Here is another installation of the anecdotal history of Kingswood Camp. I have determined that there will be neither a particular order nor a theme to any one issue. Yeah, it is easier for me to simply find photos and plaster them into this piece. Enjoy, or whatever!
Andy Horning was one of our earliest “teacher” hires. He loved the girls’ camps, to be certain, and one year even invited the gals from Camp Wyoda to a candlelight dinner on the first night of the second session.Then, one summer, Andy announced that he and a buddy were biking the full length of the country and back again. The trek started and ended at Kingswood. Here we are celebrating the boys as they crossed the finish line.They really did go all the way south to Flordia, then west to California, then all the way back You should have seen the thighs on those lads. Nice note: Andy’s son, Campbell, age 12, will be at Kingswood for his first summer in 2018. Welcome Campbell.One of the first campers from the Washington, DC area was Alan Thomson. He came for 10 years straight, becoming a great counselor and, most impressively, scoring the lowest round ever of Frisbee Golf, on the original course, when it was truly challenging i.e., many more trees and thickets to negotiate. I’ll say he was 17 under par.This coming summer marks the triumphant return of Gabe Vordick, seen here on the left with Jacob Eichmann, also coming back. Gabe suffered a head injury in high school and just could not be at camp. Now recovered, he is champing at the bit to get back “home” at Kingswood. We are delighted to have him.One of our favorite rainy day events is Casino Night, where each cabin puts on some sort of gambling game with the entire stash of Kingswood poker chips on the line. One year, a group of boys put up an ingenious way of garnering chips. For so many chips, they could order someone “arrested” and placed behind “bars,” made up of Kingswood benches stacked high. Guess who got selected more than once? Here, I am shouting, “But I am not a crook.”
