The Council Room

[Bill Kingman]

WYANOKE MEMORIES

Golden Rutabaga
Tom Falcon running Candy Line
Fireball Falcon
BMB’s station wagon
Clearing the new ball field
Bob Dickerman shagging flies with his machine
Bob Dickerman’s Hustle T-shirts
Hey Rube
Playaks
Sailing races and Tommy Mott always winning
Doing Log roll in canoe
Finding Bass Rock
BMB and the watch magic trick
Digging out the dry well in front of the mess hall
The crap we made at Arts and Crafts and being charged for it
Sunday ice cream and brownies
Movie night – Battle of the Bulge
Shooting 22’s on those stinking mattresses
Mark Futoran making dives that rival the Olympics, while the rest of us are trying not to do belly flops
Chris Gill smashing everyone at tennis
Jim Reynolds smacking balls into the woods
??? having a cassette recorder and knowing every word to every song
Parades
High jump pit with rubber disks
Taking rubber disk and making a cake
Birthday cake at camp
Ice house
Not going across the street because of Madame Chang Kia Sheck’s secret police
Mrs. BMB washing her hair in the lake
Mrs. BMB reading the dining hall rules
BMB and his pocket notebook
Inspections
Lousy bulging
Midget day and how the midget’s would stampede at bugle
Midget fair
Garth getting dunked at midget fair
Spy night – holding kid up in air to get through
Rolling the tennis courts
The new basketball court
Riding into town, up the hill, then the coast down
Seeing how far a car could go up the other side after rolling down the hill in neutral
A sincere fart
Pat’s convertible seizing up in Boston
Schaefer’s place across the lake
Mike pissing on the fence on day off
Going to the airport to see Freeland’s plane
Spy night and someone swimming/falling into the cess pool
Swim buddies
Trying to find missing swimmer
99% safety is 100% failure
Nos Kid paint
Mauve versus purple
TBA movie
The activity board with Mr. So and So versus first initial, last name
Final banquet, and it seemed like everyone got an award
Manual of arms competition
Guy from West Point running the parades
Piano competition between Freeland and ???
Seeing Wyanoke in the winter – not the same
Being eliminated in a swim meet for not doing the breast stroke right
One of our swimmers shaking and stretching to psyche the other team out.
Counselor vs Counselor soccer games
Camelot bookstore
Seeing Jaws at the movie theater in town
Hiking up Mt. Washington, still seeing snow in summer
Trying to get a radio that actually received a station and having enough batteries to last the summer
Norm Risser telling people you can’t catch fish in trees, so there’s no sense putting your lure and line up there
Kitchen boys
Jim Graves recording all the songs
David Ayers practicing at the Arts and crafts shack
Mike Freeland and his guitar singing Sassafras
The arrival of the girls/women
Watching the bus trying to negotiate the two entry columns

[DavidAyars]

Nice job, Bill. Some of this I'd forgotten until you mentioned, if I ever knew it. I've been working on a similar list which I'll post in a new thread soon. You had a couple things I had, too. Did I really used to practice trumpet in the Jr.-Sr. Shop? Could be. I do remember practicing some afternoons around 4pm in the Camp Store. Used to drive the kitchen boys NUTS. Brass instruments are like golf-- you can't take the summer off without losing serious ground.
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Camper: J-8 1965 (Kevin Ryan), J-8 1966 (Mike Freeland), S-6 1967 (Russ Hatch), S-3 1968 (Jeremy Cripps), and JA-2 1969 (Dan Mannis).
JC: J-2 1970 (Bill Bettison) and J-3 1971 (Gene Comella). Councilor 1972, J-5 1973, and JA-1 1974 & 1975

[Jim Culleton]

Great list, Bill! Many I had forgotten about. I would also add Freddie's truck that was used to cart us up to Mt. Chocorua and the CO asphyxiation we all experienced riding in the back of that thing! That may have predated your time at Wyanoke. There were no emission controls in effect on motor vehicles way back then.
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'56 - J-9 J. Moulton
'57 - J-11 J. Moulton
'58 - J-4 E. Web Dann, S. Hood
'59 - S-6 P. Leavitt
'60 - S-2 F. Avantaggio
'61 - JA-1 RK Irons
'62 - C-9 JC with P. Freeland
'63 - C-1 JC with S. Borger
'64 - C-6 Councilor

[Robert Vaughan]

Of course, I have many memories from spending my life at Wyanoke along with Dave Bentley.

But from your list, Bill, I was in Pat's convertible when it overheated coming out of South Station tunnel and all the people who cursed at us on that warm June afternoon. Of course, we were happy to be sitting there in a stalled car in all that heat!

And for those who are interested, Bob Dickerman is working at Camp Agawam for Garth, teaching baseball as always. I drove in last summer and there he was on the ballfield, looking just the same as always.

[Tom Shirley]

Hey Bob,
Remember me? I was in J1 with you back in 1971. Back with David Baker, Chris Fox among others. Great memories of that group.

Thanks for the update on Bob Dickerman. He played abig part in my time at camp. I remember one evenign when I was 15 he quietly calle dme and two others over after lunch and asked if we were interested in practicing with his men's "semi-pro" team that night. Of course we were elated to get such an invitation. Mark Deluse and one other camper (can't remember who) and I played with his team that night. We were all very nervous but teh big memoryt for me that night was trying to hit against him while he was throwing a nasty knuckleball.

Another memory of Bob was during a game at Alton. I was playing shortstop and a wicked one hopper came up and hit me just below my left eye. I remember getting my senses back and seeing a crowd of faces standing over me. As things started to make sense I could hear Bob saying "That's the way to keep your eye on the ball!". Lightened up the momment. I learned a lot from him
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J-1 1970, Marc Liddle from Scotland
J-1 1971, Bob Vaughn
S-3 1972, Steve McDavitt
S-2 1973, Charlie Thomas
JA-2 1974, Dan Mannis
JA-1 1975, Dave Ayers

Proud to be Gray

[Robert Vaughan]

Hi Tom,

Of course I remember you. I think one Fall Dave Ayars and I picked you up in Winchester to go watch a Harvard soccer game as I recall. I've enjoyed readng your posts and will try to get to more responses this summer.

Bob

[Tom Shirley]

Bob,
Now that you mention that I do remember you doing that. It was a big deal at the time and meant a lot to me. I am still very involved in soccer. I played college soccer at Allegheny College and my son played at Union College. My youngest is currently playing for Milton Academy. I am the vice president and maintain the website of a local soccer club (www.easternmassfc.org) a few of us founded a couple of years ago.

Tom
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J-1 1970, Marc Liddle from Scotland
J-1 1971, Bob Vaughn
S-3 1972, Steve McDavitt
S-2 1973, Charlie Thomas
JA-2 1974, Dan Mannis
JA-1 1975, Dave Ayers

Proud to be Gray

[mfutoran]

Bill,

That's a good list.

For the last half dozen years or so I've been taking my girls to a summer camp here in Ohio. Every so often I get a whiff of pine, dirt and gasoline and I'm right there on on of the dusty rock'n root strewn paths of Wyanoke. *sigh*
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Marc
68 - J8:Mike Freeland, 69 - J8:Mike Freeland, 70 - J8:Mike Freeland, 71 - S2:Roland Simmons, 72 - S4:Paul W. K. Freeland, 73 - JA1:Stephen Downs, 74 - C2(JC):James Nagle