1974 MDA Camp Hastings

Celebrating the 40th anniversary this month of the 1974 MDA Camp Hastings.

Eileen Wilsey Chodl, Earl "Tiger" Ruger, & Diane "Dino" Kudla

Sharon Gaughan & Linda Kudla, with Denny Harris in back

Patti Shaw, Sherry Phillips, & Scott Silver

Chris Ervin & Bill Harris at Cabaret Night

Sarah Whittaker (third from left)

Dave Scupham

Patti Shaw

Mike Goodman & Patti Stix

Jeff Sader

Steve Foltz & Mike Ervin, with Steve Zillman holding the microphone, doing what looks like the "Who's On First" routine made famous by Abbot & Costello

Jim Gibson & Scott Silver on his banjo

Sal Frieri (center), with Dan Vukobratovich on right

Head Nurse Sherry Phillips

Jeanette Kosiba

Dave Boffo at the wheelchair race finish line

Patti Shaw & Rick Balsamo 

Carnival Night from a Distance

Debbie Goodman (sitting, left) & Scott Silver (center) 

Danny Martin & Earl Higgins

Scott Silver at Carnival Night

Sal Frieri at Carnival Night

Danny Martin & Rick Balsamo

Patty Davy, Dave Scupham, Pat Wilsey, Eileen Wilsey Chodl, Dino Kudla, & Earl "Tiger" Ruger

Denny Harris, Jeff Sader, Rick Balsamo, Rich Westley, Dino Kudla, & Eileen Wilsey Chodl

 

Horizon's First Camp: 1976

The first Horizon camp was held in December, 1976, at Camp Villa Marie on Pistakee Lake, in the Chain-O-Lakes area of Northern Illinois northwest of Chicago.  The camp was owned and run by the Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago, and consisted of a number of heated, smaller bedroom buildings plus a large mess hall and a main activity center.  A little more detail is provided here.  I didn’t take very many pictures, but I used my new 35mm Canon camera.  Out was my beat up old Kodak Instamatic, with its fixed focal length, and in with the new.  Color film was a little too expensive while I learned, but here are my first few efforts.  It looks like we could have used a little more heat.


Visnu Saengmani, Mike Jarrett, and Kathy Sheehan

One year at Horizon Winter Camp (although I'm pretty sure it was not this first year), Rich Westley and I were there for the whole time, about five days as I recall.  We handled a cabin with about five or six disabled guys, helped out occasionally by some able-bodied guys who would be crashing there for a day or too.  One of our cabin mates was Vishnu, who for reasons unknown to science and lost in time needed frequent trips to the bathroom, an experience that was particularly unpleasant for all involved.  In calling out to either Rich or me for help, he would enjoy taunting us with "Ri...Ri...Ri..." before finishing with either Ri...chie or Ri...cky.  It became quite a laugh, although not anywhere as funny then as it is now, and I am sure I can speak for Rich as well as myself in saying that if we ever find ourselves inebriated in the same place together we could reenact the whole course but farcical affair quite faithfully to the original.  

Marian Liptak, Colleen Hoening, & Phil Macak, with Aaron Adams off on the right

Mike Engels

Aaron Adams

Mike Jarrett sitting on right

Johnny Abell

Mike ?Herzovi

Johnny Angelico & Rich Westley taking bets on the 5th at Arlington, with Dave Boffo in foreground and ? Mike Ervin on far left 

1974 MDA Camp Ravenswood East

Celebrating the 40th anniversary this month of the 1974 MDA Camp Ravenswood East.


Mary Jo Clancy & Mary Frandsen

Joey Brown & Marian Liptak, with Guy Wayne Thomas on left

Bob Medrala & Ashwall Dutt

Dave Scupham, with Jim Radloff in middle

Bev Bjork, Judy Shalvis, Denny Harris, & Rich Westley

Robin Hewitt and Dawn Coats

Guy Wayne Thomas, Pat Wilsey, & John Lianos

In back, Big Jim Radloff on left; In front, Richie Conway on right

In front, Bill Sutherland & Richie Bowman

Dave Scupham, Dan Vukobratovich, Terry Coor, & Mike Parker

Judy Shalvis (L) & Charmang Sistrunk (center), and a glimpse of Karen Binkley in back

Antonio Cristofaro, in his only year at camp 

Eileen Wilsey Chodl & Jeff Sader

Judy Shalvis & Rick Balsamo

In front: Antonio Cristofaro, Phil Potyen, & Danny Martin

In front: Mary Jo Clancy and Dawn Coats; Standing L to R:Judy Shalvis, Jan Mozack, Louise Angelico, (probably) Kathy Gould, & Margie Santoni (partially blocked by red jacket) 

More zany camp entertainment -- racing on small skateboards: from front: Judy Shalvis, Mary Beth Divine, Bob Medrala, Ron Balsamo, & (in checkered shirt) Jimmy Liptak

Rich Westley & Denny Harris

Undoubtedly one of the usually lame staff skits, with Denny Harris, Jeff Sader, Rich Westley, Dino Kudla, & Eileen Wilsey Chodl

Scott Silver, with Head Nurse Sherry Phillips in the background

Ron Balsamo, Jimmy Liptak, & Bob Medrala

Looking back now, I didn't take very many photographs that week with my little Kodak Instamatic camera, and film and processing were expensive for a student taking out loans left and right.  Fortunately, a camp roster was made up, and here are just some of the long-time camp people I missed, in the order they appear on the roster:  Phil Sakowski, Kevin Brinkman, Jeff Hewitt, Anthony Potyen, Ron Pudlo, Pat McTeague, Tom Musillami, Glen Davis, Ingrid Bouman, Diane Wilfred, Eric Bolden, Mike Trimpe, Carolyn Pluta, Anna Diamont, Mary Ann McGinn, Tom Scanlon, Kenny Gilford, Stosh Pedziwiater, Jeff Zakis, Billy Fair, Dave Scanlon, Robin Hewitt, Barry Deertz, Johnny Angelico, Jeff Brinkman, Russ Bolden, Pat "PT" Healey, Bill Harris, Dana Brinkman, Stan Bolden, Joe Doyle, Bill Rees, Donna Jarka, Dr Ralph Levin, and Maureen Scully.