Finding old friends

Over the past few weeks I have found a number of Camp friends on Facebook. There is a group called Camp O is the place to go. I have found an number of freinds by looking at the members of this group. You can then look at their friend list and find a number of other Camp O friends.

So If if Facebook is so useful, then Why have this site. Well I intended for this site to allow for sharing of stores, pictures and contact information without having to sign up for one of the social networks. I think that Facebook and Myspace are complementary in the purpose of connecting people by think there is a place for this site as well. Send me your stores or pictures and please enter you contact information here as well.

The flood

I believe the year was about 1990. I had worked the stable for boys season and was working in the kitchen for girls season. Joe was the kitchen director at the time and the kitchen staff were all pretty good friends and we were known to play a few pranks from time to time. Most of the victims of our fun were unlucky rotating staff who found themselves washing dishes. We were constantly putting first year staff in the dishwater or if we were really ambitious in the turtle pond.
It was all Joe's idea to set our sites higher and play a joke on Dan H. the personel director. Late one night we crept into the office and managed to get Dan's office door open. once inside we opened the outside door and took in rowboat. we set it on his desk and proceded to turn on a hose and fill it with water to make removal a more difficult process. While we were in the precess of filling it the it became obvious the that the boat was not holding the water as well as we had figured it would. We turned off the hose and decided we had done enough damage and locked up the office and got the hell out of dodge. The next morning we waited to hear what would become of the prank. We heard nothing. A few more days went by and we heard nothing more about it. We then found out that Dan had come down with a flu and had not been in the office for the past few days. We said nothing and tried to act normal. In the meantime the Camp office had been having phone problems. Calls were dropped. lines weren't working. Camp called in the phone company to find the problem. The repair man checked the main line and then went from extension to extension checking the connections. Everything check out until he got to Dan's office. Where he found a wet rusty boat had somehow shorted out the phone line.

Staff Pictures

Patti Egan email me today. They are putting together a year book to celebrate 50 years of Camp Ondessonk. As part of that they are attempting to collect staff pictures from every year. I am including a listing of all the years they currently have. If you have any staff pictures from the years that are still needed you can send them to me at djc@heepwah.com. As usual if you have other Ondessonk pictures you think others would like to see please send them to me and I will post them.

	Boys	Girls
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60	X	X
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85	X
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