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RIDGE ROAD CAMP CITATIONS
RIDGE ROAD CAMP CITATIONS
Distinguished Awards and "Camper of the Week" Awards
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5 July 1998: |
Distinguished Award |
| Roger Bird for great courage
in joining a family where one is not always right but never
in doubt. |
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5 July
1995: |
Camp of
the Week |
| Jay Lerner for excellence
in dock-propping, raft-stuffing, left-turn making, chair-napping,
vineyard biking, and canoe snooping. Special talent: Guessture hamming.
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6 July
1989: |
Distinguished
Award: |
| Robert "Dick" Blackmore
for travel to Ridge Road Camp, direct from NEW ZEALAND. |
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20 July
1986: |
Camper
of the Week: |
| Howard Holmes for distinction
in late-arriving, Boston-driving, apartment-spotting, sand-transporting,
lobster-boiling, and venison-broiling |
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15 August
1985: |
Distinguished
Award: |
| Sigma Nu (Pennsylvania
States University) for excellence in Camp-closing, log-lugging,
brush-hauling, dock-lifting, crap-packing, and leftover-eating.
Mary Bailey, Jim Carmody, Barry DePan, and Tim Mager. |
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4 August
1985: |
Distinguished
Award: |
| David Peterson for putting
up with screams and screens, milfoil and fish toil, girls conniving
and Hyannis driving, and for being an all-around good sport (per
Lydia and Liz). |
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3 August
1985: |
Camper
of the Week: |
| Liz Kirschner for excellence
in lobster spotting, boulder jumping, Heather listening, milfoil
hoisting, pebble sifting, fish-scooping, snapper hunting, whale
watching, fingernail growing, boy-scoping, parking-lot dancing,
and marathon tanning. July 1985. |
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29 July
1984: |
Distinguished
Award: |
| Peter and Amy Simpson,
for professional treatment of amateur trees: The title of "Arborists
in Residence," with tenure. |
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19 July
1984: |
Camper
of the Week: |
| Betsy Ruff for stone-stealing,
bed-changing, trim-whiting, sign-painting, pond-sketching, organ-listening,
dump-tripping, Rachel-waiting, dishwashing, snoop-tripping, pitch-losing,
rain-slogging, and good cheer in spite of all of the above. |
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19 August
1982: |
Distinguished
Award: |
| From the Carver's "Painter's
Guild" to Warren Ruff, "Eavesman First Class".
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2 August
1982: |
Campers
of the Week: |
| Sarah and Julie Luongo
for surviving experimental meals, Hyannis Mall, accidental jibes,
brakeless bikes, night noises, "Kill", fireworks, dull
knives, slimey fish (or none), swimmers ear, and Scusset beach barnacles.
for surviving experimental meals, Hyannis Mall, accidental jibes,
brakeless bikes, night noises, "Kill", fireworks, dull
knives, slimey fish (or none), swimmers ear, and Scusset beach barnacles.
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19 July
1980: |
Camper
of the Week: |
| JoAnn Joffee for card-shuffling
(teaching), co-piloting (car and boat), watching the fire station
leave, and doing other assorted chores ("without being asked").
Your brilliance astounds us. for card-shuffling (teaching), co-piloting
(car and boat), watching the fire station leave, and doing other
assorted chores ("without being asked"). Your brilliance
astounds us. |
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27 July
1979: |
Distinguished
Award: |
| Betsy Ruff for her ink
drawing of the Cabin. for her ink drawing of the Cabin. |
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14 July
1979: |
Distinguished
Award: |
| The Buckfield Leather and
Lather Traveling Variety Show for introducing the Muses to Edaville
and diners entertainments to Ridge Road Camp. Benny, Denise, Paul,
and Randy. |
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14 July
1978: |
Camper
of the Week: |
| Jerry Ruff (a miniature
terrier) for excellence in camp-protecting, Evan-watching, basketball-subduing,
tick-collecting, and Doberman-pinsching. |
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25 August
1977: |
Distinguished
Award: |
| Betsy Ruff for her magnificent
charcoal renderings of Ridge Road Camp. |
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13 August
1976: |
Distinguished
Award (in absentia): |
| Margie Ruff for nobly
sacrificing 3 days of smelly fish, watery beaches, pesky kids, and
silly parents (4) in order to make her fortunes in the mercantile
trades. |
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14 July
1976: |
Camper
of the Week: |
| Jeanette Peterson for
camping at home alone without the company of her beloved family
(July 6-14, 1976) |
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24 August
1975: |
Distinguished
Award (sub rosa and in absentia): |
| John Ginn and Donna Molyneux
for the Latest Breakfast in Camp history - finished at 11:40am |
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15 August
1975: |
Camper of
the Week: |
| Warren Ruff for excellence
in fish-scooping, moon-shooting, beer-burping, songs, sound effects,
and stories for all occasions. |
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10 August
1975: |
Distinguished
Award: |
| Anne and Jim Forgy, Nicky,
Danny, Alice for the Longest Pilgrimage to Camp from Lebanon,
Missouri. |
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