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2005
- Susquehannock Photo Gallery - 2005
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New!
- If there are any photos you see here you'd like to get high
quality prints of, let us
know, and we can make them available in the Susquehannock
Galleries at PrintRoom.com. |
| Previous
Year's Galleries - 2001, 2002, 2003,
and 2004 |
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New
Fitness Center |
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| Finished by Dick Coy in a spectacularly efficient three
days (plus time for the concrete to cure), the new fitness center extension
made room to bring cutting age weight training to campus. A complete
circuit of brand new Nautilus machines - all adjustable to allow safe
weight training for campers of any age - specified and provided by fitness
expert and camp alumnus Charlie
Packman, former strength and conditioning coach for UPenn and Villanova. |
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| New Nautilus machines include Lower Back, Bicep Curl,
Bench Press, Shoulder Press, Incline Press, Leg Extension, Hamstring
curl, Lat Pulldown, and Lateral Raise. The fitness center also has a
flat bench, adjustable bench, squat rack, and a full set of freeweights.
Staff and campers use the weight room for fall sport strength training,
improving muscle tone, or just because they want to get and stay fit. |
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Midsummer
Alumni Reunion |
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One of our more than 200 alums
coming for the reunion chronicled his start in Georgia (above left),
and his arrival at Tripp Lake Road (above right) |
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Popular item at the camp store - staff and sports award shirt pillows. |
Alumni
Images
Our thanks to the many alumni attending the reunion who passed
along these images.
If anyone has other images we should consider adding to this gallery,
please send them to the webmaster. |
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| While it is no longer quite so common (campers these
days mostly just put their names on cabin plaques), unauthorized cabin
decorations like the above can be found in all of the older cabins.
We firmly believe that the teenage miscreant responsible for the defacement
captured above is now fully reformed - as he is the new board chair
of the Susquehannock Camps. |
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We have no official idea how a fading name left 26 years ago (left)
mysteriously filled itself in (right) during Alumni Weekend. None whatsoever. |
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| Later in the evening, a grizzled crew of
present and former staff banded together under the leadership of Ames
Parsons '73 (right) to offer a salutatory "Route 89" tribute
to the camp's founders (below) |
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Camp
Museum
For the Alumni Weekend, and then again for 1905 day, Dede Shafer
put together a wonderful series of displays - both archaelogical
and historical, turning the King Shafer cottage into a Museum for
the weekend.
two of the exibits are shown here.
Camp was founded by George "King" Shafer, who was a championship
tennis player in his day - earning regional and national titles (trophies
left), with what at the time were top-of-the-line rackets (right) |
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| Tennis
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Susquehannock welcomed outside competition from nearby
Binghamton. Above, camp players joined by the team from the Binghamton
Tennis Center, brought by local tennis empresario Michael Stark during
the first half. Below, a second half competition. |
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With
a near-80% return rate, we have a surprising number of campers
who've been at camp for three years, five years, even ten years.
Campers with three years, or returning campers who've brought
a friend, are eligible for the
Loyal Guard Chickenfeed
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Steve Perry and Andrew Bartholomew, both grizzled veterans,
getting festive at the Loyal Guard feed (above)
Lucas Carmalt, celebrating his 10th year at Susquehannock, knew
he was going to be called upon to speak, so he prepared a poem (below) |
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| A recent innovation at Loyal Guard feeds is the addition
of glowsticks for everyone - in orange and blue of course - which make
an impressive display with the lights off (above). |
First session Medalists (below) Tennis, Decathlon, and Regatta medal
winners in each division - Senior, Intermediate, and Junior |
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