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May 2013 SGF Visit - Don't Miss It! All campers and counselors are invited to SGF Vacation Camp in Collegeville, PA. It will be a magical time to revisit the wondrous grounds of ol’ SGF from Indian Ridge to It will be a four hour “trip” with a tour guided by Uncle Herman Tannenbaum as well as revisiting fond memories, skits and songs. We’ll have some pizza and soda for you. DATE: Saturday May 18th Please RSVP of your intention to visit to sglass1258@comcast.net Here’s the schedule: 11:00 AM: Arrive & schmooze in Indian Ridge Due to the nature of Open Space regulations and property boundaries, this may be a one-time only event. Welcome Home!
For those of you who have been Googling for the SGF Vacation Camp website - here it is. If this is your first shot, lucky you. If your camp spirit has been locked away with your combination underwear for decades, this is where to find it again. Our camp made boys into men and men into boys from 1922 until it closed in 1978. Although the Collegeville campgrounds have been dormant for more than 30 years, SGF's spirit beats inside six decades of old SGF-ers. SGF's rebirth began in June 2005 - at an amalgam of The Big Chill and Meatballs - when four unlikely guys - Spencer Glass, Scott Kleiman, Alan Saionz and Hall of Fame counselor Steve Funt - held a mini-reunion to visit the old SGF campground. At the SGF Photo Gallery you will see that, while many of SGF's vestiges remain, most of the camp is in shambles. Familiar buildings were either wrecked or altered since SGF's campfires went cold in 1978.
As they walked from the Indian Ridge to Lake Lou, through the nature hut, and up to the Hill, those four felt the spirit and began to relive some of their great SGF memories. They spent three hours, walking, looking for old names painted in the dilapidated bunks. Remember them? Apache, Blackfoot, Comanche, Delaware, Erie, Featherhead, Geronimo, Hopi, Iroquois, and Kickapoo. And 1 to 9 on the Hill, plus the Taj. Do you remember why there was no “J” bunk? SGF Lives They unanimously decided to build something that would, at least, resurrect the SGF memories! And they did! Within three years, they had formed the SGF Club and SGF Foundation and began SGF's rise from the ashes with Overnighters in 2008 and 2009 for a new generation of SGF kids. From that Overnighter, we hope to build SGF back to what it was when we shivered to The Monkey's Paw, ran around as candy dropped from the sky, and shouted "hot stuff, Oscar." If you ever attended or worked at SGF, this website is dedicated to you. So, please sign the Guestbook, check recent announcements, share your stories, see what the corrosive effect of time has done to some of your former counselors, and see whether you want to be part of the new SGF. We've got a lot to do.
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