Sorry Ruth , not paying attention, it's on the west side of Cayuga Lake in
the Finger Lakes Region of upstate NY. Almost as nice as Vermont, where I
was yesterday. Named for Colonel Frank H Barton, comander of the ROTC at
Cornell U. 1922
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From: "Ruth Barton" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 11:45 AM
Subject: Re: Barton Blues


> But no one has yet answered my initial question.  Where, geographically
> was/is this camp located, and who was the BARTON for whom it was named?
> Ruth
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> At 10:18 PM -0800 3/24/03, Cuyler Page wrote:
> Order of the Arrow wing ding was great,
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> The year of my initiation, the midnight event got completely out of hand
> and the upperclassmen who were initiating us turned it into an all
> night screaming torture session, moving through the woods faster than the
> counsellors (who were wimps compared to the "big boys"), thinking that it
> should be like the fraternity initiations they had heard about (but never
> experienced), and the administration had a fit and put all the group
> members on probation, saying that we initiates should have known better
> than to go along with it (while we were blindfolded and being beaten),
with
> stern lectures being given to the whole camp forced to stand at perfect
> attention because the drill master shouted so loud and they talked a lot
> about how the Order was supposed to be a dignified thing with an ancient
> history of noble Indians and now it had been insulted, yada yada
> yada......The next event was very very dignified.   No Indians in sight.
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> the old hotel, subject of many scary stories and home of many rats.
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> In my time (how possessive we can be about time), the Hotel was the
> administrative centre with offices upstairs (even the camper selected
> Officer of the Day had an office he shared with the Bugler) (did I spell
> that right?) and a store downstairs that made use of the old hotel bar
> counter.   If you had a little money on deposit there, you could go buy a
> candy bar in the evening.   The money was deposited on your arrival,
> limiting the amount you could spend during the week.   I often dreamed of
> what terrible cheating event in the tents must have led to the setting up
> of that system.   On the other hand, it did make you aware of living
within
> your means.   The down sided was that you were locked in for a week with
no
> hope of improving your situation.   Perhaps that was supposed to be a life
> lesson too.   Everything seemed to be intended as a life lesson.
>
> cp still broke in bc
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> Ruth Barton
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> Westminster, VT
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