CHAPEL PHOTO ANSWER UNVEILED!

We posted this picture in our Spring 2015 Knoll News and asked readers to post their guesses for a date of the photo on Facebook. The range of guesses made (1930’s all the way up to 1964) are indicative of how timeless this view is. In fact, unless you are very familiar with how the chapel looks today or when those drop-W-L camper T-shirts were worn, this picture could be from last June!

You actually can find this picture in the William Lawrence Camp promotional brochures from 1937 and 1939. So Les McDowell is our winner with his guess of “1930s”. We recently received copies of these brochures from alum Robert Chase of Falmouth, MA, who was at camp with his brothers during this period.

The caption under the picture in the 1939 brochure is timeless as well:

The early morning Password Service in the woodland chapel each day inspires the boys with Christian ideals, and the daily camp life with its deep friendships and helpful guidance, encourages the campers to make these ideals live.

While there is no minister and no religious content to the morning services any more, this phrase is as appropriate to describe what we will be doing on the morning of June 29, 2015, as it was in the 1930’s.