March 5, 2008

 

Dear GUCI Alumni:

The snow and ice are falling from the skies here like the 11th plague.  Just the right time to think about the summer, sweaty floors in the Chadar, a diet Coke on the Merkaz Tochnit (that's the Chadar porch for you really old timers), suffocating in the breeze-less Beit T'fillah.  Ah, it sounds great to me.  Are you ready to come back to that special place where you sang your hearts out, raced to get home before curfew, sat out on your back porch until the wee hours just talking, got your Shiur together fifteen minutes before the kids got to the Oolam?  Are you ready?  Or maybe you are one of those kids who sat on the Oolam floor and never thought that the Shiur even had to be planned; that it just happened.  Are you ready

August 29-31 is your chance to do it all again.  Better, it's your chance to rekindle the spirit we all shared in those days and still create these days.  Our GUCI Alumni reunion is going to be just what we all remember best about camp, a camp Shabbat celebration.  Come home to GUCI.  Let's have a great Shabbat together and celebrate our camp's 50th anniversary.  The very thought of it melts (in my mind anyway) what's accumulating outside in the driveway.  LET'S THINK SUMMER!

Attached is our 50th Anniversary application form.  SPACE WILL BE LIMITED.  Take a look, email me with questions, fill it out and send it in with your check.  One of the highlights of the weekend will be the groundbreaking for our new Performing Arts Center.  You should have received the brochure and perhaps even the follow-up letter asking for your donation.  We need it now.  Now is the time.  Help us reach our goal.  Do it now while it can be matched by our challenge grant.  At the same time, send me your reunion application form and get enrolled.  More info will follow. 

See you in August.  I promise you won't be on Shmira (but maybe Toranut).

Ron