I was at first heartbroken seeing the movie "Meatballs," years ago, and learning that pulling someone's shorts down to his ankles at camp was not invented at Skycrest. But there's a difference: in "Meatballs," the object is humiliation of the shorts-wearer, while at Skycrest, shorts-pulling while simultaneously shouting, "Skycrest Shorts!" represented a statement about the cheapness of the shorts such that they could be pulled (and maybe some humiliation, too).

By 1977, Danny "Mosquito" Hillman… Continue

I added 60 + photos from 1960's Check them out. I had wanted to put them in a separate album but software appears to not allow segregation like that...

It has come to my attention that my posts are readily available to anyone who googles me (kind of embarrassing). That's why I've decided to stealthily add a few letters to my name. Do not be alarmed by any future changes I might make, like making my photo low-res. Also, feel free to refer to my not by my real name, but any one of the array of nicknames I adopted during my tenure on the Hill ("Little Professor, Pseudo-Professor, Clean-Freak, Mr. Sanitoid, pain in the a-- twerp, etc).

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For those interested in a bit of reminiscing, here's a link to some downloadable bugle calls. Many are familiar to us:

http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/bugle.htm

I remember sitting in the rec hall, prob in '77, waiting for the "Beauty Contest" to start, when a pretty face peeked out through the stage curtain. "WOW" I thought, it really is going to be a beauty contest! Whoops, it was Gary's wife! The Contest turned out to be counselors in bikinis with balloons.