Camp Deal??

My father used to tell me he was a counselor there, but all he ever mentioned was that I shouldn’t complain about my camps as he had outhouses there.

I believe there is a brief mention of the camp in Amos Bunim’s “Fire in His Soul”

I was a counselor there in the summer of 1966, with Steve Kelter, Ray Stern, Eliyahu Safran…. Heshy Weinreb was running the camp.

It was basic, but the campers had a good time and there was learning every morning. Counselor Alan Weinstock supplied a bit of guitar playing,

Fond memories of that summer.

Wow– I was just thinking about this camp after 50 or so years.
I attended approx. 1965-1968.
I lived on lower east side and went to MTJ.
A guy in my building who was older was a counselor at the camp– he was killed at camp deal by a lighting bolt on a Friday before the Sabbath. We were playing baseball outside of the dining room when it struck him in his belt. Likely occurred in 1967 or so.

Some older lady owned the camp and it was free for most.

Hi all, I was at Camp deal for I think 7 trips over 7 years from around 1961 to 1968. I was there when the counselor was struck and kI’ll ed by lightning. There was another injured as they sat under a large tree when a quick thunderstorm came. They rushed us in to the bunks. I too have very fond memories of camp. Including sending home a card to my paren’t saying I lost my shoe. And then another card saying I found it. I got in trouble when a few of us broke into the theatre, yes we had a theatre too, as there was a pay phone there and some of us including me called home.
I also remember Mrs Golding coming in her Rolls, Black beautiful and letting us go inside in back from one side out the other. And she came into the kitchen and brought more white bread out and put on our tables. My only complaint is why change the name even though she donated millions and camp was moved to PA as the Deal property was worth millions too, they should have kept it named as Camp deal. Afterall it was/is a boys camp, duh.

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I attended Camp Deal from approximately 1956-1961. I remember one counselor’s name – Heshy. There were two Syrian kids from Bensonhurst in my bunk plus one childhood friend. I don’t remember anyone else.. Among all the people I knew who went to summer camp, this one was definitely the cheapest edited We couldn’t afford a better one apparently. There was a theme song we sang “Ay Yi Yi Yi Kus, nobody’s like us, we are the boys of old Camp Deal, always a winning always a grinning always a feeling fine, ay yi yi, etc.
Other camps had rowing, horse back riding, etc. We had torn window screens, baseball, basketball, a pool, marching, not much else. I remember doing some fun skits in the “rec” hall and watching movies on rainy days.

Was it a Federation camp back then too, with so many scholarship kids?