Where are they now?

All of us had friends at camp that we have contact with. I thought it would be fun to post this survey and hopefully we might catch up with people that we havent seen or heard from in years.

Name: Bob Saurber
Years at Fort Scott: 1977-1988 (I missed the summer of 84)

Years as camper: 5

Years as counselor: 3

Years in administration :2

Current Occupation: Project Manager for our family company

Current City of Residence: Hamilton, Ohio

Family: Married 15 years. Son 13 years old, Daughter 10 years old

What have you been doing since you left camp?

Other than working, I have sung with the 1992 World Champion, Southern Gateway Barbershop Chorus, I have taught drumlines at two local high schools, and I am currently a member of a barbershop quartet that is in the Top 10 in our district.

Which Fort Scott Family member(s) that you haven’t seen in a long time would you like to see again?

Keith Kinzler, John Farmer, Dennis Knippenberg, many others.

If camp were open again for just one day, what would you like to do?

I would take a long ride in the forest in the morning, play a game or two of volleyball mid day, cool off in the pool in the afternoon, eat some of George Wozniaks clams and corn for dinner, stand under the watertower as it overflowed, walk through the camp at dusk, listening to the activites going on, and finish the day with a campfire at the Indian village.

Which Fort Scott Family member would you like to see fill out this survey?

John, Keith and Dennis

Why not take some time and fill this survey out yourself and let everyone know what you have been up to?

Bob

We loved these guys

So what was it about the maintenance department that was so cool?

As campers you were really knowlegable if you knew the names of the guys out there on the tractors.

As counsellors, you were always in their debt for getting that screen fixed or that toilet unplugged.

As a member of the Administration, I was always glad that they did their jobs so quickly and effeciently so that some of my more stressed out counsellors would have one less thing to complain about.

Along with everything else that they did, they always had the Ultimate Frisbee team that everyone was gunning for.

People admired the maintenance department so much that they would come out to camp early and stay late in order to work alongside them.

Maybe it was the cool trucks that they drove....

In retrospect, I wish that I had thanked them more often for a job well done.

Bob

Girls Camp Cabins Update!

These are a little harder to remember, of course, being a guy that would make sense.
a. Apache
b. Blackfoot
c. Cheyenne
d. Delaware
e. Eire
f. Flathead
g. Great Plains ( thank you Allen)
h. Hopi
i. Iroquois
j. Jemez (Allen got this one too)
k. Kiowa (Allen is the Man)
l. Lummi
m. Miami (Does this count as showing off, Allen?)
n. Navaho
o. Ottowa
p. Pueblo
q. Quapaw
r. Rio Grande (Ann Onymous)
s. Sioux
t. Tuscarora (Ann is pretty smart too)
w. Did Wagner ever have a name? And then there was the bughouse…. Feel free to fill in the blanks

Mary Ann Beiting E mailed me and said that there may be a couple of spelling errors, so this may not be the final version :)

Thanks guys

RJS

If you listen you can almost hear the voices...

I took these at the final camp picnic.

Bob

Where were the warning labels?

I wonder how many visits to the infirmary were preceded by a visit to the canteen?

I was never much on the Fun Dip, but I could eat the Sour Patch Kids till my mouth was ready to turn inside out.

Anybody hungry yet?

Roots, Fruits and Nuts....

Bi-Na Rangers were required to identify the local plantlife in the Great Fort Scott Forest.

See if you can remember these three plants- and they were some of the easy ones....

Give up?

#1 is Blood Root

#2 is May Apple

#3 is Jewel Weed

Thanks to Wikipedia for the pictures

Bob

A good time was had by all

In the summer of either 1985 or 1986 the Administration brought folks in from Morgan's canoe livery to call a squaredance for the Counsellor's. Naturally college aged kids ran hot and cold on this particular event, but for those of us who decided to participate, it was great fun and we danced until the wee hours of the morning.

One of the dances that we learned was called the Salty Dog Rag. It was demanding, and a lot of fun and I think I still remember all of the steps.

I searched for the song off and on over the years, and finally found it on the internet.

Take a listen:

An mp3 for "Salty Dog Rag"

Bob