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TOTEM ST AFF : Noel "Weafer-Photo, Jill Miller-Typist, John Strattoncartoonist I Bernie Berube-Editor, Paul Barry-Pressman, Rich Ibrgia-

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A MESSAGE .FROM THE: EDITOR:

Banality, sincerity, and profundity are rarely to be found together.

Hence, the chore of writing an editorial note. What's more trite than a thank-you? It's commonplace enough. Yet, I am compelled to here extend gratitude profoundly and sincerely as I genuinely feel it: that is considerable. 11m speaking first to the 208 Totem camper contributors (compared to 173 of last year). Several individuals visibly emerged.

I am thankful to my own bunk members (#40). They are the only senior bunk where every camper has written. Special mention goes to Jeff Lonoff from Bunk 40, who reviewed all the movies we saw at camp.

Writing for the Totem was strongly encourage by Head Counselors.

This resulted in cons1derable contributions. Lew Pollack, too, insisted on lots o.f weekly writing on nature adventures, and I am indebted to him. Mohican Richard Moskowitz has contributed the most photographs and these have been of superior quality--impressive for a-IO-year old. He was followed by .Algonquin Fred Fogel. I thank Counselor photol;!raphers Charlie Borst and David Stankus.

I've been most pleased with the work of those boys who wrote for Totem and enjoyed it. It showed! I appreciate Peter Weiss's work;

it's an example of camper enthusiasm. Mark Diamond deserves very

special mention. At age 11 he's become a draftsman! Quality is there. See the campus flyleafs in the Totem. Ken Fisher, too, has spontaneously added color to the art work, notably in the last issue.

After the campers, my heartiest thanks go to the cooperative Totem team. I could never keep up with Jill's fine typing skill and speed .• Nor could I envision anyone else as Mr. Pressman than Paul Barry, who so meticulously got everything to press. John Stratton is the famous mystery cartoonist for "Joe Camper". We all know he was superb. Illustrating for us was done by Rich Borgia with skill and precision.

Noel Weafer has been this year's Totem photographer and letterman.

Yes, those headlines are also his. I've appreciated his work. This is but a written record of my recognition of his performance.

I'm proud to assert Totem 174 has to be the best on record. Thanks at least to those mentioned.

Bernie Berube, Editor

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July 6, 1974

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On the first day of carnp~ it

was drizzling. When we got here, we went to our bunks. Most camp-' ers started to unpack, though many kids started to play on the camp~s. It started to rain. Everybody

came in and got ready for dinner. When the kids saw the new mess

hall arrangement, cafeteria style, most were happy because it tocked really great. It turned out to

be good.

After dinner, when we were in our bunks. it started to rain. Just then, Jim OINe;l said, tlWe will have an inside campfire. II This started out with Jim introducing all the Navajo and Cheyenne counselors, which lasted about forty-fi ve m; nutes '. Later some new counselors sang some

songs. By 9:35 we had all gone to bed.

Peter Baum,Cheyenne-29

. It was a Tuesday at Montvale.

It was about 10:00 and rough1y twenty kids were waiting for a bus that didnlt come until 11 :00, when it was supposed to come at 10:00.

There were three buses: I was on Bus 2. I sat next to Mark Diamond. We talked for 35 minutes and then decided it was time for lunch. Everyone had their lunch

in a paper bag, which they brought from home. Time passed and passed. Soon, we stopped to go to the bathroom at a bowling alley. Soon. we were back on our way.

We passed farms and more farms until we saw a little arrow saying Camp Mah-Kee-Nac. At the time we were on a small back road. We got in and got out of the bus until it started to rain and thunder. We are at camp now and having lots of fun.

Ted Forbath, Navajo-25

Are there any questions, men?

Lower Seniors Entertained for First Assembly

Photo. Peter Baum-Cheyenne-29

S£NIORS VIE..:W r(APE"t' SAGA

Many critics have said that the "Ape" movies have declined in quality since The Planet of the Apes was releasea in 1968-, The Batt1e for the Planet of the Apest the fifth and last film of the "Ape" saga is no exception.

The film begins with the year 2670, when the lawgiver (John Huston) recalls the time when Caesar (Roddy McDowell) was ruler. Humans were treated like animals and were used as servants.

One of the human advisors to Caesar recalls what Caesarls parents (lira and Cornelius) had said about the Ape's destiny. Caesar, his

serva nt, and the Wi seman Vi rg il (Paul Williams) travel to the Forbidden City to dig up the tapes

of Zira and Cornelius. The three

do not realize that humans have

been living under the city for the past twelve years. The three set off the alarm system and barely escape. The humans believe that the Apes plan to invade their city and plan an attack on the Apes.

The movie becomes more ridiculous, and the climax is so stupid that you can't help but laugh at it. From the audience response

to the film, r can conclude that this was definitely not a film for 13,14, or 15 year olds.

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On Tuesday, July 2, 1974, eight hikers left on a trip to Monument Mountain. The hikers were: Fred Fogel, David Burke, Howard Kelman, Billy Abramson, Neil Shane, Brian Sterling, Scott Freeman, and John Eisenberg. The counselors were Granville Powell, and Brian Atkins.

Monument Mountain is about 1600 feet high. For the first two thirds of it, the mountain was woods and dirt, but as we got higher up, it turned into steep rocks and little trees around that area. We left at about 11:00 a.m. and we got to the summit in 50 minutes. It was an easy hike.

When we were walking up the mountain, we saw an engraved stone that was the monument of the mountain. When we got to the top, we rested and we got a beautiful

view of the area around. We could see the television tower on top

of Mount Greylock. We also saw the Catskill Mountain Range.

We ate lunch at about 12:30 p.m. We had cold cut sandwiches. For dessert we had an apple and

a large cookie. After lunch, we sat around and admired the view of Camp ~ah-Kee-Nac!s lake.

At 1 :30 we left to hike down the mountain. It took us about twenty minutes to come down. We were supposed to be picked up at 2:30 p.m. Because we had about forty minutes to wait, we walked

a little down the roadway and called from a motel. W~ got picked up by Joe ... and were back at camp by third period.

John Eisenberg~ Seneca -45

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PREPARES M--K" STArr

Jack Barnaby is the head ten-

nis coach at Harvard University. For over twenty years, his teams have had outstanding achievement, including many Ivy championships

in perhaps one of the toughest tennis divisions on the East Coast. Jack is considered one of the

most outstanding teachers in the United States currently, with

many excellent years of experience.

Perhaps the best word which could be used to describe Jack

is "thorough ", Besi des be; ng an outstanding teacher, Jack is an outstanding person, who has had

a fine experience in tennis, and is eager to show it wi th everyone who is interested.

Basically, Jack explained his theories and techniques for teachings to all counselors.

Being a successful author of a tennis instruction book, he is extremely successful with the art of communicating his advice to all.

Jack was well-received by the counselors. It was generally agreed that Jack has a tendency to overemphasize a point, but this cannot rank as a criticism because one rapidly realizes that this is part of his tennis chara-cter ,. whi ch has under Jack Barnaby the success and name tha t he. is today.

-David Panzer ,. Cheyenne-3D'

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Today, we Juniors played softball .. We were losing 6-1, when we came back, I got five hits in a row. Eric Dansky, Ricky White, and I were the star pleyers, I got a hit over second base. A kid caught tt , My heart sankl Then, he dropped it!

. We were tied 7-7 when I was between third and home bases. I fell down and got up again. Then I fell down again and got up.

I ran home. I was safe!

Just then~ the bugle blew.

The game was tied 8-8. Some g:ame.!

-S~eve Falkenberg~Iroquois-7

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Lorenzo said that Friday evening activities were going to be quiet, relaxing evenings. He said that he was going to tell us what was going on outside of camp. Lorenzo told us that Watergate was still going on.

He also told us something about the Mets. Everybody hoorayedt booed, or clapped. ',It took quite

a long time for the coaches to get everyone sett.l ed. Then we saw a film about the famous undersea explorer Jacques Cousteau, who descrtbed an underwater station.

Six men lived under water.

We planned for the Fourth Qf July music program after we saw the film~ Then we all went to bed.

Bruce Roberts, Mohican-6

On the porch of Bunk #5, there were little birdies. The mommy laid some' eggs before we came to camp. The birdies flew a.way last night. They left their nest behind. Now, we have an empty nest and no little birdies.

Mike Zeuner & Eric RosenthalMohicans-5

a little we tv! can go Q \ong way.

On June .27,. WCM was working fine-at 1 east they thought so unti l! a counselor came in from Boston and said he could hardly hear WCM there. The reason is that WCM only broadcasts for one mile, but that day they broadcasted five miles. The reception in Pittsfield was pretty good; in Lenox. it was loud and clear, but in Boston, it was not

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Adam Schwartz, Iroquois-10

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ON BEHALF OF ALL OF MAH-KEE-NAC, TOTEM WISHES A GRAND 1974

, BI~THDAY TO ALL OF THE FOLLOWING GtNTLEMEN:

The Campers

Steve Holtzman Mike Zeuner Gregg Howard

Jon Cas h ---Gordon Schnell Tommy Echikson Robert Shapiro Glen Bindelglass Robert Burnett -Jeremy Harrison

Adam Targan

Richard Weinstock Richard ~obins Bennett Go 1 dberg --:;:::::=i David Schwartz M'att Roberts

Steve Braun

Eric Dansky

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June 29 10

July 1 11

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July 4 13

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July 10 11

July' 10 1-1 11

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As the Mah-Kee-Na.c custom goes. there is once again •. a healthful number of the professional staff coming from various European countries. This year, there is one counselor from Wales, two from Scotland, four from Sweden, two from Ireland, one from Japan. thirteen from our Eng1 ish Mother country, one from Brussel s ,. and one

as far away as Australia. The lineup goes 'this way:

Lennart Ahlberg John Stratton Paul Taylor Lenny McCaigne George Krusel1 Gun~l' Wedfelt

Wi 11 Parker

John Utley

Shabu Dedhar Nick Gal dberg Ron Hawkes

Chris Baker Chris Tams Granville Powell

England Scotland England Scotland

Holl and Sweden

Eng1 and Japan

Ireland England Australia Brussels, Belgium Scaft wnkl~ -- Algonquins --40

Ray Wheel er Dave Wood Adam Ca tte 11 Gordon Sharpe Kas Hemmes

Has Weiselgren Alan Grice

Tachan Isaji Marshall McConnell Frank Wil son

Bryan Foster

Fred Rosenfeld

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went through many changes. For ~-. example, we gained many fine

new counselors for the waterfront options. For one thing~

the Director has changed from

Rich Chichetti to Charlie Nunez, former swimming counselor.

For the water ski program, last year's Jim King and Rich Jones

couldn't come back, but Mike Dale did. To replace Rich and Jim is a highly advanced skier from Stockholm, Switzerland, besides Scott Wilmore and aide, Robert

Barrer.

For the sculling program, we hired an English guy. Chris Taylor, but he didn't arrive yet. Until he does, we tentatiVely have an aide, Dave Weinstein.

For competitive swimming, we have Don Rubenoff and Mike Burgess. For the sailing program.

we have a guy from Sweden, Hans Wieselgren and a guy from Japan, Tachan Isaji, besides two other guys.

For canoing, we have a guy from England, Chris Tams with Mike Brezel. For snorkeling, we ha ve Ken Werner. It 100 ks 1 ike this new group will add much

to the waterfront program.

-Richard Cohen, Cheyenne-29

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The Iroquois have played severalgames of bombardment. On the'last game, everybody was out ~xcept me. There were five guys on the other team. There was al~ so another guy on my teamt but

he was hit out.

I hit three guys out and Eric Dansky and Steve Rosenblatt

';. against me. I threw a ball at Eric Dcnsky , while he was holding his ball.

I came up to the line and~e tried to get back by throwing

the ball at me lightly. I blocked it once with my body, forcing it up into the air. I hit it again with my hands, then once again. When it bounced, I was out. They won the game.

Scott ·Kursman s Iroquois-9

The 46th season of Mah-Kee-Nac has arrived. This is the Totem's thirty-eighth year. Many years are behind us and many more are ul')doubtedly ahea<i of us. The timet thought is now.

The here and now are most important. The activities and memories of Mah-Kee-Nac could

pass by. On the other haAd, they could last for many years. Thatls what Totem is for. Make Mah-KeeNac '74 live for many more years. Record your observations about camp activities or any impressions about camp life in Totem. 173 news stories were submitted over last surrmer. Let's too 200 this year. Totem wants to join you this surrvner.

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Qn Wednesday, Bunk 24 came in second place for the Lower Sr. Scavenger Hunt. The way we did this was when I (P. Weiss) had supnlied things like a pink toothbrush, a threaded needle with

red thread, a four-cent postaqe stamp, and lots more.

With a list like this, I still think we should have won!

Peter Weiss, Navajo-24

On Wednesday night, June 26th, the Lower Senior camp had a scavenger hunt. Jim OINeil called over the loudsoeaker 20 items that are not normally kert in the bunks. Partial credit vias o iven for items close to that called

for. From 0 to 7 points were q;ven and from 2 to 14 points were given on Bemus ones.

Some of the items were: a silver penny, a pink toothbrush, a flower, and a dead insect. Then five questions were asked.

The tJavajos, on the whole, did much better than the Cheyennes. Yet, Bunk 29 had 83 points and won in the Cheyennes.

Steve Tollin, Ch.eyenne -&9

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Totem welcomes and wishes well Lorenzo Barcelo and Jim Ayres

in their new roles as Head Counselors for Junior Camp and Upper Senior Camp respectively.

M-K-ll Spirit/expressed by JUNIORS

Juniors have expressed some of their feelings about camp by completing the last line of this poem, set up by Head Counselor, Lorenzo.

I came to camp.

My friends are near. The games are fun ...

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Some campers provided the following lines. Asterisked names are those whose poems were displayed:

*Mi,ke Lonoff-"I do not fear ."

*Steve Ellick-III've nothing to fear." *Adam Whi te- III It II S fun of cheer. III

*Ed Gray-III got that c lear ." *Richard-"No more tears,lI

Steve Falkenberg-III'm glad I came here. "

Adam Meyers-liThe camp is near." Mark Greenberg-IIWe are here', II Fred Martin-"And I want gear.1I Jeff Kaplan-"I!m sure glad I'm

finally here. II Jess Lonner-IIYou are not dumb, 01 d chum."

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The days are cold,

The counselors are bold, There are funny stories

Gil has tal d ,

The days get warmer, Everyone's out,

And every day

They catch more trout. Then it stops

As kids pack up and go , And leave camp

To shiver in the snow.

Robbie Rosenberg. Iroquois- 6

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M'AH-KEE-NAC'S FIRST FOREIGNER OF 174

PRObLEM?

IIIf it1s too cole, it wood be wise to dress warmly. Thi 5 wi l , son, fGster greater comfort for you and avoid even the brink of discomfort. II

Five puns on counselor's names are included here. Can you identify them?

The Tanglewood concert schedule for this season is available for those

'interested. Pick one up in the Totem office.

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The following campers from the Cherokee tribe were listed as the top ten campers on the tennis ladder at Totem press time.

1. Peter Wi scff

2. Billy Rapaport

3. Dan K1 uger

4. Ivan Assael

5. Lou Hazan

6 .. Ed Zalaznicl<

7. Scott Agran

8. Larry Nusbaum

9. Mike Treitler 10. Bill Garbose

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2. David Graff

3. Greg Howard

4. Marc Selverstone

5. Gary Korn

6. Robert Kapel

7. Richard Weinstock

8. Mickey Harris

9. Fred Hazan 10. Joel Schwartz

These are the Cheyennes:

1. Scott Corwin

2. Eric Leventhal

3. Steve Copit

4. Robert Burnett 5. : Warren Leeds

6. Robert Schaeffer

7. Jay Rothman

8. Andy Behrman

9. Steve Aronson 10. Jon Cook

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The following campers from the Algonquin and Seneca tribes were listed as the top ten campers on the tennis ladder at Totem press time.

1 • Scott Freeman

2. Mark Rogovin

3. Warren Odette

4. Gary Levine

5. Marc Magod

6. Ian Wexl er

7. Brian Marks

8. John Block

9. Bob Kenyon

10. Paul Hostovsky

Bruce Berg, Algonquin-42

In baseball practice, Gary . Levine, Marc Magod, and Dick

Berse of Bunk #42 combined to

j camp. 1 ete a tri pl e pl ay. It was

I a short fly to second base, and

! the runners (Bruce Berg and Brian I M.arksof Bunk 42) were runnt ng,

; but the be l!l was caught by Gary, , thrown to Dick at first, then

Marc at second to complete the triple play.

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5 Mike Zeuner and Eric Rosenthal discovered a bird's nest in their bunk. 33 Ja~ Rothman shot a perfect score in archery (54).

33 Andy Behrman--youngest camper to pass the swimming 10-3-3. 14 Peter Braun caught the largest fish among the Apaches.

14 G1en Bindelglass and Jeff Pincus were the first Apaches to enter the water. 27 Marc Boxer caught a five-inch bull frog.

27 C1iff Finn caught three bluegills.

38 David Slutsker has a record appetite when it comes to B LT's. How many, Dave?

12 The bunk hiked around the Nature Shack until they found, to their surprise', a wasp's egg on a leaf.

36/37 Jim Fishman (37) and Counselor Ted H~ag operated th: "Exergin," the

pun buoy for a record full hour. E,tner of them wtl l now acc~v"t.~~ challengers.

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26 Joel Marcus Talented impressionist; Nixon, Paul lynde, Mae West, Howard

Koesse1, Groucho Marx, W.C., Fields.

26 Peter Jacoby already completed a cedar box in woodshop. 26 Ross Ellick retrieved a long lost cedar box here at camp.

26 "Dodge" (counselor) plays chess blindfolded. He'll take on all challengers.

29 This bunk won the Lower Sr. scavenger hunt.

6 Alan Schlein (Aide) placed second for the NY State indoor archery

. championship. In two weeks he will shoot with the outdoor champs for what he suspects will be a tougher challenge.

22 Gary Saltz passed his waterfront 10-3-3 test. This is, of course, a

test expected mostly of staffmen.

22 Mitchell Goldstone is a WCM engineer now.

22 Gary Saltz won first place for the Scavenger poem in the Navajos.

24 This bunk came in second (by as much as a piece of red thread) in the lower senior scavenger hunt.

43 Neil Shane is still collecting foreign stamps at camp. Some have already been collected this summer. Please leave your foreign stamps with Neil.

9 Larry Kluger's gerbil gave birth to nine baby gerbils. 14 Mike Crystal caught a toad near the doctor's cabin ..

30 David Rogoff has been recognized as the outstanding camper among the lower seniors for hi s woodwork performance.

40 Scott Witkin has shown the greatest promise among the Upper Seniors in photography.

24 Josh Bloom designed and printed a linocut, and he used it as a letterhead on his own stationery. He thought of this on his own. 34 Jon Gross is making progress on a hacko-hacko, a Latin percussion instrument. Itls attractive, and it really works.

31 Danny Kiselik is doing a good deal of collage and other 2-D work in

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44 Warren Odette has introduced the Apaches to macrame.

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"Bulldozer" aqa tn , is in the junior camp. We are lucky to have him. He is very rough in coaching, but he teaches us a lot. He is also Mohican leader.

"Bull dozer " 1 eads us in evening games, too. All the kids like the softball program, mainly because of Bulldozer's coaching. He is a very nice counselor, but he can

be very rough, especially when all of his 225 pounds sits on you.

His program this year in softball is better than last year's. He makes us run a lot, drill a lot~ especially pickups.

Yesterday, he gave many boys chances to pitch. To prove how

nice he is, a few nights ago, almost every boy in junior camp jumped

on him. When everyone got off, he wasn't at all mad.

JUN fOR. SOCCER SHOWS PROMISE

So far this year, we have some good players. If al' the players play well and hustle, we should be able to beat the lower seniors ..

There are a lot of players that have improved from last year. If the players learn to play their positions in the right spot, we should have a good team and program.

This is what I learned from my interview with soccer counselor, Bruce Serlin.

Jonathan Usdin, Mohican-l

SI10K£ SIGNALS OF t)PCOHIIVG EVENTS

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IJuly 8~) Cherokee/lenox Basket, , ., ..... :-1 ball game at Home

July 9!, lazy Day?

July 10 J Lenox at Home

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Evening Program

WASP EGG DISCOVERED

We are down near the nature shack on a hike. I found a leaf with a thing on it that looked like a caterpillar's egg. Ray said it was a bruised leaf~ which is called a "wasp goule," I think. A wasp lays its egg there, and an insect comes and eats it until a bruise

is formed.

I am leaving the leaf and the nest on it with Ray and Lou at the Nature Shack for anyone to come and see.

Mark Greenberg, Apache - 12

J:ROGLOST & FO U ~IO

One day me and Troy went to a little pond. We saw a frog. Troy and me decided to catch it. So we got it. We took it to the Nature Shack. And when we came, it was not there. Me and Troy ran to the pond. We saw the frog and got it. We got flies, and the frog lived happily ever after.

Mitchell Dickman and Troy Rosenblatt, Apaches-13

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On the morning of June 30,

ni ne baby gerb il s were born in the Nature Shack. The mother had been pregnant for four days. We expect more gerbils by Tuesday of thi s week. (By the time this goes to press, the gerbils

• have probably already been born.) l The gerbils were brought to camp ,f;· by Larry Kluger.

, ,: -Larry Kl uger & Jimmy Hoffman

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Bennet Goldberg, Peter Gladstone, and me (Mike Goldberg) went frog hunting. We caught three frogs

in the back of the radio shack in

the woods. Mark Boxer caught a

huge bull frog and put it in the man-made pond in back of WCM. He lived there for three days, then jumped out. Peter Baum tried to catch it, but the frog went into

a hole and lived happily ever

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Mike Goldberg, Navajo - 27

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Clifford Finn, Mike Goldberg, and I were fishing in Mah-KeeNac's lake. Off the do~ks is where most of the fish seem to hang around. In less than ten minutes we caught about seven fish. We could have caught more, but the fish ate the bait on us!

Everybody was trying to catch a big fish called the bass, but there was mostly "b'lueqt l l ed" fish.

Why don't you other guys try fishing? We guarantee that you will get a bite by the end of the night.

Cliff Finn, Navajo -27

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'K'N SKIPPERS OUTSAI Y CHT

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~oday (July 10) marked the be'ginning of a weekly sailing regatta against the Mah-Kee-Nac Yacht Club.

In the past, we could never beat them~ but today, with a whaling

Winning Skipper, David Weinstein, and Crewman, Mike Mintz, following their 13-8 Sailing Regatta

Victory.

wind, and a feeling of admiration towards the Yacht Club, six courageous young sailors ventured out, unaware of their complete control of this biting wind. We capitalized on their mistakes to bring

us ever closer to that wonderful feeling of victory, which Mah-KeeNac has never felt sa strongly before.

The six courageous young sailors were: David M. Weinstein, the skipper of the winning boat; the crewman was Michael Mintz; the second place boat was skippered by Robert Weinstock and crewed by Steven Eisenberg; our other boat was skippered by Louis Levy, and his crew was Benji Buren.

The class of boats which were used were our very own fifteenfoot mercury sloops.

The outcome was evident in the early stages, when the Yacht Club boats were following us around the course; it seemed apparent that they were unsure of themselves.

The sailing team will continue its vigorous practice schedule only to bring back fame to Mah-Kee-Nac in

a weekly series.

David Weinstein.

Seneca-46

UPPER SRS EXPAND HORIZONS

TO IRELAND (SESSIONS SUCCESSFUL)

On Friday, July 5, Joe conducted an enlightening discussion about world events, concentrating on the conflicts in Northern Ireland. Present were two Irish counselors, Frank and Lennie, who were very knowledgeable on this subject.

Some questions raised by my inquisitive fellow campers were, What is the IRA fighting for?" It was promptly answered by one. of the Irish counselors who said, liThe IRA wants to unite Englishcontrolled Northern Ireland with Southern Ireland and completely break away from England.11

Another interesting question was, "Ooes Southern Ireland want the unification of Ireland, spearheaded by the IRA?" Frank answered, "Southern Ireland thinks the IRA

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On the night of Friday, July 5, the Cherokee tribe gathered in the.library for the second session of "Expanding Horizons".

Bob Behrman headed the meeting.

Several foreign counselors including Granville Powell, Chris Tams, Tachan Isaji, Marshall McConnel, Bryan Foster, and Alan Grice participated'at the head.

In the beginning, the campers were given an opportunity to ask questions to any of these foreign counselors about their home backgrounds. Towards the end, the foreign counselors were given a

The IRA is five per cent of the population of Northern Ireland. The English government said that

II If the major; ty of the peopl e in Northern Ireland vote to secede

from the British Empire~ it could

do so." In reality, the people

that want unification are a small minority and are trying to sway the majority by unlawful terrorist acts.

It will be a long time before any change occurs because the IRA is stubborn, and the majority of the people are stubborn also. I think the discussion of worldly events was a worthwhile endeavor, and I think most seniors enjoyed it as I did.

Steve Eisenberg-Senenca-46

chance to ask us anything about our country they were curious about.

Many interesting topics came up in the meeting. Some of the questions were political, like the Northern Ireland conflict, Austral ian racial p r o b lems , and others were just of hUman interest, like the World Cup Soccer Tournament and baseball in

Japan. .

Almost everyone there participated in the discussion, and I think

most of the people there (campers and counselors) gained and learned a lot from the meeting.

Eddie Zalaznick, Cherokee-39

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BULLS-EYE FOR R\FLERY

Bill Chandler's riflery program is one of Mah-Kee-Nac's most popular activities. It consists of 108 eager riflemen. Everyone who takes riflery seems to really enjoy it. It works on an award system. You must get passing targets in order to get a certain award.

I talked to Bill, and he gave

me some names of outstanding campers in his class~s. Mark Tirschwel1 had some extremely well going from Pro-Marksman to Bar 1, John Stern from Marksman to Bar 1, Steve Janowsky has gone from ProMarksman to Sharpshooter and

Scott Freeman and Dave Burke, who are Algonquins in their first

year of shooting, have reached Sharpshooter.

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Above Left to right, they'are:

With this kind of enthusiasm and achievement, only good things are in store for all of us as we progress through the season.

Lloyd ZUckerberg,Cheyenne-31

Photo---Mark Tirschwell Cherokee-35

In last week's issue of Totem, John Eisenberg gave us a trip 16g from the trek up Monument Mountain. Below are shots two hikers took

but were not available at press time last week.

John Eisenberg, Brian Sterling, Neil Shane, Howard Kelman, Granville Powell. David Burke, Brian Atkins, Scott Freeman, and Billy Abramson. Photo-Fred Fogel-Alg-4

John Eisenberg and Brian Atkins atop the

mountain. Photo-John Eisenberg,Seneca-4

" PROSPECTS 'FOR HAM NOVICe LIC£NSES

The following boys are taking code classes and will probably get their novice licenses for Ham Radio:

Mohicans:

Jon Usdin-l Bruce Irom-l Steven Bergman-2 Hughie Miller-3 Jef'f Cohen-3

Jon Flaks-5

f4i ke Zeuner-5 John Ki sel i k-5

Navajos: John Lynn-22 Larry Steinert-26 Peter Weiss-24 Jim Werner-23

r4i ke Sas sower- 27 r~ark Di amond-25 Peter Jacoby-26

Algonquins: 9avid Burke-40 Scott Witkin-40 John Eisenberg-45

Senca:

Two campers have received thi s Novice Licenses for Morse Code:

Sam Roberts-46 (Seneca) and Doug Roberts-29 (Cheyenne).

David Burke.Algonquin-40

SRS. DtFEA-·1 ED DESPITE NAGOD/S FINE PITCHING

On July 4, the Algonquin-Seneca baseball team played their first game against Lenox. Marc Magod the starting pitcher, pitched an excellent game. At the end of two innings, Lenox was up first, but

in the fourth inning, Lenox started hitting again.

The outfield end infield made several mental errors. This went on for the rest of the· game.

Brian Marks,Algonquins-42

J'M TE~MS SR. COUNCIL

, PRODUCTIVE'

The Upper Seniors had their first camper council meeting last Sunday. It was a very productive meet i ng, wh i ch could eas i Iy have gonfr another' half-hour, according to Jim Ayre. R~freshments were even,-se-rved~

Topics explored we-re: Music for reveille to be submitted by campers to Charlie. This is instead

of the bugle call; this was granted. Hours for mess recall will now be- coordinated with the kitche~ to allow for a shorter wait on first call.

Two items are still open. One is the- oosstbt l i ty of a tarp to cover·th&tennis courts. Another is the' possibility of a diving board, on the· rafters. These

; teAlS' need further expl orat ion.

The representatives to the camper council are as follows: 35- Mike Schlein, 36-Jeff Varsa, 37- Billy Fisher, 38-Billy Rapaport, 39-Ivan Assael, 40-Kevin Kritch (Scott Witkin, alternate), 41- Steve, :We-yl, 42- Fred Fogel, 43- Lewi s Levy., 44-Bob Kl ; ngdon, 45-. Bob Wei ns tock , 46-Sam Roberts.·

Scott Witkin,Algonquin-40

You wrote your letters ..• Right?

Your counselor is screaming,

"Hush Up" Ri ght?

You have nothing to do ...•. Right?

Then, 1 is ten to .....

STUMP THE AUDIENCE Thursday, 2:00-2:30 (rest hour)

With Rich Samson-Cherokee Right? .... Right!

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For evening activity, July 4, the Juniors and the Lower Seniors did a Fourth of July program.

The Juniors sang two songs called, IIWhen Johnny Comes Marching Homen and "Marching Through Georgian.

The Lower Seniors sang these songs: "Nob o dy Knows t heTr-oub l e ", "Ba t t l e Hymn ", II Revol utionary Tea ") n Gi ve My Rega rds to Broadway II and "Yankee Doodle Boy".

Some English men sang two songs.

They are printed in this issue. Th~ instruments used were the piano, guitar, drums, recorder, and organ.

Richard Pelzman, a senior, sang a solo. Matt Zinn and Joey Kluger played their recorders. Rich .Moskowitz played the drums. Paul Hostovsky, an upper senior, read a poem by Robert Frost.

THE GANG'S ALL HERE, JOE!

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the fi rework 5 came

On July 4th, Lower Seniors to the top of the soccer field to see

the fireworks at about 10:00.

The firewords werenlt as bad as

Jim O'Neill said they would be.

Some of the fireworks made a lot of noise. At the end, ten kids, including myself (P. Weiss) were there staging a strike. But we soon left.

Peter Weiss,Navajo-26

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The ChQrus of Lower Senlors included: Cliff Finn, Eric Brooks, Richie Robbins, Danny Rosenthal, Danny Kertzner, Danny Irom, Steve Kauff, Lloyd Zuckerberg, Matt Levine, Ted Forbath, Gregg Howard, Mickey Harris, Mike Mintz, Kenny Fisher, Adam Jacobs & Tommy Rich.

The Chorus of Juniors included:

Jeff Marks, Joey Kluger~ Eddie Gray, Gorden Schnell, G,ary Rus s el l , Andy Piera, Adam Schwartz, Mike Lonaff and Scott Kursman.

Craig Mytelka, Jess Lonner, and Larry Levine held up flags which they had made in the art shop. The entire camp attended this program, emceed by Joe Kruger.

Cliff Finn, Navajo-27

Left to Right: Craig Mytelka, Jess Lonner, Gary Korn, Adam Jacobs, Ken Fisher, Tom Rich, Jim Werner, Matt Levine, Richie Robbins, Eric Brooks, Cliff Finn, Marc Selverstone, Gregg Howard and Ted Forbath.

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Photos: Fred Fogel, Alg.-42

SENECAS VISIT DANBEE

On Saturday night, July 6

the Senecas and the Counselor assistants enjoyed a social with Camp Danbee. The boys in these groups dressed special for the occasion.

We boarded the bus at, about 7:00 p.m. The trip to- Danbee took about thirty minutes. When we got there, we crossed over a high arching bridge that led to the girls' A-frame bunks.

The bunks had all the luxuries of home. They had a kitchen, a living room, a sofa, and chairs.

When we came into the bunks,

we were greeted by twenty friendly girls. The girls invited us into the kitchen and served pretzels, wafers, and soft drinks.

We listened to rock n' roll music and talked. The counselors supervised the social well. At 10:30 p.m., we left and said good-by.

John Eisenberg, Seneca-45

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Ha rVC{rds Barllab~r HDlds Indoor Tennis C\li1IC

_. For C:he~e.nnes

This year, 1,ke every other

year, Jack Barnaby came up to camp to teach and help improve the tennis counselors' skills, as well as the camper.s.

When Jack was here, it rained, and the courts were too wet. But Joe made plans with a tennis club this year so that when the courts are wet, we got there.

Some Cheyennes went. While w~ were there, Harvard's Head Tennis Coach, Jack Barnaby taught a lot to tne campers and counselors a~out hitting the tennis ball, besides how far to judge the stand from the ba 11 before you hi tit with your racquet.

The campers and counselors enjoyed the program very much with Jack Barnaby~ and we all hope to see him again soon.

Among those Cheyennes attending the tennis clinic were: Ron Feldman; Mik~ Eisner, Doug Roberts~ Steve Tolan, Ricky Cohen, Mike Mintz, Peter Baum, Scott Corwin, Howard Dicker, Ethan Baliff, Todd Cooper, Eric Levantha1, Peter Cooper, Jay Rothman, Robert Schaeffer, Steve Colpit & Steve Aronson.

Peter Baum, Cheyenne-2

ON BEHALF OF ALL OF MAH-KEE-NAC, TOTEM WISHES A GRAND

1974 BIRTHDAY TO ALL OF THE FOLLOWING GENTLEMEN:

The Birthdays The Years

David Schwartz 13

. l'l Matt Roberts 12

)2'----" Steve Braun . : 11

" Eric Dansky L-' 9

i ~ Fred Bomze ~ 15

• Mar tin H a use r -~ , 1 0

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I "', I Rob e r t K no p f L '1 3

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The Campers July 12

July 12 July 12 July 13 July 14 July 15 July 16 July 20

BOB BEHRMAN

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LORENZO BARCELO

JIM AYRES

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Totem: How long have you been at Mah-Kee-Nac?

Lorenzo: live been here for six years--three in upper senior, one in lower senior, and two in the junior camp.

T: Tell us about your-self.

L: I t.e e c h 'Physical Edu-cation at Bronx Commu-

nity College in NYC; I attend Teachers College Columbia University. I come from Arecibo, Puerto Rico (50 miles from San Juan). I 'go to dance performances, I read a lot, but my main hobby is New York City itself.

T: What changes have ta-ken place in junior camp this year that has made junior camp different?

L; I n the program a rea, -we have increased tennis to three times a week

for Mohicans and Iroquois and Apaches got woodshop. Special events (ie.,

g r a f f'i ti wa 1 1 I art ex h 1 - bits, paper'airplane contests, and contests for Totem have been

good additions.

t}JJeff Cohen,Mohican -3

Photo:S.Eisenberg-Sen-46 'Photo:R.Moskowitz-Moh-l Photo:M.Tirschwell-

Cher-3S

Three members of the administrative staff carry new roles this year.

Last yearls Program Director and Associate Director (B~b Behrman) is

now Co-Director. Last yearls Head Baseball Sr. Coach 1S now Head Coun: selor for Senior Camp (Jim Ayres). One of last yearls key counselors 1n junior camp and long-time M-K-N counselor is now Jr. Camp Head Counselor (Lorenzo Barcelo). Of course, Jim O'Neill continues as Lower Sr. Camp H.C.

Totem: How long have you been at M-K-N?

Jim: live been at ,M-K-N for 4 years

as head of the baseba 11 program. Th is is my 5th year.

T: Tell us about your -self.

J: 11m about to re_ceive my Masters

Degree in Educational Administration from Hofstra Un;v. 11m 8 weeks married. 11m interested in model railroading and in officiating for most any sport. I'm a sixth grade teacher.

T: What aspect of -being H.C. do yo~ see as being the most difficult aspect of the job?

J: I t hi n kit 1st h'e -hours I never realized this work would require. I never realized the number of meetings to ~iscuss campers, program, evening activities, concerts and trips. You'd be surprised at the things the H.C. does ~Andy Lobsenz-Al g.

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Totem: How is your position different now

from what it's been?

Bob: 11m now co-director. -I-s h are ina 1 1 wi t h Joe. T: What changes have -occ~rred, which you've

influenced?

B: Joe and I have made -a double-sided tennis backboard. Changes are made when Joe and I put our heads together.

T: What are the main -concerns of a director in operating camp?

B: That everyone enjoys -their summer and that camp is a learning experience. That should include learning new athletic, recreational, and hobby skills and learning to live happily with each other.

T: Tell us, about your-self.

B: This is my 17th year -at M-K-N and my 25th

year .i n campi ng. I

1 i ve ·i nOr a d e 1.1, N. J • I have my B.S. from CCNY and my M.A. and PhD from Columbfa. 11m also Director of Athletics at CCNY.

tlTed Forbath,Navajo

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Have you ever gone to Tanglewood and seen a Mozart concert? Well, on Sunday, July 7, eleven campers and two counselors did. We left camp at about 2:00.

After about a three-minute drive, we were there.

For those who were never there before" they were all impressed with the beautiful grounds surrounding the Music Shed.

After walking through the grass crowded with people waiting for the concert to begin, we came to our seats. Shortly afterwards, the Mozart concert, played by the Boston Symphony orchestra conduced by Michael Tilson Thomas, began with a march. Later canons were sung, and the famous Mozart Requiem concluded the program.

For the Requiem, the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, directed by

John Oliver, sang many times. There were four soloists singing.

The concert was very well performed, and the music had a very pleasant quality. Almost everyone who went enjoyed the program.

Campers attending the program were: Greg Feder, Steven Kauff, Danny Kertzner, Dan Rosenthal, Lloyd Zuckerberg, Mike Solo, Charles Shidlovsky, Dave Rosen, Jon Cash, Steve Janowsky and Jon Cook.

Danny Kertzner, Cheyenne-3D

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one '!aJ1, j ust:

La." eo away--

Lazy Day for the Lower Seniors was July 10. It started out with our sleeping as late as we wanted to.

About six or seven o'clock,Jim 91Neil and Bob Behrman were play- 1ng tennis. Twenty minutes later everybody was playing tennis.

The rest of the morning was free play, In the afternoon, we had regular activities.

Peter Baum, Cheyenne-29

WHERE IN MAH-KEE-NAC does

thi s come f rom?

Answer to last week's puzzler: Jr. Lodge Belfry Phot~: R. Moskowitz-Moh-l

A LOCAL HISTORY BRAIN TEASER ... Who said it, and to what was he referrir;g:

"There is a glen between our house and the lake, through which winds a little brook with pools, and tiny waterfalls over the great roots of trees. The glen is deep and narrow and filled with trees; so that, in the summer, it is all a dense shadow of obscurity."

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The Lower Seniors had their first camper council meeting last Monday. A lot was discussed.

and Jim OINe;ll said it was a

fine first meeting. _

Too many topics were raised to include here, but the best topics were: the Lower Seniors need a flag and will get o ne ; Is it possible to have speakers up

here because the baseball players canlt hear the intercome; we need

FOR THE BEST MUSIC AND DISCUSSION THATIS FAR OUT •••.

Listen to:

FAR· OUT

With Goog, F~og, & Tuba Tuesday Nights at 9:30

water near the soccer field for ba.seball;. Lower Seniors want to have Socials.

Th-e r epr es ent a t i v e s to the camper council are as follows: 2l-Jay Borak, 22-R1ch·;e Frank, 23-Benji Buren, 24-Andy Loesberg, 25-Matt Roberts, 26-Peter Bass, 27-Eric Brooks, 28-Ron Feldman, 29-Ricky Cohen, 30- Gregg Feder, 31-Lloyd Zuckerberg, 32-Mitch Weisman, 33- Mike Eisner & 34-Ethan Baliff.

Mike Freeman, Navajo-26

CHEYENNE NETTERI K~.llED BY lENOX

The Cheyenne basketball teams played at Camp Lenox on Friday. The A team, coached by Ron Roth, lost by a score of 40 to 29.

The scorers were Richie Kenyon with ten points and Steve Aronson with 19 points. The starting fiv~ were: Eric Levanthal and Richie Kenyon at forwards, Peter eooper at ceflke~, and Steve Copit and Steve Aronson at the guards.

The B team, coached by Ollie, lost 33-11. The starting five were- Mi ke Hall ander and Mi ckey Harris at forwards, Jeff Binder at center, and' Tom Echikson and Marc Selverstone at the guards. The scorings were: Echikson-4, Harris-4, Roodberg-2, and Se1- verstone-l.

We have excellent teams, and we will all try our best .. ,'to whip 'em next time!!

Marc Selverstone & Mickey Harris, Navajos-2l .

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By popular demand, Totem is releasing the official transcript to the English counselors'songs commemorating American independence The following song, which is sung to the tune of "What a Friend We Have in Jesus", was written by

Pau1 Taylor and Granville Powell.

The following song, composed by Paul Taylor. is sung to the tune of "When Johnny Comes Marchi ng Home: II In Mah-Kee-Nac, we feel so sad, Hurrah, hurrah ~

The food ;s poor, the weather's bad, Hurrah, hurrah!

A glass of beer is out of bound~ And- girls are nowhere to be found:

So, we'll all be glad when we

can get home· again.

So, have your Independence Day, Ha, Ha: Ha, Ha!

Welre glad we gave this place away, Ha, Ha ~ Ha , Ha!

In England, things are picking up, Our Head of State is not al crook. And We'll all be glad when we can

get home again.

What a friend we have in Joseph, What a friend we have in Bob. What good friends Diane and

Frances

Folks to help us with our job.

Juniors have a friend,Lorenzo. Lower Seniors;they have Jim

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Jim Ayres looks after Upper Srs. Bulldozer on the baseball field~

Though your tea tastes pretty awfulThough your language is quite rough/ We can a 1 ways ma ke a 11 owa nce

I f you pay us twi ce as much.

So, you see, welre really happy

But therels one thing that's a pair:

Teaching screaming mobs of campers Is enough~ to make us go insane

And ....

Rule Brittainia, Brittainia rules The Waves (ordid do)

Britain's never, never, never, Shall be slaves.

Welre not being serious at all, it's true,

We like to make you fee~ quite small,

we do, we do.

Although your camp has all we need, Your sw·;mming pool is full of weeds, And weill all be glad when we can

get home a.ga in.

LENOX AND CHEROKEES HIT IT OUT ONCE MORE

The Cherokee baseba~l and· 50ft-

ba 11 teams went to Lenox for rna tches last Thursday, July 4.

The softball team was thrown together just before the game. They showed effort, but failed to score a run, as they lost to Lenox 10-0. The game was lost mainly because of too many waHs by Mah-Kee-Nac's pitchers.

The- .baseba 11 team held a 1 ead early in the game, but in the sixth inning of the seven-inning game, they gave up thirteen runs because of many errors and some beautiful hits by Lenox. They also lost their first intercamp competition match, 20-4.

Jim Ascher & Eric Gorham, Cherokees -36

UNIOR VERY

MOVIE ~

f II UNNY' ,.

B-u n k 1 sa i d they 1 ike d Bed k nob s and Broomsticks very much. Richard Moskowitz liked it the most. Bunk 2 thought it was funny. Eric Olin ~iked it the most. Bunk 3 thought lt was good and Hughie Miller and Harry Gutfleish liked it the most.

Bunk 4 said it was great and Scott Klein liked it the most. Bunk 5 said it was funny.

Joh Kiselik liked it the most.

It was a very funny movie, and lots of people liked it. Lots of kids said it was the best movie they ever saw at this camp.

The movie was about a lady that took three children from the Church so they would not get hurt from the war. TheA, the children helped her to fi nd the travel i ng spell. And they did.

Michael Freiberg, Mohican-3

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This is Totem's second week, and it's g01ng strong. Last week's Totem was twice as big as last year, and Bernie intends to make it bigger and better. Bernie said last week, "We want to join you."

Adam Schwartz,Iroquo;s-lO

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~e we~e onWCM. We told jokes

!re 15 one of our jokes Wh'

dld the farmer feed his ~ow y

money? ~nswer-Because h~ ~anted to get rlch milk.

Mitchell Dickman and Troy Rosenblatt, Apaches-13

WI-II'L E. I WAS WA lr/I.1G-,,,,,

It's my first year at Mah-KeeNac. One day I was hungry and waiting for dinner with nothing else to do. Then I heard something. I thought it was a new activity, but it wasn't!

. It was the copying offset machil for the Totem. I went inside, and Be~nie let me sit on his lap, and s a id , "What"s your name, again?"

I told him. Then I watched the offset copier.

Some of the paper got stuck.

So, Paul Ba rry (the offset printe told me to go on the other side to s~e that the paper was going i stralght. After this. I forgot that I was ever hungry. Thank

you, Totem! .

Peter Kaufman,Mohican -2

PETER KAUFMAN

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The other day I was trying to get back to the T-Docks. I was

in a rowboat, and the wind was

so strong that 1 got stranded on and near the tunnel. My friends

in a war canoe came. Jon Flack

was laughing to death, and they helped me. I was out of there

soon and they left.

The wind then got stronger.

Then I was back on land, but then I helped myself and I got out of there. Then there were som€ sailboats. I had just made it out of there.

There were some .rocks. I could not row out of there. Ther~ was a motor boat which got me finally out of this whole ~ess!

Kamlet, .Mohican-5

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I LIKE MAFI- KEE-NAC

Camp Mah-Kee-Nac has severa] resources. It has better things than most camps.

Do other camps have fishing, their own radio station, Lorenzo, Jim 0.1 N e; 1, or Jim Ay res? .

Archery is what '1 like best.

Maybe there will be a picture of me shooting in archery next week.

Roger Gorham, Iroquois-10

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I' TRIED TO FLY!

Today is July 8. We had a paper airplane contest. I did not win anything. I do not

know why b~cause I had a great plane. Do you know that today not too many people are winning, but I will win soon. I bet you:

Gary Russell" Iroquois-

I WAS A MET!

On July 8, the Iroquois Grays played softball. We were the Mets~ they were the Pirates. Dynamo (Steve Gold) got a hit and I got a hit.

Lloyd Khaner then slam home run.

CE>

"®Iroquois-10

July 13 Lenox Invitational Basketball' Tournament July 14 Carnival Movie: Paper Mo~n Talent Show

J u 1 y 1 5 W C M- Tal e n t S how .

Onota S~1m & Rifle Mee July 15-17 Pittsfield Basketball Tournament· July 16 Picture-taking day July 18-19 Tennis Invitational Tournament

July 20 Algonquin Social/Belv

Terrace .

Algonquin Softball & Navajo Tennis at Onota Next Issue of Totem

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THE RA86'TS t-V\YE ARR\VED~ 2.:::1

Today we got two li~tle·rabb1ts.

One is white and! one is black. They are great! We are'going to name them soon. , We like the rabbits The white one is very the black one is very are keeping them in a

very much. fat, and small. We box.

Gary Russell ,Iroquois-6

MOHICANS PICK MANY BERRIES ...

. AND WANT MOR£/

We went on a hike and Lou said we might find some bluebe~ries' and strawberries. Lou is the nature counselor. We did' get about 40 strawberries and blue-

berries. '

We had to get over 100 strawberries, and blueberries. So, tell Lou if you want to help us look for some more .

. .

Eric Olin & Mark Crystal, Mohi cans-.2

I was at the' Na.ture Shack.

We finally have rabbits. They are black and white. Theylre so darling. 11m sure we will have a good time taking care of them.

Bruce Roberts, Iroquois

t11TC11 CA1CH£5 BUTTERFLY

Une' day I went 01'1 a Hike. artd I saw a big butt8rfly. It was a great spangled fritillary

or an aphrodite fritallary.

I caught it with my hands.

Mitch Dickman,Apache-13

Turt]e home-on its WQj

In back of WCM is a small round cement area. It will soon become a turtle home.

Nature counselors urge people not to throw stones

or dirt in it. .

Mike Schofel, Navajo-21

~RS SQUIGGLE ,PJlM HERE

Tn HERE

Squiggles was different kinds of races. We raced bunk against bunk. Most people had f un .. There were relay races. There was foul shooting and soccer. You would try to kick soccer goals. We would change from different places.

We had relays around the baseball diamond. We would have to

run to a person and then run back.

For the soccer goal, they would put a box in the middle of the goal,and ~f it went in your bunk would win a point.

The scores were pretty close.

Bunk 3 and Bunk 1 tied for 1st. Bunk 4 came in 2nd. Bunk 2 came in 3rd, and Bunk 5 came in 4th, among the Mohicans.

The Iroquois had a close score.

So did the Apaches. We all had a good time.

Scott Klein, Mohican-4

WOODSHOP

In woodshop, you learn to work

a hand in cutting and sanding, too 50 if you 1 i sten to Chuc k and- Dave,

You can make something new.

WATERFRONT

There are many swimming ranks

for you to pass,

And boats to sail the lake. There's waterskiing if you're good And fish for you to take.

WCM -

At WCM you can make a show, and

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IS JRPUPPET SHOW

On July 5, last Friday, all the Juniors saw a big station wagon with lots of things. We asked them what it was all for. They said it was all for evening activity.

The equipm~nt was for a puppet show. When it was time for evening activity, we had a big storm; so the lights went out. So, we saw

the puppet show by flashlight during the rain storm.

The puppet show was "Rumplestilt- - s k t n ." It was about a father who bragged about his child because

he was sick and tired of hearing

the queen brag about everything

she had. This got the father and child in a lot of trouble.

I thought. the puppet rShOW was

go od. /

Richie Mos.kowitz" Mohican-l

put it on the air;

When you hear the weather report, It is usually worse than fair.

SOFTBALL

S'oftball is a favorite of them

all

When kids are out in the sun. If you try hard enough,

You will get a home run!

TENN 15

Tennis is a popular sport, That everyone thinks is fun. I nth e- gam e oft e n n ; s ,

You have to run and run.

Richie Mnskowitz, Moh-l

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Bruce-Irom hit the first home run of the softball season. Rich Moskowitz played the drums f( Yankee Doodle. Pete Mandel kern caught a 19-inch fish. Joey Kluger scored the most soccer goals in Squiggle.

Peter Kaufman is one of three WCM junior engineers.

Alan Rashbaum is rated as an outstanding junior waterskiier. Doug Lehman is in "good f'orm" for archery, accordi ng to Counselor Shabu ..

Barry Lonner is rated as an out st.andlnq junior waterskiier. Eric Rosenthal is rated as an outstanding junior waterskiier. Craig Mytelka is one of three junior WCM engineers.

Scott Kursman and Neal Aronson have been rated as outstanding waterskiiers.

Everyone in #10 passed the 20 yards in archery~ Mike Shalita and Lloyd Khaner passed their rafters test.

Jay Borak attends archery da i ly to perfect hi s form and score. Gary Saltz swam 8 miles for the English Channel stretch.

Jeff Binder played a good basketball game vs. Lenox. Jim Gorham "shines" in archery, accord'

- to Shabu. .

Mark Wolin and Judd Marmon are in excellent form in archery.

This bunk was the first Navajo bunk in cabin cleanup for the week. Mike Mintz swam seven miles in the English Channel stretch.

Dan Kertzner ;s doing outstanding collages in the art shop.

Dave Rosen is rated as a fine newsman, according to Jim Zeiler. Lloyd is doing some fine charcoal drawing in the art shop.

Tom Rich plays Moussorgsky's Pictures a.t an Exhibition on the piano well.

Mike Wexler just joined us. Mike Schlein had done excellent newscasting according to Jim Zeiler. Robert Shapiro swam 8 miles of the English Channel.

Jim Ascher wrote a 16 page letter to his mother. Jim Ascher is on the riflery team, sharpening up for the Onata match. So is Alan Lewis.

Randy Kahn has done fine shooting in archery.

Scott Witkin is rated as an outstandinq newsman by Jim Zeiler. Fred Fogel is a fine photographer and ~ifleman. A sharp shooter~ I·lark Wei nstock and Ri cky L; ndner are rifl emen preparing for Onota.

Ian Wexl er is a member of the rifl e .L:"=: ~ q. . _ team. prepari n9 for Onota.

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Gene teinfeld Steve Gold(Dynam L' oyd Khaner Kevin Freund Richard Margolin Adam Schwartz Mike Shalita Peter Kaufman Nea 11 Ar ons on

Ne i 1 Wei ntraub Jimmy Hoffman

La rry Kl uger . Jimmy Lobsenz Larry Swiger Steven Rosenblatt

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Ric ky W h ; t e SUP ER S Q1J I R T

Bruce Roberts OL I HALFBEAT

Garry Russell SCREWBALL

Robbe Rosenberg HALF-A-DOOF

Danny Comer HUMPERDINCK

Andy Piera DUMB BULL

Jon Kisel i k MR. ~1AGNIFICENT

Peter Mandelkern BIG CHIEF

Mike Lonoff MICK

Fred Marton APACHO

Troy Rosenblatt MIKE

Mitch Dickman THIN-S-PORTS

Joey Kluger JOE KRUGER

Mike Crystal BOB BEHRMAN

David Locker BIG STUFF

Jeff Silverman LORENZO

Bruce Irom MACKY MAH-KEE-N

Jeff Marks BULLDOZER

len Bindelglass JOE KRUGER

teve Bergman CHAMPION JOHN

odd Fast READY MAN

ark Greenberg RICARDO

dam White ADAM

eth Antiles RON

~Steve Falkenberg LEN

Jeff Miller SPORTY

Peter Braun PETE

Adam Meyers ADAM

Ed Gray RICH

Alan Rashbaum SPORTS KID

cott Klein NEAL ARONSON

arry Sharp THE ALL SPORTS

eff Cohen SEYMORE

Harry Gutfleish MR. SPORTS

Richard Moskowitz LEON

Mike Freiberg SKIPPER THE CAMPER

Jonathan Usdin MAH-KEE-NAC MIK

Jon Flaks MAC-THE-PAC

John Rapaport SPORTS MAN

Martin Hanser THE EVERYTHING B~

Craig Benson THE SPORTS KID

Mark Shidlofsky MR. MAH KEENAC

Matt Zinn MAH-KEE-NAC SPORTS

Warren King CAMPY CAMPER

Barry Lonner MR. SPORTY

Roger Gorham LOADS

Eric Donsky SUPER- SPORT-SMAN

Larry Levine SUPER SPECTACULA

SAM SPORTALON JOE CAMPER

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HAPPY

MR. ATHLETE

THE SPORTY KID MACK E. NAC BIRTHA THE SPORTS

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SPEEDY THE SUPERSPORT SPORTY

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I wish I had one milliBn Fribbles. I wish today was carnival day because II~ get a Fri bbl e. I'd dri n k and dri nk and dri nk unti 1 I became a Fri bbl e! I wi ~ I was a carnival. lid have my name allover the place. I'd have all the Fribbles and 1111 start to Dribble. I wish it would come twice a year; t t ' s ~ much fun, t ha t t s clear. I wish it is fun, but t t ' s sad when ;t1s done. I wi! I could see into the future and see the carnival. lid be going around to al' the bunks, booths and having a ball. I wish I was on a star, playing golf al

gett three under par. I wish I win a lot of

priz I wish it didnlt rain on Carnival Day.

wish we have good luck on Ca.rnival Day. I wi!

that Carniva.l w~lll last all day. I wish Bunk

had a F rib b 1 e mac h i n e . I wi s h I co ul d eat

seeo on the declic10us Fribbles. I wish I wa

in Davidls stomach so I could have al' the

Frib I wish we got McDonald's shakes instead

of Fribbles. I wish on Carnival Day itwou

neve ra t n , I wish it will be great. I wish i

woul be free play the whole day. I wish it

woul never be cleanup after the carnival. I

wish Carnival Day would never end. I wish

sun would shine. I wish everyone could have as many Fribbles as they want. I wish we had the best booth. I wish I could get a balloon. I wish Bunk 4 the best booth. I wish the carnival would never end. I wish there was a Fribble someone would lend. I wish there was more time for games. I wish Carnival Day would be happy and gay. If it rains. everyo~elwill Qo.insane.

wish there were 1,000,000 games. I wis ,I co

win everything in every booth. I wish I wa"

in charge of candy. I wish they had ~ides

the whol e day and Coke but not smoke!! 4 I

wish Bunk 7's toilet would flush on Carn

val Day. I wish that I had the best coun

try for my camp to be in. I wi s hit ou lc

be a sunny day. I wish we had carniva.l ',ever

day. I wish the carnival will be a I sue-

c e s s. I w ish F rib b 1 e S w 0 u 1 d t a s tel i k el b roc!

I wish there would be Cokes all day. I wi'

I could drink Fribbles all day when · the

carnival came around. I then would be so

heavy that I would fallon the ground. I

w1sh that the carnival is great. I wish

I could have a million and one Fribble The

carnival is here. I wish carnival day Wlll o e nt1PPY d'TIU '::Ill • 1.(lere

be two fribbles and not one, which would make the carnival much more fun. wish Carnival Day came more than once. I wish we had more games as well as

This swimming season, enthusiasm has been tremendous. In the junior division, almost 20 boys are out for the team, practicings and working hard. Time trials were held this week, with the first meet this weekend. We are expectin9 excellent performances by junior campers, who eventually will be the mainstays of the senior swimming team.

The senior division is probably the most enthusiastic swimming program. Thirty-three boys are signed up from both senior camps. They have been practicing almost from the first day of camp, swimming from one to one and a half miles each practice session. Their seriousness and interest makes

this season look good, but we will be facing tough future competition.

The junior-senior combined first meet is against Camp Half-Moon on Saturday, July 20. Sunday, we swim against Camp Greylock. On Thursday, we will be participating in the Camp Winadu Invitational Sw.imming Meet .. Two other Invitationals and possibly five or six additional dual swimming meets are scheduled. In the next Totem, a schedule will be printed.

Events this year include free style, backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly in all age categories', plus a, medlay relays and a freestyle relay in each age division. The age divisions are 9-10, 11-12, & 13-15 and with three boys allowed to participate in each event. Many more boys will have a chance to swim and represent our camp than ever before.

I have been overwhelmed by the serious involvement of all the boys in the program. With this kind of attitude, we are going to see

good swimmers. I am always pleas~d to have additional swimmers on

an teams at any time. If you

want to be a part of this teams let me know as soon as possible.

Don Rubenoff,Head Swim Coach

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IN LOWER SR TENN'IS fv\ATCHES

On Thursday afternoon, a week ago, the Lower Seniors held a tennis tournament. Over 60 boys partiCipated. Each Navajo was paired with a Cheyenne.

There were many excellent matches, particularly in the finals and semi-finals, when Aronson & Goldberg beat Antiles and Robins.

The final line-up looke~ this way:

Ro ad ber g- Hawa rd (4 -1 )

Mink'- Gorham (4-0)

Aronson-Goldberg ( 1 - 0 )

Goldberg-Aronson (6-4)

An t il es-Rob; ns (4-0)

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On Tuesday, July 9, the Upper Seniors saw the Marx Brothers comedy, A .Q.!l at the Races.

The story too, placed in and around Standish Sanitarium, a convalescent home for the men-· tally disturbed rich. One of the patients, Mrs. Upjohn (Margaret Dumont) says she will build a

new wing to the home of her doct o r, Hugo Z. Hackenbush (Groucho) was placed in charge.

Dr. Hackenbush is sent for.by Tony (Chico) and placed in charge.

NEIL MISSES RIFLERY @ TEAM BY A CL03E (VLARGI N

Bill Chandler thought I was shooting well on the first day.

He s a i d , "Ne i l , come over tomorrow morning during free play.III shot some targets, though I did badly the next day; the bullets hit the wrong groove; the second target was O.K.; the third target was bad.

I shot a 71 total. Bll1 said I didn't make it for riflery

team against Onota, though I had done better than I did before.

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His "new" and "innovative" style puts him undar observation by outside forces, who wish to foreclose the sanitarium. If these people can prove. that "Dr. II Hackenbush is a real doctor, the sanitarium will be able to take over.

The movie is highlighted by many one-liners, sight gags, and a lot of slapstick. The only fault was the sound, since most of the jokes in the film were missed because of the sound.

Jeff Lonoff, Algonquin-40

~ ~iillii' ~ <ii ~""JI Totem takes this opportunity to extend congratulations to Pete Meyer, Carnival Chairman. As

our front banner line says, it

was a success. Thanks, Pete!!

ON BEHALF OF ALL OF MAH-KEE-NAC, TOTEM WISHES A GRAND 1974 BIRTHDAY TO ALL OF THE FOLLOWING GENTLEMEN:

The Campers Mitch Weisman Danny Kertzner Lewis Levy

The Years

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BUNK 26: AMERICAN GRAFFIT

Carnival took place on July 14.

Our boo t h was II B 0 1 i v ian B u c k e t . II It looked easy, but it was hard. Everybody got some tickets to play the booths.

We each got one Coca Cola ticket and one fr1bble ticket. You also could get prize tickets if you win the game at the booth. On the

next day, you trade the prize ticket for prizes.

After the carnival. we helped to clean up. From the parade, some people got very messy (like our bunk).

After our showers. we got dressed and went to a cookout. We had hamburgers and potato chips and coke and cookies.

After that we saw liThe Sound of Music." It was about a family in Germany. It was a good movie but a long one.

At the end of the movie, the Germans want to put the father (Chrfstopher Plummer) in the German Navy. Then the Navy puts the family on a wild goose chase.

The movie was very very good.

Steve Falkenberg. Iroquois-7

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On July 13, the Juniors brought their pillows to the" senior lodge to see the three-hour movie, The Sou n d· 0 f~ M'u sic . The s tor y toOk place in Salzburg. Austria. It was about a nun who was sent

away to' a family of seven children. She-developed a love for

all of them, and later the father, who was almost taken away by the Naz; Army.

I thought it was a great musical,Iaisolikedthemany songs.

Richard Moskowitz. Mohican-l

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Was there something we missed

in this issue? Tell us about it. and w'e I 11 p r1 n t1 t 1 n the 'n ext issue. Your pen is mightiest.

RICHARD WEINSTOCK

DAN ROSENTHAL

ROBERT KAP EL

DAN ROSENTHAL & TED FORBATH LOWERSRS

PRESENT

TALENT SHOW

July 14 was the scene of something to remember. The Lower Srs. presented a talent show to a large audience. The first part was Howard Dicker and Tom Echikson, the emcees for the evening, who told jokes between the acts. Dan Rosenthal played a Polonaise by Chopin, and singer Steve Janowsky did liMy Darling Clementine.1I The ten o'clock news

by Ted Forbath was wet & wild. Dan Kertzner followed with a horn solo, and Joel Marcus did several fantastic impressions.

Four recorder duets were played by Ted Forbath and Dan Rosenthal, who won a big round of applause. The juggling in the show was done by Scott Corwin. Tom Rich played two oldies in the piano world. Four clarinet solos were played by Rich Weinstock. Mat Levi ne & Bob Ka p e l performed the best act, in my opinion, in the show.

The very nervous Mike Mintz did two Simon & Garfunkel songs, concluding the great show.

Mike Mintz.Cheyenne- 29

HOWARD DICKER & TOM ECHIKSON

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MATT LEVINE

DAN KERTlNER

SCOTT CORWIN

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On Friday, July 12, the seniors saw a unique movie. To some, this movie was boring, and to others, it was a commercial for an organization called ORT. To

a large group (I hope), it showed man!s way of trying to get rid of a problem. The way is to pick a

scapegoat (in this case,the Jews) and planting all the problems

on them ..

Unfortunately, all through the years, the Jews have always been the scapegoats, and this movie just showed how they went about and how they resisted.

The film showed the slow type of genocide by the Russians. They showed a way of starving, beating and brutally killing children, women, and old men. The Germans weren't as slow with their type of death. They said they take

the Jews out of Europe. They brought them somewhere to a tort u r e c am p. Ext e r min a t ion was

fast, but the waiting was painful.

All was lost and still is. No

one wa~ts to help a hopefully

dying race. The Jews 'are strong

and will never die. It says in

the Bibl'e.,!!But"the cries of ·Jews were heard arrd God sent unto them one who race havoc for the masters."

David Burke, Algonquin-40

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Come to Bunk 22. where we lend comics. We have everything from Richie Rich to Superman. We have over 65 and still getting more. This service is, of course, free of charge.

Jon Lynn & Mitchell Goldstone, Navajos-22

The evening activity on Friday was a movie sponsored by ORT, which the upper and lower seniors saw together. It showed how cruel people can be to each other.

The basic example used in the movie was the Jewish people, since they have been taken advantage of more than any other people.

Some of t he peopl e whom the fi 1m illustrated as being unusually cruel are Hitler & Alexander II of Russia. They both took their anger out on the Jews.

There is a reason why Hitler was able to kill six million Jews. People not directly involved did no' feel responsible for others. As Bob poi n ted out to U s. , eve r yon e i s responsible for everyone else.

Stevefi Jano~sky. Cheyenne- 32

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The ham station is sending

short messages home for campers. The following campers have sent home messages': Neil Shane, Scott Witkin, Billy Rapaport, Scott Freeman, Lloyd Zuckerberg, Bunk 44, Peter Kaufman, Jon ~laks, and

Jeff Cohen.

David Burke,Algonquin- 40

a former counselor writes

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EXCERPT FROM A LETTER BY M-K-NIS 1973 PHOTO COUNSELOR

Hi !

Itls arrived at l~st ... my bound copies of the Totem. I spent a couple of hours reading through all the copy; the memoirs it brought back were numerous. r must admit to having a lump in my throat at the end of my reading session.

As I sit here in rainy all England, the whole Mah-Kee-Nac experience appears like a dream, a never-to-be forgotten one. All those little trials and tribulations and those not so little trials and

tribulations are forgotten now; only the numerous good thoughts remad n.

Awful though, that this dream, like all others, cannot be repeated. Certainly, I could come back and repeat the mechanics of the experience, but it couldn't quite be the same again; everything was too perfect the first time.

r had better come down a little closer to earth now before I zoom off into space from my launching pad on Cloud Nine.

The best to all, Alan Mel.l,ing

Lower Srs Feature Art Work

This year the art shop has had an art show and it will have

a bigger one about three weeks before the end of camp.

There will not be a theme for the show this year. The show will probably be in Junior Lodge. Everyone's work will be shown.

Shown below is art work produced by lower seniors during first period. The campers whose work

is shown are: Lloyd Zuckerberg, Stuart Marton, Ted Forbath, John Gross~ David Rogoff, and Mark

Bo xe r .

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On July 11, all of the Apaches went to the Bird Sanctuary. We ate lunch there. We saw some birds, but they were in cages.

We went to a museum there too, and we went on a trail.

We went to the fire tower. Some people like me went up. Some people went half-way up, and they

got scared because it was high,

and it was very windy. Others did not make it up into the fire tower. For this tower, you have to climb stairs that go around and around.

There was also a path that we had to follow. There were dots on trees and rocks that led us along the path. It took us about an hour to walk this path.

Adam White, Apache-12

;;J7HIPMUNK LDSEB RACE

On Sunday, July 14, our bunk, on the stairs of the junior lodge, saw a chipmunk. Roger Gorham (me) and Kevin Freund chased it into a room, near the junior lodge.

We tried catching it, but it was too fast for us. So we got Lou, and he caught it.

It was dark in the room; so, we used our flashlights. Then, we discovered light, which made it easier for u~ to catch the chipmunk.

Roger Gorham & Kevin Freund, Iroquois-10

Come to Bunk 5, the Comic Li.brary. We1re open during a11 'free

pl ays after

Jr. D'inner

and

Rest Hour.

We went on a trip to the Springfield zoo. We went to the Springfield museum. In the Springfield zoo, there were some beautiful animals, 'like a peacock.

Other people should go to the museum because there are interesting things there. There was a crocodile, a lizard, and a bass. People should go to the zoo and the-museum.

Andy Piera,Iroquois-6

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MOHICANS TOUR ROCKWELL MUSEUM

On Thursday, we went on a trip to NOrman Rockwell's Museum. We had a picnic in the woods. We got fifty cents to buy candy. I spent every ce~t of it. We also went to an 01d missionary house. It was a lot of fun.

John Rapaport, Moh-5

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Yesterday, I went to take a shower. When I was coming back, my soap dropped, and I went to

c l ean 'it off in the sink. I put the plug in to fill the sink with water. Then I started to fill it too much.

I was starting to turn it on more when I thought I was turning it off. Suddenly, the knob came off, and water was spouting to the roof. Then, Scott Klein stripped as fast as he could and

WHERE IN MAH-KEE-NAC DOES THIS COME FROM?

Photo-Lance RosenblattCheyenne-28

Answers to last week's puzzlers:

1) The quotation was from Hawthorne. He was speaking of Ta ng 1 ewo'od .

2) The mystery shot was taken looking up the fireplace by Joe's cabin.

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Can you fill in the blank? Interlaken on the east side of Stockbridge Road is where the

first was built in 1881.

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picked up the knob and tried to put it on, but it didn~t work. He tried again and it stayed on.

Meanwhile, the back room was flooded with water. A couple of minutes later, Chuck came in with

a wooden hammer,but it was too late.

Jeff Miller & Scott Klein, Mohicans-4

Bunk 24 Wins Quizzarama

Two Friday nights ago,the Lower Seniors had Quizzarama (Trivia). We were asked lots of questions over the loudspeaker, with each bunk competing. One question was, to figure out how large

a whale would be if its head

was six feet wide and its tail was four feet long, or something like that.

Many things happened during the Trivia game. One thing is that

a skunk paid Jim OlNeil1 a visit near his bunk. Another is that Bunk 27 WOUldn't stop yelling. So, they were disqualified.

Bunk 24 came in first place.

The way we won was mostly by

using a dictionary and the Guiness Book of World Records and two

a 1 mana-cs.

Bunk 24 winners are: Ken Fisher, Robert Kaufman, John Lefkowits, Adam Jacobs, Andy Loesberg, Jeff Lewis, Josh Bloom, Fred Hazan,

a.nd Peter Weiss.

Peter Weiss,Navajo-24

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Half-Moon Swim Meet (H) 25 Riflery w/Half-Moon

Alg. Social at Belvoir Swim Meet w/Winadu (H)

Jr. Talent Show Navajo Trip to Stock-

WCM Talent Show bridge

Jr/Sr Swim Meet-Greylock Playday at Romaca: Alg.

Alg./Sen/IIAII Basket- "All tennis, swim,

ball w/Lenox (H) volleyball, cookout,

Cher. Basketball-Lenox (A) & dance

Upper Sr. Tennis (H) Danbee:Playd~y-~herokees:

Alg. Basketball & Soft- tennls, sWlmmlng

ball w/Brant Lake (H) 26 Regatta at Danbee

Seneca/"A" Social at Onata Basketba-l1-Cher.(A}

Belvoir Terrace Expanding Horizons

Movie 27 Next Issue- of Totem

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MOUSe DANCES

One day, Peter and me made a radio station at the nature shack. We made up a song called, "Mr.

M a use. II Pet erg ott hem 0 use, and it really danced. We call him Mr. Mouse.

Richie Grossman, Apache-12

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Bunk 12 went on a rock hike in nature. We found many rocks.

Then we went to set a trap, but we didn1t catch anything in the trap. Before that, there were some baby mice born in the cage. We had the mother since the beginning of camp Then, the mother had babies.

I' Peter Braun, Apache -14

July 20

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FRCG TRtCKS KEVIN

On Wednesday, I was at the nature shack, taking care of the animals with Lou. Lou told me to go find some" worms for the fish. After a while, I turned over a rock, and a frog jumped away. So, I caught it.

When I got back to the nature shack, Lou and I found out that it was a different species from the other frogs in the nature shack.

Kevin Freund, Iroquois-10

SNAKE IS DISCOVERED

One day I went on a hike for blueberries. We found lots of blueberries, and we ate lots of them. Then we went back.

We sa w- a s n a k e but did not get it. After that, we went back to camp to the nature shack. At the shack, we held a mouse.

Mitch Dickman, Apache-13

Juniors:

3 Alan Rashbaum can now ski on one ski. Mike- Freiburg. picked up the

garbage one day and got two candy days.

7 The boys of this bunk managed to stand at attention all at the same time during last- Tuesday's lunch.

10 Lloyd Khaner fi rst named "Joe Camp e r ": as our' Totelfl buddy. Jr. Camp later voted this as the most favored name.

13 Mike Lonoff has painted two large paintings- for the wall of the Junior Lodge.

Lower Seniors:

22 Gary Saltz was in the infirmary for 4 days; heJs just recovered.

Ric h Fr an k _.m~ d e the m 0 s t off 0 u r s hot S 0 f 1 ate - i n Lower' Sr. Cam p . JOnLYrW~:1:~,k.jied ~round the lake· until the- -temon"ran' out of gas, a :a: , he- fe 11 ',0 n h , s nos e .

24 ~ ~ s ~oo 1 ~~",~ ... t.~ ~,,!b e ~g n i zed f 0 r;_h,~.s c reJ~Jj y i ty.·~.a.:nd/;0f' i ~~ i,.Q..a..l.j ... ~!

25 The wht re bU~.l("j,'art~~'iRated .. !n.a~d wo-n ·t.ha~ NayajQ,,·-yioIPe?Pu~:,~ ,C;.o~~st.

Dale P ~nzer ha-'S dub t us dis,itl .. nt:t10n·jQ,f h~"i.n~/. tht:", .. m.OS¢.inJUfi'.l,e.s".)n

camp. \ ·_2 ~ ra~Jl.;}{rit~}-·~¢' :; lli" 'i' \,r' r:' \ ''\

Ted Fotbar-j .• tsse~ ry I.~ lO~3-3":sw,m -.est,;_,)edl& ",eti' e't stl:~;ME..-

Kape1,.19ry.·lla,tt·l:tJ,n'Q., t:t-ave t~e os tal.~.nt n ~e'L wen, ,S'i i'

Mat t L ,*,,' n.e if!~_s- -..f'o u n d .2 cr ten n , s '. -.' . s. M a b,_ 0 b r tb a ~ a . i' n e

and Llo-;Ytt'-1tennet and Ted Forbath have starte . a'l r-d,nner free

play jogs.

28 In the opinion of Ron Conrad, Dave made one of the most professional cat~h~s in a onf:~itch\9CfITt~ that Renfl,itlsl.,~"trlse~I;t~.this was def,n1tely the £" es~ (}ftq~ made a ~'P~ s~f'ir :fp't the summer.

29 Gunna~W~dfelt ~esf S;ll~S':lfrom thJ' oweit' '-'k~ \~e~~~~courts.ancl·

gets 1 t , ~ the t:?a!s kf~t oJ \.G.r S c hne 1, . r ~~~~~j 1 nWcr"'re~et p o i nt s ~

32 Tommy Echlksonfl~am ·1~'e'\S:Q:1Yd. bacldi ''Y'ol¢-e-', .8Mse.c-Mds.

Howard Dicket caught a 10 1/2" perch. Howard also passed ·his

Riflery Bar I. Mitch Weisman passed his Bar I in Riflery. This

bunk won Cheyen~-.c..leanuf:__tr,oPhY for last week. Drew Kahn

des'.'9tl.ed .pape~,a,e.~' o~la e t ... ~'ai f~ii·-.'{,or .. ~r' ec nd/S.'.' inAt~:-'-..nr! .

33 And $ehrma passed h i s !.O-mln~te \Swlm\ a _ m n s~. t a erfect

score lat 40 ar;s i arctl'erl'~.;.._..Ste·e A,~ ,;Q'~ ;D~I a 4 r,·a.t;· yards

his f~.rst tim ,. hoot i n9 t.hi L..;~ea r i ~ar /fttY ~~., : r.

3 4 Paul., tlr··, .. is' n e~'. Cains;, 1. 0. in t ~i s ,rqn ~f We" 11 ~1 c . .: H..i· ,"

Tom R t h d. toe sll ger . a.n~-. an I t P .. h :l.~ 'a:iam. er p ~ _ d,al I

Ethan:! ·;if \m .. ade: f,',ve.;,t • on hi.", 9,1:(', t.f/t ~so '~'"J~lm""G:r~' "

set a" e, re rd;r h us·o b-n,e'" ox of'] e; ex \1I , n ·m 1'IWt~'$: '_ 1 ~e ~ohn. ~_iiJ~, ed ChI 'the' ~ as. b~11 t.~am: Dav.e-'Vojt,se~ 1 eft ~"':".bttrfk and 's m1~sed by atl of us.L~e~ B~rg,a has gone bald and 15 now wearing a ha.irpiece. When Tom Rich dropped a waffle, it bounced.

Upper Seniors:

37 Mi ke Burgess s ti 11 ho 1 d s the record for bei ng the 1 a s.t o ne- out of the mess ha~l for one week.

40 Billy Abramson is one of the leaders of the English Chann~~ Swim.

Jeff Lonoff has been incapacitated for a week. The·· bunk is anxious to have him back this Sunday.

42 Robert Lesser is reputed to be a great comedian and actor. _ Donny Sandler has become a part-time basketba11. (1)

45 The bunk holds a record of five fifties in a row for cabin cleanup. 46 David Weinstein swam 11 miles on the English Channel. David also

won fir s t p 1 ace ant h e M- K- N sail i n g tea m; S t eve - E i s e-n b e r 9. pas sed

'his 10-3-3 as did Sam Roberts.

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July 27, 1974

-KEE-NA

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Mah-Kee-Nacwon the 6th Annual Tennis Invitational Tournament on July 18, finishing with a score of 35.

Tied for second place were Camps Greylock and Winadu; with 24 points each.

This was the closest tournament we have held, with Camp Taconic finishing with 21 points and

Camp Lenox with 18 points.

In the 12 and under division, Mah-Kee-Nac looked very strong. Steve Aronson, Josh Antiles, and Scott Corwin were our singles pl~yers. Scott lost in the first

round to Solontz of Greylock.

Josh Antiles (#2) lost to Morris Levy of Taconic, 9-7, the eventual winner. Our Nwnber One singles player, Steve Aronson lost in the finals. to Morris Levy of Taconic, 6-0 and 6-2. Levy played a very strong match in defeating Steve.

In the 12 and under doubles,

our #2 team of Bobby Burnett and Todd Cooper surprisingly made it to the semis before losing to Greylock I, 8-1. Our Number One team of Steve Copit and Gregg Howard turned in three amazing

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Champ~on and runners-up Mah-Kee-Nac trophy holders are 1. to r.:

Gregg Howard, Steve Copit, Ron Shevlin, Paul Gross, Steve Aronson, Mark Rogovin, Gary Levine and Steven Weyl

11 I~NNrs INVITATIONAL (_cowr: F/?ot1 P.Me" '13)

performances, then defeated a tough Greylock I team-in the finals 6-1, 1-6, and 6-4. In one of the only two victories for M~h-Kee-Nac, the fourteen singles looked like the toughest of the divisions.

Scott Freeman, our #1 singles playe.rs lost to Rome of Lenox in the semis, 7-6,5-7, and 7-5. Rome went on to win the finals 6-1, 6-0. Our number fourteen and under doubles team of Mark Rogavin and Gary Levine lost in the finals.

Our sixteen and under singles was a strong point for Mah-KeeNac, with Paul Gross playing

#1 singles. After a tough match in the semis, Paul lost in the finals.

The sixteen doubles was the surprise of the tournament for Mah-Kee-Nac. Steve Weyl and Ron Shevlin defeated a tough Greylock teaml bringing Mah-Kee-Nac its second win of the tournament.

T~is brought the cup to Mah-Kee-Nac.

Steve Copit & Steve Aronson, Cheye.nnes- 3 3

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IN PI-IOTCJ6RAPHY

This year there are two fine

new photo counselors. There is also much new fine equipment.

For example, there is a new enlarger and dryer. The whole

photo shop will be re-done. I think it's going to be good, once everything is set up. Take a peek in photography and look at all the new things.

Peter Baum, Cheyenne-29

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On July 19, the Man-Kee-Nac nA" baske-tball team faced the Onota team at Camv Onota. In the

first half, Onota came out playing a 2-1-2 zone, which in the long run, caused Mah-Kee-Nac a lot of trouble. Onota was bigger and

s t.r onc-e r and controlled the boards.

At the end of the first half, the score was 20-14--0nota's favor. A,tthat point, Mah"Kee-Nac was still in the game.

In the third quarter, three uncontested fast breaks in a row gave the Onota team a strong and commanding lead. At that point, the Mah-Kee-Nacteam lost its cool and never again was back in the- game .

. An excellent job was part.icularly visible by Rich Kenyon and Brian Zalaznick. The· scores ran as follows: Kenyon~14i Zalaznick-6, Aronson-2 and Rudorfer-2. The final score was 43-28.

Eric Leventhal, Cheyenne-33 (Helped by Counselor, Mike Zheutland, Bunk 21)

JIM ZEILER AND RON HAWKES

OF WCM

WISH- TO THANK PERFORMERS, AND

EN&INEERS, AND ESPECIALLY,

HOST Mi:KE- ZUCKER

OF "WCM PR.E}SENTS"

FOR ALL THEIR HELP AND

HARD WORK.

Remember the next "WCM Presents" is on August 15.

SAM

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RlrLERY

Until this week, I thought that in my three weeks as a Mah-Kee-Nac camper, I had been to every activity in camp. I was sure that I also knew which activities were the best. However, on Thursday evening my thoughts were proven unfounded that night. The upper seniors had cafeteria night, and I went to riflery.. This was a -new experience for me; my first time shooting, I scored a 37.

Since then, I have shot many times, and I have come to the conclusion that riflery is the Number One activity here.

Bill Chandler, the riflery counselor has been here 17. Since Bill arrived 16 years ago, riflery has grown tremendously, except for several fluctuations, following the Kennedy assassinations.

The riflery program has grown greatly. It now runs four periods a day, with rifle team practice during morning free play, and evening riflery six nights a week.

As an example of the growth of the rifle program, Bill explained that this year, ammunition use has gone up 50% and that he has run out of several pa.cohee- is short on ta.rgets. Today, he has. ordered more ammunition and targets. It's tough just to keep up_

The tremendous number of campers who turn out for riflery each year are themselves a tribute to the operation of this outstanding program.

Sam Roberts, Seneca-46

. SENIORS VfEW FI LM

BY PETER BOGDANOV/CH fS

One of the most-acciaimep movies of 1973, Paper Moon, was shown to the Upper Seniors as their carnival movie on Tuesday, July 16.

The film was highlighted by the comedic performances of Ryan O'Neal as Moses-Pray, a conman; Madeline Kahn as "Trixie Delight", a "dancer" wit~ a side profession; P.J. Johnson· as Imogene, Trixie's maid, and the Os-car-winning debut of Tatum O·'Neal as Addie, a 9-year

old orphan, who Mose is to deliver to her aunt 200 miles away.

Mose finds this the perfect opportuni ty to do a Ii ttle "business Ii along the way, dropping wallets, selling Bibles· to widows, etc. WhiTe doing this, Addie reveals

a talent as a con ~art'ist herself. Mose·realizes that if he puts the pi"eces tog-e.ther, Addie's little

innocent face and a 200-mile trip, he could run a nice little profitab'ie business.

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However, Mose meets up with Miss Trixie Delight, an exotic "dancer". Mose volunteers to take Trixie

and her maid, Imogene to Topeka, compLe t.e Ly out of Addie I sand Mosel sway .. After almost completely wiping Mose out of funds, Addie and Imogene work up an elaborate plan to betray Miss Trixie. The plan works and Mose and Addie move onto a new profession-bootlegging.

The film continues with more of the tricksome twosome's adventures. Overall, the film was very entertaining and thoroughly enjoyed.

Jeff Lonoff-Alg.-40

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MK:N SWIM TEAM ***

HALF'-MOON DEFEATEDr2J

Mah-Kee-Na.c "s swimming team opened its season last Saturuay against

a very strong team from Camp HalfMoon. We defeated them by a close score of 155-14.5. In the 100-yard medlay relay (ages 9-10), the winning team of John Usdin, Neal Aronson, Evan Levy , and Scott Kursman won the event in a good time of 1:33.5. The'Mah-Kee-Nac other relay came in second with Seth Antiles, Eric Rosenthal, Barry Lanner, and Steve Bergman in the excellent time of 1:.51. 3.

In the 11-12 50-yard free style, Josh Antileswon the event in the time of 33.2 with a. split of 15.0. In the lOO-yard Medlay relay for 11-12, Tom Echikson, Scott Corwin, Ricky Cohen, and Ethan Ba1iff swept the event in the incredible time of l: 17 • L

One of the most notiab Ie accomplishments in the entire meet was the double win of Tommy Echikson in the

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11-12 backstroke, coming back in the

13-15 backstroke in excellent times of 11-12 in 41.6.and the 13-15 in

45.7. '

In the 25-yard breast stroke, Neil Weintraub won the event in the excell,ent time of 23.6. The next med lay relay temnconsisting of Steve Silverman, Rob Shapiro. Mike Zucker, and David Weinstein in the 13-15

won in the time of 1:13.9.

In the 50-yard breast'stroke, Mike Zucker won the event in the excellent time of 41.1, with a split of 18.2. In the 25-fly 9-10, N.ea! Aronson won the event in the time of 22,.:3.,

The 100-yard freestyle relay team in 11-12 year age group turned in an outstanding performance by clocking 1:03.9. This team performed as follows: Ethan Baliff, 16.0;. Josh Antiles, 14.9; Andy Behrman, 16.0; Benji Buren, 17.0. The 13-15 relay team of Rob Shapiro in 16.0 was impressive .• The same is true of Mike Zucker's 17.0, Jon Zinmerman's 16-0, and David Weinstein I s amazing 13.8.

Todd Orloff (right diver) on second leg against Onota for free style relay in age 11-12 division.

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VICTORIOUS IN TWO MEETS

0GREYLOCK 5w.MMERS DEFEATED

These were amazing performances by winning four events in two

days in the 50 breast. In the

9-10 age group, Neil Weintraub won the event in 23.6. In the 50

breast Josh AntHes won the event

Ln 23.6. The 50 breast; for boys 13-15 was won. by Andy Tomback in the time of 41. 9.

In the. 100 .. yard free style relay. age 11-12, the team of Benji Buren 16.6, Ethan BaUff 15.9,

Andy Behnnan 16.9', and Josh AntHes 15.0 had a time of 1:04.4.

The final event: the 13-15 100- yard free relay, the team of Andy Tombach, Jon Zimmerman, Rob Shapiro, and David Weinstein clocked 1:10.5 with David Weinstein clocking 13.8, which in an.y lake Ls amazing time. Congratulations. all!

Ricky Cohen, Cheyenne-.29 CWith help by Don Rubenoff in Bunk 9)

Following the Half-Moon swim meet, the next day a strong team from Camp Greylock invaded the Mah-Kee-Nac shores for a dual meet, which was close, right down to the last event. Mah-Kee-Nac won the meet by a close score of 153-147.

All the swimmers were outstanding with Josh Antiles in the 50-yard free turning in a performance of 33.2, with a s.plit of 14.9. In

the 50-yard free style for 13-15, David Weinstein won the event with

a time of 31.5, with a split of 14.1. The lOO-yard medlay relay in 11-12 year olds was comprised of Tom Echikson 18.4, Ricky Cohen in 21.0, Scott Corwin in .23.2, and Ethan Baliff in 15.2, with a combined

time of 1:17.8.

For the second time in a. row, Tommy Echikson pulled off a double

in the 11-12 backstroke in the time of 42.6. besides the 13-15 backstroke in the time of 43.7.

Jon Usdin- -third leg on B free style relay in age 9-10 Div;ision

Jon Brannan, the fishing instructor caught a IS-inch pickerel. Then, he caught a linch and sunfish. Jon threw the little

sunfish back in the water, as a big 2 1/2 pound bass came and

ate it.

Adam Eidelberg. Navajo-2.l

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Jrs. Hold Talen t Sho~

GARY RUSSELL AND LORENZO

Last Saturday, the junior camp held a talent

show. It was good. There were some good magic

tricks, espe.cially Mitch Dickman I s and Troy

Rosenblatt's magic show. They even called me

dawrt from the audi.,ence.

There were lots: of pianists like:. Richi.e Moskowitz,. Gary Russell, Roger Gorham, Kevin Freund, Danny Comer, Jeff Miller, and'Mike Zeuner.

Gary Russell sang '~aindrops Keep Falling on

My Head". To me, that takes a lot of guts.

There were also lots of comic acts, like Mike

Lonoff's act and one by Eddie Gray. Eric

Rosenthal had a joke bag, We saw liThe Robbers":

Steve Falkenberg, Gary Russell, Adam Schwartz, Bruce Roberts, and Craig Myt.elka. and "maestro"

Roger Gorham. Peter Kaufman also played a com-

ic magican with his hands. Bunk 8 did a skit.

Richie Grossman played his clariUet. Scott Kursman played Beethoven 's Ode to Joy on his recorder. There were surprise appearances by Josh and Adam Lewin, the doctor's little sons.

Adam Schwartz told us about Jacob I s family and his son Joseph in story and song. I

think all the people in the show ,dld a terrific job.. I hope junior camp has more shows like this in the future.

STEVE FALKENBERG

Arthur Gordon, MOhican-2

RICHIE GROSSMAN

DANNY COMER

ROGER GORH.AJ.1

KEVIN FREIDID

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and showed us a skunk that was near our area. We were watching the skunk eat something very disgusting. Ask somebody on the trip what it vlas!

The next morning, we were making too much noise very early in the mo r n i.nq, This caused the forest ranger to come around.

I think breakfast was terrible!

Bern~e nearly burned the bacon, even though the counselors said the bacon was just well done. I should have done without the scrambled eggs.

That morning we went on another hike. This one was longer. We got very wet with mud almost all the way.

After the hike we ate and cleaned up. When the van came, we were on our way home. On the

way, woe stopped for cokes.

The hikers were: Eric Brooks,

~ Bennet Goldberg, Scott Dalinka,

~~ ! \'Irr •• r 1 f\' ( f If. ! t r .I,' r Jud~ Marmon, Peter Bass, Larry.

~t\(' ({ \/ 1,//(\ I I r ,) Ii' Ste,lnert, Marc Boxer, Marc Wolln,

((frl/n/lr(I'rrj(11 r ('r~' r't/{lV' and Joel Schwartz, besides coun-

e 1,\ I \ t ] ( ( I r If \ (, (( .1~ I (I selors Nick Goldberg, Bernie

Wollh -~6ING' BerbRwizONS:

LOWER SENlORS/ TOWN M£[TI NG

It was a Sunday, about 3:30 when the van finally came. Harry was caught in the Tanglewood traffic, because Leonard Bernstein was conducting a concert there.

On the way up to Savoy, it was boring. When we got there, we set up our tents and went for an hour-long hike.

As soon as we got back (about 7:30) we hungrily ate dinner. After dinner, we did whatever we wanted. Before long, we had hot chocolate and toasted marshmallows.

After the marshmallows, we went to bed. W~ talked for a little while. Bernie came in our tent

Last Friday, the Lower Senior Camp was supposed to have a camp fire, but since it rained for

about a half-hour, it was cancelled. Since we did not have a camper council meeting that week, we

~ad a town meeting.

In the town meeting, Jim O'Neal told us about the Lower Senior trips. Some other things were

discussed. For example, we discu s sed the music we hear in the morning. We- a Lao talked about taps.

We a-sked if the Navajos will play the Cheyennes in activities like softball and baseball. These are only some of the many topics that were raised.

Peter Weiss, Nav-24

Last Tuesday night, there was a softball game. The .Mohicans played against a combined team

of Iroquois and Apaches.

The Mohicans were up first. The Iroquois and Apaches got the Mohcans out, 1-2-3. Then, the Iroquois and Apaches were up, and they scored two runs. Then we were up. There was a man on second and third--two outs, and Stev'e Bergman was up . Steve hit

a 3-run homer; so the score turned 3-2. In the last inning, the score was 8-9.

The bases were loaded when Mark Crystal was up. He got a hit and knocked in 2 runs. The score now is 10-9.

When the Iroquois and Apaches were up, a boy hit a line drive right to Mark Shidlovsky, but

he caught it.

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There' was another line drive but Arthur·Gordon made a beautiful catch. Then there was a high fly to Mark, who caught it. So, the Mohicans finally won, 10-9.

Gordon Schnell, Moh-2

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Jr. Masquerades July 30 Upper Sr. ConcertiJames

Winadu Baseball-H Cher. Taylor

Winadu Soccer-H Alg/Sen. Aug 1 Lazy Day?

Winadu Baseball-H Chey. Olympic Breakdown

Tanglewood Concert wi 2 Greylock Tennis Tourn .. ,

Boston Symphony-Lower M-K-N Water Olympics

Seniors 3 M.-K-N Land Olympics

Takajo Tennis & Sailing Upper Sr. concert: Sha

Movie Na Na

Long Trail trip in pro- 3 Next Issue of Totem

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ON BEHALF OF ALL OF MAH.-K£E-NAC, TOTEM WISHES A GRAND 1974 BIRTHDAY TO ALL OF THE FOLLOWING GENTLEMEN

The Campers The Birthdays The Years
"uc.~y
Lloyd Bennett July 28 , 12
Fred Marton July 28 • 8
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HA MSTER

Last week, my pet hams cez , "Honey", gave birth to ten babies. One of them got eaten by the father, "Sam".

Mark Crys.tal, Roger Gorham., and I watched them give birth fifteen minutes before first call for dinner. Then we had to leave.

By the end of dinner, ten babies were born. The next morning" we checked them and found out that there were still ten.

We gave the mother and father food in the other cage. After rest hour, we checked again, and there were sti 11 ten.

The next morning, they weren't there.

I gueas the mother ate them.

Peter Kaufman, Mohican-2

Roger Gorham and his friends look on as "Sam" gives birth to ten hamsters.

~NI/C RATE RS VIEWED

One day, Irwin Grossman, the nature counselor, was looking for the moon through the telescope. Chuck Boideau, the woodshopcounselor helped him find it.

Once Chuck found the moon, it was Ulry fun to look at. Several of us examined it.

You could find craters on the moon and see it go by really fast. You could even see how fast the earth was moving.

You can come to nature and see the moon during the day for yourselfl

Story

and I Peter Baum, Cheyenne-29 Photo

Steve Eisenberg (left) awaits Chuck and Irwin, who are setting up the telescope for a moon viewing.

SPIDER AWAITS

NAME

We went on a nature hike. We saw a spider. I caught it. We took him back to the nature shack and then I got my picture taken with it. We don't know the name of it yet, but soon we will find out.

Mitch Dickman, Apache-13

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Hike Bec,omes

a Real Happening

On the 21st of July, we went on a nature hike. We picked some blueberries. Bruce Roberts picked some black-eyed susens vand wild par,sley.

If y'ouwerequiet, maybe you will hear Tanglewood" I cant t wait until we go again!

Steve Falkenberg, Iroquois-6

frog

defeated

One day, Louie, Mark Shidlofsky. and I (Scott Klein) went on a nature hike to look for frogs. At first, we didn't have too much luck, but then we started to try our luck.

First, I caught a small frog; then I saw a big one. We all went after it but didn't catch it, After a while. I caught it.

Scott Klein, Mohican-4

One day Ray and I went on a butterfly hunt, and we caught lots of chequered skippers. We also caught one common wood numph. besides some Baltimores. We saw the Great Spangled Fritillary. It was a very interesting hike.

Mark Greenberg, Apa.che-12

rZ "CL EAN" SKUNK VISITS

One day, someone's mom brought

a "SKUNK"! to camp. Me and a

few others got a chance to hold him. He was very playful. When

I fi.rst came in to see everything. I gasped. He was fun to play with.

After a few minutes, I smelled something, Louie thought it was funny. (P.S. He probably had a stuffy nose.) I held my nosel

Then I played with him. Now was the time. We all said goodbye to the skunk. We all missed him and we always will think about him. If he lives until next year, I hope they bring him. back.

Eddie Gray. Apache-13

Gene Steinfeld and Larry Swiger Make Friends With a ''DESKUNJ.<ED " SKUNK r

JUNIOR CAMP

54 5 Matt Zinn found a toy octopus in the garbage can.

JOhnny ~apaport played well in the Jr. Tenn~B ~~~~

6 Andy Piera I s gerbils gave birth to baby ge.rbi 9 Neil Weintraub, Neal Aronson, and Scott KurallfT; ......

in Jr. cafeteria after dinner with Don, and,t sensational job on skiis. Steve Ellic j

14 Jeff Kaplan passed his advanced beg' n S

Jeff Pincus is on his 30 yds. in cr. got his first gold on 40 yards. ohn"

son just moved in, and our b .~--~--~-

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On July 21, seven boys and two counselors hiked up Mt. Greylock. These were John. Eisenberg,. Ian Wexler, Bruce Berg, Larry Beck, Billy .Abramson, Marc Magod, and Fred Fogel, besides Granville Powell and Brian Atkins.

We started at the bottom of the mountain instead of being driven up half-way. We hiked up the Roaring Brook trail. It was a very steep trail,. and it was steep all the way, nearly to the top.

At the beginning of the trip, there was a stream that we had to cross. It was a long way across, and the~e was a long log that we walked across and balanced on.

As we walked, it seemed there was no flat land. Finally, we got to

A REST BREAK.

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• • • • • AND A MEAL

WHERE IN MAR-KEE-NAC does this come from?

Photo: Stuart Marton Gheyenne-.34

the camp site, rested, and set

up camp about 1000 feet from the summit, then proceeded to the top.

We could see the. television tower from just below the summit. We got to the summit in about an hour. There, we got a fantastic view, which we saw for 100 miles. We even saw two gliders circling around.

Then we hiked down to our campsite for dinner. Afterwards, we had toasted marshmallows and hot chocolate.

Following a gO!Jd breakfast, we packed our gear, sat about, and hiked down the mountain. We couldn't believe how steep a mountain we climbed. As usual, this was a successful trip •

TRUE OR FAISE: The Hawthorne Red House in Lenox is a remake of the burned original •.

Answers to last week's puz.zlers:

1) The mystery shot was taken at the waterfront. The canoe paddle rack is the subject.

2) The filler for the statement on Interlaken is the word jail.

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01. 38, No. 5

August 3, 19~

JR. MASQUE

For the first time in many years, junior camp held a masquerade party. Fudge cookies and bug juice were great refreshments. Several counselors played rock music for

us while we sang, danced, and had

a general good time. It was all

so much fun.

Awards were given for most outstanding costumes. My costwne, for example, was spooky, though it didn't win any award.

Tbesewere the winners for the best costumes: Third place for best caricature were ties-Barry Lonner and Scott Klein~ second place was Mike Lonoff; first place was Jinuny Hoffman.

Awards for the most original

MOST POPULAR AND CREATIVE

DES REVI~D

and creative were third place-Danny Irom and Evan Levy; second placeDoug Leman; first place wer e Peter Kaufman and Steve Bergman.

Awards for most popular went to: third place-Matt Zinni second place-Jon Flaks; first place went to Jon Usdin.

Funniest characters were: third place-Ed Gray; second plan-Adam Schwartz; first place-Steve Gold.

Nicest costumes were those of Steve Faulkenberg in third place; Rob Rosenberg in second place; first place went to Jeff Miller.

Best counselors were: Don Rubenoff, Mike Marks, and Jeff Wilson. The best bunk was #5. That's mine! -Jon Rapaport, Mohican - 5

BEST CARICATURE

2~ IN W1NADU SWIMMING

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On July 25, the Mah-Kee-Nac swim team went to Camp Winadu for the first annual Winadu swimming Invitational. Other camps invited were Mah-Kee-Nac, Onota, Lenox, and Grey1ock.

The first event was the 9 and under medley relay with Mah-KeeNac campers Antiles, Weintraub, Usdin, and Aronson. Mah-Kee-Nac

was disqualified in the next

event. The 11 and under relay

left Mah-Kee-Nac again disqualified. The relay was Mah-Kee-Nac's Oltarsh, Weisman, B. Cohen and Schaeffer. In the 13 and under relay, Mah-Kee-Nac placed fourth. The team consisted of Mah-Kee-Nac's Baliff, R. Cohen, Roberts, and Buren. Their time was 1:46.0.

The next relay was the 15 and

under relay.

Mah-Kee-Nac took first place.

The relay participants were Mah-Kee-Nac's Zimmerman, Zucker, Echikson, and Weinstein. They

had an outstanding time of 1:26.9. After the relays, M.ah-Kee-Nac was in first place. The individual events got us into second place.

In the 9 and under 2S-yard freestyle, Aronson took third place with a 23.6. In the 11 and under 25-yard freestyle, Mah-Kee-Nac's B. Cohen took first place with

a 21.5 and Altarsh took third

with a 23.0.

In the 13 and under SO-yard freestyle, Antiles took second place with a 46.1. In the 15 and under 50-yard freestyle, Weinstein

took third with a 43.0.

Next came the breaststroke events.

In the 9 and under 25-yard breaststroke, Kursman tied for second with a time of 36.9. 1n the 11 and under 25-yard breaststroke, Mah-Kee-Nac's Mintz took second place with a time of 28.6.

Antiles placed third in the 13 and under 50-yard breaststroke. His time was 1:02.1. Mah-Kee-Nacrs Tomback placed second in the 5

and under 50-yard breaststroke;

His time was 57.8.

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In the 9 and under 25-yard backstroke, Mah-Kee-Nac's Jon Usdin placed first with a time of 30.6. In the 11 and under 25-yard backstroke, Mah-Kee-Nac's B. Cohen placed second with a time of 29.6. In the thirteen and under 50-yard backstroke, Echikson placed second with a time of 57.5.

In the 13 and under 25-yard butterfly, Corwin tied for second with a 29.4. In the 15 and under bu.tterfly Shapiro placed first with 25.5. In the freestyle relays, Mah-Kee-Nac did very well. In the 9 and under lOO-yard freestyle relay, Mah-Kee-Nac placed· first. The team was Mah-Kee-Nac's Aronson, Antiles, Kursman, and Weinstraub. The time was 1:54.3.

Mah-Ree-Nac placed second in the 11 and under relay. Team members were: Finn, Schaeffer, Orloff, and Oltarsh. The time wa.s 1: 40.2.

Mah-Kee-Nac took first place in the 13 and under relay. The team consisted of Mah-Kee-Nac's Behrman, Antiles, Buren and Baliff. The time was 1:28.0. In the 15 and under relay, Mah-Ree-Nac placed first. The team was Tomback, Zimmerman, Shapiro and Weinstock-all from Mah-Kee-Nac. The time was 1:22.5.

The final score was Onota-201, Mah-Kee-Nac-186, Greylock-138, Lenox-154, and Winadu with 56 points.

Mah-Ree-Nacwon eleven blue ribbons, fifteen red ribbons, and four white ribbons. Finally Mah-Kee-Nac came home ~ith the second place trophy. With performanc~s like those described above, the team hopes to do well the on-coming meets .

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itorls note: Totem comme Andy for the pa1nstaking effort that went into the writing of this story.

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NICEST: Steve Falkenberg,

Jeff Miller, Rob Rosenberg

COUNSELOR (2nd pl.)~ Hike Marks

FUNNIEST: Adam Schwartz Eddie Gray Steve Gold

The 1974 softball season has been a success up to date, with all-around "hustle and desire" being the prominent factor.

In all groups, including Apaches, Iroquois, and Mohicans, steaay improvement is showing promise for the junior camp. Many batting and pitching figures are improved over last year. In the Mohican Greens, batting averages go this way:

Doug Lehman 433 Matt Zinn 592

Mike Freiberg 406 Mark Cry- .

Harry Gutfleish 385 stal 526

Bruce Iram 378 Huey Miller

Evan Levy 372 520

HomeRuns: Peter S.Bergman 497

Mandelkern 5 W. King 486

Runs Batted In: Home Runs:

Mike Freiberg 19 Roger 8il-

Total bases 35 verstein 2

Pitching Wins-

Bruce Irom 5-0

Mike Freiberg 4-0

Earn Run Average:

Bruce Irom 1.06

Total strikeouts: Alan Rashbaum-36 in .29 2/3 innings pitched in Mohican group.

Team B. players, coached by Tony Donahoe include: Mark Shidlofsky, Jon USdin, Rick White, Dan Solo, Jeff Lonner, Jeff Silverman, Mark Crystal, Lloyd Khaner, Adam Targanr Roger Silverstein, Gordon Schnell, Neil Weintraub, Mike Shalita, Jimmy Hoffman.

Team C, coached by Richie Waxman, includes: Seth Antiles, Dan Comer, Eric Olin, Steve Rosenblatt, Scott Klein, Matt Zinn, Martin Hauser, Gene Steinfeld, Steve Bergman, Eric Donsky, James Lobsenz, Mike Zeuner, Scott Kursman, Warren King, Mike Cryst.al, and Richard Moskow! tz .

Team A, coached by Bulldozer, assisted by Jim Gluckson, and

Dave Buck are: Bruce Irom, John Rapaport, Evan Levy, Alan Rashbaum, Craig Benson, Jeff Cohen, Joey Kluger, Neil Aronson, Peter Mandelkern, Jeff Marks, Barry Lonner, Richie Margolin, Mike Freiberg, Ba.rry Sharf I and Doug Lehman.

These are the all-star teams.

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Mohican Greys batted in nine runs by Steve Bergman, nine hits

by Warren King, and 4-2 pitching wins by Roger Silverstein. Richard M·oskowtiz I s earned run average is 0.96. Total strikeouts are by

Jon Usdin-27 in 29 innings pitched.

Iroquois Greens:

Average: Neil Aronson 531 Home Runs: Neil Aronson 7 Lloyd Khaner 726 (and 6 home

runs)

Kent"Bulldozer" Dame-Counselor

MKN BEATS WINADU

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On Friday, Camp Mah-Kee-Nac played Camp Winadu in softball and baseball. We won in softball, 15- 2! Richie Robins pitched a sensational game against Winadu.

In baseball, Mah-Kee-Nac beat Winadu S-O! In the top of the

4th inning, Winadu said they had to go when the bases where loaded for us. Members of the Lower Sr. teams are to be congratulated

for these victories.

Mike Fr,eeman, Navajo-26

"WC'M

" Pr'e s,ents .... !

July 24, 1974 was the date for the "WCM" Presents Show." This was the radio talent show, consisting of seventeen contestants.

There were piano pieces by Mike Zeuner, Mike Solo, Matt Levine (who also sang), Jeff Miller, Roger Gorham, Kevin. Freund, and Tom Rich. Guitar was played by Eric Rosenthal. Several songs were sang, such as "Sundown" by Lloyd Zuckerberg and Mike Eisner, besides a song by Paul Taylor and Rich Pelzman. Richard Grossman played clarinet and Scott Kursman played his recorder. There were jokes by Eric Rosenthal and Mitch Dickman.,

All contestants were very good, going for the win. First place was won by Tom Rich for his piece~ Promenade~from Moussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. Mike Zuc~er hostea-the show.

Ron Hawkes was producer of the Show.

Stuart Marton, Cheyenne-3l

Mike Eisner-delighted with the show

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Rich Pelzman--loud and clear

Mike Zeuner-keyboard artist

Tom Rich & Dave Rosen - an appreciative audience

1M, RDVEMENTS MADE 62 IN COMMUNICATIO,NS B,LDG.

W.C.M.

GAINS NEW EQUIPMENT

On Wednesday, July 24, WCM proposed that more improvements were needed. First, later that day, they got five new headphones with adjustable volume controls. There is a five-jack input attachment to a plug that goes into a Zenith record player. Jim Zeiler (WCM counselor) says helll use this for listening to records for people who have nothing to do.

The next day he had no radio to permanently monitor WCM, while broadcasting. So, he brought in

a newall-transistor AM/FM stereo.

Finally, on Saturday he got three brand new Sony tape machines to replace the five-year-old faulty Viking tape machines.

On Monday, Jim got five new Memorex reel-to-reel tapes. The new improvements are great! Drop in any time and take a look.

David Rosen, Cheyenne-3l

Tom Rich and Richard Samson prepare to tape a show on one of the new Sony tape recorders.

TOTEM

ALTERATIONS I,MPROVE. EFFICIENCY

Tlilis year, the Totem office has improved in many ways. The counters have been covered with masonite for easier writing and drawing. A new counter has also been built.

At one end of the office, there is a light box, which Harold built. This is used for tracing illustrations and headlines.

An overhead flourescent light is over one counter where Noel can work at night when he does the lettering.

There are more people working on Totem. There are more camper photos and illustrations than last year. There are a lot of campers interested '.

Peter Baum, Cheyenne-29

Mike Lonoff gives his Totem illustration a final touch on the newly

built light box.

PHOTOGRAPHY EXPANDS

On Wednesday, July 24, carpenters came in and s,tarted work on expanding Mah-Kee-Nac·s dark room facili~ ties. On Saturday, the work was completed. We now have two Omega enlargers ,which a.LLows two people to print at the same time, instead of one.

There is now moJ:;.e room to work with. There is extra shelving and more walking space. This makes a lot more sense than what we had before.

Better yet, there is a double door. You can open the outside one, shut it., and you can open the other one so you go in without knocking.

We have new tanks, a new Miranda auto sensorex AIC .EE camera so more classes in photo can be held.

Scott Witkin, Algonquin - 40

Ted Forbath is trying out .J

the new Omega enlarger

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On Sunday, July 28:.r a group of some thirty seniors went to an afternoon orchestra concert at Tanglewood.. This was the la.rgest group of seniors Mah-Kee-Nac has taken to Tanglewood this summer for a classical concert.

The Sunday concert concluded the weekend memorial centennial tribute to Serge Koussevitsky, a founder of Tanglewood and the Berkshire Music Center.

The program was conducted by

7 a-year old Eugen Jochum. Jochum. is a native of West Germany. He founded the Bavarian Radio Philha rmon i.c , and he is now 0'0- conductior with Bernard Hai tink of the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.

The program consisted of music by Mozart, Hindemi t.h, s Beethoven I s 7th Symphony. The Boston

Symphony Orchestra played superbly as usual. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed the afternoon.

Robert Knopf, Cheyenne-30

M-I(-N RIFLEMEN SHOOT DOWN ONOTA

The M-K-N/Onota rifle teams had a rifle match--Guess who won?!

We won Onota by over 100 pts. Bill Chandler, the instructor & coach

of the M-K-N team said tbat he was very pleased with the team's shooting. He hopes they keep on shooting the way they are now. Listed below are the scores of how the match went:

Mah-Kee-Nac onota

Lindner 72 60

W,einstock 71 53

Lewis 83 15

Fogel 76 58

Tirschwell 78 31

Ascher 75 60

Wexler 86 60

Total -=3~9~8----------~2~9~1-

Gregg Feder, Cheyenne-30

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On Tuesday, the 24rd, the Algonquins got their chance to prove themselves as a group. Their opponents for softball then basketball were Brant Lake. In softball, Mark "Peanuts" Rogovin pitched well, even with a sore righthand.

ur defense was strong, but in the second, our opponents scored their only run. Mah-Kee-Nac had trouble scoring until the last" half inning of the game. Bobby Kenyon led off with a single, and went to second on an error. He later scored on a sacrifice fly which tied the score at one.

With two outs, Brian Marks and Mark Rogovin singled in front of a long triple by Bruce. Berg. With the three runs in our last at bat we won three to one.

The Green men were now faced for a tough basketball game. The pace was quick and it was very good for both clubs. At the end of the half, Brant was up by 8.

In our half-time. huddle I we decided we can and will win. Dave Berkowitz and Donny Sandler led our charge, but with a minute left,

SENIORS VtEW~

6lt On July 23, the Upper Seniors

saw the film Downhill Racer star- . ring Robert Redford and Gene Hackman.

The skimpy story evolves around the rise of David Chappellet (Redford) I a skier who is not very well liked. He is called in to replace a skier, who is injured while doing the downhill.

He meets the team coach, Claire (Hackman) who will not settle for anything but the best. The two know that they don't like each other, and Cl~ire tells Chappellet to come back and ski after he has gotten shape.

After a brief encounter with his father in Colorado, Chappellet returns to the team where he turns in. inconsistently low times for the downhill. He is steadily moved

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up in the order of who skis first, but he still gets in trouble. When the Olympics roll around Chappel let wins a gold medal for the United States.

Although the film had many flaws, it was highlighted by excellent photography.

Jeffrey Lonoff, Algonquin-40

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were down by 6. Magod hit one of two foul shots and Berkowitz hit a pair of foul shots closing the margin to 3. with five seconds left, Sandler hit a tough jumper.

Down by one, Dave Berkovlitz stole a careless in bounds pass. He hit the l2-foot jumper to win the game. Both victories were tough struggles.

Marc Magod, Algonquin-42

HALF MOON LOSES AGAIN IN PJFLERY

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Bill Chandler's rifle squad posted a 419 to outshoot Camp Half-Moon to their second win. Fred Fogel led the Mah-Kee-Nac team with a blistering 89 out of a possible 100.

The other members who contributed to the victory were: Mark Weinstock, Ricky Lindner, Jim Ascher, ~nd Ian Wexler.

Ian Wexler, Seneca-45

NAVAJOS VISIT STURBRIDGE

Last Thursday, most of the Navajos went to Old Sturbridge, which is a recreated colonial town. Some of the things we saw were what a coppersmith does and the tools.

We saw the barrel makers. We

also saw a tinsmith make a lantern. We also went into a pewter shop

and saw him melt a spoon in a pot of hot pewter.

Ait·er that, we went to the black smf th shop, where we wa t.ched a f,ork being made. Then we went to the pottery shop and bakery. Finally, we spent our SO¢ in the gift shop. We had fun.

Peter Weiss, Navajo-24

WHERE IN MAH-KEE-NAC DOES THIS COME FROM?

Photo: Richard Moskowitz-Moh-l

~ TRY THIS!

Windhurst on the road to Lee

is two miles from here. Originally this was known as BlosSlUl1 Farm, the home of Henry Ward Beecher unt.il 1865. Question: What is this site now known as? (Hint:

two words--C S .)

Answers to last weekfs puzzlers: 1) True-Hawthorne's Red House is a re-make of the burned original.

2) The mystery shot was taken of the drainage cover in the j~ uniorcamp along the

dirty road.

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Photo: Peter Jacoby,Navajo-26

photo: Peter Weiss, Nav-24

What is this a drawing of?

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Cheyenne Trip to Cooperstown

Danbee Sailing eE) Taconic Tennis

Greylock Tournament-Swim Lenox-Cheyenne Basketball Tournament

Balladeers Program Cherokee trip to Mystic Seaport

Williamstown Art trip Winadue Basketball Archery Tournament Berkshire Eagle-WCM t.rip Social for Cher.:"'Belvoir Lower/Upper Sr. Buffet Greylock Basketball Baseball/Soccer for Algonquin-Seneca

Jr. Open Tanglewood Concert Rehearsal

NOTE: Totem regrets the inconvenience caused by the printing of 2 issues this week.

Last week, our offset pressman was unable to come. Again, our regrets.

LO\NER SR. CAMPFIRE- EXC\T\NG !

On Friday night, the Lower Srs. had a. campfire. It started by

our collecting sticks for roasting marshmallows. Then, Joel Marcus and Jeremy Harrison did an act called "The Pickpocket" which was very good.

Then Peter Cooper, Judd Marmon, Dave Graf, Todd Cooper, & Charlie Shidlofsky did an act ca.1Ied, "The Enlarging MachineII' where they throw in a stick and a log comes o~t. They also put in other things and bigger ones came out, which was a good act. After that, we toasted marshmallows' & went to bed.

Jon Lynn, Navajo-22

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SKUNKG[T~

On Monday night, July 29, under Bunk 24, there was a small skunk. Bill Oliver, our counselor, threw a rock at it ..

It sprayed its stuff on Bunk 25.

What a smell!

Jeff Lewis, Navajo-24

ON BEHALF OF ALL OF MAH-KEE-NAC, TOTEM WISHES A GRAND 1974 BIRTHDAY TO ALL OF THE FOLLOWING GENTLEMEN:

The Campers The Birthdays The Years

Jamie. Bloom Robert Weinstock Steve Tollin Peter Jacoby

Sam Roberts

Jim Werner

Jon Block

Phil Presby Peter Bass

Scott Kursman

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August 5 ~C:J 11

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NEXT ISSUE: OLYMPICS!!

JUNIOR CAMP

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because fishing bass in

gone

UPPER SENIOR CAMP

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Richard Kahn and his second award 1n the play.

Billy Abramson is a leader in t e

Fred Fogel earned his Expert in er

in the same day (Story in next Tote

'sh Channel Swim kiing and riflery all

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Thursday, Lou and me took a hike to a field to learn about Nature. We learned about trees and flowers and bushes and berries.

Me and Lou ate some that were sour, very sour. All right, we saw Jack in the Pulpiti we skimmed rocks.

David Kamlet, Mohica.n-S

Me and Lou went on a trip. We saw spring peepers; they look like little frogs. We got frogs and we put them in the nature shack. If you want to see them go to the nature shack.

Mike Lonoff, Apache-13

,HE STI NG

Hey, everybody, how would you like to know about wasp nests~? Well, you can find them allover camp and some time, if you're lucky, there'll be a dead wasp in it, and you'll be able to 'bring it to the nature shack.

If you want to know more about wasps, come to Bunk 7 and

look for Gene Steinfeld.

Gene Steinfeld, Iroquois-7

In Nature, we do things, but we catch frogs and butterflies. We catch frogs, toads & spring peepers.

There are lots of spring peepers on a trail. Spring peepers look like small toads, and they are nice.

If you want to see them, come to the nature shack.

Adam White, Apache - 12

One day, Bunk 6 went on a nature hike. We picked blueberries. Then Lou told us that if we were quiet, we will be able to hear Tanglewood. I can't wait till we go again.

Steve Falkenberg, Iroquois-6

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On Monday, July 29, Mark Shidlofsky and Scott Klein went with Lou the nature counselor. We went on a frog hike to the Music Inn. We caught a lot of frogs. We asked if we set the record for two people. We went to another place, and we caught one more frog. Then we went back to the pond and

caught some more.

We set the record, Mark & I.

We set the record alone. Mark Shidlofsky and Scott Klein challenge any bunk in the Apaches or Iroquois.

If your bunk agrees, come talk to Mark Shidlofsky or Scott Klein, at Bunk 4.

Scott Klein & Mark Shidlofsky Mohican-4

What is happening at camp? So far every thing. has been good, . especially softball. Now the AllStar game is coming up soon with the Jrs. against the Navajos. It looks like the Jrs. are going to win it.

we were. There are lots of art exhibits

Jon Flaks, Mohican -5 here this sununer. One of them is

IS M·,J\tt...1 from Mike Lonoff.

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c~r~~U~!~e~~ :~~k~ :;~' o:~l~i~:~ke", I NTO &AStRAL

baseball game. We arrived at the stadium in Boston just in

time to get a drink (it was so hot). So, on carne the players wearing enough clothes to keep even an Englishman warm. Are they fright.ened· of catching cold?

We were told that the teams were the Boston Red Sox & Texas Rangers. Once in a while, something interesting happened such as the ball's crasning into the spectators or the sound of an organ playing

OuR IDE:'~ OF' A 'FuN CRMPou't

Monday night, Bunk 5 went on a carnpout. Charlie brought us to the campsite. When we got there Weasle (John Rapaport) and I cut firewood. Soon, the fire was blazing. We toasted marshmallows, and Gordon told us a joke.

We went into the tent to read comics. When we went to sleep, we were all mashed potat.oes. I didn't sleep because I was the mushiest mashed potato. Mike Zeuner and Weasle were both on me. In the morning, when we went back. Weasle ran down the hill and dropped his sleeping bag. I laughed until my head popped off!

Afterwards we all took showers and told each other how mashed

When we went to Electronics, WEI walked in the library and saw

a chipmunk under the fireplace, nibbling on peach bits. We tried to catch it, but it ran downstairs. We lost it. We told George, the electronic counselor.

Todd Fast, Peter Kaufman, and Mark Crystal,Moh-2

#5 ARIi WINNE R SCAVENGERS

Tuesday, the Juniors had a scavenger hunt. We had to find 20 items. We were only allowed in the Junior campus.

The winning bunk was Bunk 5. We had 14 passing items. Bunks 1 and 4 came in second.

Jan Flaks, Mohican-5

GOOD THINGBlffEAD

some indescribable tune.

By half-time, the Rangers looked tired and were not doing too well. We were also tired, but it's amazing what you' 11 tolerat.e as a tourist.

When it was obvious that he Red Sox were going to win and obvious that we were dying of thirst,we left. Although it's not cricket, it's one way to spend an afternoon.

Paul T,!yl-or (Counselor-Chey-33)

August 10, 1974

FAT CHANCE IS VICTOR BY SLim mIA,RGIN

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OLYMPICS ON WATER

As the Olympics started with the traditional tarch bearing ceremany, the camp was silenced as the twa torchbearers came striding down the road. These were Mike Zucker and David Weinstein, who. read the traditianal Olympic Oathi the 1974 Olympics had begun for the season!

Same events were the 25 yd. free style. for juniors· and the 50 yd. freestyle for all seniars. There was also a 25 and 50-yd. breaststroke for juniors and seniors respectively .F'ollowing this was the 25 and 50 yd. backstrake.

Free Style Swim Re.lay: . Off to a Gaad Start

Some notewarthy per fozrnances should include Mike Zucker r s 41. 6 in the 50-yd. breaststrake, which was an O,lympic record, and David. Weinstein's impressive 34.1 for the 50-yd. freestyle 1 ever, Paul Gross ehuD.ned at a very nice 34.7 to. capture second place in the 50-yard freestyle.

As the scores indicate, this year's Olympics premised to be exciting--andthey were!

David Weinstein,Sen-46

The relays preved to. be exciting.

There was a 100 yard freestyle relay far lewer and upper seniors. The juniors had a medley relay, and the seniors had a medley as well.

The marathon, however, praved to. be disappointing to some teams. In the. early stages of it, Team II ("Fat Chance", the eventual victors) had a disappaintment, when the canoers capsized andcaus,ed a last place in that event.

WATER OLYMPIC SCORES-First Day

JR. WAR CANOE SPLIT

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OLYMPICS ,ON LAND

The 1974 Olympics were the closest in the history of Mah-Kee-Nac. It was, by far, the best Olympics, not only because of the participants but also because of the Olympic coordinator, Dick Berse, who did a great. job, besides the counselor coaches.

The 1974 Olympic champions were "Fat Chance", led by Coach Schneider and his grea.t team. Their final score was 157 points.

Two campers from the sen.Loz camp were selected for the honor. of being torch bearer. These were Mike Zucker and David Weinstein. They were selected for the quality of their campership.

.BILL AND JIM.: Alert Score. keepers

After land Olympics, when the final scores were tallied, this was how the teams fared:

1. Fat Chanoe 157

2. Jet Set 155

3. New England Killers 151 4 • Big Whoops 147'

5. Impeachable Dream 142

6. Oy-Vei. 133

7. Lahoog ia Moomba.s 126

8. The Sting 106

GOing into the Grand Marathon,

the score.s were very close. Everyone knew that whoever won the Grand Marathon was going to win the 1974 Olympics.

with Dick Berse as Olympic coordinator, the Olympics had some major changes, one of them being the new marathon--not only being winning competition, but each camper had a different task at each st.ep of the Marathon.

One of the most exciting events of th,e Olympics this year was the rope pull and the quarter mile run. Mike Zucker, as all expected, took the 440 run with an encouraging time. In the finals

of the rope pull were "Fat Chance" and "Jet Set ", After a long battle, "Fat Chancel! finally won it.

In the Decathalon Competition, David Weinstein. finished with an impressive 75~ points out of 80 points to set a new Camp Mah-KeeNac record.

Of all the years I've been here I honestly have to say that these were the best Olympics by far. These were such successful Olym.pics because of the great jobs done by Coordinator Berse and

his counselor coaches.

Don Sandler, Algonquin-42

THE CHEYENNE 50-YARD DASH.

Though it had rained the night efore and the skies were threatning, the upper seniors hiked hrough the woods to hear Sha-Naa in concert.

We arrived, 4S minutes late, hoping hat we didn't miss much. Luckily, here was a unanimous second group

n stage who played for a while more.

Sha-Na-Na carne on stage after inermission .. Their first number was Rock Around the Clock". They ontinued with other favorites

rom the 50's.

The comedy highlight of the evening

JAMES

TAYLOR

NTERTAl N S AT TANGLEWOOD

On Tuesday night, July 30, about 10 upper seniors were driven over :0 Tanglewood to see James Taylor

nd Linda Ronstadt in concert.

~e sat over in a corner, where we :ould easily go into the shed to ,isten.

Comedian Albert Brooks int~oduced inda Ronstadt, who was the openLng act. She sang songs from her

Don't Cry Now" album and intro[uced her backup ~ana. Then there "as an intermission~ following chat, James Taylor.

James Taylor opene4 his half of the concert with "Close Your Eyes". rhere were many over-enthusiastic fans, who repeatedly rushed the

tage and yelled out, which prompted Taylor to remark "Shut Up!"

Taylor continued with songs from his albums and was greeted with a standing ovation as he finished "Fire and Rain". Many people were now on their seats and the wildest ovation of the night was yet to corne, when Carly Simon (Mrs. Taylor) came on stage to sing their hit 11 Mockingbird" together. Then, Taylor closed the show with "Sweet Baby JamesH•

The concert was excellent entertainment. for everybody r and it

was greatly appreciated.

Jeff Lonoff, Alg-40

Several seniors went last Tues-

day night after dinner to the Lenox Chess Club. They went to one room where several expert chess players and their chess boards

were awaiting Mah-Kee-Nac chess- ,..--"''''1

men. Bre~t Carlyle and the group played them (and some of us played among ourselves).

The group stayed at the chess club for about two and a half hours playing chess. None of us beat these experts, though we learned a good deal more about chess and found the experience enjoyable.

Campers Ln chess class who attended the club session were Neil Kulick, Tommy Echikson, Bruce Winick, Ted Forbath, and Larry Beck.

Neil Kulick, Cheyenne-32

was the "Second Annual Sha-Na-Na Dance Contestu• Three group members picked three people from the crowd to be their dance partners. The winning girl was given the opportunity of dancing in the spotlight dance. The group played one more number; then we were told to leave by Jim Ayres.

The concert was greeted with mixed reactions--most of them concerning the time limit we had and our not being able to walk around. Overall, everyone had a good time.

Jeff Lonoff, Algonquin-40

M...,K.-N CHESSMEN CHALL"E.NG(ED BY

LE'N OX C l+ESS CLV£3

THE APACHE KICKBOARD RACE TO ST.ART THE MARATHON

MITCH DICKMAN IN THE LEAD

CATTELL, PETER • ..-<~.~~ & BARRY SHAR]

R~CHIE ROBINS, STEVE HOLTZMAN & PETER WEISS

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Lloyd Bennet and Matt Roberts decided to do a full day's research on Mah-Kee-Nac's history before

the Mah-Kee-Nac fire of '69.

46 Years ago, there was no Camp Mah-Kee-Nac. It was called Camp Yokum, and it \'las in another part of Massachusetts. In 1934, Joe and Frances decided to move to this property, which was once a girl's camp on Lake Mah-Kee-Nac.

Originally: by the large chimney, there was an old shack,. which was there when the camp was purchased. Then it was changed into part of the mess'hall. Later, it was torn down. Many people think that the chimney was part of the junior lodge. However, it was

not!

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Speaking of the junior lodge: The old junior lodge was not in the same place as the new one (construc~ed in 1970). The infirmary used to occuI1Y the space where the junior 10'¢!ge now stands. The old junior lodge stood 110 feet long and fairly high. It housed

the nature shack, the art shop, and the woodshop.

You may be wondering what was "in the old woodshop and nature shack. These were across the junior campus and formed the infirmary. The old infirmary was Jim Ayre's present cabin. This cabin besides what is now Bunk 26 are the only original buildings from the girls camp still standing today.

On July 4,1969 at 4:30 a.m., fifty firemen in various trucks sped down the camp roads. Doing a fantastic job, they prevented the fire from catching onto other buildings. At that time, the Apacheswere immediately vacated to the Senior Lodge, as some Lower Seniors were awakened, not by the smoke, but from the commotion caused by the Lower Senior spectators. Some even slept through the whole thing. They woke up only to find no junior lodge, art shop, wood shop, or nature shack.

Joe and Frances decided that rather than to rebuild the junior lodge in its old place, they would build it at the old infirmary site. The infirmary would then be split up and changed into the wood shop and nature shack. A new infirmary was then built near the Apache bunks.

The records of any camper before ... the old lodge burned were destroyed, along with checks and cash on hand.

We're sure that none of the camper~ here in '69 will ever forget that Fourth ~f July experience.

(Continued in the next issue)

Matt Roberts & Lloyd Bennett,Nav-2~

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.Abramson Swims Full English Channel

Billy Abramson, an Algonquin in Bunk 40 recently completed the full English Channel Swim. He is the first camper to do this this summer.

The "English Channel" is a phrase coined for years by the waterfront as a special achievement for those swimmers able to accomplish it. The "Channel"

swim requires the camper to swim a total of 1,440 laps (left docker area)., the equivalent of .20 miles. Patches are also awarded for five miles, ten miles, and twenty miles. To date, Andy Behrman and Ethan Baliff have swum the English Channel in past season. Our congratulations to Billy, our hero!

BILLY ABRAMSON

Totem learned at presstime that one more camper has just passed his Expert in waterskiing: Kevin Krich.

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Congrats, Kev.~n.

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Fred Fogel is one whose hard work and determination has paid off .•

He has recently achieved in Riflery the class of "Expert". Much work is needed to accomplish this. One must perfect all the positions in riflery by working first with the prone position. Then, one shoots in a kneeling position. Gradually, the riflman loses his roots t.o the ground. It becomes more difficult to

hold the rifle steady. Finally, the hardest position of all-standing. It is from this position

that Fred finally earned his Expert.

As if earning "Expert" status wasn't enough, Fred managed to earn yet another Expert award in another activity--in the same day! This has taken considerable practice and skill to earn.

Waterskiing skills involve starting in shallow water, doing tricks, and several other skills, which takes weeks of practice.

Fred has much to be proud of because he did not give up: he stuck to it! Congratulations, Freddy!

David Burke-Algonquin-40

The scene was set by heavy offpitch batting. Both coaches were' confident but slightly nervous that six weeks training was going to go in ruins.

The match was .started at a brisk pace with the Mohicans pushing

hard. Both teams sparred for a

bit, feeling out the breaks. Then

two chances fell to Crystal and Gutfleish, but these were quickly snuffed out by the Navajo defense. ~he.game continued in this see-sawing motl0n. The crowds were at a fever pitch, and the coaches were getting hoarser. The Navajos had their

few good shots saved very well by Rashbaum. The whistle blew for ~alf-time both teams knowing they

.-,had a game on their hands.

With the advent of the second half waves of Navajos trying to pr7ss home their obvious superior1ty but hard-tackling and a slight degree of luck, the goals were kept cut. With five minutes to play, Zalaznick struck with his celebrated left foot, not even Rashbaum could save the rocketing shot.

And so the game ended with that score in the fine spirit that it had begun.

Jeff Miller, Mohican-4(assisted by coach Adam Cattell)

BUNK 6 CArv'IPSOUT

Last night we went on a campout.

It was fun. We had marshmallows. Gil, our counselor, told us a very, very scary story.

It was about a boy who went to Mah-Kee-Nac and some strange things that happened to him. Ilm glad it was not a true story~ I can hardly wait for the next campout, if there is one.

Gary Russell, Mohican-6

Aug. 10

Greylock Swim ~eet, (Sr. and Jr.) (A)

Alg/Sen "Alt and IIBI! Basketball with Greylock (A) Alg/Sen Baseball & Soccer Jr. Peter Pan Show Jrs.-Tanglewood Rehearsal Navajo-Cheyenne Tennis at Lenox

Scott Joplin concert at Tanglewood

All Camp Sing

DELAWARE Canoe trip Algonquin trip to Boston WCM Albany trip

Archery tournament wi Taconic

Delaware & Boston trips

return

Bye Bye Birdie for Jrs. !3ye Bye B1rdle for Srs. Junior Banquet

Lower Sr. Banquet Upper Srs. to Taconic see Guys & Dolls Upper Senior Banquet Last Issue of Totem and supplement sent home Farewell! !

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Golf lis Popu

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with the arriva.l of two new golf counselors from England, Chris Baker and John Utley, more carnpeI;'s than ever before have taken a serious interest in golf.

Campers are getting instruction in the net to help their swing. Many trips have gone out. to golf courses, wherer:campers put to

use what they I ve Lea.rned ,

On my first trip I had a wanking good time, despite shooting my first muff on the third green.

Howard Kelman, A1gonquin-40 (With English grarmnar and usage provided by Chris Baker)

eounselor Chris Baker teaches Mike Treitler to keep his left arm straight during the back swing.

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KAVAKS HAVE CDME

This year, the waterfront has a.new addition to the canoe program. Chris Tams was instrumental in livening up the canoe program with the addition of two new kayaks.

The two kayaks arrived a week and a half ago. There are a

lot more fun than canoes, since they are ,easier to maneuver and paddle. They are also faster than canoes.

Since the acquisition of the kayaks, the only problem has been that two kayaks are not enough for all the campers interested in kayaking.

Howard Kelman, Algonquin-40

TWO NEWKA;lAKS IN FOREGROUND Photo: Mike Zucker, Seneca-46

Totem incorrectly st.ated that weinstock was on the freestyle relay team in the swim meet with Winadu. The name should have been Weinstein. Our regrets.

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This year, on the upper senior campus, we have the first hockey court. Street hockey is now one of the most popular activities during a recreation night or dur-

ing a C day. .

Although street hockey is not an actual activity, I think if it' was on the option sheet, it would be a much participated in and a much enjoyed activity.

So far, there has been no intercamp hockey games, but I think if there were, it would arouse much interest in the upper senior ,camp.

Billy Abramson, Algonquin-40

Editor's note: A photograph

of the new hockey court appears in the supplement at the end

of this Totem.

TACONIC BALLADEERS

RETURN

On Tuesday night, Lower and Upper Seniors and Juniors all viewed the Taconic .Balladeer concert in the Junior Lodge.

Somehow, everyone expected a boring night, but they were wrong! They were fantastic!

The leader and conductor of the group was Danny Silverman. He led them in many excellent songs of all types. Some of them were: "Gravel War II, the theme song of "Hair", !'I Don't Know How to Love You", "Sundown" and as an encore, they sang, "Save the Country". It was an excellent concert program.

Peter Weiss, Navajo-24

Note: Photographs not used this year in the Tote~ or duplicate photographs will be available to campers and counselors who request them. However, they

are not to be requested until August 18. himit is two pe~ person.

ON BEHALF OF ALL OF MAH-KEE-NAC, TOTEM WISHES .A GRAND 1974 BIRTHDAY TO ALL OF THE FOLLOWING GENTLEMEN:

The Birthdays

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The Campers Robert Schaeffer .Adam White

Josh Bloom David Weinstein Robert Kapel Barry Sharf Freddy Hazan Larry Marsh Jess Lonner Richard Kenyon Joey Schwartz Ian Wexler

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CRAZY FACES FOR A CRAZY DAY

TOd.ay was Crazy Tuesday. We qot up when Lorenzo woke u~ up. He told us to wear everything backwards.

I wore my shirt and my parrt.s backwards and my hair. Then assembly blew and we walked backwards. Then we assembled as Lorenzo instructed us.

We did very good. Then the flag went up. The staff in the me.ss hall thought it was c.razy. After breakfast it ended.

David Kamlet, Mohican-5

TROY ROSENBLATT:

First Place Winner for Sad Face

Place Winner for Ugly Face

On July 6, for reveille,Lor'enzo played crazy music. The reason was-that it was Crazy Day.Everybody walked and wore clothes backwards. We did everyt.hing backwards until after breakfast.

Steven Falkenberg,Iroquois-6

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'RESULTS OF JR. FACE-MAKING DAY Happy Face Winners:

#1 Joey Kluger

#2 Troy Rosenblatt #3 Mike Freiberg

Sad Face Winners: #1 Troy Rosenblatt #2 Pet.er Kaufman

Ugly Face Winners: #1 Jesse Lonner 12 Craig Mytelka #3 Joey Kluger

Originality:

#1 Andy Piera #2 Warren King #3 Jeff Cohen

WHERE IN .MAH-KEE-NAC IS This From?

Photo: Fred Fogel-Alg-42

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BRAIN TWISTER: Marc Selverstone ~-------------------.llives in the same town as a

well-known actor in a recent film that has won several Oscars. Name the town, the actor, and the big film. (Note: do not ask Marc)

ANDY PIERA:

First Place Winner for Originality

WHAT IS THIS A DRAWING OF?

raint: It. T S a food we eat at camp each we.ek)

.ANSWERS TO LAST WEEK I S PUE ZLERS :

1) Windhurst is now the Cranwell School, two miles away_

2) The drawing represents a bear climbing a tree.

3) The mystery shot was taken of the le.ft cor.ner of the stage in the junior lodge.

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DISCOVERS 7EA

One day I asked Lew to get a pot, because he said he would be able to make birch tea. A few days later, he got the pot, and I got the branches.

We didn't have a stove. I told Lew that the art shop had one. We got it!

I was the birch tea. tasted some Adam

first one to taste Lots of other people afterwards.

White, Apache - 12

Yesterday, I was walking on a path, and I saw something jump_ At first, I thought it was a rabbi t; , I ran ahead and saw a hole and an animal's head was sticking out. I had no idea what it was.

Today Lew and I have made a trap for it. Maybe I can say something about it in the next Totem if we catch anything.

Kevin Freund, Iroquois-lO

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The art exhibit in Junior camp

is about Jewish history this week. Hughie Miller, Warren King, and many others helped with it. Lorenzo was very happy with it.

Hughie Miller, Mohican - 3

THERFf{X;

Last Monday, Gene Steinfeld a frog. He brought it to the nature shack Tuesday morning. He kept it in Bunk #7 overnight.

He was playing with it a lot on Monday night and Tuesday morning. If you want to see it, it is in the Nature Shack.

Larry Swiger,Iroquois-7

One day, I saw a bird's nest.

I shook the tree and two baby birds fell. They fell out of their nests. We picked them up and gave them food. Now, they're happy.

Later, we went on a "hike for salamanders. We ca.u.ght lots of them. When we were going back,

we saw a skeleton and picked it up and took it to the nature shac.k. We then put the salamanders back.

We gave the worms to the fish.

We gave them frogs as well.

. Mitch Dickman, Apache-13

On August 5, Richard Moskowitz saw Lou Brawer get the mail. When I saw him come out, I saw him carry a package. I said to myself, III wonder who it's for."

I hoped the package was for me.

When I a.sked Lou who it was for, he told me to get back to the bunk.

I went back to the bunk. At mail call, he gave me the package. I opened it, and I was surprised to find four Mad books. I had ordered them before camp. I was happy.

Richard Moskowitz, Mohican-l

·Fr iday, the Junior camp had a bunk decoration contest. All the Juniors had to decorate the bunk. In the Apaches, Bunk 14 won. Bunk 6 won in the Iroquois. The Mohican winner was Bunk #5. Bunk #10 won .for originality.

The overall winner was Bunk #6.

It was lots of fun pickin.g flowers and hanging them.

Jon Flaks, Mohican - 5

BUNK #6

BEST DECORATIONS IN MOHICANS MOST ATTRACTIVE JR. CAMP BUNK

Ilo~ers

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'On August 3, the second dayo·f 0lympics, all the bunks in ~unior Camp had a flower contest, 1n which we hung flowers for our

porches.. ..

Bunk 6 had flowers 1n W1ne bottIes. Bunk 5 had flowers all over the place. Bunk 14 had flowers

in vases.

Scott Kursman, Iroquois-9

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HORIZONS:

I NDIAN LOR E

On Friday, August 2, the Lower Seniors had a campfire. Some people came to show us Indian dances and costumes. It was very interesting. I thought tha.t when one of the dancers did a dance with the boods, this

was definitely the best part!

The guests told us about

their customs and costumes. At the end we had a question and answer period. One thing I learned was how Indian costumes were made and what they were made of. This was a good Expanding Horizons session.

Josh Bloom, Nav.-24

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Olympics are fun for everyone.

If you can run and you can pick names for your team, you will have fun. My team's name is "Jet Set".

I am in the sack race and the tribal relay race. So, that's why Olympics are so much fun.

Gary Russell, Mohican-6

TI-iE

SAD ENDU~G-

Yesterday, Olympics ended. There were sack races, relays, and other things. We came in second place. We had fast runners. We had Mike Zucker; he's fast! We had some slow and some fast runners.

Jess Lonner, Iroquois-8

ItllPEAG HME1'l.T fAllS

On Friday and Saturday, we had Olympics. I was on the "Impeachable Dream". We came in fifth place. r was in seven events. For the second time, there were two torch bearers. Right now, there are five torch bearers in camp ..

I wish Olympics were longer.

Last year, I was on IITake-a-Lap", which came in fourth place. I hope my team wins next year.

Jeff Cohen, Mohican-3

BENSO"~S TEAf'J\ WINS

A few days ago, we had a doubles tournament. In the beginning, there were sixteen pairs. After one long day, we determined the finalists.

The runners up were Joey Kluger and Jimmy Hoffman, who were beaten by Craig Benson and Steve RO'senblatt. The losing semi-finalists were John Rapaport and Jeff Silverman, afte~ a tie breaker. Gordon Sharpe worked hard.

Mike Zeuner, Mohican-S

On August 2, where were you?

Everybody was at Olympics! Friday was water Olympics and Saturday was land Olympics. In water, we had a Marathon, a Jr. relay, a rowboat race and other things. Land Olympics were fun.

Steve Bergman, Moh-2

BRAuN Aav\\RtD ~N ~ET SET

Peter Braun won the Apache 25-yd dash in the Olympics. He was on "The Jet Set". His coach, Frank Wilson, was very proud of him.

His counselors, Jim Gluckson and Matt Odette were also thrilled by Peter's success. Although his team did not win, he had a very good time.

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OARS L E /-\Om ~cESS

Ir t; ·t~ o: vmp i c-: 0;'1 thA rO'J'2 pull, we Le~t tl~ other team. We beat them in three seconds flat.

In the rowboating contest, we came in 1st because Michael Freiberg's oars fell in the water, and my oars hit them.

Todd Fast, Mohican-2

A few days ago, the Juniors had a doubles tournament. We were allowed to pick our partners.

In the finals, Joey Kluger and Jimmy Hoffman played against Craig Benson and steve Rosenblatt.

Craig Benson's team won.

Joey Kluger, Mohican-l

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CRAZY ART MARKS WINS DMflDJR~

.This morning in art, Bunk 14 made crazy pictures. With a person's head, wings, alligator mo~th, frog legs, and all crazy thlngs, we were able to make these pictures.

These pictures will be in the next art exhibit. This art ex-

hibit should be a real crazy one!

Jeff Kaplan, Apache-14

JEWISH f\RT- SUCCESSFUL

The art show on the Junior Lodge was a good one. It was about Jewish history; it was very successful. Please make a picture, please.

Craig Mytelka,Iroquois-8

BUG BECOMES BAT

A few days ago, a bat flew in to Bunk 1. At night, I saw a big black thing on the window. Then I said that there was big black bug.

Then I found out it was a bat.

Everyone who was up was scared, except for Joey Kluger and Evan Levy because they were sleeping. Al Rudolph and Rory Fitzgerald came in and got it out of our bunk.

Bruce Irom, Mohican-l

BUNk 1. LEARNS A LESSON

Bunk 1 had a big water fight during Sunday's rain. Both counselors got very wet. Our bunk looked like a big pool. Then we cleaned it all up.

Jeff Marks, Mohican-l

SOON

At WCM all Juniors who are engineers and record librarians are going on a trip. They're

going to go to three radio stations. Then, they're going to eat at McDonald's. Weill go on Thursday.

I think it will be fun. I can't wait!

Roger Gorham,Iroquois-lO

Bunk 1 had a dart tournament. On Tuesday it was fun.. First place went to Jeff Marks. Second place went to Joey Klugeri third went to Evan Levy. It was very exciting.

Jonathan Usdin,Mohican-l

FOJLED AGAIN!

One day Craig Benson and I ~aw some tracks. We thought they were monkey tracks, but Lou the nature counselor told us that it was really a skunk track. We are going to make a plaster cast out of it.

Scott Klein and Craig Benson, Mohicans-4

A MOLE. OR. AfIOUSE.f

A week ago,. James Bloom and Scott Klein set a trap behind WCM. We were after a big destructive mole, but we caught a meadow mouse. We let it go, but it came back and kept-a-comin' .

We caught two more mice, but one died; so we let them go.

James Bloom, Mohican-3

THE

'5' LLI EST STUFF

The drama teacher is putting o~ a nutty play of Peter Pan. Welre having some rehearsals to do. Most of us like practice. We do things silly. Sometimes we have to be serious. I love this play, the way it sounds now. The drama teacher's name is Jon.

Adam White, Apacl;1.e-12

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I l£ke the Totem because it tells the camp what has happened. Also, it is fun writing the articles. It also gives Bernie some more work to do.

Kevin Freund, Iroquois-IO

Editor's note: No comment.

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Nos. 7 & 8

August 20, 1974

"BYE-BYE BIRDIE:' A smASH

On the 14th and 15th of August,.

Bye, Bye Birdie was presented for the Mah-Kee-Nac and Belvoir Terrace camps. Everybody clearly enjoyed the show from the Apaches to the Senecas.

The play was about Conrad Birdie who was going to be drafted. His agent. wanted to get him to give "one last kiss" to one girl picked at random from the "Conrad Birdie Fran Club", headed by Richie Pelzman.

Surely enough, the girl picked

Photo._ Richard Mvskowl n:-Mohlca n ••• '

Kim Macafee, who was going steady with Hugo Peabody (Rich semscn) , She forgot about Hugo and went on the Ed sullivan (Andy Cole) Show to kiss Conrad. When Hugo found out about this, he went up and punched Conrad.

Later, Conrad and Kim run off together. The agent Albert gets married to Rosie his secretary.

The play was an excellently chosen one because everyong enjoyed doing it and they all performed well. Full program next page.

Rich Samson, Cherokee-37

THE NEWSPAPER INTERVIEW WITH CONRAD BIRDIE Left to right: Stuart Marton, Jay Richman, Rich Pelzman. Dan Rosenthal (back), Warren

Odette, .Jeremy Harrison, Steve Kauff, and Lloyd Bennett--Mah-Kee-Nac players

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WARREN ODETTE-- "PUTTING ON A HAPPY FACE'"

WARRE;N ODETTE (Albert) & ROSIE IN "EVERYTHING IS ROSY"

MOTHER NAGS ALBERT (Warren Odette) AND ROSIE TO KEEP THEM FROM GETTING MARRIED

All Photos from Bye~ye Birdie: Richie Moskowitz, Mohican-l

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EDDIE ZALAZNICK (Son) AND MIKE ZUCKER (Fa,ther)--"KIDS"

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"HONESTLY SINCEREIl (Rich Pelzman-Center)

RICH SAMSON (Hugo) LOOKS ON ANGRILY AS KIM IS SEEN WITH CONRAD

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SENIOR

CAST MAH-KEE-NAC

Warren Odette - Alb7rt ~eterson Rich Pelzman - Conrad Birdie Rich Samson - Hugo Peabody

Mike Zucker - Mr. Macaffee

Eddie Zalaznick - Randolph Macaffee Andy Cole - Ed Sulli~an, Mr. Johnson" Steve Holtzman - Reporter, Mr. Merkle Mike Wechsler - Harvey Johnson

Fred Bomze - Mayor

Slickers! Micky Ha.rr is Dan Rosentha Jamie Nager Ken Fisher Jeff Lewis Danny Kertzner Lloyd Zuckerb 'g

Greasers:

Mike Holla Stu Marto Peter Wei s

Peter Bass Josh Bloom Adam Jacobs

Wheelers:

Mlke Mintz Matt Levine Ted Forbath

Animals:

Lance Rosenblatt Jon Gross

Lloyd Bennett Steve Kauff Jeremy Harrison

CAST

BELVOIR TERRACE

Annette Salinas - Rosie Cathy Garber - Kim

Jessica Pearlstein - Mrs. Peterson (Mae) Nina Cannon - Ursula

.Mindy Surell~& Karen Newman - two

sad girls Dorian Lerner - Gloria

Laurel Abrams - Mrs. Macaffee Faith Sudder - Reporter

eerleaders:

Robin Messing Bonnie Messing Debbie Freedberg Jolie Goodman Diana Eliasoph

Telephone Girls:

Jane Dorian Sandy Metzger Laura Kaplan Laura Goldbaum

orian Lerner eratt Fisher isa Ge1fman y Newman ichelle Litenfe!d Margie Bloom

. Donna Figenblatt iz Sherman

M rgie Lienhardt lene Pasorneck Laurie steinert Anne Herman Julie Kaye

'II Sunshine ___ ~..:.bara Posner

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SENIOR DELA\NARE

CANDEISTS PADC:LE RIVER

On August 12, we set out from

camp for our canoe trip. Included were counselors Chris Tams, Brian Atkins, besides campers: Mike Treitler, Billy Rapaport, Tan Wexler,

and Steven Eisenberg.

We arrived at Narrowsburg three hours after we started. We left our carat Narrowsburg and were driven 40 mil~s up river with the canoes and were deposited at Hancock to start off our journey.

We paddled for about seven or eight miles the 1st day on still water before we set up in Pennsylvania. This is because the Delaware is a natural border of New York and P'ennsyl vania • For dinner that night, we were all surprised--we had steak!

The next morning we started out early. That day we paddled about

24 miles and encounte.red a lot more rough water than the day before~ Also, that day we met two other guys who were doing the same route we were. From then on, they

KEEP IN TOUCH

There is always a tremendous amount of friendship letter-writing between campers, between campers and counselors, and between counselors.

Keep up the letter-writing, and use the addresses that are on the last f,ew pages. Send Joe and Bob news of your activities.

stayed with us until close to the end of the trip. That night, we also slept in Pennsylvania.

The next day we knew we could take it easy because we had only six or seven miles left. After

3 1/2 miles, we encountered Skinners Falls. The hardest and most enjoyable rough water on the river was this one. In fact, it was the only water we had seen so far that we could truly call a rapid. We enjoyed it 50 much. Brian, Chris, Ian, and I carried our two canoes back overland to do the rapid again. It was worth it!

Now there was only two or three miles to Narrowsburg, and it was early. So~ we went 'swimming in a deeper part of the river for a while. Then we trucked it into Narrowsburg, returned our equipment and drove home.

A good time and a memorable ex-· perience remains with all of us. We are very grateful to Chris and Brian for taking us.

Steve Eisenberg, Seneca-46

THE DELAWARE RIVER

PHOTO

Steve Eisenberg, Seneca-46

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I think this is the 1st year the Lower Seniors made a clean sweep of the Si.ng.

The Sing, which was on the 11th of August, is the 3rd of three major events at" Mah-Kee-Nac in which all three camps are together, the other two being the Carnival and the Olympics--in that order.

One of the funnier points of the evening was when after the Algonquin song I Charlie'.s chair was stolen, and later returned. The Navajos were this year's overall winners.

As a fill-in, while the judges were tallying up the score, the Lower Seniors and the junior counselors gave their songs.

Lewis .L.evy, Algonquin-43

NURSES Sylvia & Sharon judge the SING with Charlie Nunez

~he boys of Camp Mah-Kee-Nac held their annual camp sing, in which all three camps gathered on the junior field in front of WCM. There was an air of spirit and excitement. The field was aglow 'as Bob Behrman served as emcee.

Each tribe started out with a cheer; then a song (related to c.amp )wa"s sung. The song & cheer were judged by Charlie Nunez, our waterfront director, and two of our nurses, Sharon and Sylvia.

The judging went like this: in the cheer category, the Navajos were 1st, and the Cheyennes

were runners-up. In the song category, it was again the Navajos who took 1st place. The Cheyennes were again runners-up.

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IISING" WINNERS" THE NAVAJOS CHANT THEIR CHEER

APACHES "STREAK"

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MANY STRONG R·ARCHERS

JR. YOEMAN (15/60)

BOWMAN SHARPSHOOTER (20/160)

Mitch Dickman Eddie Gray Gary Russell

Jeff Miller Jeff Pincus Mike Sha1ita John Berman

Dan Gomer Kevin Freund Lloyd Khaner Fred Marton

JR. YOEMAN PIN (15/80)

Troy Rosenblatt

YOEMAN (15/100)

Gordon Schnell Peter Baum Jess Lonner

ARCHER SHARPSHOOTER (30/130)

JR. BOWMAN (20/60)

Harry Gutfleish Richard Margolin

Andy Piera Adam White

~ SILVERBOW ARCHER (40/100)

JR. BOWMAN PIN (20/80)

Roger Gorham Roger Silverstein

Adam White Mark Crystal

SILVERBOW ARCHER SHARPSHOOTER (40/100)

BOWMAN (20/100)

Adam Schwartz Glen Bindelglass Scott Kursman

Eric Rosenthal Mark Shidlofsky Gene Steinfeld Jeff Kaplan Seth Anti1es Mike Freiberg Steve Gold Larry Levine

AMERICAN ARCHER (30 yds., 100 pts.)

JUNIOR OLYMPIC ARCHERY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM (JOAD)

Neal Aronson Doug Lehman

AMERICAN ARCHER FIRST CLASS (50/130)

BOWMAN 1st RANK (20/130)

Mark Greenberg

Craig Mytelka Eric Olin

Bruce Roberts Steve Falkenberg Jeff Silverman Adam Targan

Mike Lonoff Mike Crystal Warren King Adam Meyers Ricky White

Mark Greenberg Neal Aronson Doug Lehman

MANY OUTSTAN D NG SR ARCHERS

Archery has proved to be very popular. This, along wi t~ l.aw teaching methods has meant that almost everyone who participated gained at least one, if not several awards. Here are all the highest awards given by each camper:

JR. BOWMAN PIN (60 pt.s @ 20 yds)

Lloyd Bennett

BOWMAN PIN (100 pts @ 200 yds)

Mark Wollin

Phil Presby Michael Sassower

BOWMAN MEDAL (First rank-130 pts @ 20 yds)

Ricky Weinstock Robert Kaufmann Peter Weiss

BOWMAN PIN SHARPSHOOTER (160 pts @ 20 yds)

Judd Harmon Cliff Finn

Adam Winick David Panzer Matthew Roberts Peter Jacoby Michael Freeman

ARCHER PIN (100 pts @ 30 yds)

Danny Rosenthal David Herzfeld Kenny Fisher

ARCHER PIN SHARPSHOOTER (160 pts @ 30 yds)

Joel Schwartz

SILVERBOW PIN (100 pts @ 40 yds)

Drew Kohn Steve Tollin David Schwartz

SILVERBOW PIN, FIRST RANK (140 pts @ 40 yd s )

Jay Borok

AME.RICAN ARCHER (100 pts @ 50yds)

Jeremy Harrison

AMERICAN ARCHER SHARPSHOOTER

Howard Dicker Gregg Neumann

Randy Kohn

A special mention should go to Randy Kohn, who before this summer had not got off 20 yds. As shown here, he passed American Archer Sharpshooter. At the Mah-Kee-Nac Archery Invitational Shoot (separate story in this issue) he shot a "perfect end" at 20 yards, scoring 60/60 points. He finished the

day with the highest score of the day.

The above awards are awa.rded by the Camp Archery Association of the. u.S. However, the camp also participated in a JOAD--the Junior Olympic Archery Development Program. JOAn awards went to:

JR. BOWMAN (laO pts @ 20 yds)

Jay Borok

Steve Tollin

JR. ARCHER (180 pts @ 30 yds)

Jay Borak Drew Kohn

BOWMAN (180 pts @ 40. yds)

Scott Corwin

Shabu Dedhar, Sr. Archery Counselor would like to congratulate everyone on a good summer's shooting, finishing with two outstanding wins in intercamp competition. I also would like to thank everyone for cooperating in a safe running of the range.

Shabu Dedhar, Archery Counselor for Sen.iors

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He SENECAS TOUR MONTREAL

Nine members a t Seneca tribe spent four days driving and tour-

ing Montreal and Quebec. The drive up consisted of the usual Kruger delicacies. We enjoyed the lunch during the six-hour ~rip up.

French, now being the natural language of Canada added to our difficulties in finding our first night hotel. After checking into our rooms, we went touring with a "motormouth" guide for two hours. Highlighting our day was the evening meal at Gibby's.

The next day, we headed for Quebec.

The trip to Quebec was a planned 45-minute ride, although it took 3 hours. Afterwards, we had an authentic long-awaited French breakfast.

Excellent guides were provided for us in Quebec. On the first night, we toured the beautiful Old Quebec City. We were shown battle grounds overlooking the St. Lawrence River. Horse-drawn carriages left their tracks throughout the city. At one o'clock a.m., we finished our delicious meal at

the swiss Chalet.

The next day we picked up our authentic French guide and headed for the Island of St. Anne, north of Quebec. The island was inhabited by homes, some of which

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primitive lighting and plumbing. There are 5 villages on the island, each centered around a lavish Catholic Church. Next, we visited a waterfall higher than Niagara, where we were sprayed. Outside the island we bought freshly baked hot sweet bread.

Another 3 1/2 hour trip back to Montreal and our new lodging was the beginning of the rest of our trip. That evening, we watched the Nixon resignation speech, which led.us to cancel most of our Montreal plans for that evening.

Two hours were spent visiting Expo. We found this inadequate, since a day along should have been reserved for Expo.

We then headed back for camp and McDonald's. This expensive trip was successful. Problems occurred where money was sometimes difficult to exchange. We spent a good deal

of our time traveling. Unfortunately, time ran out on us; we were unable to see the subways, the aquarium, a ball game, or the underground shopping district.

Those who went on the trip were Fred Bomze, Mike Levy, Jeff Kolton, Robert Weinstock, Steve Eisenberg, Robert Klingon, and Danny Uffner, besides counselors Wes Duer and Jim Zeiler.

Jeff Kolton & Robert Weinstock, Senecas-44&45

EXPANDING CDOPERSTO\NN

On August 7 and 8, the Cheyennes went to Cooperstown, N.Y. The trip was originally planned for August

4 and 5, but it was postponed because of thunderstorms taking place in Cooperstown. When we were about 14 miles from Cooperstown, one of the buses broke down and another bus

was sent for.

After four hours, we finally arrived in Cooperstown .. Our first stop was the Fenimore House and

the Farmer I s Museum:. At the Fenimore House we viewed paihtings and sculptures of famous people. At the Farmerls Museum, we saw old time stores, such as a drug store, a doctorls office, and a printing office. Our final stop for the

day was the National Baseball Hall of Fame. At the Hall of Fame, we saw pict.ures of All-time grea.t plays, the uniforms and lockers of such great players as Babe Ruth

nd Lou Geri .

The next day, we went to Howe's Caverns. At the caverns we learned the history of the cave, and we viewed natural formations that took millions of years to form. After the caverns, we started on our way home. At about 3:00 p.m., we were back at good all Mah-Kee-Nac.

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HORIZONS:

The floor of the Hall of Fame is entirely devoted to Babe Ruthls career in baseball. In the. "Hall

i of Fame Room n, we saw the famous plaque of the men who were inducted into the Hall of Fame by the Baseball Writers Association.

PHOTOS & STORY: Da.vid Panzer Cheyenne-3D

After the Hall of Fame, we went out for dinner. Half of us ate

at ~axine's and the other half ate at Sleepy Hollow. We spent the night at the KOA campgrounds. When we unloaded the bus , we found out that a lot of the sleeping bags were wet because of the air con~ ditioning. At the campgrounds there were pin ball machines and

a. store.

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It was Thursday, the 15th. Six

campers left for Williamstown Art Museum and Williamstown College.

First we went to the museum, where we saw works of art ranging from as old as 4 A.D. to 1952. There was no abstract art. We visited the college, where there were giant icebags and other unusual things of art. The trip wa~ definitely a success.

Campers with John Stratton and Rich Borgia were Ted Forbath, Tim Zack, Mark Diamond, John Grossman, and David Rogoff.

Ted Forbath, Navajo-25

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