Hidy-Ho there, camp staff neighbors,
Did you know that…
1) 2008 marks the 25th anniversary of Fr. O’Grady’s death.
2) 2008 marks the 25th anniversary of Camp Field’s first summer without summer camp.
3) 2008 marks the 100th anniversary of the first Model T rolling off the Ford assembly line.
To commemorate these historic events (well, the first two more than the third), we are planning a big, blow-out reunion of as many Camp Field staff members as we can gather. This is to be a reunion to top all previous reunions. If you have missed some of the previous reunions, you do not want to miss this one.
To help you plan for this reunion, we have already contacted Tall Timber to reserve a weekend next summer. At this point they cannot give us an exact date. However, we know that we will be granted the use of their facilities on the weekend of either July 12th or July 19th. Please mark these two weekends on your calendar today!! We will let you know which weekend it will be as soon as Tall Timber informs us (may not be until the end of the year).
Additional notes:
1)
A highlight of the past reunions has always been the slide show, where we get a chance to see the way we were. For this next reunion we plan on having a digital slide show. This will allow everyone a chance to have their photos included. You only need to digitize your old camp photos or slides, and then email the images to me or send me a disk. There are several ways to digitize your pictures:
a) See the photo department at your local WalMart. They have machines that will allow you to scan pictures (1 to 100 or more) and then burn them to a single CD for around $7.
b) See the photo department at your local grocery or drug store. My local store will scan pictures and cut a CD for about 20 cents per picture.
c) Contact your local Wolfe Camera store or Kinko’s. They should be able to scan both photos and slides for you. Cost unknown.
d) Mail your photos or slides to me. I have a scanner that does a good job and also performs color restoration and dust spec removal. This is free, but please limit what you send me to your 24 best pictures.
If everyone submitted a dozen (or more) of their best photos, we should have a spectacular slide show. If you have questions about digitizing photos, send me an email message.
2)
We need to track down and contact more of our camp staff friends. I am asking everyone to track down one additional camp staff friend who is currently unlisted. Google is a great tool if you have a name and a city. You can also use the Camp Field forum that is dedicated to finding people (go to http://www.campfield.org/ and follow the forum link on the right).
3)
We plan to open this reunion up to past campers as well. Some campers have found the Camp Field web site and have contacted me, and there are plenty of campers that have more summers at camp under their belt than some staff members. If you are in contact with any of these campers, feel free to forward these announcements to them.
That’s all for now. I apologize for the long message. We just wanted to announce the reunion dates as early as possible so that you do not schedule your 2008 family vacation for the same weekend (unless of course the reunion will be your family vacation!).