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 Super Relay
Author: Rick Schwab 
Date:   10-11-02 08:01

Dear Horseshoe Alum,
I need your help. I volunteer a few weeks in the summer as a counselor for a fabulous non for profit organization called One Step At A Time. We run a two week overnight camp in Lake Geneva Wisconsin for over 200 children from the ages of 8-18 whom have had and/or have leukemia or other forms of cancer. It is an incredibly worthwhile and rewarding experience. I am planning to introduce the Super Relay to camp next summer. Although I remember my involvement ( 1953-1960 and more) many of the events/activities I ask that you share with me those that you recall so I can implement the most appropriate ones for the One Step At A Time Camp.
Thanks for your assistance. I will need to find the camp kitchen " ooga " horn to end the relay.
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 Re: Super Relay
Author: Mitchell Wittenberg 
Date:   10-11-02 08:18

Rick,

I think I can be of help to you. I have a listing of a complete Super Relay (circa late 1970s) in my Horseshoe memorabilia box. I'd be happy to make a copy and send it your way. Let me know how I can get it to you.

Mitch
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 Re: Super Relay
Author: jeffbkane 
Date:   10-11-02 09:06

Rick,

I hate to tell you that the "ooga" horn died about 1980 and was replaced by an awful siren. But there must be a few submarines laying around not needing their own horns.

Do you think you could actually get another group of campers to chant, "Boil water, boil!"?
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 Re: Super Relay
Author: Rick Schwab 
Date:   10-11-02 10:57

Jeff,
Thanks for your reply. If the ooga horn is out there I will find one.
How is the restaurant business? Are you still in Az?
Take care.
Rick
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 Re: Super Relay
Author: Rick Schwab 
Date:   10-11-02 11:00

Dear Mitchell,
Thanks for your response. The list would be fantastic. You can mail it to:
Rick Schwab
(Half Acre)
3323 Brook Road
Highland Park, Illinois
60035
Yea Rah Rah - Thanks a million

Rick
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 Re: Super Relay
Author: jeffbkane 
Date:   10-11-02 15:45

Actually, I left the restaurant business in 1992. I stayed in Tucson until 1999, and then moved to San Francisco... which is where I am now. I now manage a company which operates Faculty-led short-term study abroad programs for colleges and universities. Definitely a change for the better in all regards.
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 Re: Super Relay
Author: dboron 
Date:   10-13-02 12:12

Hi Rick,

Here is what I remember..

Get lost,pitch a tent,make a pan to cook a pancake,cook and eat a pancake,boil water,ran to the A field,make a bed,rack a canoe,clean a fish,10 pull ups?,kick a field goal,make 5 baskets?,catch a blue gill,make a plunker,something with newcomb, something with swimming, canoe to the bouey and back, ringer at the horseshoe pit, get a bullseye in archery, get a bullseye in riflery, something with tennis?, Sail around the bouey and back, RING THE HORN...

Thats what I remember. As you can tell, I was usually not assigned to something on the A field. Hope this helps and good luck.

Dan Boron
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 Re: Super Relay
Author: Steve Motew 
Date:   10-14-02 04:17

Of course you can't forget the various long runs back and forth to (and at) the a-field, as well as the rock dive at the end.
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 Re: Super Relay
Author: Scott Eisen 
Date:   10-14-02 04:47

There was also some ridiculously long run to A - Lake or something. I remember the guy would always drink a container of honey before the run.
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 Re: Super Relay
Author: Rick Schwab 
Date:   10-14-02 12:37

Thanks - a good start.
Rick
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 Re: Super Relay
Author: Steve Farber 
Date:   10-18-02 17:01

Consider this a "best of" version (some missing; in later years, with fewer campers, some were eliminated)
(not in exact order)

Get lost
Run from Council Horseshoe to A-Field
Various A-Field activities (kick a field goal, kick a soccer ball, newcomb/volleyball/ run the bases, long jump, make a free throw, etc.)
Run to Trap and Skeet
Hit a clay target
run to tennis court
volley a tennis ball
riflery-- shoot in the black
scavenger hunt at wildlife lodge
various swimming events, including swimming to fishing pier
various boating events, including sailing, solo canoeing
baitcasting "on the first try"
catch a bluegill
archery bullseye
tie a fly
make a frying pan in the craft shop
make a pancake and eat it
Boil, water, boil!
bed making
ringer at horseshoes "on the first try"
rock diving
ring that horn
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 Re: Super Relay
Author: jeffbkane 
Date:   10-18-02 19:37

hey guys... check out newly posted Super Relay pics on the MSN site. Now easily accessible at http://www.camphorseshoe.net

Jeff
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 Re: Super Relay
Author: cssmall 
Date:   12-22-02 14:34

Rick there was also a sailing part, Volley a tennes ball 5 times, something too do ith volleyball, somethign to do with casting, swim from swiming peir the fishing pior, and at one point a skeet shooting part. add that to dan's coments and you got most of it.

Charles Small
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 Re: Super Relay
Author: rochman 
Date:   02-08-03 17:42

Damn, Mitch. That Super Relay list is an impressive item to have kept. And I thought I was a packrat . . .
I'd love a copy. My wife thinks that I made this stuff up.
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 Re: Super Relay
Author: Lee Axelrad 
Date:   07-21-03 01:12

Tennis ball in a sock? Is that right?
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