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Color War

Posted by Lew Bader on November 14, 2008 at 9:36am
How intense could it get? Silent Meals, Bunk Inspections, Mess Hall Cheers, Apache Relay, Swim Meet, Track Meet...competition 24/7...and then, there was Color Competion (oh well).

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  • Bennet Lipper August 23, 2010 at 7:49am
    Hey Danny That was a great color war I think we were on the same team Bennet Lipper
  • Bennet Lipper August 23, 2010 at 7:48am
    danny liebersohn said:
    well the braves will win with all of our might, blue braves, fight we're gonna fight we're gonna fight, fight, fight
    (sung to the tune of jumpin jack flash) ps rope burn was amazing, one year they came down almost exactly at the same time.
  • Lew Bader January 24, 2009 at 1:30am
    As I remember the true proponent of Color Competition was Bruce Gelfand, but many of us got on the bandwagon. This was a time when the War in Vietnam was raging and the whole idea of war was very real to us. The notion of militarisitc types of competition with intensity of that magnitude was a turn-off. In retrospect, it did not have the same intensity and was not a successful experiment. Today, many of the camps call it Color Games.
  • Mark Walker January 23, 2009 at 6:36pm
    Who exactly was responsible for Color Competition - I remember it being post war - give peace a chance -

    I was young and impressionable -
  • Harvey Kojan January 5, 2009 at 2:42pm
    Ah, Color War. Nothing was more intense, especially in my early days at Balfour when there were absolutely no "p.c." concerns. I first experienced it as a 10-year-old in 1965. I was lucky enough to be named MVP of the winning Blue "Jets" team that summer. For a "chubby" kid with "issues" ... well, that was a singular thrill.

    Soaring higher, higher
    Set the sky on fire
    Jets infallible are we

    Blue will win the race
    The Gray can't stand the pace
    Fight, fight, fight to victory

    How the heck can I still remember our fight song from (gulp) 43+ years ago? Strangely, I can't remember any of the songs I later wrote as a Color War/Competition counselor.
  • danny liebersohn November 14, 2008 at 6:47pm
    well the braves will win with all of our might, blue braves, fight we're gonna fight we're gonna fight, fight, fight
    (sung to the tune of jumpin jack flash) ps rope burn was amazing, one year they came down almost exactly at the same time.
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