Ingersoll Scout Reservation Staff Alumni

Hi all. Eric Stensland -- OP, that is -- is putting some finishing touches on the 10 July staff reunion. He's looking for a little feedback about the program for the day. I could tell him what I want, sure, but that's not nearly as interesting as what you might like.

So, leave a comment below for OP. Give him a few tips or a pat on the back or whathaveyou.

Lunch/Introductions
After lunch some current staff would offer tours to the older guys, while stuff like hiking, tubing, water polo, shooting, and boating would be offered depending on interests to anyone who is interested.

Dinner
Immediately following dinner I want to have some sort of group activity, even if it is in the dinning hall. For instance your idea about the campfires with skits stories.

I do not know how many people are planning on staying over but a cracker barrel would follow afterwards.

Thoughts?

...well, mostly complete, that is.

Friends, please have a look at the list of ISR staff alumni. There are 787 names on that list, as well as 43 on the list of Wilderness Camp staff alumni.

Twelve years ago I started working on an online list of ISR staff alumni. It was simply a list of staff members, their email addresses, and their AOL Instant Messenger and ICQ handles. This website exists as an extension of that first list.

I know I'm just a dork for this stuff, but I love looking at the old rosters, the old names, trying to imagine what camp was like then, what the campers were like -- everything. The past might as well have occurred on a different planet. I feel like an explorer, free to make up myths around the landscapes that I don't understand.

I hope this list is never complete. That means that summer camp is still happening at Ingersoll. (By the way, who will add the 2010 staff?) However, the past is also incomplete. Nine rosters are completely missing. Others are incomplete. I have posted all of the information that I have. Now, staff, the rest is in your hands.

What's next? Well. Those lists are just names. What's really interesting is the stories behind them. Sometimes camp seems like a creek, a patch of dirt, and a stand of trees, but camp is really the sum of its experiences. I could go on and on. It's an obsession.

Next up: stories from camp. Want to help? Leave a comment. Hearing from you guys and girls is the greatest motivation to keep going.