Robert Oren writes from the Bay Area: I have resided in San Francisco since 1976. (Except for eight years spent in the gem industry in Australia from 1983-1991.) North Woods was the single most important experience in my adolescence. I very rarely get back to New England as I travel to Europe quite a bit. I will never forget my years as a camper, CIT, and counselor. I would literally count the days all fall, winter and spring until the first day of camp. Council rings, Sunday sing -a-longs,canoe trips, 4 and 5 day mountain trips in the White mountains, listening to the laughing loons as I lay awake in my bed whether it was as a Junior, Trailer, Senior, CIT, or counselor. The sheer joy I received in teaching young boys how to swim at that glorious waterfront on Lake Winnipesaukee, soccer games on the upper ball field and then after a win taking a ride on the Chris Craft into Wolfeboro for ice cream sundaes, Water Carnival, Saturday movie night in the Great Hall (watching the moon landing in July,1969 on a small black and white TV, everyone sitting in the hall in their pajamas), the dedication of the peaceful Founders Lodge and as a counselor watching George McGovern accepting the Presidential nomination on TV there). Learning how to waterski behind the Boston Whaler and then going out to the Broads to go slalom, being a member of the choir each Sunday at Chapel and actively participating in Friday night services with the wonderful Shirley Goodwin and my fellow Jewish campers, that final last week of camp in late August ---Carnival, behind the old farmhouse, the Treasure Hunt, the Snipe Hunt (complete with Tony Miranda reading the Western Union telegrams from all over northern New Hampshire), the Banquet, and the final Council Ring ---arms entwined, singing "Day is done, gone the sun...", lighting our candles and solemnly going down to the waterfront to bid farewell to another incredible summer. How fortunate I was to have grown into a man during my eight summers at camp! How fortunate I was to have known men like Nate Todaro, Steve Gordon, Andy Kramer, Richard Salem, Tony Miranda, John Buckley, Fred Morhart, and Peter Mazonson, to name a few....Would love to hear from any other alumni around the country.