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

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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

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And then there are the plastic models! Practically all campers were involved in the construction of plastic ships and cars this year. Each model was assembled and painted by the boy to his own liking and, rest assured, there were some very exotic color combinations on many of them. A new area in Arts and Crafts was introduced this year to the older campers. This was acid etching in aluminum. Here the artist would paint a design on a polished piece of aluminum, scallop the edges, pour acid into the aluminum to etch the design into it and finally remove the painted design. Numerous trays of different sizes and design were made this year and the work proved to be quite satisfactory. SCOTT SMALL, MARK VERSHEL and MARC STARR made very line de-signs on their trays. For the older boys, we had balsa model airplanes to construct, paint and ily. Much of this work is time consuming and the builder needed to have some skill in basic woodworking. Above all, he must have patience in his work. Once again our airplane build- ers were quite successful in assembling and painting their models. Some of our model builders were JONATHAN SENDOR, STEPHEN GALLANT. DAVID DOUGLASS, CLIFF STERLING, SHEL- DON KIVELL, MARK SHAPIRO, PETER SMALL, BRYAN BLOOM and PAUL LOCKE. Four outstandingly creative pieces of model building were completed this year. JOSH DOUG- LASS and CLIFF STREIT spent a great deal of time and thought by each designing and construct- ing models of two modern homes for possible actual construction in the future. Their designs were very original and quite admired by the campers. Also, TONY ASTMANN and GREGG RUBIN spent their creative energies into designing and construct- ing two model sail boats. It would be very interest- ing to sail these boats to see how truly seaworthy they would prove to be. From all points of view their designs seem to be very sound and quite seaworthy. It was a very busy and active summer for both the Arts and Crafts personnel as well as the artists . All felt a great sense of accompishment. AMATEUR RADIO PROGRAM The radio program this year at Ken Mont was qtute successful Any camper could use the radio shack and lt was never empty The major attrac tion was KAMP Ken Monts own broadcasting station Here campers learned to operate the con trols and use a real broadcastmg station wlnch played the top hits of the year The DJ s were also the Greatest names like GOLDBERG MINDICH VERSHEL and LIGHT just to mention a few Almost as popular as KAMP the ham radio station permitted campers to hear people from all over the world speaking and it allowed campers to speak to hams from all over the world No station 1S complete without mentionmg some of the people who made it what it 1S the campers who learned enough electromcs to enable them to operate all the equipment 1n the shack JEFF MINDICH and BRUCE LADEN were two CX perts this year The camp 1S permitted to ISSUC amateur radio licenses and MARK FEINBERG earned his Novice Class Amateur radio license wluch will enable him to speak to hams all over the world on his own A third activity at the ham shack was building kits All campers had the opportunity to build kits such as wireless microphone transmitters two tran sister AM receivers one tube radio receivers and oscillators One camper GARY STARR suc ceeded m btuldmg a short wave radio under the direction of the mstructor Mel Pershan One thing common to all three activities was fun Each camper enjoyed the radio program to the fullest extent When campers were not learning some skill which will be important when they get older they were involved in fun filled times with M1n1vac 601 which beat most campers 1n t1c tac toe Mmivac 601 is a model computer which funct1ons like an IBM computer but 1S safer to use and was designed for instructional purposes . I ' ' 9 , ' - ' . , . , .. . - ' - I , - , 9 , . . . ' - - , , Q Q O . . , - , , - 3 9 . . . - . I n U J , . ' l - ' , . . . 7 2 . . . 0 . . . , . . D . . . .... . , ' . - ' ' ' , - .- 7 ' ' . n c I ' - . 0 0 . . x ' . . , 0 0 ' 7