Camp Rondack - Rondacts Yearbook (Pottersville, NY)

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July 9-What a day! Heat at both ends and rain in the middle. We square-dance-round in the evening. July 10-Words with music--story with words-music with dance-equals an edifying evening with Peer Gynt. July ll-Stars fell on Pottersville at our nrst ratings. The thermometer still up and com- ing. Track postponed as we are down and out at the beach all day. Victor -nicknamed the Vicious Viper-loses the spoils in an hilarious comedy. July 12-Dacks triumph by two points in Weekly track Olympiad. Informal swimming meet in afternoon. Seniors go visiting at Cayuga, July l31Tribes meet in musical competition. We all want the blues, but only Arlene Levy, Arline Preidlander, and lrma Newman receive the service plume. July 14-Our pathlinders take to the trails in the traditional trek. They return for their councillors scalps in a tied volleyball game. July 15- Look pretty. please, for the annual shooting, and smile, darn ye. smile, at that photographer! Seniors keep smiling for Senior Dance. July 16-All Rondack's film records broken as The Old Homestead comes to town on a Thursday evening. City slickers, hill-billies, and country gals have it out, and love, for a change, triumphs over all. July 17-We quote Shakespeare a la Mendelssohn, Schubert, and Tschaikowsky. A Romeo by any other name turns out to be Lil Bader and Beulah Davidson. July 18--Apple Laurie snaps up prize in first Kodak contest. Rain checks again for Senior baseball game. A bunk night of mirth and magic. fl-Iow did Corinne get up in the air?J July 19- Look where the Ron team banners fly in their new glory. Rondack stands by for the Hag raising. Track meet just a tie that binds -32-32. Senior baseball game is better late than never, and better for Dacks by three runs-C7-45. Back to the kitchen in the evening with the Juniors and The Ugly Mug. Our shy little freshies create a sensation. July 20-Tribes tell tales in pantomime and blue plumes go to Betty Geller and Muriel I-Ielfman. July 21-Our Grasshopper-hikers and Saratoga-stormers report their adventures in song. Bunk A inaugurates Surprise Night with Unconscious Ether, a broadcast to end broadcasts. July 22-We punctuate our day as campers meet councillors at activities-period and Boy Meets Girl at Senior Night-dash. July Z3-We swing around the day's schedule on land and sea. Tarzan does better as he swings on every available clothesline fsuggesting new uses for the ropes on our llagpolesj. July 24-Thunder-lightning-rain and an evening of fairy-tale music. July Z5-Dacks make a point of taking track-32-31. Ron Inters retort with punchball game. July 26-Our Senior socialites are positively Submerged at Cayuga's twenty-third birth- day spree. We stay-at-homes gather round the fire in close harmony. July 27-Braves meet again in game competition. Bunk A lingers for marshmallow- eating contest. July 28-The gallant gondoliers remain at home in their gondolas, while the rest of Rondack goes a-busing, a-boating, and a-hiking. In the evening at Surprise Night Bunk B advises Bunk A to Never Trust a Man. July 29-We traipse merrily through our mid-week schedule. Seniors do same through Senior Night. July 30-Strange sounds issue from Social Hall during operetta rehearsal. We go for a joy- ride with Sinbad The Sailor on the Streamlined Express. July 31-lt's nip and tuck and pin as we View and preview The Gondoliers at dress rehearsal. Aug. l-Venetia's Gondoliers arrive on the lagoons of Rondack amid tidal waves of applause-and set new mark for operetta triumphs. According to little Saundra, lt was the nicest movie we ever had. Aug. 2- All Rons together lead by 14 points as they collect punchball, croquet and clock. golf. In the evening we keep our amateur standing at a variety show. Aug. 3-We are poles apart-each tribe around its own new totem. The service is line and Phyllis Merson gets a blue plume. Glory be to the Hrst new Gaggers-Lorinne Alpert, Gloria Schustek, and Ruth Klein. Aug. 4- We go eagerly to the dogs at Pine Grove picnic, where our punch cup runneth over. We greet Mrs. Woloshin's shoestring venture, and stagger bunkward for a well-earned rest. Surprise Night finds Bunk 7 in a skit by Apple Laurie, and Bunk 2 going round and round in a dizzy councillors' meeting- The Round Table. Aug. 5-Ron Juniors prove no newcomers at Newcombe, and Seniors act like old-timers at Senior Dance. '

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w 1' la ik WW n umm. gli M: - ,Jw rag, ' yy l 52- -1 mm 7 ,Julia DAY BY DAY LOG Q June 30--The skies of Manhattan weep as we depart, and the skies of Rondack smile as we arrive. July 1- Love thy neighbor and meet the new campers. lt's a feather P in our cap as Mr. Chankin tickles' our fancy with his colorful plume collection. ll July 2-Our ducks and drakes take to the water for boating and swim- ming tests. July 3-lnglorious rain on the third-rehearsal for the Glorious Fourth. July 4-Councillors take campers for a baseball ride, and Rondack takes a merry World Cruise with Miss America on a highly animated map. July 5-How! How! and how our redskins take to their tribal tepees! The new campfire plaque shows its metal. July 6-Our annual side-splitting performance into Rons and Dacks. Roar, Ron Girls, Roar for Captain Harriette Slote and Bus Man Beulah Davidson. The Dack leaders, born and bred, are Captain Lillian Bader and Bus Man Jean Field. The tom-tom calls the braves to their first council fire. July 7-Four whistles summon our Chosen Few to their first mysterious conclave. Rusty's whistle summons us to Harmony Lane, where with Stephen Foster we're off to Alabamy with a banjo on our knee. J July 8- You're getting warmer every minute as jungle temperatures set in. We commit ourselves to various committees. Our Seniors are blushingly non-committal at lirst Senior Dance. 9 :BIKES ' - 4

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Aug. 6-The sun and Rondack come out to preview the pageant. The Three Bears have their troubles with a blonde, and the G-Men get ConEdential. Aug. 7-Dress rehearsal. 'Sh. wait till you see it! We are caught in the act by Mr. Chankin's camera. Dack sub-Seniors play abnormal basketball, 17-7. Aug. 8-- The world and his wife arrive for the pageant. Art vies with nature as Coppelia's Ballet unfolds brilliantly in the spotlight of the sun. Senior basketball thrills us into hoarseness and Rons into victory. ' Aug. 9-We begin to roll-up-the-score for test week. and cars keep rolling in all day. Our Seniors drop into Schroon Lake-Camp--while we young 'uns gamely make the rounds in a Salamagundi Party. Aug. 10-Rain and rubbers all day! We have a radish for lunch by courtesy of Bunk ll's garden. Frances Pearlman becomes a Rondack pearl-woman at Indian campnre. Aug. l 1-Rondack a deserted village on hike day. Only the Sketch Club remains behind to contemplate the scene. We hide our face-no, not in shame. It's just a masquerade and game. The McTootsies greet a female Bing Crosby at a lively costume party. Aug. 12-Out big braves have their heap big scalps taken by the photographer. Seniors go on warpath at Senior Night. Aug. 13-Test Week still leaves us test weak. The pincushion man gets stuck at Balloon Land, and H. B. Warner points many a moral in Born to Gamble. Aug. l-1--The sun retires for the day. She shall have music at home while our Seniors promenade at Cayuga. Aug. 15-We meet at track, and Rons triumph. Our Seniors meet the boys and A Girl to Order at Wakonda. Aug. 16-Rons cheer swim-meet triumph and we laugh ourselves red in the face at the councillors' Crimson Cocoanut. Aug. 17-- The North Vs7ind doth blow in real August weather. Blue feathers for the headbands of Jean Field and Joan Feldman. Gag glory for Apple and Joan. Aug. 18-All aboard for the last hike!-with 70 Taylor-maid fans off to Glens Falls. Mascot manoeuverings on pageant grounds forecast Varsity Week. Aug. I9-Stunning Ron football mascot goes over the goal line with Ron Senior basketball but Dack Bell rings in 2-point victory, with Inter volleyball and Frcshie croquet as well. Ron freshies clock a golf triumph. August 20-Rons inter cept baseball victory. Dack freshies win at Newcombe. In the evening, back to nature with The Keeper of the Bees and Mary's Little Lamb. Aug. 21-Ron Seniors close in with 14-13 basketball score. Dacks retort 11-8 in Inter basketball. In the evening we cannot sing the old songs, but we try. Aug. 22-It teems-so teams meet- Stringing Them Along. Wouldn't be Proper say the puppeteers in the evening. Aug. 23- Riding Around in the Rain for a change, we rehearse for the team sing. Rons clear the track for a victory, and we go sailing, sailing, on Schroon in the evening. Aug. 24-Dacks out-meet Rons at the beach. and Rons out-boat Dacks on the lake. Virtue is rewarded at last campfire of the year. as Blue Plumes go to Connie, Ruth. Norma. Doris and Edna. Gag for Clarice Zinaman, Ruth Oestreicher, Norma Thalheim and Marion Eisen. Aug. 25-A triple-decker birthday with congratulations to Edith. Fuzzy and Nat. We are all fed up at Pine Grove picnic on chicken, corn and ice cream. Dack Seniors sock it out to China for a 6-1 baseball victory. Dack's second sub-Seniors iirst in basketball. Aug. 26--Tennis eliminations under way. Lil Bader wins the golf crown for the year. In the evening. the Dacks win a note able sing victory. Aug. 27-Lil and Bobby serve the Dacks with a tennis triumph and therefore de- serve the season's victory. I-Iail Dacks, champions of 1936! The halves make a whole again as camp is reunited. Ladies Crave Excitement, and both they and Simple Simon get plenty of it at the movie. Aug. 28-Estelle singles out the tennis cup in a stirring match with Connie. The Ron- Dack merger goes through at team camphre, and Gag expands to include Bobby Selverne. Blossom Weinstock, Joy Ostriker, Toby Goldman. Joyce Bachrach, and Marion Thurman. We all adjourn to the nursery to admire the '4babies at the Team Party. Aug. 29-We run between the drops to get our laundry, but we d0n't hear the rain on the roof because we're busy reviving the pageant and operetta hits. Aug. 30-The sun plays peek-a-boo with the clouds, as we play tug of war with stubborn trunks and duftles. We have baked Alaska and roasted campers at our banquet, and acute hysterics at our councillors' show, reasonably entitled We've Got Plenty of Nuthin' and We're Giving it All to You. V- T, WV , A , ,, Aug. 31- How can we leave thee. Bon voyage SQ ? to our trunks and our bunks. The meek may inherit the earth, but the campers carry away allrthe other X XX awards. Till we meet again, dear Rondack -and IQ-'w t f were off! N C -git-tg Sept. l- My, doesn't everybody else look pale!