Digging Up the Past | December 2011  

The Tenth Season

The year is 1919, and the vision that Harris Eberhart had for a camp on the shores of Corey Lake is really taking shape.

Check out the camp brochure from 1919, with photos of the tents, a campfire, and a view from Obenchain Lodge toward the lake (before there were trees!).

You might be surprised to learn that we used to have summer school at EB, which included 7^th and 8^th grade math and history: “One term of six weeks will be conducted at the close of which examinations are given and a certificate recommending the successful boy to the local Principal.”

We can already see how the early marketing efforts for campers are paying off, with Phillip Druiding here from Chicago and Francis Barada coming all the way from Kansas City, Missouri, both of whom were recipients of the Eberhart Medal Awards the previous summer, Leader’s Medal and All-Round Development Medal respectively.

The Honor System focuses on four areas, mental, physical, social and service, and worship and devotional, while the listing of activities includes hikes, boxing, baseball, minstrels, tennis, cage ball, fishing, Indian relics, and pageants.

Our day begins with reveille at 7 followed by exercise and a morning “plunge,” and ends with taps at 9.

Girls Camp has the first two weeks in August, beginning with Business Girls and then School Girls.

Several pages of our brochure for this summer remind us about the recent war, and how “more than a hundred of her sons responded to their Country’s Call.”

Enjoy exploring the 1919 brochure, 16 pages of digging up the past at our camp.