Tuesday, August 18, 2009

exactly 40 years ago

This photo was taken during the 1969 Trail Blazers trip to Canada. The counselors on the trip were Paul Brown, Jim Black, Charlie Lawrence and Frank Meigs. (Frank sent us the photos.) Above are, from left to right: Pete Canevari, Jim Black, John Closs, B. Clancy and Marc Schaefer, proudly displaying fish caught on the Shingle River.

Above: B. Bunke, C. Berthoud, T. Grenda, T. Suarez, P. Canevari and John Closs: at mealtime on Lake Matilide.

During the second half of the summer of '69, while back in camp we were getting ready for our own Woodstock festival--"Hirdstock," we'd call it--the same group of Trailblazer counselors took a group of campers on a bus tour of the Western U.S. We called this adventure trip "Westward Bound." In the photo above is Jon Sparer, Gary Okladek, Mitch Bobyack, Bob Ulick and Howard Clark in Texas. (Bob Ulick made the Trail Blazers trip in 1970 after being CIT for the first half of that summer.)

And here is Frank Meigs, wearing his Wawayanda Staff shirt somewhere out West that great summer of '69.