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Ramah

Everyone's A Star
At Summer Impressions
A Four Star Camp!

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(248) 661-3630

CAMP SESSIONS
BEGIN JUNE 15th!

• Professional Instruction
• Swimming
• Field Sports
•Tennis
• Arts & Crafts

• Creative Dramatics
• Nature & Science Center
• Computer Center
•Themes
• Weekly Field Trips
• Overnights

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NURSERY AND DAY SCHOOLS

DAY CAMP

4150 Middlebelt Road
(between Lone Pine & Long Lake Roads)
West Bloomfield 48323

32500 West Thirteen Mile
5760 Drake Road
(between Orchard Lake & Farmington Roads) (between Walnut Lake & Maple Roads)
Farmington Hills 48334
West Bloomfield 48322

It wouldn't have been camp
without some Michael Jackson
(in Hebrew) and HaMermaid HaKatan.

Campers /
Ages 5-14

Door to Door
Transportation
Included For
Most Areas!

PONTOONING • ARCHERY • POTTERY
POND AND LAKE • ARTS AND CRAFTS • DANCE
ATHLETICS • GYMNASTICS • PHOTOGRAPHY
NATURE PROGRAM • ANIMAL FARM • GO-KARTS
TENNIS • SWIMMING • FISHING • BOATING
SAILING • WATER SKIING • TUBING • COMPUTERS

CALL LORRAINE & ARNIE (248) 932-2123

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Rebecca Sykes
Special to The AppleTree

From tefilot it was on to breakfast,
where, as at every meal, each age
division tried to drown out the
am thinking about camp, and I'm
sounds of the next by singing its
trying to think of a setting where
group song, also in Hebrew. From
music wasn't involved. You wake
the first day of camp, this song is
up at the crack of dawn (at least it
drilled into our heads — a new one
feels that early), and with your
for each age group.
bunkmates singing your cabin
They go to
In addition to the division
song you head to tefilot.
camp with songs, we learned especially
My favorite cabin song
a son 9 in
composed tunes that "the
from all my years was too
their h earts Music Guy" would play after
cool — Hebrew words
the dishes were cleared away.
shouting our greatness to the tune of
With all the adolescent hormones
Michael Jackson's "Beat It." Oh
chorusing together, you could say the
yeah, we were way cool.
music lifted the roof of the dining hall
At tefilot, we sang as many of the
to a higher level, if not the spirits of
prayers as possible. To this day, a
the director who never ate a quiet
congregational tune doesn't seem
meal until Sukkot (ringing in the ears
right unless it is exactly what I
has a lasting effect).
learned and sang for 15 years as a
The Music Guy also taught us the
camper and staff member at Camp
songs that we sang at the Festival
Ramah in Wisconsin.
— on all-camp activity where we
celebrated Jewish music. A live
Rebecca Kaplan Sykes loved
band — made up of campers,
her camp experience so much that
counselors and even a rabbi who
she married the director of Ramah
was wicked with a harmonica —
Darom, Rabbi Loren Sykes. Along
would play, and the entire camp
with son Elan, the Sykes family are
would sing and dance.
busy creating music memories for
Which brings me to the Dance
campers today.

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