Colorwar Team Names:
The Maroon team of 1962 was called The New Yorkers. The 1963 team was The Planet Nooram. (Maroon spelled backwards) In 1964, it was Robin Hood & his Merry Men. In 1965 - Maroon Team Circus. I remember the themes because I was the Maroon Team General in all of them
Colorwar Breakouts: (don't hold me to the exact years)
In 1963, Colorwar broke out with a motocyle "gang". I think this was the year that the movie "The Wild Ones" with Marlon Brando, premiered. It was about a motocycle gang taking over a town. So, during line-up for the evening meal, a gang of motorcylists came roaring up the road and that broke color war. Afterwards, I saw Jerry Turner giving the head of the group a wad of money.
In 1964, a plane flew over the Camp and flyers announcing "Colorwar" were dropped from the plane. The boys head counselor, Marv Fleischman, was in the plane throwing out the flyers and directing the pilot.
In 1965, fire engines roared into Camp to break Colorwar.
One year, a counselor, either at line up or afterwards, pretended to be hurt and an ambulance was called to take him away. This broke Colorwar.
Colorwar Inspections:
During Colorwar, I remember that the judges inspected the top of the rafters - especially in Siberia (just to stay a little longer with the older CITs).
MYRON'S 1960's COLORWAR MEMORIES
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Myron,
I seem to remember the color war break with the counsellor faking a broken leg from 1966. In any event, they the camp was woken up very early to watch a pre-breakfast counsellor football game and the broken leg was staged in the middle of the game. I remember I was in N1 that year and I think it was our last summer at Pokono.
Joe Turner
PS
I don't know if you've heard, but I'm really sad to let anybody who's interested in knowing, my father passed away this past year. I miss him terribly.
Joe:
I'm sorry to hear about the passing of your dad. I hope your mother Judy is well and both of your brothers- Dan and Ron. Your dad was a fine man and a decent tennis player. He used to try and beat me at both Pokono and at Camp Ranger when I worked there for 3 years in the mid seventies. As for the color war break, I think it was Mark Jonas who faked the broken leg. I loved those days.
Hey, Joe! I was going to post somewhere about your dad, but I'm glad you did.
I think the flyover and the fire engine breakouts were done several times each. I remember both of them from the late 50s/early 60s and more than once.
I wish my memories were as clear as some other posters.
I remember those break outs as well.
Hey, Sis!
Isn't this site great? I'm going to be writing up a big post of my memories from the 50s and early 60s. You should do something, too, and send it to me to put up (I can post original blog posts). I'm just waiting for Uncle Dave to do his of the 40s.
Sharon
icnat rmember that much but the site is bring lots back. I would like to know the names of the girls in my bunk in the pix that are posted here...
The site has definitely brought back a lot of memories for me. I scanned in a ton of photos and sent them to Randy and he will get them posted soon. I will get more from mom and dad and get those up, too. I just wish I had written names on the back of all of my photos -- I can hardly remember any of the names.
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