Girls Sleepaway Camp in the Adirondack Mountains in Brant Lake, New York
Lazy Morning this Sunday started off a bit wet but the Team Captains and Lieutenants didn’t let any rain wash away their Blue and White pride. After the weather precipitated a change of events, both teams dove straight into the water, instead of just letting it mist. Campers had a blast swimming in silly relays for the team competition aquatics meet. Sailing, boating and waterskiing are still to come.
Just for fun, Brandon, today took some shots around camp with a 1916 Rainbow Hawkeye box camera. We wanted to share a few. Camp is timeless, but when this camera was new, Point O’Pines Camp was not yet built, and even Brant Lake Camp for Boys had only just been founded that summer. It still works great as you see, and will be fun for our advanced campers to try out at Photography Coaches’ Corner very soon. The film is 120 medium format Tri-X 400 and was processed today here at camp.
After a superb first half of our visiting weekend, campers enjoyed an evening of competition answering questions and cheering for their team at our annual Team Competition Camp Trivia contest. Both teams showed off all of their knowledge about Point O’Pines Camp and its history.
Peaker Lori of the Peak of 1977 and Mom of Peaker Hannah of the Peak of 2012 shared her well loved copy of the program and menu for the 1974 Point O’Ritz. We loved comparing it to this year’s menu.
All of camp had so much fun having Noble and Robin Masi as our special guests for Point O’Ritz yesterday! Even as times, interests and our culture changes, so much about the Point is timeless.
Point O’Ritz is a traditional highlight of every summer at the Point. Did you know that Point O’Ritz was invented back in 1966 by Noble Masi, former chef and foodservice director at Point O’Pines? Noble wanted to show his kitchen brigade what world-class hotel style service was like for a day, and that day became Point O’Ritz. 1966 was the first year that Noble brought a staff with him including students from the Culinary Institute of America. The first Point O’Ritz meal was served by the counselors, but the next year Hoby Rosen switched and the Peakers began serving the delicious POR meal to the campers.
Campers and alumnae all know the fabulous legend of Noble who started at the Point as a baker, took over the management of the foodservice, and then went on to be a professor and then director of the Culinary Institute of America, Noble is presently retired and an “Ambassador” for the CIA. His continuous friendship for the Point has been important in guiding us to where our foodservice is today, under the leadership of Chef Denver Grover, a graduate of the CIA. Learn more about Point O’Ritz.
