Hi Ron,

RECEIVED EMAIL

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Thanks for donating the gift of camp to a needy child, and for creating the facebook page.

So great to be able to stay in touch with ILC. Suzie Laskin

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So glad we gave this gift!! Thanks. Tobi Zion

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The Federation gift and this group on Facebook . . . Terrific. You all continue to do a great job.

Glenn Jacobs

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Just found this group, and noticed two bunk mates that were at the reunion, as well as the camp nurse too.
Guess we can try again in 2048 if I live.... Mike Schlein

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Just received my DVD - it is fabulous! I love the music. I wa multi-tasking and one of my daughter's heard the music in the background - she loved it, too. With all the dreary news - this DVD is a breath of fresh air.
Gloria Strick Fine

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Viewing the CD of the Reunion was a real treat. Thanks much to Ron and the ILC Reunion Committee.
Harvey Shapiro

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Blast from the past;

This goes out to any and all who MAY Remember me from back when at ILC Back then I was known as the NATURE GIRL always into frogs and butterflies...   My name then was MARCIA DOUGLAS but as time went on and the hatred for that name grew I had many nick names Finally LEGALIZED my Pen Name (am a Writer, Author, Poet, Songwriter) >> LADY CAT POWERS <<
Having a very Feline Nature and being a Control Freak ... the name applies! I would so much love to hear from any who remember me from that time... Sue Cole, Debby Steinberg, Lou Sickles. My story is one of the Long and Winding Road that led from Elkins Park, to Florida and finally to BOULDER, COLORADO... the Rocky Mt High!

You may enjoy seeing my pix and poems http://community.webtv.net/RUFFIAN333   Page 1 > Me, my Horses, their Poems
Page 2 > Excerpts from My Book Page 3 > Cats, Dogs, Poems

EMAIL: RUFFIAN333@webtv.net Be sure to include on subject line: From ILC Friend The PAST led me from: College to
Sec'y Entertainment Agency Model, cocktail Hostess/ key club (similar to Playboy) runner up for Miss Philadelphia
(Miss Universe) Professional Dancer Married my Dance Partner, Breeding/ showing German Shepherds Training all breed obedience Persian Cats. Poet and Songwriter Paranormal Events Horses and Trainng Nature, Hiking Truly A Gemini kind of life!

Losses have framed the foundation for many of my songs and poems having lost my DAD to car crash Man I loved to heart attack @30 Husband to Car Crash Arabian Horse to Colic in one day Black Arabian Mare to accident in Sept 19 year old precious Cat....
13 yr old Black German Shepherd. If I've learned nothing else in life it is APPRECIATE WHAT U HAVE WHEN U HAVE IT..
For we never know which day is the Last My #1 Song is THE DANCE Garth Brooks:   A true philosophy of life.

I look forward to hearing from anyone who remembers me...   to share in those memories and also in what paths your life has taken.

CAT

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I'm almost 68 and still can sing the Indian Lake song. I still can't float however. What a great camp.

Dear Indian Lake camp

Our hearts we pledge to theeeeee

Your all that we'll ere desire

For the friendship and the beauty that you alone can give us.... etc

Thanks, Brenda Bisk Segal

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I hope all is very well with you and yours. Just wanted to touch base we were both members of "The Shaboom Room", and also wanted to send you an overdue note of thanks; and, if I may, ask you about the ILC website.

Eight months have passed, and yet it seems like the Reunion just happened. Seems to me that that proves how strong the friendships formed at ILC were. Thank you again, so very much, for initiating and doing so much toward the efforts that made the reunion a reality, and also for providing a place [the ILC website] where ILCers can share so many wonderful memories.

I came to the website today, to review reunion memories, etc. While there, I attempted to open up the address list, and nothing came up. I know it says, "Please wait for data to appear.", but my browser immediately said "Done". Is there a problem with that page? (To me, at least, this is a very valuable part of the site, renewing friendships at the reunion, it's a great way to get in touch with those folks ... and also to reach out to those campmates who weren't able to make the reunion.)

Thank you.

Michael Tracy

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What a terrific website. Sorry I could not be at the Reunion, but it was fun to visit it and some

of the great old camp days in the wonderful photos.

Thanks to all. Ron Shapiro

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Dear Ron and all -

I loved seeing the pix. Thanks for all that you do.

Our 8th grandchild, Batya, was born in February. Number 9 is expected early in August.

Amazing.

Honestly,Ron, I still feel the warmth of the reunion. It brought back all the emoition I feel

about my experiences at ILC. Again, thank you

Alice Hoffman Kalish

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Just had another fun memory.

Remember how you weren't allowed on the swimming dock to sun bathe? Except counselors on their day off were ok'd to do it. I remember finally reaching that "mature" goal...swimming out, carrying my towel, lotion, etc. up high as I did the side stroke to keep everything dry. Got out there...set myself up and was bored to tears within five minutes. Came back to land and never did it again.

Haven't a clue what made me think of it...all I was doing was emptying the dishwasher when that scene flashed by as I was emptying the top rack of glasses! Lynn Cohen Bortman

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Dear Indian Lake Folk:

We missed your reunion but we would like to be part of your list.

We have very fond memories of our years at Camp Indian Lake. I think we were there from 1941 thru 1947.

When I think of our growing up years, I always think of camp as a happy part. We have visited grandchildren at camp and I know that Indian Lake was in a different era. Imagine telling kids today to wear a uniform, especially brown - or that you can't come into the dining hall wearing sneakers. We surely had more rules.

We saw the pictures in the Jewish Exponent and enjoyed them, especially the Lehmans.

Thank you for helping us to recall good times. Please add our info. If you could, let one us know that this email was received. I hope this address is still in use. Fred and Sandy Weitzman

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A note from Fred Lehman

Dear Ron.

I think you will enjoy reading this letter from my cousin Peg Meyer, who I mentioned to you in my letter last month.

Peg is daughter of my Father’s youngest sister, who died in the flu epidemic at the end of WW-1 when Peg was still a baby. Another sister of my father, Rae, had the idea to start a summer camp, and was director before my Mother succeeded her in the ‘30’s.

I wish I had as good a memory as Peg has. Her career was as a librarian in Pasadena.

Regards. Fred

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Margaret V. Vaughan Myers

Dear Ron,

What a delightful surprise!

I’m a first cousin of Fred Lehman on my mother’s side. Other relatives at ILC – Bob Lehman, Jean Lehman and Ruth Freundlick.

In 1926 the farm that Walter and Selma bought (Fred’s parents) was converted into a camp. Jean and I would raid the vegetable patches on the farm, eat raw peas and string beans. We ate ripe berries right of the vines. It was a wonderful, carefree summer for us city kids.

We watched as the stream was dug and dammed to create Indian Lake. We saw the builders erect bungalows on the girls hill and the boys hill. It was an idyllic summer.

All of us loved camp, starting the next year. My favorites were swimming, canoeing, dancing, hiking and campfire with camp songs.

Have a HAPPY REUNION. I can’t travel anymore.

Peg (Margaret)

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Letter from Peg.

Dear Charlotte and Fred,
Wonderful surprise to get the ILC news. I’m sending my recollections of the summer of 1926 in particular when the farm was converted to a camp. That summer was idyllic. Jean and I ran in the fields, ate raw vegetables from the garden and picked ripe wild berries. We played and reveled in the freedom from city life. I also remember a boy Toby that I liked. I think I spent seven summers at ILC and loved it, swimming, dancing, campfires, hiking & Bushkill Falls, and the weekly treats on the big porch, chicken and ice cream on Sundays. Do you remember Ruth Freundlich, a second cousin (whom I liked a lot)? Thanks for your continued correspondence. It means a lot to me.

Are you watching, “The War”? I wouldn’t miss an episode. Much of it I remember, everyone got behind the war effort but some of the most horrible battles were top secret at the time such as Guadalcanal.
Like others, I worked at war plants every summer, taught school, bought war bonds, saved everything, paper, foil, etc.
Oh, yes, I went to Bridgeton High School in New Jersey. Love Peg

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"Dear Camp Indian Lake you are the spot for me" Thanks for the invite to the reunion.However by the time we fly down from Providence to Philadelphia for the weekend and rent a car to see relatives and old friends would like to know who will be there from my "era".Don't see any names from "my day"Think 1930 was my first year and returned for about six or seven years more - but no familar names on the list. Patsy Rodin, Mildred Speiser etc. Say hello to Fred for me.. I do remember him. Is Jean gone? do hope you have a great turn out with those still around! Have married and live in Providence since 1947 so I am out of touch.My children did go to U of Penn and root for the Phillies and Eagles still but camped in New England but never to the camp along the Delaware. Am now a great grandmother so I'm really an "old timer" Ellie Oberfield Fine

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Janie:

Thank you for your warm invitation to the ILC reunion.

I spoke with Dick Denison last night and we reminisced about camp and many other happy times we had enjoyed.

I attended Howie Wagman's 80th birthday party in New York City earlier this year. Carol Goldenberg and Bob Kauffmann were also there. We sang some old camp songs much to the amusement of his family. I see Bob Kauffmann from time to time as my wife Elee was "one of the Kauffmann girls" Her sister Mickie Kauffmann Stein lives in Boone NC and I see her from time to time and we talk with each other frequently. Elee died about two years ago after a wonderful 55 years of married life. I first met Elee at the arbor in front of the main house at Indian Lake camp when she was 6 years old.

I deeply regret that I cannot be with you and other ILC friends. Have a great ILC reunion.

Please extend my warmest regards to your cousin Joyce Jasner. Bob Gross

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Janie,

Hope you get this. Let me know if this is not a good email address.

My brother, Dave and I went to camp the summer of '68 by a couple of funny occurrances. Turns out that we were moving from one house to another in Cherry Hill NJ and my folks needed some place to send us. I guess thru a circle of friends, apparently my mother had a girlfriend from way back that married Neil Rosen. Neil was a schoolteacher in Conshohocken and apparently for several years (not sure how many) was, I believe the camp director. He apparently cooked up a deal for my folks to take my brother and I for the summer to ILC. Also turns out that my parents apparently lived in the same apartment building as Fred Lehman: the Park Drive Manor in Philadelphia; I'm very sure they knew the Lehman's in some manner during the 50's. My Dad is from the Olney and Ogantz area of NPhila and it appears that many folks that went to ILC were also.

Both my brother and I had been going to day camps in SJ for several years prior and at that time they were pretty rustic. I can still remember packing in an old army trunk all my stuff, getting the butch crew cut (even in 68) and heading to that shopping center at the I believe was at the corner of Cheltenham Ave and Washington Lane.....if I remember correctly there was a Hungry Harry's (Horn and Hardart's) that we all had breakfast prior to the bus taking us to the camp.

Both my brother and I did fine (apparently) and I really can't recall if anyone thought ILC was going to close during the summer. I frankly really enjoyed camp, although I believe my brother a bit less so. The camp was still pretty rustic, nothing like what kids experience now. Although after 25 years of being in the air force and deployed to desert more than I care to admit, ILC was much better than living in the hooch tents in the middle east or asia somewhere.

The camp had a decent water skiing boat and they hauled us out to the Delaware every week or so, and we got to load up on the old stake truck to go play softball at some of the other local camps. There was Log and Twig, and some other hoi poloi camp that even then I thought they were pretty snooty. The big thing that summer for me was having a CIT or counselor load up his Motown 45's on one of those little record players of the time, and blaring the music all the time. I still have the 4 TOPS on my IPOD. We had some kind of overnight camp trip somewhere for a couple of nights that was fun; the counselors cooked up a deal like a mystery weekend at some BandB, but they played out this disaster and told stories all night.

I did find out it was going to close late in the spring of 69; I thought I was going to go back, but I guess it must have been decided sometime after camp ended in 68 that it was being sold off to Fernwood or somesuch golf course. Anyway all the Greenblatt boys were shipped off to Camp Hilltop in NJ.

I had a great summer, and at least my brother went to make something of himself; he is an anesthesiologist in Pittsburg, and I'm recently retired from the USAF in Albuquerque NM. I've got 3 kids and my son recently went to somewhere in CA near Santa Barbara for a short period to the Shalom Institute for camp.

Hope this helps. I'm probably not going to make it back east for the reunion, although I would love to. The only folks in my bunk that are still engaged, I believe, is Robbie Laskin. We argued over the horspower in our respective parents cars all summer!

If I don't get a response, I'll try to call Sun. I don't really have any pictures here, I think my Mom has 'em; we'll see what I can find.

Cheers, Rick Greenblatt

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I was at camp for 3 years, from 1948 until 1950, and have the following memories:

               My bunkmates, Bart Axelrod, Allen Lipsky, Leon Silverman, Roger

Wolfe, Henry Edelson and Dickie Herman....our counsellors: Lou and Chief.

               The light burning from Lou's cigarette during taps, INSIDE THE BUNK

               My girlfriend from NJ, Judy Walter, and Nat ":King" Coles' hit song, "Too Young" and thinking that we weren't.

               Playing rafter ball in the bunk on rainy days.

               The 3 day, 2 night canoe trip from Port Jervis (remembering that it was in another state, NY) to the Delaware River gap.

               Wondering why the Lehmans picked brown and orange for the camp's colors

               The wish plates, with single and double rings

               Swatting each other with towels after swimming

               The "job wheel" and inspections.

Ironically, Bart Axelrod and I have remained friends for 60 years and

there is not a party that goes by with a piano that we don't sing

"There's a Camp along the Delaware",  joined by Janie (Axelrod)

Albert...Bart's cousin and someone who was truly "much too young"  to be my girlfriend when I was 10.

Regards,   Joey Manko

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Hello Ron and all of you Indian Lakers,

The reception of your invitation to an Indian Lake Camp Reunion back in April came as an overwhelming but very pleasant surprise to me ! ( How did you find me ) If I haven't responded earlier it's not by disinterest but rather a result of the complications of everday life for the last few months that had to be dealt with. Most recent complication: My husband Jacques's bladder cancer surgery. He should be home from the hospital on Monday after a month's stay ! He spent summer vacation there ( and me too ! ) Poor guy had to be in the hospital to finally realize what I good wife I've been for 35 years . I was happy to be available to take care of him and he really appreciated my presence and all the little things I did to help him.

I really can't come to the meeting but can give you some information :

After graduating from N.Y.U in 68 ( I graduated from Harrington High School in 1964 ) I studied theater with Stella Adler ( others as well) and have been an acting ever since. ( Played in One flew over the cuckoos nest ine 72-73 in Philadalphia and Boston). In 1974 I met my husband Jacques who was living and working in N.Y. and he conviced me to move back to Paris with him. We have a wonderful daughter Juliet ( here comes the Jewish mother bit) who is 30 and who after the Sorbonne and a Masters in history is also an actress, musician and composer . She speaks several languages which is a real advantage today. Juliet is managing quite well. As for me In the last 10 years In addition to acting and coaching I have also been writing, teaching theater and occasionnally working as a trainer in business communication training programs.I Last year I directed a play in Paris "Un amour de Théâtre " by Alain Sachs which he produced at the Avignon Off Festival in 2007. A real highlight of my rather unglorious career. ( In 2008 Juliet participaed in the Avignon Off festival with her show "Juliet et Moi" As an actor here you have to know how to do many things to survive ! But strangely enough things are becoming les difficult at my ripe old age of ... 62 ! One of my big satisfactions was directing a staged reading of Lysistrata in march 2003 as part of the Lysistrata Project against the war in Irak. Unfortunately it didn't stop the war !

As far as my summer at Indian Lake camp is concerned, I was almost twelve in 58 and it was the first time I was away from my family ! Isn't that ridiculous ? I think I was homesick a lot. I was quite shy. I still have letters from camp written to my parents (letters I recuperated after my mom's death in 1977 ) on stationary my sweet mom sent me. I'll look for them in the next few days. It seems to me I describe an evening campfire event where a counsellor, a certain Helen ??? ( I'll check out the name) rode out of the night on a white horse ! That really impressed me. I also think I mentioned in that letter that certain activities took place in the Barn, because it was raining. I'll dig into my old memory box and re-read the letters. ( I really never expected to have contact with Indian Lake people again. I'm glad I kept those two letters ! I keep a lot of stuff) I think my big disappointment that summer was not to be cast in the role of the young servant in "The King and I " The camper who did the part was lovely, all the same. And good ! But I remember the plaisir I had singing "Just hand me down my walking cane" in a sort of minstrel show we did . I even have a picture somewhere here of me singing . White blouse, white shorts and a cane ! Perhaps other pictures of camp as well on parents visit day . What's really is a coincidence is that Jacques has two old French friends ( i.e. longtime friends who like Jacques are 80 ! ) who still live in new York and have homes in Bushkill ! So Bushkill has been in our minds these last years ! Jacques visited his friends in New York and went to Bushkill about 5 years ago !

Well here I am going down memory lane at two in the morning. I finally finished a long dossier for an important actor's training program I was asked to direct in march and wrote a short theatre piece for an event here in October . Every day I've said to myself I really must write a few words to let you know how touched I was by your mail , yellow and brown like my camp uniform

Oh, one other memory ! I knew how to swim but was afraid to dive head first into the lake to pass my test. So I was punished all summer and had to bathe all the time in the part that was roped off for the real little kids. "The crib" if I recall ! What humilation ! When I went back home, my parents had moved from Wynnefield to a lovely home in Penn Valley with a pool and diving board . First week home and I discoved the joys of diving !

I can't really remember the names of the girls in my bunk. Sally Kagen seems to ring a bell; and the name of Nina Hollander also. (I think I saw it on a list ! )

Well do forgive me for all the blah blah. I am still shy but rather talkative .

My most friendly regards to you all. If any of you come to Paris, please let me know. We are still in the apartment we bought in 79 after my Mom's death... It's becoming quite old and cluttered ( still filled with stuff from the states) but from the 27th floor we have the most marvelous view of Paris you could imagine ! l'd be delighted to have you up for "un cafe" a cup of tea or an aperitif !

Americans abroad are rooting for Obama ! A little hope on the horizon from our point of view ! Having French nationality I can vote "at home" and in France which has become a disaster with Sarkozy.

Sorry to bring in Politics but it's a major concern here! At this hour I tend to mix everything up !

I'm including a photo. If you print up something for the event, I would love to receive a copy. I still have a few dollars in an acount in a PNB account and could send you a check. Let me know !

Have a great reunion

Friendly regards from Paris et à bientôt ! And thank you for having looked me up so far away !

Sheila Coren Tissot

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Thank you very much for your all that you did to make the Reunion such a memorable event. It was a spectacular time. I sincerely appreciate the opportunity to have been a camper at ILC and to have the opportunity to attend the Reunion.

Sincerely, Jeff Komins

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Strangely, I feel sad that the reunion has come and gone. I was looking forward to it more than I realized. Camp songs have been ringing in my head all week and I almost feel the way I felt at the end of camp each summer. I have to admit to not being able to sing "Friends" at the reunion because of the lump in my throat and the tears in my eyes. As I told Fred, ILC was an oasis of happiness for me during some turbulent and unhappy childhood times. Nobody really knows what goes on in a family when the front door is closed. I am so grateful for my summers at camp. I could breathe so freely there.

I now know that I was in Bunk 9 in 1955, the roost in '56 and the CIT bunk in '57. I returned to camp as a waterfront counselor in 1962. I finally figured that out from the counselor signatures in the wonderful Echo that was created for the reunion. Funny, I didn't really read it until today. It was amazing to see my name there in my 1962 handwriting. I write very differently now.

Thank you for all the work you did to make the reunion a reality. I love the website and will probably visit often. I thought I saw a listing of email addresses on the address page, but I can't find it now. Is there such a list?

I know that Lynne, Janie, Julie and Gloria, among others, put alot of time and effort into making the reunion happen. I express my gratitude to all of you. I hope that, when and if the reunion bug bites again, I may be included in the planning and executing...or, at the very least, on the guest list.

All the best, Alice Hoffman Kalish

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Dear Ron, Lynn & Janie,

Thanks to you and your committee, that was a wonderful treat to see and remember good times. A lot of work and time I am sure, but it certainly was worth it. Sorry the DVD I had made didn't work, but if you can get it going you could set it up on the web site for everyone. It was parents visiting day in 1948 and it just put in motion some of the still photos that you showed. I can always re-edit myself out so it won't be so boring and shorten it. Anyway thanks again for a great time and all your hard work. There was a photo of my bunk in 1950, with me on the left end of the front row and Sam Winn on the right. I can't find that on the matrix of photos on the web site. Is it possible to get a copy of that?
Thanks, Jay Federman.

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RON et al;

Thanks for a wonderful time .I know that the committee did so so much planning but it was all worth it. Nina Hollander Lewis

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Dear Ron-
I've been saving this on my computer until after the reunion. And just like life...it's come and gone AND, how wonderful that we now have MORE GOOD MEMORIES----thanks so much for all you did. It was great to spend the afternoon catching up with old friends...or should I say friends from our past (NOT old!).
I tried to find Lynn, Julie and Curt (these are the ones I remembered the most), before I had to rush out with my cousins Sharon (Wexler) and Lee Weintraub, who drove----please thank everyone for me and tell them that it was a wonderful, memorable afternoon and I wish all of you, a Happy and Healthy New Year.
Thanks again, Shirley (Turnoff) Swerdloff

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Edmond Weiss (Drama counselor) and Beverly Eisenberg (Drama CIT) were always in the barn preparing for the next show.

Leslie Pearl was our pianist; Mike Harwood was our set Designer.

We did lots of little plays, but one big Musical for the end of the summer of '62, '63, '64.

I remember Judith Light as Ursala Merkle in Bye-Bye Birdie

I remember Shelly Stock as Maria in West Side Story

I remember Toby Zion as Liza Doolittle in My Fair Lady.

Edmond and I did a scene from The Fantastics

Edmond and I did a scene from Checkov's "The Boor".

I remember all the singing and dancing and rehearsals for he BIG SHOW in the barn at the end of the summers.

Mike Harwood could create sets out of cardboard and brown paper and paint.

It was thrilling and we had the most talented kids on board.

Edmond and I were there for three summers; 1962, 1963, 1964. We were married in June of 64, and went up to camp after our honeymoon until classes began in September at the Annenberg School of Communications where Edmond was getting a MA in Communications at Penn.

It was the most wonderful time of our lives!

PS. We are still (all these 45 years later) doing plays together for our Synagogue in Cherry Hill, NJ.

Beverly (Eisenberg) Weiss

BBWeiss@aol.com

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Riding in the back of the pick up truck to the away games ( volleyball);

Going down the street for horse back riding

Finding out that Liebestrum was not a song about Indian Lake;

Copper enamiling jewelry for my mother ( still have a pin)

Gymp - I just moved and found a hanger my brother " gymped" around

He was also at ILC - started before me and was a waiter when I was there)

Remembering the older boys had to sleep in tents but we were in the "Roost"

Being forced to dance in " THE RED BALLON"

The George M Cohan tribute on the 4th of July

Being in the chorus of South Pacific

Fighting with my counselors and getting "docked"

Most fun - Riflery ( I am very anti gun now) , the over night canoe trips and water skiing

Visiting camp friends in NJ and thinking it was very far away! ( I'm from Philly)

I think we were NOT on Daylight savings time - does anyone remember ?

Joanne Spitz

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Dear Ron.

Seeing the Indian Lake logo in with my mail brought a smile to my face. What fond memories I have of my time at camp! Loved the web site as well.

Regards. Anette

P.S. We currently have a Dartmouth reunion the same weekend as the ILC one but we'll see what we can do.

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My memories are fragments, really. I was at Indian Lake the summers of 1954 & 55, turned seven and eight. I remember my brother Sam holding me aloft in the center of the dining hall and everyone singing Happy Birthday. My brother Richard playing the bugle (or was it the trumpet) for raising the flag, revelries and taps. Swimming in the kids’ area and being terrified of the dark water in the deeper part of the lake until Sam walked me out to the end of the dock and coaxed me in. While he swam backward just in front of me, I kept swimming toward him, until we reached the float. I still feel giddy from the accomplishment. My best friend Walter Van Vort. Wisher plates and grilled cheese sandwiches. Danny Seiver (or was it ie). Being amazed that there was a girls’ hill and someone in my bunk knew how to get there! Baseball. Artie Weiner. Going for a seemingly endless overnight hike that in the morning turned out to be just behind the tents. Listening to the Make Believe Ballroom on the radio. Tying one end of a string to one of my bunkmate’s loose tooth, the other end to the door to the toilet, then slamming the door to pull the tooth out. Bushkill Falls. The Pocono animal zoo (farm), the boats with candles and the rain dance that produced a hurricane and a flood.

Regards. Albert Winn

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Lucille Kalisher, Remembers;

I remember one more line to the "Missouri Waltz tune:

"In this camp of ours we've found the soul of happiness,

Learn to give and take and think of self a little less"

Also in "my years" we danced to:

"Moonlight Serenade" and "Sunrise Serenade" , "Moonlight Becomes You".

all by Glen Miller

Matt Jasner danced with his tall, slim wife. Lucille Kalisher Mann (1940-1942)

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The name of our store was "Kessler's Soda Fountain & Gift Shop", but everyone who knew it always referred to it as "Lefty's". The other store you probably visited, which is still standing, was a few doors down called "Turn's General Store";, I will get you a copy of that and email it shortly. I also have a photo of the front of our store which I will also email to

you.

Hope you reunion works out. I just went to my 35th high school reunion. I had such a horrible time in high school after we moved from PA - but the reunion was great, a lot of fun, and very healing!! God bless, Melissa

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Dear Indian Lake Camp, our hearts we pledge to thee...you're all that we'll ere require. For the friendship and the beauty that you alone can give us..... Brenda Bisk Segal. 10/05/07

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Hey Ron, I found the ILC web site by accident, but so glad I did... what a rush, you should have heard me saying, ILC? NO WAY!! Camp holds a special place in my childhood memories, which were triggered again when Betsy's and my sons (now 23 and 24) went off to camp together 14 years ago... unfortunately not to ILC, which was already long gone.

I have a six-degrees-of-separation story: years into our marriage, I found out that when my husband Frank was on the gymnastics team at Overbrook High, "Mr. Braverman" was the Athletics Director there. I'm guessing he ran athletics at ILC when you were a camper too, or at least when Lynn was. Mr. B died some years ago, I wonder if people know.

I'd love to participate in a reunion, and I'm sure others would too. Thanks for doing this, it was wonderful to find ILC alive in spirit after all these years. Sally Kagen Swift 10/4/07

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Hello Janie,

I so remember you and Bob, and of course Matt. (I'll always remember how he stayed with my brother Bob and me when we got re-routed to City Line Center [from Logan Theater on Broad] in perhaps '55 until someone was able to pick us up there. (I don't recall all the details, but there was some big time delay and Matt got us tickets to see "Demetrius and the Gladiators" with Victor Mature while we waited.)

Anyway, I'm so happy that you had the '57 Bunk 8 photo. (Apparently, over the years and several moves I seem to have misplaced most of the ones I had from ILC.) Unfortunately, I'm afraid my memory is not as good as I would have hoped. (And, sadly, being in DC rather than Philly, I quickly lost touch with my bunkmates.)

In the picture, Lee Blumberg is on the left, next to ???, then me, and then Charles Jaffe and Andy Smulian. The fellow on the right in front is Bob Feinburg. Did Bob list Barry Cohen as one of us? That name doesn't ring familiar to me I'm afraid. [Weak memory?!} For some reason it seems to me that the fellow in front on the left's first name was Steve, although, again, my memory is fuzzy on this. (There was a fellow whose name I believe was Steve who was in the same bunk as I for at least a few years and whose parents arranged that he play a lot of tennis, rather than follow the bunk's schedule.) I wish I could have been of more help.

My brothers and I are all excitedly looking forward to the reunion next year. As I've told Ron before, we are so appreciative of all that he has done to get this all started and keep it moving forward. (FYI, Ron was my counselor in '54.)

Best regards, Michael Tracy

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Thanks for sending this to me! I have so many wonderful memories of ILC- I went in '63, '64, '66 and '67. I still remember the words to some color war songs (Athenians vs. Spartans). I do have a lot of pictures- not only bunk pictures, but pictures taken on the A-field, the trampoline (do you remember the catfish pond near the trampoline?) the Crib (the section of the lake where the younger campers had to swim) the Roost and the Mess Hall.

I remember things like- when color war broke, you woke up to a brown or gold ribbon on your pillow going to water skiing in an old blue truck where we bounced around in the back singing "food, waiter, waiter, waiter, food waiter, waiter.... the last night of camp when we sent candles out on the lake and cried because camp was ending the "buddy system" we followed when swimming in the lake with plastic tags on a peg board.

What ever happened to the placques we made each year that hung over the entrance to each bunk?

I am sending my son to Canadensis this summer for the 1st time and I hope he has the same wonderful experiences that I had at camp.

Please keep me posted on the reunion. Thanks, Fran Bobman Margulies 09/16/07

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Ron,

I'm the guy wearing the white shirt and hat in The Boy Friend, and most likely the guy on the right dressed up as Robin Hood, and possibly one of the guys doing canoe jousting. I was a captain in Color War in 1962. I exchanged lines with Judy Light, and she slapped me. It seems like there are no pictures from 1960-62, but I'll see what I have. I will also send you an in depth email relating to past campers & counselors with my comments and rememberances. Reecy 08/16/07

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Don't think my other E-mail went through. Wanted to thank you for sending me the website. You did a great job. It brought back fond memories. I only had a few minutes to browse through it , as I have to finish packing for our

Baltic cruise . We are leaving tomorrow.

I'll write more when i return ...and as i said , i would be glad to lend

you my pictures of ILC. Thanks again. Regards, Richard Seideman

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Hi Ron, there's a torrential downpour outside and I don't know what made me go to google and search for ILC, but there it was and there you are. so glad! I was at ILC from '52 though '59. Started in bunk 8 [wrote my mother the first week to send a bra as all the other girls had them and when we went to dances, the boys could tell who was wearing one.] then the roost then a CIT when the CITs lived in a separate room in the roost [ I think?] I helped the drama counselors and that year we did the king and I. the drama counselors had their own cottage and a baby. sorry, I’m really bad on names. Lynne and Audrey hi. gosh it's good to read the emails from you, two. of course, you brought back all the wonderful memories. it was during color war that we wrote Liebestraum; hiking to lonesome pine; didn't Bib find it and weren't we one of the first to hike there. and tying a rope around the head counselor's cabin then ringing the bell. Don't think that was with Bib. I still have my archery awards; and the rifle range where we met the waiters at night, we brought the salami and rye and they brought the mustard. I remember the first time and how my knees knocked together. I thought that was just an expression until it happened; and the canoe trips down the rapids and the 3 day canoe trips. Our counselor knew someone with a house there so one night we slept on the porch [again, I think]. And roller-skating with "Derf"; we had to skate on a certain side so he could hear us. Yes, I went back up one summer when I thought they were going to flood the place. Thank goodness they didn't. My sister went before I did and took the board with all our names, but threw it away when she moved. I saw Neala Levinson several years ago. she and her husband live in West Chester, NY and she has a daughter and grandchild.

I have a daughter who is working on her dissertation and has taught university level for many years. She and her fiancé live in Wilmington NC. I fell in love with NC and moved down here about a year and a half ago. My son and his wife and my granddaughter [1 1/2yrs] live in Cherry Hill, NJ and he's the owner of Yampell's Jewelry store in Haddonfield. stop in...it's the oldest business in Haddonfield and he took it over from his grandparents.

Anyway, it's good to know I’m not the only one with fond memories of wonderful summers.

Renee Bonier Yampell

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My son Danny Zion Effron is opening a web based business called www.campintouch.com It will allow all of the Indian Lakers to talk to each other in real time. It will be available the 2nd week of July. Let's all join as alumni and renew old friendships. The reunion plans kind if fizzled. I'm not sure what happened. I did start to get information for a Philly party

but personal business got in the way of having the time to investigate. I hope we can do this sometime soon.

My idea would be to ask people at least six months ahead to committ to the date through e-mail and then ask for $ by

sending something in the mail. The hotels always have great packages for overnight guests and would offer a room and food -lets say dinner and a DJ. What do you think? I really believe that people would pay for this. Up

front we should explain that $ is not refundable. A hotel is our best bet because many people are from out of town. Let me

know your thoughts.

Thanks again for posting the www.campintouch.com info. My son has been working so hard on this. He is just graduating from U of Colorado at Boulder. He has spent the last year creating this Web site. I think it will be fabulous for existing campers and alumni.

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Ron: Came across the site, I attended this camp for a number of years in the very early 1950's, I have some pictures somewhere that I will copy and send to you. I remember one of my counselors was Irv Fish. I recognized one of the campers in one of the photos whose name, I believe was Warren Weiner. Great memories, thanks. It may take me awhile to locate the pictures, however I know I have them. I was there, I think from 1950 through 1954, the following Summer I went to Akiba.

A couple things I recall that I did not see on your list were nature hikes through the mountains and looking under rocks for salamanders and the little boats that we all made and launched on the lake with candles on the last night of camp, do you recall? My older sister, Neala Levinson also was there during the 1950-54 time period. I do not remember what bunk I was in and most of the names are lost to me, I was about 7 or 8 when I started there I think and my sister is almost 4 years older than I am. In addition to the bunk counselor group pictures I also have a lot of individual photos of various parts of the camp, need to look through my boxes to find them. No problem in adding my recollections to the web page. The years at Indian Lake were a totally positive experience, we lived in much simpler times back then really wish I could go back in time! I found the four bunk photos from 1951 - 1954, also found a picture of one of my bunks, the water tower, visiting day (I think) and some other photos. After looking at some of the photos I believe some of the campers in my bunk were from Trenton, NJ and from Philadelphia, as I look at them some of the names are coming back to me. A few were friends of mine from very early childhood that I have not seen in well over 50 years! I will try to get these to you soon. I do recall some of the names of some of the campers in the pictures however, Michael Popkin was a friend of mine from Trenton, he may know the bunk number for one or two years. Two of the other names I recall were Gotleib and Dobkin, I did not see their names on the master list of campers, but then again, my name was not on that either? Sorry I can't provide that or the names of the counselors other then Irv Fish, I think he was one of my counselors for two years.) Once again, thank you for taking on this project, it is very worthwhile, I will search for the individual photos I have and get them to you with what I can recall about them. I will also let my sister Neala know about the site, she may have some recollections to add as she was a teenager there.

Regards, Gary Levinson (1950 – 1954)

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Hi Ron. I was a camper at Indian Lake (from the Elkins Park-Cheltenham School district "contingent") when Jeanette Pontz was there. Was that 1951? There may have been one other head counselor during my time as well but I don't remember the name. I remember Mickey Contini on the boy's hill and it seems to me that Matt Jasner was the camp owner. I also remember BIB - and her full name, but I think she didn't like it. Who was "Derf"? I think I started in Bunk 8 or 9 - Lois and Doris may have been the counselors. It was the year that hurricane Hazel (I think) left us without toilets (it breezed in just after a great canoe trip) and we had to dig a latrine down the hill in the woods behind the bunk. I tried to be first in line, forgot to put on my shoes and had to go back to the bunk to get them. I really hated being last in line that day.The first year I was a camper I was very homesick. It was a very insecure time in my life. In subsequent years I grew up a bit, had more confidence and didn't want to go home at the end of the summer.Thinking about Firefly Night still chokes me up. I recall being in the roost when there were 2 sides to the cabin. I don't remember why it was divided. Did anyone ever rescue the names listed on the walls before the demolishing took place? Did we also have a CIT bunk in the old Bunk 1? I returned to ILC as a waterfront counselor one summer (or was it 2 summers?) when I was at Penn. I worked waterfronts at several camps after ILC but none of them had the great set-up of Indian Lake. I always thought that having the Boy's Hill and Girl's Hill separated by the lake (and connected by the rifle range!) was a good idea. "Man on the hill" was the call that kept us feeling private. "Hold your buddy's hand H-I-G-H" was a call that I always used at my waterfronts and pools over my years as swim director at other camps in NY and MD. Since most of my colleagues only called out "buddies", my call always reminded me of ILC. "Baby Owlet"still rings in my head when I read about baby animals and birds with my grandchildren (3 girls and 4 boys as of September, 2006).

For the record, I have been married to Steve Kalish of Margate NJ for 39 years. We have 3 daughters, all of whom are married to wonderful men. Steve is President of a consulting company in Washington DC and I love being a suburban housewife after many years of teaching Spanish from 6th grade through College undergraduate. We enjoy our family and boating on and around the Chesapeake Bay. We're thinking about taking a longer trip when we have more time.

Well, Ron. That's it for now. I hope some of this is interesting enough to excerpt for the website. I have no hope of finding pictures from my years at ILC but I do enjoy seeing the ones posted. Thanks so much for doing this. Was there ever a reunion?

All the best. Alice Hoffman Kalish

Hi again, Ron. I just took a look at the Fernwood Resort website. Their lake looks like OUR lake. I'm glad something nice was built there. Alice Kalish

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Ron,

I came across your site when checking aerial maps to try to find the camp. Hey thanks for doing this. I came across Rob Laskin, who was in my bunk in 68 the last year. If you like I'd like to post my address on the site, I can't remember all the kids in my bunk, but I remember my CIT was Jerry Fatow and he had a great collection of mid-60s Motown music--established a life long preference.

I've traveled a long road since dancing in the Barn. I recently retired after 25 years as an Air Force Helicopter pilot and am now a civilian test pilot flying military aircraft at Kirtland AFB NM. Married (v2.0) with 3 kids--looking to send my older 2 back to NJ to go possibly go to Camp Hilltop where I was sentenced after ILC closed.

You can make the NM roll call "2" Best Regards Rick Greenblatt 04/12/07

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Hi Ron

I came across your website and read the emails of many friends and familiar names from the 60’s, including Randy Jackson & Rob Zubrow. My brother Mark, sister Frannie and I have fond memories of our years there: colorwar & songfest, firefly night, riflery, bug juice & cookies, shower house (ugh!), morning swim in the lake, raiding boy’s hill, getting mail & care packages….I loved every summer. It’s a shame it’s gone now. I still have my bunk pictures. Let us know when the next reunion is scheduled. I am still friendly with Susan Cohen. Great website.

Shelley Bobman

Merion Station, PA

Please put me on the mailing list. I was there for several years in the '50s. Bunk 5 - Tent 3. > Bruce Yoskin, 1685 NW 170th Ave., Pembroke Pines, FL 33028 byoskin@aol.com. My brother Neil, also from the '50s is at nyoskin@comcast.net.
Sincerely, Bruce Yoskin

Ron, great to come across your website about ILC. I was a homesick camper in the early to mid 1960's. A great counselor named Pete Yaffe got me through it. It was a growing experience and a wonderful one looking back. Some neighbors of mine down the street in Philadelphia had been going there for several years and recommended it to my parents. They were the Bobman's, Mark, Shelly, and Francine. I still have my marksman and archery medals buried in a box somewhere. Thanks for the memories, and great site. I'll scrounge around for some pics. All the Best, Randy Jackson

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My name was Ellen Einhorn and I attended ILC from 1950-1952. I have some bunk pictures and other photos...most of which I inherited after my mother died. Please keep me in the loop. ellen wolff

Ruthye Laskin, drama and dance counselor from 1961-1964 , mother of Suzie, Amy and Rob Laskin, (ILC 1961-1968) passed away on December 10, 2005. Ruthye went to ILC as a camper too, probably in the 1930’s. Some of her best friends to this day were her ILC friends, Flossie Liebster Berger, Sunny Zubrow, Carol Kaytes, Dorothy Fatow and Pat Delman.

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Dear Ron. I have enjoyed reminiscing via your site, and have especially enjoyed the photos. Although I spent only one summer at ILC as nature. hiking/camping counselor in 1961, I have fond memories of my time there. Richie Tannembaum and I had bunk #3 as I recall, with 8 or 9 year olds, of whom I recall only kippy Schaff(sp?) and a Richie A(?), whom I brought out of a depressive funk when I helped him catch a fish in the lake!

I went back to the defunct camp site in 1971 (a Phillies pitcher was throwing a no-hitter at the time), and all the buildings seemed to be still standing. The next time I got back, Fernwood had developed the place, and I was very disoriented! I still have a lot of my old interests in nature, and do a lot of hiking in the mountains, and enjoy landscaping with native plants. Please keep me posted as to any reunion plans. Thank you. Jeff

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I was in the Poconos a few years ago working on a photography project about deserted and abandoned Jewish summer camps but could’t find ILC. I found Fernwood but didn’t realize that it was the site of Indian lake Camp. Will have to try again some other time. What was especially disappointing was speaking with the historian at the National Park and she had no record of Indian Lake Camp. Ridiculous to think the headquarters for the park was so near to the ILC location.

Best, Albert Winn

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I have been meaning to send you my address and other pertinent information to add to your Indian Lake Camp database. I was a camper, waiter and "chef" from 1962 until its last summer in 1968. I did attend the only reunion at camp in the 80's (?) while the "Barn" was still standing. I was interested in the idea of another reunion if you can pull it off. I know Toby Zion talked about one several years ago.
I went back to the website to check what info people were sending and I found the e-mails. What a bit of nostalgia. Reading those e-mails from so many of the people I knew from the years I was there. It brought back great memories of one of the best times in my life. Every year counting the days until camp would start. It would really be great to get something planned to bring as many people as possible together to recount our personal ILC stories and catch up on where we all ended up after those years. Good luck. I will check your website to learn of any developments in an Indian Lake Camp reunion. Thanks for your hard work.
Glenn Kaplan

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Hi Ron,

I have many memories of Indian Lake Camp between 1966 and 1968 but the one that stands out the most was being bedridden in the infirmary with a pneumonia. I was cared for by Barbara Waitz and Sunny. The dramatic counselor, Judy Licht was also sick during this time. She told me to remember her name, for some day she would be a famous actress. She was right. (Judith Light in "Who's the Boss" )Thanks for this site. Regards, Brad Price goinprice@comcast.net

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Hello Ron,

My name is Michael "Pig" Reisman. I attended Indian Lake Camp from 1959-1961. I am now living in Bar Harbor, Maine and working for a small cancer resource center. I found this website while deciding to google one of my bunkmates, Russell Charmack, to see if I could find out what he might be doing when I happened on this website of great memories. The pictures are great and the names of old camp friends and counsellors I had forgotten about brought smiles to my face. Thank you for your efforts. I will be checking out the website on a regular basis. The remember section is also great. I remember how Packy shoveled coal so that we had hot water for the shower and how much I respected him. Thank you again for the memories. Michael Reisman

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Dear Ron,

I was delighted to stumble upon your website a few moments ago. I often wished someone had done what you have started. Way to go!

My name is Dan Krieger. I was born in 1952 and remember being the youngest camper at age 3 so it must have been the summer of 1955 that was my first year. I went every year from Bunk 1 up to the tents. I played bugle for revele, flag raising (remember line up?) , taps and to bring the camp to the barn for Friday night services. Like most of my fellow bunkmates, some of whom I remember well...Richard Kamp, Marc Zubrow, Jerry Fatow, we loved I.L.C. As the song goes, whether in feather or dark stormy weather we're friends friends. Richie Kamp and I would leg wrestle at campfires under the willow tree down by the lake. I used to love head counselor Mickey Contini and each of us boys would rush to grab his hand first to walk down the hill to the dining room. I always remember taking my first dive off the board into the lake in exchange for a Mickey Mantle baseball card from my counselor. Remember canoeing (and of course turning the canoe upside down and overhead), flicking towels at the lake and the "hike" up the long wide steps from the lake to the cabins? What about snapping turtles? Or rollerskating in the barn with old fasioned skates you used a key on to tighten. How about a pretzel and a big sugar daddy in a small brown bag to last an entire move in the barn? Playing tetherball, archery, rifle range? I remember the incinerator near the basketball court which always had something burning in it, and the cold water fountain by the tennis court. Bill Braverman and Fred Lehman who taught us to be good. Or the red open truck that carried us to the Delaware to go water skiing behind the 13 foot Boston Whaler piloted by Billy Pearl? Reading comic books on our bunks for the one hour rest period after lunch (I am attaching a letter to my parents on ILC stationary requesting they send me comic books). I remember sweeping the cabin floor with that green stuff to pick up the dirt/dust, making my bed with hospital corners and the requirement that a quarter bounces off of it. I have tons of awards which my mother keeps and is still proud of. I was once rider of the camp. Remember Deanie and her husband George from Fernwood Riding Stables? I met them several years ago on a visit to the area.

Let us always remember the camp song... " I go to ILC so pitty me, theres not a girl in the vicinity, and every night at nine they lock the doors, I don't know what the heck I'm doing here. I'm gonna smoke and drink and neck and peck and what the heck, the hell with ILC".

I'll forward some more pictures of the camp and our bunk and stuff like that later on. Please add me to your lists. How about a reunion someday?

Dan Krieger

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Hi Ron,

My mom was camp nurse and I was a camper from 1960 until 1968. I thought you might like to list my email. mrzubrow@hotmail.com

My wife and I live in Mexico City. I have regaled her with many tales from Indian Lake. We have a seven month old who one day will have to hear about boys hill and the raids. Or roller skating in the barn listening to the temps and "My Girl". Who can forget the cantine?

Best Regards,

Rob Zubrow

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Hello Ron,
I attended Indian Lake from the Late 50s to mid 60s. You have my sister Margie listed I see. How do you get the camper info?
It's ok to add me to the list if you want.
There are a few people I would be interested in contacting. Is it ok
to if they list there email?
This is a cool thing you are doing. It brings back lots of good memories.
I will ask my sister if she wants her info listed.
Thanks again, Rich Kamp

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Dear Ron.

Received your camp materials from my sister. boy, did that bring back memories. so nice to see someone was able to maintain some type of memory book. By the way, the spelling of our names is wrong. here is the correct spelling n stuff. Eric I. Lerner.

I do have some names and current addresses of some others, including my cousins who spent many years at ILC. i was there from approx 1962 thru being a waiter in 1969. I will get the information to you shortly. Currently, I am a partner in law firm of Bezark and Lerner in Phila. have been practicing for about 27 years.

Best regards, Eric Lerner

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Hi My name is Susan Lerner . My brother Eric Lerner and I went to ILC through the 1960's. We were there when Marv then Max was in charge of the girls hill. I remember inspections and me stealing the whistle and blowing it. I also remember water skiing and just plain great memories!!!! I am glad I found this website! Shelley Stock was a counselor then, Jerry Lakoff was there and a host of others that I cannot think of at this time. Debbie Abrams too...

Susan Lerner Heckles

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Ron--

Jonathan Coleman here. Glad to know about the web site. I notice a number of names missing, some of whose whereabouts I know. Do I simply send those in and you will update?

I believe I was the youngest camper ever, begining in Bunk One at age 4 (only stayed two weeks) and staying in Bunk One for 3 years. My counselor was Mickey Contini.

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I am so surprised and glad that I found the Website that you created for Indian Lake. Indian Lake holds for me many memories of growing up. I am Shelly Stein and living in Santa Barbara, CA. My e-mail address is gostein@cox.net. I have many photos of the camp that I would like to share with everyone if only I can get to that hidden away box. Do you remember awaking to LONG AND SHORTS?

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OMG, Suzie, I had soooo much fun reading your e-mail to Ron (my bro.).

Yep, I'm one in the same...before being riflery counselor when you were there in 1961, I was girls side canoe counselor doing all the canoe overnights and those wonderful Delaware rapids in 1956 & 1957. I returned when I was 21, in 1961. That year cured me...I lost my lust for ILC because it was run so poorly compared to all the years I went as a camper...from 1945-1957, then 1961.

As a bit of history...the bunk you said your parents stayed in, back when my mother was a counselor, the year the Lehman's started the camp, was called the Midgies (Midget) bunk. They took toddlers back then and that's where they bunked. The "infirmary" was built sometime during my years there. The infirmary used to be in the main house, above the mess hall, until they built the new one, down the path just before the Midgies bunk.

As you can see from the below link, I've formed a local Kayak Club. My girlfriend and I each purchased kayaks last summer to celebrate our 64th birthday. It dawned on me that if either of us decided we really didn't like it, or we stopped being friends (which happens with friends, somehow) that neither of us would have anyone to kayak with, so I made a web page and one-by-one, people found it and we now have 41 members!!!! Note: I don't do rapids any more...don't have the guts for it...we only do flatwater.

I'm divorced, with 2 girls in their mid to late 30's. One is married with 2 children and the other is living with a guy...pending a wedding date.

I'm "inta" dogs. I bred and showed Bichons Frise since 1979. Upon retiring from full-time employment, I decided to stop breeding/showing because it's so time consuming, and now I board Bichons Only. I love it...it's like being a grandmother...no grooming, no training, just feed 'em, love 'em and return 'em back to their parents.

I'm sooooooo jealous of your mini-reunion. Sure wish I had heard about it when it happened. I too returned to the site in the 70's with my girls...all the buildings were there...checked-out my name in the Roost and/or Bunk 8...not sure right this second which bunk we did that. I still have my "presentation" paddle and have used it at least once every year since. Now, of course, it has been retired in favor of my kayak paddle.

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Dear Ron:

Thank you so much for posting this website. I just heard about it from my friend, Jane Delman, who is still one of my closest friends, and has been since we were in bunk 7 together in 1963. Lynn Cohen, of riflery fame, was our bunk counselor (I wonder if that’s the same Lynn Cohen who has posted to the site?). I am still in touch with several others from ILC to this day.

I was the winner of “The Paddle” in 1966, and I too, still display it proudly in my home. Canoeing down “the rapids” on the Delaware River canoe trips led me to my lifelong obsession with canoeing and whitewater kayaking.

Some of my fondest memories are of the years spent at ILC, 1961-1968. If camp hadn’t closed, I’d probably still be going. Around 1979, several of us organized a camp reunion. We had contacted Fernwood Resort, who then owned it, and they allowed us to have our reunion on the camp grounds. The barn was there (it has since burned down) and Fernwood made box lunches for us that we ate on the barn lawn. I think that we had managed to find about 100 people and had a wonderful turnout at our reunion.

Afterward, a bunch of us went to “Jonesees”. I”ve always wondered why we called it “Jonesees” – the name on the sign was “Hiram’s Rest”.

I remember sneaking out to Fernwood in the afternoons—they had a soda fountain and gift shop over there.

Another crazy memory: when we were in the Roost, we moved our beds down the hill in the middle of the night, and lined them up in a row, from the Bridge Bunk up to the Coop, so that when Max came up the hill to blow his whistle to wake everyone, there we all were in our beds out in the middle of Girls Hill. Then we had to move the beds all the way back up the hill again. I think Hope Boonshaft was our counselor and instigator of that escapade. What ever possessed us to do that???

I’m now in New Hampshire and my address is 62 Province Brook Road. Chatham, NH 03813 email: Suzie@JTRealty.com. I have loads of photos. Are you still collecting pictures and would you like me to email some to you?

My sister, Amy Laskin, went to camp 1963-1968. She lives in Jamaica. Her address is

Gordontown PO, St. Andrews, Jamaica, West Indies. amy@wtjam.net

My brother, Rob Laskin, went to camp 1963-68. His address is 21 Karen Drive, Pittsgrove, NJ 08318. ril4585@msn.com

As well, our mother, Ruthye Laskin was a camp counselor for some of the years that we went to camp, from 1963-1966. She was a dance and drama counselor. She is at 2000 Valley Forge Circle, King of Prussia, PA 19406. ruthyebud2@webtv.net. Our dad, Buddy Laskin used to come up with David Delman every weekend to visit us. Our parents had a little cottage beyond the infirmary that they stayed in on the weekends. I think that Delmans shared that cottage with them. Sadly, Buddy passed away 3 years ago.

She is still close friends with the other camp moms- Pat Delman, Carol Syken, Sunny Zubrow, Dorothy Fatow.

Fondly,

Suzie Laskin

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Hi Ron,

I just saw your web site of ILC and I am so excited! I went to camp from 1963-1968 which was the last year. I have some powerful memories of camp(as do my two sisters) and still remain friends with people from there. I was in the area this past summer and went to camp. As you know, there isn't anything left from the old days but it is still wonderful to be there. I heard something about a reunion in the works. That would be great. Let me know what I can do.

Jane Delman

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Ron:

Thanks for the updates. I took a look at the web site after you sent me the update. I will look through my photo albums again and see if I have any other pictures that might be good for the ILC website. I think it would be good if people could identify some of the people in the pictures. Also, the address for Peter is incorrect. He now lives in Pittsburgh. I will email him and see if it is all right to give out his home address. FYI - I keep in touch with Sunny Zubrow. She was camp nurse for a number of years. I may have told you this already so, forgive me if I am repeating, while in Delaware I hooked up with Sunny because her son, Marc, is a physician at Christiana Care - a super physician. I remembered him as a "little" boy - all the Zubrows were adorable. Sunny said that at High Holiday services she saw Kenny Donner and that he lives in Boca. I think I'll try and get in touch. Anyway, now that our grand daughters have gone back home I have to occupy myself so as not to feel lonely

Have a Happy and Healthy New Year - keep up the good work,

Gloria Strick Fine

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Hello Ron:

I was shocked to see the ILC web page. Alan Kotz, also an ILC'er from Baltimore and were looking up an old friend from camp when we stumbled onto the site.

You have heard from my sister, Tobi. There are a lot of us who have remained very close over the years. We were in camp in the 60's until Derf sold to Fernwood in 1968. As a matter-of-fact our great-grandfather put up some of the money to start ILC. Tobi mentioned we had our last reunion in 1979 on the camp grounds at the Barn. Fernwood was very cooperative and provided food in the old mess hall.

Three years ago I stopped by ILC with my daughter. I met her mother there and wanted her to see it. Obviously much was gone but the lake remains as does the stone hedges that run around it.

There are many people with whom I remain friends who are in those pictures on the web page. One person in particular is Betsy Delman (now Betsy Sherwood) who is in one of the pictures. I am very interested in doing all I can to make a 2005 reunion a reality. Please feel free to contact me.

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Jon Zion

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Hi Ron,

Wow, talk about a delayed response...Nevertheless, I'm glad you replyed to my original email.

Back in 1973 I did attend a 'camping' area with my grade school when I was in the 6th grade, I also attended the same place in 1972 when I was in the Pocono Boy Singers. Don't know the name of it, I do know there's 7 or 8 cabins(with showers), a pool, (which was empty) and lots of woods for hiking, volleyball court and huge view of the mountains that was impressive for this, then, 10 year old. There was a main cabin where everyone ate an another big cabin which was for the girls.... I know it's past the Bushkill falls entrance if you head north on 209, and if you continue north, you'll see, what I called, cliffs on the left side of 209 and then I guess after a while, its somewhere up there on the left.... Don't know if any of those "land marks" sound familar... I saw all the photos on your website and those on LOC and they don't ring a bell at all, I remember that place, it was the first time I was camping and it was fun!

Thanks again, if you know what I'm talking about (and you might not) let me know please, thanks!~

Pete

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Ron - what a trip down memory lane this is! How did you compile all of this information? However you did it, thank you: My summers at ILC (50's/60's) were the happiest times of my childhood, and this website is my madelaine cookie if there ever was one. My e-mail address is bgoff@sportmgt.umass.edu, and I would love to be kept on your list for further updates. I'm sure my sister Sally would, too. Hers is sswift1@aol.com. Thanks again for doing this - it is soooooooooooooooo cool! Betsy (Kagen) Goff

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Ron,

My brother, Rick, just told me about your ILC site. Wonderful idea! Wonderful job! It's been a rare pleasure to go through it, and I hope the word will get out to more of our fellow alumni.

It's been so long that I can't remember the precise years I was at ILC: three years as a camper (1951, 1953, 1954?), couple of years as a waiter (1955, 1956?), and three years as a counselor, ending in 1961.

Many thanks,

Steve Vernon

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Dear Ron,

Judy Bronstein Milestone contacted me, and I was delighted to see the website. I was at ILC for 11 years, 1951, 1953- 1955, 1957-1963. I have great memories of the place.

I'm now a partner in a law firm in Bethesda, Maryland, and married for 33 years, with 3 children and 3 grandchildren (almost a 4th). One of my counselors from 1953 (bunk 5), Lee Lowenberg, delivered our first child, in 1973.

Home address is 10504 Stable Lane, Potomac, MD 20854-3866; phone 301-299-3259. I'd be delighted to hear from fellow ILC'ers.

Warmest regards, Rick Vernon

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Just saw your website. I was at ILC from, I think, 1950 to the early 60's. I went from Bunk 1 to Tent 3 and then was a waiter. I also was a counselor during the summer of 65. The counselors I remember
were Dick Cautilli and Gil Sopher. I also remember Irv Fisch (sp?).
Anyway, I'd love to get in touch with those folks. Ron James, 309
Powell Road, Wynnewood, PA 19096 re.james@verizon.net

============================================================================================================I found your site. My sister is listed. I can scan a picture of my bunk from the 60s.

In the meantime, though, is the camp still operating? I would love to send my kids there.

John D. Seiver

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HI there,

We are so excited to see the web site for camp! I am at my mother's home now in Florida. Her name is Flossie Liebster Berger and was a camper from the midget bunk until the Roost way back in 1933 - 1943! She remembers every single camp song. She said Friday was hike day and they cleaned the bunks while they were out. She remembers Jones in Bushkill, and Kesslers, Winona five Falls, hiking to Fernwood. Of course she remembers color war, fire fly night where they made boats and a wish on the last night and cried and the chief did all the indian ceremonials. Her older sister, Lila Liebster Batt (PA) also was a camper the same years and became a counselor. On the photos, the fourth from the left on top, she remember Doris Wilder who they called Fire because she was every guys flame and Hazel who wore braids around her head. I also was a camper I think in 1960 - ? My name is Judy Berger Bogdanoff (CO). My sister Amy Berger Renninger(PA) and brother David Berger(FL) also were campers. I can't believe you can have a site without knowing about Patty Rodchesty. She lives in Baltimore now and was the ultimate counselor when I went to camp. She lead all the singing in the morning in the Coup. My mother's friend is Ruthy Laskin (PA) who was a camper. Then as an adult while her daughters went to camp, she was a counselor for dance.

I was shocked to see on the list people I know now, who I had no idea were campers! My mother's memory is much better than mine. I will have to shake out some cobwebs and dig through the pictures. Let me know if you would like me to send pictures and addresses.

Camp was so special to our family. Our children went to Camp Kweebec in PA and just last year my daughter and her husband bought a camp in Cape Cod called Wingate*Kirkland.

Thanks for making the site. It was fun remembering!

Judy

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Hi Ron, My father's real name was Stephen Barr, but everyone called him Lefty. My mom was Mary Kessler Barr. The name of the store was Kessler's Soda Fountain and Gift Shop, but everyone called it Lefty's. I remember when all the campers used to come and storm the store
for comic books and candy and the pinball machines.

My father, whose family is from Mass. came to work in the poconos where he met my mother, the daughter of the store's owners. The store was originally owned by my grandparents Julius and Alice Kessler. They also owned the bar next door which they sold to Rick
DePue (Beth Depue the daughter) is still my best friend and we are 50 and have known each other since we were two!. Also on the same street was Turn's General STore which was a grocery store with everything from a-z. Growing up there was definately a "Walton's
Mountain" type childhood. It is very sad though because everything is gone for about 30 years now. The church is still there, the post office, and Turns General Store. The state bought everyone out in the early 60's for a project that never went through. I visit at least once a year (live in Massachusetts now). Lefty died about 25 years ago. I found your site by searching on "lefty +bushkill". There was a Bushkill Historical Society through the Dutch reform Church for a while, but I don't know if it's still in existence. They had few old pictures of the town, but it's too bad there weren't a lot more. If I can find one of the store that's small enough to scan, I'll send it to you.
in the meantime, God bless! Thanks again. Melissa (Barr) Campbell
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Ron, I do remember speaking with you several years ago when you were trying to accumulate names and addresses (I first went to Indian Lake in 1956, and was the waiters' counselor in 1960). Thanks for the note about Bushkill. I don't remember Kessler's, but I do remember the place where the counselors went for pizza at night, which I believe went by the name of "Joneses" (pronounced "Jones eeze"). By the way, I had lunch several weeks ago with Gil Sopher, who was the waiters' counselor the first year I went to Indian Lake. Curt Pontz----- Original Message -----

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Thanks, Ron! I have vague memories of Kessler's, DePue's and the General Store in Bushkill. And I definitely remember the "little white church" across the road.
I haven't forgotten about sending you my ILC photos (there are soooooo many!), but I don't have a scanner and have yet to find someone who does and knows how to use it. You will get them though. Do you ever get into center city Philadelhia? Julie Pontz Curson

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And last time I visited (I think it was the summer of 1991) there was a "geyser" in the lake. Many of the original buildings are still there...along with all of the Fernwood development covering much of the grounds. Let me know when you are in town, and perhaps I can get some of the photos together to lend you so they can be put on the website.

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Ron,
I haven't been able to find any memorabilia from ILC, except I do have a
movie. I'll look at some footage and see if there is a way to digitize it.
Anyway I think I am in the photo of '54 (if I've read the year correctly.
Thanks, Jay

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Hello, this is Mark Strick, brother of Gloria-ruth, and younger brother of Peter. We were campers there in the 50's and possibly into the early 60's. For those of you who haven't been to ILC in many, many years, this will interest you. Several years ago, my wife and I had an offer to tour a time share locale in "Fernwood, PA." Obviously, that struck a cord, so we
accepted. I remembered that across the street were the Fernwood stables and golf par-3 golf course so I thought that maybe that was where the time share would be. So we accepted and I was really excited to be able to go back and reminisce. Unfortunately, the time share location was literally on the grounds of our beloved ILC. As I took the tour, I remembered the old bunk bridge, the lake.....it all came back to me. I was a little embarrassed because every turn we took, I was telling my wife that I did this at this location, or I did that at this location...... I was in my second childhood. The sad story is that ILC is now a time share condo resort.....and a nice one at that. The stables were still there, as was a nice full 18 hole golf course. For those interested, look up Fernwood...... and like Michael J. Fox, go back to the future.

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Hi Ron, I just wanted to thank you for keeping the wonderful memories of ILC alive. I am still a camper at heart and work as the doctor at a Pocono Camp. Please keep doing a great job. Please add another old ILC camper to your e-mail Jresey Brownstein his e-mail address is Jerald.Brownstein @mnp.com Thanks again, Elliot Menkowitz

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I'm Jerald Brownstein and I was delighted to have rec'd this email forwarded to me by Elliot Menkowitz. I was a waiter at ILC for 2 years which I think was in 1957 and 1958. My 2 brothers, Kenny and Howie we there also as well as several cousins by the name of Goldstein. I'd really like to learn more of what you have about ILC, its campers,counselors, etc. thanks !

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Hi Ron, Thanks for posting ILC memorabilia including songs (from me so far). Here are three more that come to mind.... Hope all goes well. Best, Audrey

"LIEBESTRAUM": Oh Indian Lake Camp our hearts we pledge to thee-ee, you're all
that we 'ere desire. For the good-ness and the beau-ty that you alone can give
us, you're all that our hearts aspire. Your spirit everlasting will always
guide us right leading us from the darkness into the light of day, the light
of day. Oh Indian Lake Camp our hearts we pledge to thee-ee. You're all that
we'll 'ere desire.

TELL ME WHY:
Tell me why the stars do shine
Tell me why the ivy twines
Tell me why the sky's so blue
And I will tell you, just why I love you.

Because God made the stars to shine
Because God made the ivy twine
Because God made the sky so blue
God made dear Indian Lake
That's why we love you.

"I-N-D-I-A-N LAKE, C-A-M-P CAMP":
I-N-D-I-A-N LAKE, C-A-M-P CAMP, we love you.
I-N-D-I-A-N LAKE, C-A-M-P CAMP, 'ere be true.
We love you in the morning and we love you in the noon.
We love you in the evening and beneath the silvery moon.
I-N-D-I-A-N LAKE, C-A-M-P CAMP, we love you.

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Ron: My name is Ken Rubin. I was a camper at Indian Lake around 1957 for a couple of years. I attended several camps in Pa, including Saganaw, and Pine Forest, but Indian Lake was my favorite. Would like to know if Indian Lake is still in existence. Am interested in visiting during the summer, so I need a contact. Would appreciate any assistance you can give me. Thanks. Ken

Good to hear from you. Sorry to hear that the camp is gone. Don't remember anyone from those days; with the possible exception of Phil Einhorn(?). But it has been so long that I would not recognize him. My address: 7417 Royal Dominion Drive, Bethesda, Md. 20817. Enjoy your trip . Ken

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Below are some memories...from the Girls' Hill:
Audrey Lehrman blowing in her bugle on her way to the Shower House
(Shower Hse...another memory) to warm it up. Mist on the lake in August.
Flag raising & lowering.
The Lonesome Pine
Lois (Somebody) getting covered with poison ivy and having to go home after she and another counselor blazed a trail to the LP.
Nature walks in our boots up that little stream that fed the lake.
Stealing chocolate milk under the mess hall at night. Milk Line & Bug Juice
Arts & Crafts under the Coop.
Paper Bag dramatics
Sunday camp fires & s'mores
Color War
Winning Volley Ball games with Bib.
Scavenger Hunts
Seeing the kitchen help peeling scads of potatoes while taking the lower path to the athletic field.
Bees on the tennis courts.
Huge dragonflies that bombarded us.
All those camp songs we knew inside out and backwards...don't know them now!
Sharon Wexler as Annie in "Annie Get Your Gun"! Daddylongleg spiders in your bed.
Bats in the bunk...Bib captured one in Bunk 8, with a tennis racquet & tennis ball can!

Anybody remember that one? Dead mice in Bunk 7's shower drain...we couldn't figure out what that smell was! Walt Hazzard did!
Matt Jasner's black nose clips.
Diving to the bottom of the lake for an "Advanced Swim Test" to bring up a handful of gunk to prove you got to the bottom!

The wonderful food (except liver nights)...the chocolate pudding that has yet to be replicated!
Such wonderful memories!! Lynn Cohen
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Hi! Have been reading all the E-mails, but to be honest, I don't remember a lot about that period of time, but for an almost 72 year old, that's not bad. I do remember the year of the flood. I haven't done a rain dance since. :) Bib Brenner

=============================================================================I remember you in volleyball. I remember "Bib" but not "Ekal Timmus" unless I get it backwards! I remember trying my hardest to succeed at softball and actually hitting the ball. I played catcher for awhile in high school. I remember going to the pitch and putt - hating it. It wasn't until I hit my
mid-forties that I tried golf. Needless to say, I'm hooked. It's a shame I didn't start earlier. I remember taking tennis lessons. Everyone was right handed except me. It was pretty difficult to transpose. How about the raspberry bushes. How about the canoe trips down the rapids. How about Color War. Gloria Strick

Ekal Timmus was the camp Bib had been before coming to ILC...she had t-shirts from there that had Summit Lake printed on them, but Bib wore them inside-out when she came to ILC...therefore, they read "eakaL timmuS. I recently wrote Jane that I can't remember individual stuff much any more...but the big picture I remember soooo well...the lake, FireFly night, Paperbag Dramatics, Eating cracker contests and the first to whistle won. I don't have copies of the letters Jane and I have been sending back and forth, so will try and recall all that we've said before getting the list started. All of us should post memories and recollections...it's sooo much fun reading them and letting your mind wander. Oh, yeh, remember those big bees on the tennis courts? I almost never took the tennis lessons...usually they were cancelled..either because of the bees, or they clay courts had to be rolled and no one had done it. Lynn Cohen

Lynn, I'm try to recall our lists: Picnic lunch on the Barn lawn on Fri---toss the orange Candles and Queen Anne's lace flowers on the boats the last night The Fair My Uncle Matt's flashlight length between couples at the dance
The Little White Church (hike)
My first drink at Altier's...7 & 7
Lynn remembers grahams and milk under the mess hall in the rain; add to that all the raincoats hung up down there.
Meeting the boys in the middle of the night at the rifle range; chewing gum on the way so our breath would smell nice.
Meeting a counselor (WHO??) returning from the rifle range!!
Dance recitals on parents' day
Saltwater Taffies and Paddles sent by parents from Atlantic City
And one of my favorites.......WISHPLATES
More later from.... Janie Jasner

Lonesome Pine
HUGE spiders in the shower house
Tents as bunks on the boys hill
Bats
Shooting stars that swooshed into near-by bushes while sitting for night-patrol.
Bib's flood memory is a must on the list.
When I was rifelry counselor in 1961...I was the first female in the pocono camp system to head a rifle range..we had 3 matches with other camps and won all 3!!!!
Ron...tell us about the day they opened the gates at lake Wallenpaupak while you were on a canoe trip.
Bug juice...was that cool aide or what? I never knew.
Mist on the lake in August
Freezing at line-up on August mornings
Sweating and swatting sweat-bees on the A field.
Wasps in the equipment box on the baseball field. Bye for now Lynn Cohen

Hi My name is Judy Axelrod Jaron and just got word of your Web Site. It is great and I had fun remembering so many things. I went to Indian Lake for six years. I have some camp pictures that I would like to try to get to you. I do not know how to scan pictures but I will try to get someone to do that for me. My E-MAIL Address is gammiejj@aol.com
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Hi Ron. Please say hi to "Lynnifer Pinecone" from me! I have not located anyone else since the last time we corresponded. It is wonderful to me to know that you feel about Indian Lake the way I feel about my second camp, Cedar Crest, which I attended from age 10-about 21. I was only 7, 8, and 9 at ILC. ILC certainly caused me to love "camp," but the camp I think of in my dreams is Cedar Crest.
But I would come to an ILC reunion in a heartbeat, if you promise we will sing camp songs....so many memories flow when I think of the songs. I will dig out some pictures -- or I will fail to find them -- within a week. I know I have a couple pictures of kids in camp shorts and shirts, with sailor hats, lining up for afternoon bug juice and cookies... Jody Lanard

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