Wednesday, May 26, 2010 @ 10:16 am | (1) CommentFormer campers from 1991, enjoy your yearbook!
- The Dow Jones tops 3000 for the first time, the champagne is popped and economic recovery is in site!
- Internet is made available to commercial users, do you remember dial up modems??
- Airbag is invented, and has been saving lives and hitting people in the face ever since.
- Release of Nirvana’s Nevermind signifies the start of the grunge era.
- The films Beethoven, Beauty and the Beast and Father of the Bride are movie gold. Now they are classics!
- Average price of rent hits an all time high at $495- you can’t even buy a TV for that price now!
We hope this brings back fond memories of the early 90s! Enjoy your yearbook!
1991_THE_TORCH_CAMP_CHAMPIONS_25_YEARS.pdf
by lmesches
for Alumni, General, Yearbooks
Wednesday, May 19, 2010 @ 12:13 pm | (0) CommentsSummer is getting closer. All of the talk about how camp is close must make you nostalgic! Think about a time when:
- Margaret Thatcher is elected Prime minister of the UK
- The Walkman is released at a cost of $200. The Walkman plays one cassette tape at a time, now we have IPods for less money that play 30 hours of music at a time
- First snowboard is invented
- Trivial Pursuit is launched as a nerds revenge, knowing random facts is now considered a plus at dinner parties
- The first modern Bungee Jump is performed, a very brave person agrees to be the first person to ever bungee jump!
- Superman the movie is released
- Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive” tops the charts
- Charlie’s Angels hits the TV
To help you memorize all of this, just picture Margaret Thatcher listening to “I Will Survive” on her brand new Walkman . . . While riding a snowboard. Meanwhile, the three Charlie’s Angels are playing Superman in Trivia Pursuit. No one is bungee jumping.
Picture the image in you mind. There will be a test later.
Enjoy your 1979 yearbook!
1979_THE_TORCH_CAMP_CHAMPIONS.pdf
The times have changed but camp is still the same! Come out and visit
by kcromwell
for Alumni, Yearbooks
Monday, May 10, 2010 @ 12:05 pm | (0) CommentsFor all you children of the 80’s here is another, never before published online, yearbook. Straight from the Camp Champions Vault!
- The US Stock Market crashes on “Black Monday.” Steve Sir was actually working at Goldman Sachs and saw a LOT of freaked out traders. At least the markets have stabilized since then! What? They have been doing what? Never mind.
- The population of the world reaches five billion, most of whom visit the malls after Thanksgiving
- Kitty Litter is invented and cats get to watch humans scoop away waste. Seriously, if space aliens landed on Earth, we would be hard-pressed to convince them that humans and not cats, rule the world.
- The Simpsons is seen on TV for the first time. Of course, this means that there was a time when the Simpsons were NOT on TV. Bet your children will NOT believe this one!
- U2’s “With or Without You” tops the charts. So U2 has been around even longer than the Simpsons. Of course, they will even make an appearance on the animated show, thus completing the circle of life.
- Fatal Attraction is a hit movie, thereby reducing the popularity of bunny rabbits as pets.
1987_THE_TORCH_CAMP_CHAMPIONS.pdf
by kcromwell
for Alumni, Yearbooks
Wednesday, May 5, 2010 @ 4:14 pm | (2) Comments
Nothing better than friends at camp!
It is May.
Camp starts in May.
This is cool.
In less than 2 weeks, our Leadership Team and all of our counselors will be arriving to bond, train and ready camp for our campers. We have a fantastic group coming in. I know the Leadership Team will be as good as any we have ever had. We are also excited about the counselors that will join us. It is a wonderful mix of returning favorites, senior camper graduates and new-to-CC folks. We are putting the finishing touches on Orientation. This is going to be fun.
We have had to do a little extra hiring. We have been elated by the excitement and interest in camp this spring. The phones are ringing all the time and we are signing up new families in the few slots that we have left.
We mostly cannot wait to see the campers! We are all passionate about the powerful benefits of camp on children, but we only get to work with the campers for 3 months. The rest of the year, we are planning improvements, recruiting counselors and learning how to be even more effective. We are particularly excited about some of the improvements this summer:
- The Screamer!
- The huge (24 foot!) fan in the Parthenon
- The modifications to the schedule that has more morning classes than afternoon classes
- The new Fire Truck (we are constantly thinking of new ways to use this thing)
- Hampster Balls, booger wars and lazer tag (during All Camp Fun Day)
- A few other surprises
So, if you are a camper or counselor, start planning your Dance outfits and practicing your favorite camp songs, because CAMP IS COMING SOON!!
by steveb
for Alumni, Camper, Counselor, Parents
Tuesday, May 4, 2010 @ 3:04 pm | (0) CommentsFor all you children of the eighties, not to worry, we did not forget about you! Hot off the retro-press, back to a time when:
- DOS is released by Microsoft. This is an odd thought – at this time, no one had heard of Bill Gates, no one had home computers and no one had created any Microsoft jokes.
- You spent hours at a time completely captivated by playing Frogger, Asteroids, Oregon Trail and Pac-Man.
- Lady Diana Spencer and Charles, the Prince of Wales are married. Fathers worldwide worry that daughters wedding expectations are now ridiculously high.
- Ronald Reagan is elected president at the age of 69 (this is the oldest president we have elected to date!) and boy was he cool! During this same year, President Reagan was shot, but this attempted assassination failed.
- The wreckage from the Titanic is found in the North Atlantic. People obsess on how to release the riches of this find – few guess that it will eventually be film director James Cameron (who in 1981 worked on “Escape From New York”.
- Muhammad Ali retires. Boxing loses most of its cool factor.
- 3M launches Post-It Notes, creating the most effective way ever to leave notes for children on mirrors.
- MTV, the channel that now brings you tons of reality shows and a variety of pop culture programs, launched on August 1. “Video Killed the Radio Star” by the Buggles is the first music video EVER played on MTV! This channel introduced all music, all the time. MTV and it’s VJ’s changed pop culture dramatically.
Enjoy the 1981_THE_TORCH_CAMP_CHAMPIONS.pdf
by lmesches
for Alumni, Yearbooks
