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Reunion in June
Is anyone driving to Pennsylvania from Massachusetts who could give me a ride. I a good conversationalist and I can help drive if you want a relief driver. I can pay for gas and tolls.
--- Galen Gilbert, 1958-1964. 617-935-1667 cell.
Read more…Site visit 03/20/2012
If anyone is looking for a wonderful, relaxing way to spend an afternoon I highly recommend going to Smithfield beach, the only legitimate place to park, and walking or riding a bike up along the river. It is a strange set up. There are picnic tabl
Read more…The Tocks Island Dam that wasn't
This book is an excellent source for the entire time line of information about the Tocks Island Dam that closed the camps. The second edition of the book was published after the project was officially cancelled. Let's only hope it never is resurecte
Camp Specific Terms or Phrases
Let's try starting a list of Camp specific terms of phrases. Please add the ones that come to your mind. Here are a couple right off the top for me!
Bug Juice
Monkey Dishes
Monkey Shorts
2012 Reunion Update
About 20 of the River Camp alums met at Camp Bear Creek to help sort through items that have been stored away in trailers for the last 35 years. We made a few interesting discoveries and spent some time sorting through the Camp archives at BCC. I w
Read more…Carolyn Clyde Novak
This is to let people know that Carolyn Clyde Novak a former Hagan Hag passed away on Thursday, May 12 at the age of 82. She grew up in Oreland, PA and went to West Chester University and became a phys ed teacher. She was also a watercolorist. She is
Read more…Capture the Flag (from Wikapedia)
I had to refresh my memory for the rules. This was a classic Camp game if there ever was one! Great Memories.
Enjoy,
Rich
Capture the Flag (CTF) is a traditional outdoor sport where two teams each have a flag (or other marker) and the objecti
Read more…New England Get Together
Well, we had an outstanding (if small) New England Get Together. The weather (snow) conspired to keep Dave Veil, Todd Struse, Jay Eickhoff, Charlie Pasewark, Chuck Weber, and Kathy Finch away, but somehow Harold Dambly and his wife Arnette made it u
Read more…Hagan Hags
I really enjoyed Janet Brooks response to my e-mail below. I know that you all received this because she had a bit of difficulty in trying to send it to just me and sent it to everyone. From her perspective this was a mistake, from mine, well I am qu
Read more…LONG 3-MINUITS
I was volunteered to be part of the entertainment one night BOXING billed as a grudge match, although I didn't have a grudge about my opponent We fought to a draw I think his name was Wayne.
Put up 2011 calendar. Put Aug 11 "CAMP MILLER" on it in re
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FTF
I was a member. Since all my experiences at CM were the best (as both camper and counselor), my FTF membership was the icing on the cake!
Miller and my high school experiences were the launching pad.
David Necker
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Left Handed Smoke Shifter
Now here's a burning question from Camp Miller days (perhaps not just Miller). How and where did the idea of a "Left Handed Smoke Shifter" come from? I think that this item was desperately searched for in every scavenger hunt I can remember at Camp
Read more…Stroll around Camp Miller in 1956
A little digital magic has recovered photos of Camp Miller from 1956 taken with a Kodak Brownie camera and now posted at at http://www.tenlongview.net/Camp%20Miller/campmiller2.html
Read more…2011 Reunion Help Needed to find Camp Miller counselors
We are just beginning the hunt to find as many Camp Miller counselors as possible for a reunion in the Lehigh Valley next summer. If you know the whereabouts of any Camp Miller staff please let us know so we can include them. Thank you very much. Jim
Read more…Power Line Project's Impact on the Valley
I attended the National Park Service's second of three public forum meetings last Wednesday August 18th. The purpose of the meeting was to allow public comment on PPL and PSE&G's proposed power line expansion projects. The proposed route uses the exi
Read more…Thanks for your support of the River Camps site!
Gregg Hartman - thanks for your generous donation to the site! You are first on the books.
Read more…Camp History Preservation
I inquired of the ELCA office of Outdoor Ministry about preserving camp history. I got this response today:
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Hagan Reunion June 25-27 2010
I had the distinct honor and pleasure to attend the 2010 Hagan Reunion Christmas Dinner in Stroudsburg on Friday. I was completely amazed by the number of Hagan alums who travelled far (and sat in epic traffic jams) to share their heritage, friendshi
Read more…Article in The Lutheran June 2010
Hagan Hags respond, reunite Camp Hagen women celebrate 70 years Several who responded to The Lutheran's reader call attended and worked at Camp Hagan — a ministry that hasn't existed for 40 years. But the once all-girl camp formed a sorority of wome
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