OBITUARIES.Kerns Directed Camp Waziyatah Peter Kerns, a longtime member of ACA ACA - Application Control Architecture , died suddenly in January while on a recruiting trip in Germany. With his wife, Penny, he directed Camp Waziyatah in Waterford, Maine Waterford is a town in Oxford County, Maine, United States. The population was 1,455 at the 2000 census. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 137.6 km² (53.1 mi²). 130.7 km² (50.5 mi²) of it is land and 6.9 km² (2. ; Camp Waziyatah was the original location of Disney's Bug Juice. Peter was the past president of the Association of Independent Camps (AIC AIC Association des Infermières Canadiennes. ) and a member of the AIC board of directors. He was active in the ACA New England Section and had served as a trainer for the Basic Camp Director Course. Bulova Founded Buck's Rock Camp Ernst Bulova, founder of Buck's Rock Camp in New Milford, Connecticut New Milford (Incorporated 1712) is a town in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States 14 miles (23 km) north of Danbury, on the Housatonic River. The real-life home of "Mr. , died in January in his home at Buck's Rock. He was a well-respected educator, psychologist, and writer. Wasserman Was Director of Camp Naticook Former ACA member Rona B. Wasserman passed away in January. For thirty-five years, she was the owner and director of Camp Naticook, in Merrick, New Hampshire New Hampshire, one of the New England states of the NE United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts (S), Vermont, with the Connecticut R. forming the boundary (W), the Canadian province of Quebec (NW), and Maine and a short strip of the Atlantic Ocean (E). . Lorenz Founded Gnaw gnaw v. gnawed, gnaw·ing, gnaws v.tr. 1. a. To bite, chew on, or erode with the teeth. b. To produce by gnawing: gnaw a hole. Bone Camp Frederick G. Lorenz Jr., CCD CCD in full charge-coupled device Semiconductor device in which the individual semiconductor components are connected so that the electrical charge at the output of one device provides the input to the next device. , founder of Gnaw Bone Camp in Nashville, Indiana, died in December at the age of eighty-six. For twenty-five years, he taught industrial arts at the Orchard School in Indianapolis. Loving known by all as simply "Fred," he was active in the Boy Scouts, earning his fifty-year pin in 1976. He was a fifty-year member of the American Camping Association, serving on the ACA National Board of Directors and as a standards visitor and outdoor living skills instructor. He was also an honorary board member of Happy Hollow Children's Camp. Hogrefe Believed in the Camp Experience Russell Hogrefe, former executive director of the ACA Illinois Section, died in December at the age of eighty-six. Called "a champion for the underdog and the common person," Russell was instrumental in maintaining and building on the State of Illinois Title XX grant which funds camperships for at-risk children. Under his guidance, the Title XX allotments for camping services grew to nearly $1 million. Before working for the Illinois section, he was executive director of Chicago Youth Centers and helped establish the center's summer camp in Michigan. Werner Founded First Day Camp in St. Louis Margaret "Peggy" Steele Werner died in November at the age of ninety-seven. She was the former co-owner of Sebago Club, the first day camp in St. Louis, Missouri. She and her late husband, L. Matthews Werner, also operated Camp Ironwood ironwood: see hornbeam. ironwood Any of numerous trees and shrubs, found worldwide, that have exceptionally tough or hard wood useful for timber, fence posts, and tool handles. and Camp Arrowventure, in South Waterford, Maine. |
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