Ken Mont Camp for Boys - Golden Days Yearbook (Kent, CT)

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eld WZ x Miociatim 'S, Spftiallf- 4 I Pwillgboysz . AVIDSON FORMES i I ARTISY SABLOSKYQ an lrcher il . 1. ' 1 :ll I fill 5 F. 4,0 ' W2 lf 5 ,, . 1, N i . i E . n i I r l RIFLERY The KEN-MONT Rifle Range was extremely busy this season with boys in all divisions from the ROBINS to the DODOS participating. It has been said that every American man has a secret longing to be a crack-shot with a rifle. With over 10,000 rounds fired on the range, the very popularity of KEN-MONT's .22 program would seem to verify this statement. Hey, Rick, is the Rifle,Range going to be open tonight during free play? Lew, can I fire at baseball cards? Rick, what am I doing wrong? Only two of my bullets hit the target. Lew, can I fire the shot- gun? These are just four of the hundreds of ques- tions each day put to the 1969 Ken-Mont Rifleiy Staff of Lew Toia and Cadet Rick Murdoch. Safety, knowledge and fun were the three factors Used to guide the instruction and firing this past season. Each camper was impressed with safety on the Rifle Range. They were taught Range proce- dures and the proper method of loading and firing the weapons. Everyone learned what to do in case Of 21 misire and the Range soon became known 21S the One place in camp where absolute, unquestiOI16d Obedience was necessary. National Rifle Association testing as was the case with many activities this summer, was severely cur- tailed by the New England monsoons that hit Kent. Because of the impracticality of building a covered bridge from the firing line to the target area fifty feet away firing was suspended for quite a few days. This meant that a few youngsters were unable to shoot the minimum number of targets for a National Riile Association Award. Instruction and practice was limited to the prone and sitting position. Some of the older and more experienced campers such as GARY KRUGMAN and RICK SATURN werex allowed to fire from all positions. Lew and Rick tried to make firing enjoyable and challenging. Group instruction was kept to a mini- mum so that the maximum time could be spent on actual firing where individual corrections were made and instructions given. MIKE ZWILLMAN of the SPARROWS was our most enthusiastic student. His youth and size made it diflicult for him to stabilize the riile but his enthusiasm more than made up for it. It was cleary diflicult for him to not run down range as soon as he had completed firing to see how he had done!

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In the ROBINSQ DAVE BERNSTEIN showed up for Color War competition carrying a pillow to Cushion his sore elbow! Alas, he did not win be- cause MARK HURST fired better, but the desire was outstanding. PETER SMALL fired the best ten rounds for record with a score of 86 and ARNIE ROWAN had the best five round target with 3 score of 48 of 50. KEN-MONT's Rifle team did compete in one Tournament held at camp To-Ho-Ne in Massa- chussetts. The team and their scores were DAVID GODNICK t90J, LEE TUNIS C87J, GARY Tx? sf - fm is 352 ft! I1iggSf7'1Vf7AN 085. WALTER KAss t87J, MATT th C 3Jnahd CLIFF STERLING 4635, At- Ough We dld not win the tournament we learned many lessons and are looking forward to next Year and other tournaments. Skill shooting with our 20 guage shot uns was . . g limited to boys Of Upper camp, because of the heavier weight and. much greater recoil of the shot- guns. It was a thrill to bring down a clay pigeon in llight and many of our senior campers hope to UV the areal thing with their Dads during the fall bird season. TXLLQ J . A N' q LACROSSE Chalk up another first for KEN MONT' We are the innovators of a new camp sport although it IS the oldest sport of American origin We have been told by several college coaches and by the only manufacturer of Lacrosse equipment that we are the first camp to incorporate Lacrosse into the pro am The Indian game of Lacrosse was originally called bagataway However French Jesuit miss 10nar1es witnessing the Indians play the game with 21 crossed stick named the game La Crosse and S0 the name remains Wearing blue or white helmets with face masks Hd wearing heavy gauntlet ice hockey gloves 0 Lacrosse neophytes concentrated on stick handli g der the experienced tutelage of Bob Cur Ch at Edmondson High School in Baltimore a e Shenker an attack man at the University o Hsvlvania our boys went at playlng L-aero C they were all born in Baltimore' The IH lmculf aspect of this sport 1S mastery Of 112111 Lacrosse stick Much of our time at Lacro Spent learning this stick handling teCh111 93 technique as well as the other techniques such as scooping C picking the ball up with the stickj shoot ing passing and catching Toward the close of the season we were able to engage in games in which the following campers were outstanding Hawks .I ON SHEVELL RICK EAGLE DAVE GODNICK BILL REICHMAN Condors JEFF KATZEN STACY SIMON Cardinals-SCOTT WEBER LOREN KLEIN MAN Eagles PETE IACOVELLI High schools prep schools and colleges in the East all find Lacrosse to be a more popular spring sport than baseball However it 1S unlikely that we shall be able to find intercamps competition for the next few years but we shall concentrate on the fundamentals of the game We have been invited by I nn Adams the varsity coach of the University of Pennsylvania and the coach of three national champions at West Pomt to send our best players to a clinic he runs during the Summer gf . ' : 3 ' ' - , ur - i ' '11 . 0 1 . Un O Cio' . . . Goa . . . nd ' . . . Dav , ' ' f Pen ' ' sse a I ' lik , ' ' , ost . ' . . d' - ' dling ' , t the - ' sse ' 0 was . ' . . - 'que. i' . The majority of our campers finally grasped 'fhiS '