Camp  Crowell Hilaka Memories

Friends of Richfield Heritage Preserve are keeping the memories of the Girls Scout who camped at Crowell Hilaka alive. The stories shared below help us piece together the many ways the camp was enjoyed over the years, creating memories forever.

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1930s and 1940s

• Catherine Hardon Maeder (1931 – 1940)
• June Story Gottschling (1937)
• Ethel Tiedemann (1937)
• Ruth Rayle (c.1944)
• Joan Sinnema Reisig (1944 – 1948)
• Doris Haydon Gorgas (late 1940s; daughters in 1970s)

 
1950s and 1960s

• Sandra Scherrer Norris (1958)
• Laura Kirby Cronin (1958 & 1959)
• ​Jan Schmid
• Louise Quallich Pilz "Squeezer"  ( 1961 - ?)
• Daphne Walker Mann (1962-1972)
• Penny (Allen) Nelson aka "Antelope" 1962 & 1963 
• Sherry Petkovsek 1963
• Eileen Zimlich 1964 & the 1990s 
• Laurel Freeder (1964 - 1968)
• ​Bea Crosson (1960s – 1980s)
• Joanie Gottschling (1965)
• Lucia Wicinski (1966)
• Christine Stark (1966 & 1967) 
• Tina Elkins (1965 – 1977)

 
1970s

• Joan Lusk Barnum
• ​Marilyn Pemberton, nee Baker. Aka ‘Merinda’ (1976)
• Ele Richardson
• ​Donna Rypinski (1976)
• AnnMarie Cline (1979)

 
1980s and 1990s

• Helen Bergmann & Rebecca Bergmann Jaros (1982 – 1994)
• Lisa Allen (1986 – 1997)
• Alicia S. Naab  (c. 1986 - ?)
• Debbie ("Beasley") Kramer
• Dave and Milissa Pinzone Wedding (1990)
• In the 90s, Dawn Thompson organized a group of former counselors and campers at Crowell Hilaka to write letters to their favorite places at Crowell Hilaka.  Susan ("Sunny") Baddour, Kristina ("Dragon") Cudney, Faraway Pines, Lindsey, Debbie ("Yakko") Baddour Navratil, Rachel Oppenheimer, Aubrie ("Butterfly") Babicz,  Lenore Smith, Beth Storey, Dawn Thompson, Channa W. 
• Gretchen Knapp (1990 – 1995)
• ​Amy Martin-Madeley (1997)
• ​Dawn Woodward (1993)
• resident camp Wranglers (1996)
• Jacqui Muth - excerpt from 6th grade autobiography Cots and Kapers (1998)
• Memories - Char Conn (1999)

2000s

• Annelise Gorensek (2000)
• Lynn Richardson (2000)
• Mallory Whitten (2003 – 2006)
• Chris Naizer (2010)
• 2009-09-28  (2009)

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photos: ​1941. Source: Cleveland Press Archives. Cleveland State University Special Collections Library

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