ALL THE BOYS LIVED IN THE EAST BAY ARK 

 They made up one-iourth ol the camp's population. Puzzle: Find Noah. 



Young Adult Camp 



Choosing a mayor, board of super- 

 visors, constable and other town officers 

 was the first task confronting 132 

 young adults who encamped at Lake 

 Bloomington, McLean county, August 

 8 to 1-i. The program of tlie camp was 

 designed to afford young people an op- 

 portunity to look at their problems. 



The township government they set 

 up to carry on everyday camp func- 

 tions gave them first hand information 

 about the cumbersome problems of lo- 

 cal government. They found that the 

 town system is merely a legal form and 

 that many functions of a community 

 could be best handled through com- 

 munity groups such as churches, schools 

 and clubs. 



Discussion of personal adjustment to 



heavy family debt brought out the fact 

 that hundreds of young people are 

 facing this problem. Most of them 

 adjusted their lives through hard work, 

 at which they earn their own way and 

 help handle the family debt. 



Dramatic tenseness gripped listeners 

 as 12 young men and women rose with 

 heavy hearts to explain the personal 

 adjustments heavy family debt had 

 torced them to make. 



But all was not problems and trouble 

 at Last Bay f'amp. Swimming, boat- 

 ing, games, music, an amateur night 

 and a cantata enhanced a vacation spirit 

 to the camp. Journalistically inclined 

 folks published a daily newspaper. 



The campers came from 69 towns 

 from all parts of the state. Sangamon, 



A SPRAINED KNEE BROUGHT ENVIOUS SIGHS — 

 as Alice Mudge, LaSalle county, (3rd from right, back row) was carried about 

 in masculine arms. Lois Schenck, (right) Prairie Farmer, helped with the camp 

 newspaper. Mildred Mier, Livingston county, (leit) "mothered" the brood in 

 the guest house. 



Macon. Iroi^uois, Hancock. McLean, 

 Champaign, ' Lawrence, Randolph, 

 Coles, and Vermilion counties were 

 represented by three to ten delegates 

 each. 



The camp was conducted through 

 the cooperation of the Lxtension Ser- 

 vice in Agriculture and Home Lco- 

 nomics of the University of Illinois. 

 State Rural Youth groups, the lAA, 

 ( hristian ^' o u t h Council. Illinois 

 { luirch Council, the Illinois Home 

 Bureau l-"ederation and others. 



Camp leaders included. D. \'.. Lind- 

 strom. f-reida L. PeterMUl, ( Ico lit/, 

 simmons. L. H. Regnier. of the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois; Lrank Ciingrich ol 

 the lAA and Mrs. LIsie Mies of the 

 Home Bureau Federation. 



"THE WATERS FINEI" 

 Say Helen Holdridge and Billy Randall. 



"ALL WAS NOT TROUBLE" 

 Roberta Crews and Mildred Nuttall oi 

 Lawrence county. 



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