Remember When

As we enter the homestretch, just 11 days until the 340 Re-Union,I will deviate from "structure" and present a picture from the past. The year is 1970, I worked as a camp counselor at a location right before the late Martic Forge Hotel, run by the Lancaster Jewish Community Center, known as Camp Taemoh,which is "At Home" spelled backwards.


As most people know I always wear some type of cap, mostly to protect me from the elements or more correctly to hide the fact that I have lost most of my hair. This is proof that I was not always afflicted with male pattern baldness as the pic below depicts a full head of hair although signs of a receeding hairline can be seen.


The young camp attendee is Nathan Pease,fraternal twin of Jeremy, these two were my favorites during that summer. Notice the Peace Button on my shirt, I guess I wasn't always a Conservative Republican. My "charges" were an all male group of 5 and 6 year old kids. Keeping them occupied during the dog days of summer was quite a chore. Once I decided to have a scavenger hunt so I made list of things I wanted the kids to collect the night before work. When I presented the papers the next day I was informed,to my chagrin, by one of them. "We can't read yet", so I had to hastily draw the appropiate objects.
We had field trips to both the Philly Zoo and Hershey Park and after a series of lectures by my superiors on keeping the kids from being separated from the group, I borrowed my mother's clothes line and made a series of knots,spaced apart, and made each child grab hold of one with me in the lead and my Junior Counselor at the rear.
We didn't lose a kid unlike my fellow counselors who had older child groups.
This age of innocence picture precedes the West King Street days by only a few years.