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

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CHARITY CARNIVAL Step right up and take a chance . . . place your bets, ladies and gentlemen . . . betlcha can't duck me! . . . hot dogs . . . pink lemonade . . . apples on a stick . . . pop corn balls . . . music . . . carnival barkers . . . prizes . . . and bright sunshine all combined to make Carnival day just perfect. The EAGLES were the ucontractorsl' of the Carnival but each bunk had the responsibility of planning, designing, scrounging material and staffing their own booth. We finally came up with a genuine Carny Midway. Carnival 1969 was the biggest and best Carnival ever held at KEN-MONT. There were new games and more attractions than ever before and the co- chairmen Frank Greenberg and Marc Stern with the aid of Ron Bouchier and the EAGLES and DODOS, assembled a fantastic Midway that was enjoyed by all on Sunday afternoon. As was the case all summer the weather was a question, but on Carnival Sunday it was a beautiful, hot day. All was in readiness by one o'clock in the afternoon-the booths had all been decorated, prizes distributed and refreshments brought out. At two o'clock the Carnival opened and the boys started to really enjoy themselves and with the arrival of the girls from KEN-WOOD the Carnival was soon going full blast. Everyone enjoyed circus ,music in the background while they made their rounds of the booths that ranged from Shave the Balloonn to Dart the Salamin. ' This year there we-re two main attractions that had long lines around them all afternoon. The DODO's Dunk the Counselor where campers en- joyed seeing their favorite counselors plus Jerry and Lloyd take a plunge into the tank of water, was popular again. . A new attraction at this year's Carnival was the EAGLE Car Smashw, where every camper could take three swings at an old car Cwhich had all of the glass removedj with either a twelve pound sledge hammer or a small hammer depending on the camper's size. This really gave the- campers a chance to use up their destructive feelings and it has the largest line of all of the booths. A highlight enjoyed by all was the pie eating contest, this year featuring blueberry pies. The winner in the lower camp was GARY STARR and the winner in the upper camp was MATT ROSS who deposed defending champion PETER IACO- VELLI. Special recognition went to JIM FEIN, the youngest competitor, for the great job he did con- suming an entire pie! For their winning efforts the Champs received . . . you guessed it-blueberry pies. DAVID YOUNG of Miami Beach won the jelly bean count with a guess of 1750 and received all the jelly beans as his prize. Finishing up the afternoon after some musical entertainment by our counselors, Lloyd drew the winning raffle tickets for three huge cakes baked by George, our excellent baker. At four-thirty the Carnival was struck and he Midway reve-rted to the Soccer pitch. The boys returned at 6 P.M. for a delicious, sizzling charcoal barbecue consisting of steak, french fries, tomatoes, rolls plus cake, apple juice and milk. Everyone ate their fill and then relaxed. Next year's Carnival will have to go far to even match Carnival 1969, but when we return next summer let's see if we can' have a bigger and better Carnival again.

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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

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