and Bunk 6 was first. It was a Big Competition and it was very funny.

Bunk 7 did IIwild Boys" which was funny when the boys were

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This year's advisor to the Totem is Bill Moore, a veteran writer with experience in newspapers, magazines and public relations work.

Bill, a counselor in the Junior Camp, living with the Iroquois in Bunk 7, comes from Guilford, Connecticut.

A graduate of the University of New Hampshire, Bill worked

as a sportswriter for 12 years

at cities ranging from Lebanon, New Hampshire, to New Haven, Connecticut. There, he covered Yale Football and was the motorsports editor, as well as the beat man covering the New York Giants at home and on the road. In that role, he flew

with the team into such garden spots as New Orleans, Dallas Tampa Bay and, of course, Cincinnati.

Besides writing and photography, Bill's interests include hiking, tennis, racquetball and skiing. In fact, it's because of skiing that Bill is here this summer.

While skiing at Sugarbush on April 1st of this year (Yes, April Fool's D~y) he ca~ght an outside edge and broke three bones in his left ankle. After two months in a cast, he's using the summer months for some physical therapy on the ankle and a chance to work

with children.

Rain Dampens Archery

The Mah-Kee-Nac archery program scheduled two meets this summer, but the weather once again cancelled the tournament after we arrived at Winadu, and before a single arrow was shot.

The Upper Seniors lost their chance to compete with another camp, since our home meet against Scatico occured when

they were out of camp.

As it was, we shot in a drizzle and the afternoon shooting was cut sho r t, Ourt.earn of under l31s won 2,198 to 1,555 and by a fine 252 out of 300 by Randy

Lowenstein, followed by Doug Schreiber with 242.

In third place was a Scatico shooter who asked to use some of our better equipment, and shot 238. This was typical of the friendly atmosphere of the competition.

Matt Podell shot 226, followed by Jason Palmer with a 220, David Goldbrenner at 210, Steve Gandell at 194 and Josh Kern and Benji Gordon were tied at 190. Ricky Halper, Ethan Ruby

(a Mohican) and Mark Schulman also competed well.

Mike Friedman's Boys Win Every Match

In Team Tennis

As the summer concluded at Camp Mah-Kee-Nac, so did the exciting and popular Team Tennis.

A nip-a.nd-tuck battle raged until the very end, but as is customary, the finest team emerged as winner.

When the smoke cleared, over the finish line stepped Mike Friedman and company.

llike Friedman led his team to an unblemished victory record over all the other teams. However, he was assisted by Mike Bernstein, Mark Glogoff, Matt Feldman, Adam Pa tti, Phi 1 Ende, Adam Katz, Evan Goetz, Andy Cohen, and David Levine.

These young gladiators fought off all who would challenge them for the crown. A hearty congratulations and a "make your own" sundaes to the winners!

Photography Progress Popular With Campers Under Ken King

By Seth Schwartz Iroquois 6 And Jedd Fisch Iroquois 6

Ken King is a photography counselor in camp and he's also in Bunk 2. His interests in camp, besides photography, are running and soccer. Ken also said, "I like these facilities because they are very nice".

Kenny who's at camp came late because he had short notice.

He came from Norfolk, N.Y., which is 10 miles from Potsdam N.Y., and he went to Munsin Williams Proctor Institute of Art and also went to Mohawk Valley Community College. They are both in Utica, N.Y.

Ken is tall and he has brown eyes and black hair. He studied photography for 14 years. Ken was a freelance photographer.

Archery Draws Interest Of Campers

Four More Campers Pass American Archer

By Alan Rudolph

Senior Archery saw a number of archers achieve great improvements and introduced others to the sport for the first time.

Four campers passed their Camp Archery Association's top test of American Archer. They are:

Randy Lowenstein, Steve Gandel, Josh Kern, and Mark Shulman.

They join archers David Shaw,

Seth Hoffman, Jon W~iss, Mike Rais, and Doug Schreiber who passed American Archer in 1984.

These archers went on to the more challenging Junior Olympics program. Among these Randy Lowenstein, Steve Gandel, and David Shaw passed the

40 meter Archer test closely followed by Josh Kern and Mark Shulman at the Bowman (30 meter) level. Also notable were Jeff Gandel and Seth Hoffman who shot well but were unable to pass the very difficult

60 meter test, and JOn Weiss and Mike Rais at 70 meters. Unfortunately, they were not able

to test their skills in competition against Winadu due to a rainout.

In the Camp Olympics, Jon Weiss beat out Jeff Gandel and Mike

Rais in Upper Seniors, while Randy Lowenstein pulled out a victory over Steve Gande1 in the last end.

Jason Palmer passed the Silverbow Archer Sharpshooter (160 points), while David Go1dbrenner, Jon Pearlman, and Benji Gordon and Ken Bloom passed Silverbow

Archer (100 points).

At 30 yards, Ricky Halper passed Archer Sharpshooter (160 pts), while Mike Stark, Chris Perry, Jason Alpin, Robert Donoghue, Alex Tisch, Eric Nerenberg

and Scott Sonneborn achieved the Archer First Rank (130 pts).

At 20 yards, the following passed Bowman Sharpshooter (160 pts) Hal Ferenzo, Jon Gosberg, Jeff Kantor, Scott Pollak, Jed Resnik Nick DiBari, Rob Hankin, and Matt Fischer. Bowman First Rank (130 pts) was passed by Jeff Cordover, Matt Gabin, Adam Haim, Matt Perry, Randy Kurtz, Corky Stone and Brian Frenzel.

Passing Bowman (100 pts) were Dan Katch, Tal Oren, Claude Meyer, Seth Lehman, Doug Hook, Danny Jewel, Scott Simon, Marc Hochstein, Jon Weinstein, Evan Goetz, Jamie Wolf, and Peter Eisen.

Corky Stone passed Jr. Bowman Arrow (80 pts). Passing Jr. Bowman (60 pts) were Ari Clare and Frank Meltzer.

The Junior Archery Program found many fine shooters develop their skills this summer.

Among the highlights were Ethan Ruby's participation in our victory over Scatico, and Jason von Zerneck's wins in both the Olympic and College Day competition. Danny Richman won the Iroquois part of College Day, and edged out Brett Weiss in a tie-breaker for 2nd in the Olympics.

The following Camp Archery awards were won by the campers this summer - congratulations!

40 Yards - £i1 verbDIW A,rdJler [100 pts}, Jason von Zerneck

3() Yards - A!L'der Si'I'a'rfTSHCT<!7:t-er Ilo~j) pts) :Mi)r,e Xulllerg_ ALc-ner rst Rank (13Q pts) Ben Fischer, n Ruby_ Archer (100 pts) Rosen, Brett Weiss, Jason ick.

Yards - Bowman Sharpshooter (160 pts) Mario Gaztambide,

rk Platt, ·Danny Richman, Ross kowitz. Bowman First Rank

l30 PtsJ Jo.h.n Mo.ss_ BOlWan

l~D pts) Toaa Foontr Jordan firstein, Mark Leibert, Andy Idberg, Brett Ferdinand. Jr. Arrow (80 pts) Jon Steiber,

Foodman, Jason Silver£ein, Green I Jon uotit»: Junior (6. (J 'fits I lJan Cirodosch (, 1 Crone.

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Archery Coach Alan Rudolph - 13th Year On Staff

After Five Years As Camper

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Apaches Raid Game Farm

By Jeff Levine - Apache 9

When we first got off the bus, we had lunch. Afterwards, we went back to Mah-Kee-Nac from Catskill, New York

On July 17th the Apaches went to the Catskill Game Farm. First, it took a little over an hour to get there on a big coach bus.

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When we got there some people bought a small guide book. We had three dollars to spend.

By David Lohman - Iroquois 6 On Thursday, August 15th it was the last day of Olympics.

We saw a variey of animals including a giraffe, a zebra, horses, Rocky Mountain sheep, an ibex, deer, leopard and

a buffalo.

I was on the Genuine Wallies and I thought we would win because we were one of the top four teams and our song and cheer were real good.

Some people bought food while there. I myself didn't buy any food, but I did buy two Bowie knives (fake), a short spear and a tomahawk (it broke) .

Our coach was Dave Pawlowski, and he was a good coach.

There was a nursery and a petting place. There was also a lot more animals which are too numerous to list.

Most people bought spears and knives. I also bought four post cards.

When the night came, we went to the closing ceremonies. Our team looked like retards because we had paper antlers on our heads. We also gave Jim O'Neill one of our hats.

We won the song and cheer and came in third for the banner. When the final results came out, we found that we had come in third, while Outta Control came in first.

the Instructor's Aide course also had passed the Red Cross Part

Two course. Others who also passed Part Two are: Arik Penchina, Matt Selick, Marc Glogoff, Evan Marowitz, Alex Lilien, and Dan Kuperschmid.

13 Sailors Pass ARC Instructor Aides

The 1985 season ended with 13 of our experienced sailors passing the important Instructor1s Aide test of the Red Cross.

The sailors who achieved this feat are: Kenny Berland, Michael Kahn, Scott Levy, Michael Friedman, Paul Leinwand, Josh Schnoll, Jeff Ratner, Andy Pitman, Mike Pearlman, Brian Gitkin, Andy Hyman, Bruce Wi lIner, and

Steve Selick.

Out of this group of fine sailors will come Mah-Kee-Nac Sailing Counselors a few years down the pike.

The end of Specialty Week, when 16 sailors spent the~week in more intensive instruction, saw this group travel to Lake George to test their skills in a larger lake. Michael Friedman missed this trip as he chose tennis as his Specialty Week activity, and James Notis, Dan Kuperschmid Matt Boyer, and Marc Glogoff joined the above listed Instructor Aides on this Lake George trip.

All of the campers who passed

The Sailing Instructor covered all aspects of both recreation and racing. There are 35 separate learning segments ln the Sailing course.

Here are some of the skills to be learned when beginners start the course: capsize drills,

man overboard drill, mooring, rigging and de-rigging, tacking, jibbing, decking, main.sheet handling, jib sheet handling, working the tiller, then

solo in the Phantom, and solo in the Sloop.

Frank Cole directed the Sailing Program for the second year, assisted by Joe Burns. Frank has been at Mah-Kee-Nac for six summers as Sailing Faculty member of the Red Cross Small

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Final Banquets Stir Memories

The Season's End is observed each year with special traditional events over the final three days, with the Banquet really the most meaningful one that says another great summer is at an end.

always, campers loudly ex.pressed their happiness with Chef Harvey, who was completing his eleventh year at Mah-Kee-Nac.

Head Counselor Mark Toporoff opened the program with a recital of the highlights of the Lower Senior Camp's program, and the part the counselors played in the program's success.

The three campus units rotate the final three nights with the Banquet, a movie, and the closing campfire.

JUNIOR BANQUET

On Friday night, the Junior Carep Banquet~was held, with counselo~ Blair Caughley serving as Master of Ceremonies.

Then Brave Mark Hudis entertained the campers with three of his outstanding magic tricks

The spirit of the summer was in evidence as the campers of the cast of the Junior Camp Musical, "Oliver" entertained. The campers in the

lead sang their songs and the campers in the chorus sang with real feeling.

The eagerly awaited video film dealing with Lower Senior campers and their programs followed Once again, Counselor Alan Friedman scored with the interesting and ofttimes funny camp scenes and events.

Head Counselor Andy Cole spoke of the highlights of the summer and of the fine work of the Junior Camp Staff.

UPPER SENIOR BANQUET

By Mark Hudis - Brave 11

Then came the video fun, with the Video film dwelling on the sununer's activities, with funny scenes bringing much laughter. Counselor Alan Friedman was the one Tho did the filming, and who then put the film together, after editing, with music added.

The banquet is many things. An end to the season, a tietogether dinner, and quite frankly, the most emotional night of the summer.

As banquets go, this year's was outstanding for the Upper Seniors. As campers entered the dining hall, they were greeted by ghouls, shrieks and Michael Jackson's "Thriller". It was made clear to all that this year's theme was that of a haunted house.

LOWER SENIOR BANQUET

When the campers of Lower Senior Camp entered the Pining Hall for their closing Banquet on Saturday night, they were each given a Hawaiian lei around their neck. The Banquet theme was Hawaiian Luau.

While campers dined on New York strip steak and various condiments, sounds of blood boiling, people dying and bones being broken were permeating the dining hall. Real dinner music!

After Director Dan Metzger said grace, the campers enjoyed the traditional steak dinner. As

Alan Friedman,

Long- Time Camper-Counselor, Films Season's Fun And Action

Mark Hudis Completes 8th Summer Here -

Does Magic - Writes A Lot

attending Danbee's farewell dinner.

After dinner we were all graciously entertained by

Rik Pattenella and Mark Rudis. They put on a pseudo-magic

act combined with some lame hwnor and really wowed the entire group. Not to be outdone. Ed Schneider followed with a guitar/singing act that would have put

Johnny Cash to shame.

Then came the traditional video. Alan "Cecil B. DeMille" Friedman put together various highlights from the summer and the resulting show was fantastic.

At this point Ian Collins introduced the honored guests seated at the head table.

He also pointed out that the reason two seats at at the head table remained empty was because Jim OINeil1 was

Following the video, Mark Rudis gave the speech of his life, followed by a closing speech by Chick and Gizmo. After all tears were dried, the book was closed on the 185 Banquet. It was a veritably blast, tears and all.

Preparing Noah Tarnow for his singing

role in musical

L to R: Josh Trauner, Skipper Vine, Matt Bird, Ric Martinec.

Glen Buchbaum and Teddy Roth.

Mike Da.le wi th Lee Patti.

Tal Oren

Jon Pfeffer andJ eremyTiefenbrun.

RandyKurtz, RickyHalper, Corky Stone and Allan Fr i edman .

Jeff Schwartz and Billy Wright

Terrie Smi th says goodbye to Jason Rudnick

Matt Fraiman, Dave Luzner and Ricky Halper

FRIENDSHIP AND GOOD-BYES

Mi chael WeI t saying goodbye to Evan Mizrachy

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