So much more to say

It’s strange how memories work. We all spent thousands of hours at Fort Scott, as campers and counselors and administrators. And of those thousands of hours how vividly some memories come back and play through our minds like they happened just yesterday.
Here are some that come to me:
• Jerry Moore, John Lynch and Mikey (I am pretty sure it was these three) and the first ever Midget Junior Dance. Mayhem in the Playhouse

• As a camper, walking along next to Steve Leonard, while he was carrying a razor sharp, double bladed axe. Steve was taking us to the Indian Village to teach us how to use knives and axes and hatchets for Nature Program

• Craig Simmons announcing the “ meanest leanest roughest toughest most powerful club …In CAMP” Varsity

• Some of the arguments in voting for Camper of the Period

• Scott Brauch playing the Chicken Record…over and over and over

• Pat Fairbanks playing Copa Cabana …over and over and over

• The abduction of Barrington rabbit

• Sitting on a bench in the playhouse, as a first time camper, and hearing Carol Leonard telling everyone to “squishy wishy” together

• Laying on my back on the scalding hot tennis courts waiting for Chris Slaughter to call “Warball”

• Trying not to cry when George Clayton told me that I had been cut from Varsity Club tryouts

• Watching Terry Fazenbaker’s dog Cinnamon chase a skunk through the playhouse at night

The more I write the more I remember….

Happy New Year all