Camp Wangum
If you ever attended Camp Wangum in Hawley, PA and know who 'Chinch' is, then respond. I'm trying to set up a reunion!
Best Regards,
Chinch
Best Regards,
Chinch
posted by chinch | 3:00 PM
Camp Wangum
In the 1950's and 1960's there was a wonderful camp in the Poconos, Pennsylvannia just outside of Hawley. If you're interested in having a reunion just post a response.
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This blog has been up for quite some time. Where is everyone?!
Finally! We (with the excellent detective work of Darryl Sperber) found lots of 'old' campers and had a reunion on 6/29-7/1/06. We stayed at the Settlers Inn in Hawley PA and visited camp as well as many other activities. Darryl will be collecting all the pictures and notes from our reunion and will create a website where it can be viewed. When that happens I'll put the website address on this site so anyone who comes here can find it. In the meantime please email me to catch up on events!
I, along with my brother Steve, went to Camp Wangum from 1956-59. I was 7 when I started going and Steve was 10. I remember Darryl Sperber well. Did the website from the reunion get created yet? I would be interested to see the photos, and would also be interested to see the names of the people that attended. I can be reached at len.roberts@earthlink.net
The next Camp Wangum reunion will be from 6/28/07 through 7/1/07 in Hawley, PA. For more info and lots of emails from your fellow campers and counselors go to:
groups.google.com/group/wangumalums
Dear Chinch,
I went to Camp Wangum in the early 1960s. I think you were my friend then. I won the color war by doing the mile run, and I wrote the color war song, and then I baked about 30 apple pies, salad and food to give us the edge. I came up the first time girls came for the Summer....a bunch of us from New York. You might remember what chaos we caused! How can I contact you? Maureen
Maureen,
Are you Maureen S-O-L-O-M-O-N from Bayside? If so, we've actually been trying to locate you for years! Amazing that you've now made contact through Chinch's blog!!!
I'm Darryl Sperber (who was in the Pioneer Unit during that summer of 1961 when you were at Wangum), and I too first made re-contact with Chinch through this very same blog bag in May of 2006.
Over the past four years or so through lots of "networking" and research I've managed to reconnect with over 60 former Wangum campers of all ages, counselors, and Directors from "the glory years" of the 50's and 60's. We were all much younger then, but you'd be surprised how much your personality actually remains the same throughout your entire life. Talking on the phone today to these people... well it's almost like it was just yesterday that we were spending our summers at Wangum.
The reconnected group has actually had two "formal" reunions over the past few years, both held in Hawley PA (the "scene of the crime" of course). You can't imagine how remarkable it is to meet up with someone from your distant past that you haven't seen since childhood... 50 years later! It was truly amazing.
Anyway if you are familiar with GoogleGroups, we have a group named "WangumAlums" hosted by Google. If you go there you can certainly read all of the correspondence from the rest of the Wangum Alumni who've posted there over the past four years, view many many pictures that have been posted, and also request to join the group (I'm the administrator).
Once you join you can then send regular email to everyone (through the group's email address, which gets forwarded to all group members) and correspond privately or publicly to individuals or to the entire group.
I have lots of information to share with you about who's been located (including a Roster, photos, DVD containing videos from the two Reunions we had plus a slide show of hundreds of old photographs, etc. which I can send you giving everybody's current contact information and getting you up to date as to what we all actually look like today!).
Chinch has provided his email address on this blog (above, in his response to your recent "anonymous" post two weeks ago) and if you prefer to contact him by personal email and provide your contact details he (and I) will absolutely get in touch with you... and add you to the list of Wangum Alumni who are now once again in touch with each other (including "the Bayside Girls").
Hope to hear from you soon.
Darryl
Is this the Camp Wangum that began as a girls' camp in the 1940's? It was owned by the Mazzarellas - mother Irma, daughters Irma & Norma, and son Jack. I went there for 8 weeks each summer for 3 years starting in 1947. The boys' section opened in 1951, I think, down by the river where we (the girls) used to swim. A pond was dug at the original camp during the time I was there.
Names of girls I remember - Linda Allen from Buffalo, Ellen Schiff, 'Dimples' Sherman, Loretta Blum - all from Mt Vernon, NY or thereabouts.
Do you have an exact address for the camp? I'd love to check it out sometime.
Karen Witt Rich
Chelan, WA
509-687-2421
kwittrich@juno.com
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