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Friday, February 28, 1958
THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Pare Three
Waterskiing at Belle Aire is a most popular sport. Our in
structor is an official waterskiing instructor, having had his train
ing from the American W’aterskiing Association
BLUE STAR COUNSELOR-TRAINEE DANCE GROUP which pre
sented a series of Israeli folk dances before four audiences the
1957 camping season. Under Dance Director Zuckerman of New
York City, the group performed at the Hendersonville Street Dance
on July 29, Asheville Folk Music and Dance Festival on August 1,
the Kanuga Episcopalian Conference, August 7, and at the B’nai
B’rith Institute of Judaism at Wild Acres and Little Switzerland
on August 12.
Sky Lake Camps
Reveal Highlights
of Sumner Season
Sky Lake Camps, ninety miles
northeast of Atlanta in the Blue
Ridge Mountains, offers the
camper the friendliness and per
sonal interest that characterizes
a small camp. Boys’ Camp and
Girls’ Camp are each limited to
sixty campers. Combined, the
two camps are able to provide
the advantages of excellent physi
cal facilities and a superior staff
available only in the larger camps.
There is a ratio of one counselor
to four campers. The 1958 Sea
son is eight weeks, June 25
through August 19.
Rabbi and Mrs. Richard E.
Singer are the owner and direc
tors of Sky Lake Camps. Rabbi
Singer serves as spiritual leader
of Lakeside Congregation for
Reform Judaism in Highland
Park, Illinois, and is at present
studying for his doctorate in the
field of education at Northwest
ern University. Mrs. Singer, also
in the Graduate School at North
western, is working toward a
masters degree in Guidance and
Counseling. Associated with the
Singers as Atlanta Representative
and Director of Riding is Mrs.
Nat F. Klausman. Mrs. Klausman
has been in charge of the Riding
Program at Sky Lake for the
past seven years.
Individual development is the
goal at Sky Lake Camps. A flex
ible program enables campers to
select many of their own activi
ties. Campers assist in over-all
planning through a representa
tive “camper council,” as well as
on a cabin level. Awards are
based on individual achievement
and campers are motivated to
seek the widest range of activi
ties possible. Some fields open
to them are archery, riflery, land
sports of all kinds; ballet, mod-
Camp
Lenni-Len-A-Pe
SALISBURY MILLS, N. Y.
BOYS-GIRLS, 5-17 YRS.
rlodem facilities in charming
ountry setUng. Private lake, all
and & water sports. Water ski-
ng, trips, work units, photo-
'raphy, science, tutoring, etc.
dedical staff. 1600 ft. altitude.
15 miles from N.Y.C.
DIRECTORS
MR. & MRS. M. HALSBAND
Camp Tel. GYpsy 6-M91 or write
ern and social dancing; arts and
crafts, music and drama, stage
designing, wooderft, wilderness
camping and all the water sports.
Waterskiing is one of the most
popular activities at Sky Lake.
Under the guidance of Johnny
De Miller, National Veterans
Waterskiing Champion, campers
as young as eight or nine learn
to skim across the water. For
the more experienced, there is
trick skiing and ski-jumping on
Sky Lake’s own jump. The water-
skiing program is carried on at
the Sky Lake Outpost Camp at
Lake Burton, a site at the lake’s
edge with a cabin for dressing
and supplies, a private floating
dock, and an observation porch.
A new tennis court is being
planned for the coming Sky Lake
season. This will have an all-
weather surface and should
greatly increase the popularity
of this activity.
Campers are looking forward
to watching the progress of an
interesting engineering project
which is expected to be going on
during the summer. Far back in
the woods in one of the more
remote sections of the 1200-acre
Sky Lake Estate, a large dam
will be constructed and this will
impound sufficient water to form
a new lake, approximately equi
valent in size to Sky Lake. This
will be the site of a primitive
outpost camp and other possi
bilities in pioneer living which
will be exploited by groups of
campers and staff members.
At Sky Lake, campers from
the North and South meet to
gether and exchange ideas, un
der the guidance of well-trained
and carefully selected counselors.
Staff members include several
public school teachers, and stu
dents from Northwestern and
other leading universities. Robert
A. D’Angio continues to serve as
boys’ head counselor. He is a
social studies teacher in West
Palm Beach and also serves as
athletic coach in that city. Mrs.
Bernice Altman is to be girls’
head counselor. Formerly in
charge of the girls’ waterfront,
Mrs. Altman comes to her new
post with six years experience
at Sky Lake behind her, and
also several years as an elemen
tary school teacher in Miami.
Mr. Jack Altman, also a Miami
school teacher, will serve as unit
head in boys’ camp and will be
available for private tutoring in
school subjects. Program direc
tor at Sky Lake is Roberta
“Bobbie” Reusch. Mrs. Reusch is
religious school superintendent at
Annual Camping Section
This is the time of the
year when youngsters
and parents decide which
of the camps they will
attend next summer. To
assist in this decision,
The Southern Israelite is
happy to present our
annual Camping Section.
Mountainview Camp
Pioneering
Mountainview Camp is the
first institution in the South
dedicated and devoted to serving
the slow-learning and retarded
child through a Summer Camp
ing program. The camp, which is
located at Nachoocheee, Georgia,
in the Blur' Ridge Mountains of
North Georgia, has more than
one hundred sixty acres of moun
tain land, streams, level and
rolling hillsides.
Mountainview Camp is a non
sectarian co-educational camp,
serving the age group of 7
through 16 with all ranges of
I.Q. Campers are carefully screen
ed by camp personnel in order
that each child be given a pro
gram which will be beneficial to
him. Followup work with chil
dren and their parents is main
tained through the winter months
in order to check progress and
carry over values of the camp
ing experience.
The camp is geared to an em
phasis on “The Activities of
Daily Living,” with social group-
work techniques employed. Ac
tivities include: games, crafts,
nature lore, Indian lore, swim
ming, hiking and riding, with
trips to points of interest in the
mountains of North Georgia. The
children live in a large “Main
House” with opportunity to
sleep out in cabins when they
have adjusted to camp. In the
individual development of each
child stress is placed on tcach-
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Temple Israel in West Palm
Beach. She directs the Temple
Israel choir, the youth choir, and
other activities in that organiza
tion.
Information about Sky Lake
Camps is available through At
lanta Representative, Mrs. Nat F.
Klausman, 1025 Dawn View
Lane, N.W., Atlanta, CEdar 7-
2274, or by writing to the Di
rectors, Rabbi and Mrs. Richard
E. Singer, 2360 Sheridan Road,
Highland Park, Illinois.
Highlight of the 1957 Blue Star camping was the United Na
tions program, pictured above, conducted by the Teen-Age Vil
lage Campers and involving the entire 450 boys and girls in the
four separately operated camps. Modeled after the UN, the pro
gram was described by a newspaper reporter from the “Asheville
Citizen as being “the most remarkable facsimile of the real thing
to be seen anywhere.”
Readying for a full week canoe trip, from Sligo Dock to
Chattanooga, 100 miles of adventurous tripping, sleeping out, cook
ing their own food. One of the many trips our senior boys ex
perienced at Belle Aire.
Camp Sky-Top
for boys and girls
ROSMAN, NORTH CAROLINA
Accredited Member American Camping Association
Complete
facilities and trained
personnel to give your boy and girl
camping experiences of unexcelled
caliber . • . Building of
Write or call:
Director Nathan Miller
6550 N. W. 38 Terrace
Miami Springs, Florida
Ph. TUxedo 8-9704
Character and
Americanism is our
goal for each
individual camper . . .
$475 for eight weeks of
character building happiness -
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