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

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. INDIAN LORE The tom-tom sounded loud and clear over Ken- Mont this summer calling us to the most exciting Indian Lore program we have ever had. Even the rainy spell in mid summer could not dampen our enthusiasm. Once again, Two Bulls-sometimes known as Dwayne Reeves-sat in the Chief's wiki-up. Dwayne has lived with and around Indians all his life. During his childhood, Dwayne was with the Comanche and Kiowa tribes, but his knowledge of tribal culture extends to the Kierea Apache, Wichita, Osage, Pawnee, Caddo and Cheyenne tribes. Two Bulls was greatly aided this year by Fred Carrington, one of our waterfront staff, who is a national champion Indian Dancer. With dazzling, authentic costumes, and a variety of exciting, vigorous dances, Fred was the highlight of all of our campfires. His Fire Dance will never be forgotten! , There were also many skilled dancers among our braves. MATTY ZEPNICK, SCOTT T URKEL and DANNY SABLOSKY were excellent in the most difiicult hoop dance. Each boy performed in a costume of his own making-breechclout, head band and various dancing leg bands. The Robins took over the dancing at an August campfire with a fine version of the fluffy dance. The boys dancing were FRANK LAUREDA, FRED MEYERS, MARK HURST, DAN SABLOSKY and BART SCHNEIDERMAN. A group of SPARROWS performed the Sioux Buffalo dance. They were STEVE SENDAR, J ON BLANC, JON SCHAFFZIN, MIKE STREIT, KEITH GRUMER, SPENCER MERINOFF and MIKE KREITMAN. As usual, craft work was an important part of the Indian Lore program. The boys made articles to be used with Indian costumes such as breechclouts, mocassins, headdresses, and necklaces. Mocassins were a big thing with all. BRUCE LADEN Hnished the first pair. Other oustanding mocassin makers were KENNY LIGHT, ROBERT NORDEN, STEVE SENDAR, JONNY BLANC, JON SCHAFFZIN, and MARK VERSHEL. This year, many boys decorated their mocassins with beadwork. Also many put fringes on their mocas- sins. Beaded necklaces were also popular with both campers and counselors. LARRY POMER was a leader in doing bead work. The best examples of Western belts were designed by MARK SECKLER, RICHARD VERSHEL, KENNY LIGHT, and MIKE WISCHE. ROCKY was the first boy to com- plete a belt this past season and as a reward was given the honor of lighting the next camp fire. ROBERT KRIEGER and ROBERT WEISBEIN finished drums which were used around the camp- fire. ROBERT WEISBEIN played the drums for a number of Indian dances at the campfire programs. ROBERT KRIEGER and MARTY SATURN painted the new teepee that graced the Indian Lore area. They used designs from the Blackfeet Indians and the teepee looked most authentic. All the Bluejays made head bands, belt sets and necklaces-all in all, a successful year in Indian Lore. We learned about the customs, traditions, dances, games and history of American Indians.

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at the news was the husband, MICHAEL ROSEN. Friends and family . . . this play pointed out that family isn't the same as friends . . . tried to help the expectant couple with unexpected complications. DREW HOLDER as Kate, the daughter of the half- happy couple was devastating in his portrayal of today's youth. As the helpful next door neighbor, KEN KUNIN more than qualified as a good actor. Speaking of good actors, MICHAEL FASS was excellent as the family doctor . . . and friend. GARY STARR, KEITH ROSENFELD, and BRIAN EGGERT lent their presence to f'Incident . Rehearsals of this production immediately forecast powerful portrayals and characterizations. The story evolves around prejudice and discrimination and how senseless it can be. Such dramatically fine characterizations placed many of the actors in In- cident in nomination for Silver Spoon Awards. SILVER SPOON AWARDS MICHAEL J. ROSEN- Never Too Laten BOB REICHER - Never Too Late LARRY KLITZMAN - Don't Drink the Water JON ROSS -f'Don't Drink the Watern JEFF GOLDBERG - Laugh In ARTS AND CRAFTS Once again, the Arts and Crafts Department was a busy bee hive of energetic activity for all campers from the youngest to the oldest. Our activities were many and varied this year so as to interest all the age levels and abilities of our campers. J im Donald, our Industrial Arts teacher was out- standing in directing the program. Don Stevens assisted with a very creative fine arts program. Most of his energy was devoted to motivating the Blue Jays and Sparrows to express themselves in many mediums. Colorful paper masks and puppets seemed to catch the fancy of all the young with J ONNY OSTRAU, JIMMY FEIN, JON ROGER, LEWIS BORINSKY, FRANK FINK, DAVID KATZ and STEVE SIEGEL presenting very original designs. Spatter painting and stenciling were two other activities in which our Blue Jays and Sparrows spent much of their time creating many intere-sting pat- terns of different shapes, sizes and colors. DOUG KAHN, JEFF KENT, BOB ARKIN, GREGG STONE, JON SILVER, JIM BERNSTEIN, MITCH SCHWARTZ, MIKE ZWILLMAN and TODD PILCH did very fine workin this area. But the most popular activity of our two junior groups was copper tooling. Designs were created or traced onto the thin copper foil by the boys, colored and then framed for hanging. MIKE ROSEN- FELD, BARRY AUGUS, J ONNY ALBIN, JEFF SCHLEIN, TODD LEVINE, RICH DOUGLASS and DAVID SCHARF made some line designs to take home. Another activity the Blue Jays enjoyed was con- structing attractive woodworking projects. They constructed ornamental wheelbarrows and old time Water pumps and horse troughs. Although the younger campers had great interest in these activities-plus many others, every age camper had the opportunity to work in all of these areas. For boys from the Robins to the Dodos, a much wider seletcion of activities were available. With the ex-ception of our plastic models, copper enameling was the most active area in our department. Camp- ers made tie tacks, cuff links, earrings, necklaces, decorative pins, colorful ashtrays and bowls and many other items. Some of our youngsters were mailing their work to their friends. They were very proud of the design and color combination they had created. BRAD ARKIN, DAVID BERN- STEIN, MIKE MALAMUT, KEVIN KRICH, PETER FASS, BILLY WEISS, LORNE GOD- NICK, DAVID ADELSON, STEVE FASS, ALAN HARMON, PHIL LANDAU and SCOT LE BOLT were all very involved in this activity. Mark Klein led a very energetic program of model rocket building. Some of the models built were the Scout, the X-Ray, the Alpha, Big Bertha, the V-2 and the Corporal. Many intere-sting shows were put on with the construction of these rocket models and the entire camp was thrilled to observe many successful launchings. This is one activity that needed no motivating or push to get the campers participating. It was a natural interest for our youth of today. Some of our rocket builders were DAVID SIGNET, PETER ENGEL, SCOTT SMALL, MARC STARR, ROBERT COVEN, BRADLEY ARKIN, KEITH HARTLEY, KEVIN KRICH, JON ROSEN, STEPHEN GALLANT, MARK SECKLER, MICHAEL ZWILLMAN, BRUCE LADEN and BRIAN STERLING. HO