1971 - my sister was in Red Roof and I was in the Glen (Sugar Shack.)

This was my sister Kathy's cabin - we are still looking for the name.

And this was the "Red Roof" gang in 1971

1973  - Mouse Trap (thanks, Carol!)

I think 1974 was the last year that the camp was open. We all stayed up at the main house!

Recognize a famous stand up comedian and comic actress in the middle of the back row? click here to see who it is

Wendy Gerber is counselor on the right

The following photos are from the brochure - thanks to Wendy Gray - Although, I just  found mine! 5/2004

I loved walking down to the lake!

Comments from email

• This is your counselor from 1974...Wendy Gerber!  I was just told about your Holiday Hill website and nearly fell off my chair looking at it.  Those pictures are incredible!  I went to HH from 1966 till 1974.  I remember you...and Carol and Mary Bono and Mary Sees (the nurse) and Claire Pizzo, etc etc!  God, I loved that place!  I loved those summers! 
  Thanks for the website.  It's great.  LOVE those pictures.  They brought tears to my eyes!  Seriously!     
  PS: I stopped at Windridge a few summers ago.  Of course after 25 yrs a lot had changed...but a lot was still the same.  Lots of fun memories!      - Wendy 2/07/2007     WG1156"at"aol.com
   
• I just stumbled across your Holiday Hill sight. In your Red Roof 1971 picture I am in the 2nd row from the top, 3rd person from the left. I was at Holiday Hill from 1965 until they sold the main camp to Windridge in 1974. I think I'm right about that year. Then I worked at Windridge for the next 2 years. (It was amazing how quickly the facilities went downhill without the directors to take care of things!) I can honestly say that my years at Holiday Hill were the best times of my life growing up. I still miss it and I think a reunion is a fabulous idea! My friend Wendy Gerber who lives in Guilford, CT. and went to Holiday Hill even longer than I did will no doubt remember every single person in each picture on your sight!
  I'm so glad you did this sight and would love to hear from any HH alumni! mi37027"at"comcast "dot" net   Merissa Ide 2/08/2007
   

• My name is Diane (Jackson) Stafford and I would be the girl with the long blonde hair bottom row second from the left in the picture from the last year of camp (the one of about 10 girls with the two dogs). My sister, Carol, also an ex-camper, sent me this link and I was amazed to find a picture of myself, at about 10 years old, on the site! I am delighted.
  
  Carol and I sometimes find ourselves remembering our summers at Holiday Hill, and remember with great fondness. I still tell my children my favorite riding story: Cracker Jack took at dislike to me for some reason one summer (1974, I think), and even managed to flip me over his neck one day when we had a disagreement about eating grass. I was then assigned to him for end of season competition, and spent several hours pinned to the side of his stall. One day, when he turned around and bit me as I was grooming him, the counselor that was there said, “If he bites you, you have to bite him back. That’s the only way he’ll understand”. She then promptly took his ear in her mouth and bit down hard. Needless to say, it was not something neither the horse nor I was likely to forget.
  
  I'm going to look around in our old pictures for some Holiday Hill memories. I'll let you know what I find. Thanks for setting up the web site. Feel free to use my story or name if you see fit.
  Diane (Jackson) Stafford 6/3/2005
   

• Thanks for putting up this site - I went to Holiday Hill in the late fifties and early sixties - 5 or 6 years....nothing could every replace those summers and the memories are strong...started in the Glen, thru Red Roofs and then the point.  Roberta Bates, who wrote earlier, was a friend...also Bebe Billings, Pam McWilliams, Sandy Ramsdale (I think that is right), Bobo Lanckton, Bonnie Barnett...and Doodles (Jean), they were all friends..they were in fact family, closer than friends. Memories could take up a book (maybe not a bad idea - if we could get enough people to contribute)...Walking to the barn in the pre-dawn, by myself.... coming up the trail, through Red Roofs, and gazing down the the mist covered hill...shoes sopping wet from the dew...the quiet...and mucking out the stalls...and then going to breakfast...I lived for those mornings.  Ali Baba, Little John...Mabel the riding instructor...oh, we looked up to her....Being accepted into the first period riding class - spending the morning with the horses and the afternoon at the waterfront...waterskiing down past the boys camp - MIss Williard driving the boat - sometimes in her bra! - we were mortified - the trips up Mt. Mansfied - an overnight - first by canoe - down to Davies Pasture - Songs, and songs..."Holiday Hill's the camp to come to, in August or July"...MIss Lowell and MIss Williard - I will always be grateful to them for Holiday Hill...I think I could go on and on....Molly Doyle (Who wrote earlier) - everyone looked up to you...that was so important back then.  Went back there about 10 years ago - Windridge Tennis Camp now...The lodge was still there - high on the hill - the waterfront looked smaller, but the lake was beautiful and lush...So whenever I walk into a pine forest, it's Holiday Hill I think of...I hope you keep this site up...Thanks for the opportunity to go on about something only a select few know how special it really was...      Priscilla Whitley....Oh, I live in Ridgefield CT if anyone is around the area...cillawm27 "at" aol "dot" com 5/21/2004
   

• I was a counselor one summer, 1966. Nan Serling, you were in my cabin along with 5 other great 11-year-olds, whose names I can't remember, except for a Hilary. Carol Gustafson, you were not in my cabin, ( you were about 15 or 16) but we became friends because you played the guitar and I was in charge of  music. And the song I remember the most was " O, Miss Lowell walks around with her feet off the ground" and as we sang it louder and louder, she would stuff paper napkins in her ears. Fun!  If anyone out there remembers me, contact me at fineandmandy"at"aol.com .     Mandy Tillotson 2/7/2004
   
• I was just going thru some old family pictures when I came across this picture taken summer of 1965 at holiday hill (left to right) of micki cash,louise barnes,and myself.... the 3 of us shared the old CIT cabin on the point...wondering have you heard from anyone, who went to holiday hill during the 2 summers I was there '64-'65? Would love to get in touch with them... hope this finds you well, and have a nice day.. wouldn't it be neat to get together enough girls, and a possible Vermont trip back to Holiday Hill..  Jonnie (nee > Morris) French   9/30/2003

• I went to Holiday Hill from 1951 till 1963.   Started out in the Glen at age 9 and finished up as Asst. Head of the Waterfront ---Great summers - the joy of my life. Sad news though about Miss Lowell and I believe Miss Willard. Miss Lowell (Dude) passed away a few years ago and last year I did not receive a card back from Miss Willard (Jo). The last word I heard was in 2000 and she had reached her nineties and was really slowing down. Now the phone number is not in the book.  I last saw them in 1982 in Vermont. They had sold the camp and were living around Stowe - a couple years later they moved to Fort Myers Florida.  The camp had been turned into a tennis camp and although still familiar--changes were taking place. I believe the fireplace pipe had been removed-- too bad.    Molly F Doyle 7/29/2002
   

• I went to Holiday Hill Camp in the years 1966, 1967 and 1968 (I think I have those years right).  I was 9 or 10 then in my first year at the camp.  One of the cabins I was in was one called the Tree House.   The one with the tree growing in the middle.   Also, I liked being around the bay and you could row across if you wanted to get back to the main lodge for meals etc.     Wendy Gray 6/13/2002
   

• It was many years ago (1957,58,59), but the great memories live on.
  I remember the camp song word for word! Remember playing capture the flag? Riding horses into town? Did you put a play on for the Towns People?
  Great memories! How about writing your name on the fireplace pipe?    Roberta Bates Huntington 5/4/2002
   
• Remember "thump-drag" and vespers down by the lake?  Anyone know where Carol Santella from Revere, Mass. is today? Alice Ridgway 7/30/2000 
  UPDATE This worked!!!!  I found Carol - or more precisely, she found me!  30 years since we met! Alice Ridgway 12/1/2002 
  UPDATE We just had the MOST awsome reunion in FLA  - after 30 YEARS of no contact,  it was like we were back in Junior High all over again.  What a gift!!! Alice Ridgway 5/7/2005
   

  Alice Carol	Alice                         Carol
  1974	2005

(Not sure why there is a 3 year gap here...)

• I have several HH photos from 1966-69 but I don't know where they are right now. When I find them, I'll send them to you. I think I remember who Wendy Gerber was... chubby kid with red hair? We didn't know each other, though. And you were there years after I was, so I don't think we'd know anyone in common. If you ever are contacted by either Nan (now Anne) Serling or Prue Stoddard, PLEASE let me know. I am obsessed with finding them again!!   Thanks again, will send photos some day. Jency Jaremko April 20, 2008 (jaremko "at" optonline "dot' net)

• I can’t believe I came across this site! Anyway, I also went to Holiday Hill – Glen on up through the Point and was a CIT for one summer – time would have been in the 50’s thru 1962 or 3 I think. I have a brochure somewhere – in it, near the middle I think, is a person on the trampoline – that would be me LOL – That is a lot of years ago!   Some of the people I remember are Peggy Weinland, Lucy Hooper, Nancy Northrup, Ellie Wharton. Wow, I have an old address book around somewhere and will have to look up other names. I would love to find Lucy Hooper.   Nancy (Gay) Miller October 11, 2008 (nmiller "at" madriver "dot" com)

• Hi Alice, I'm so excited to find this website.  Carol Santella and I went to HH together in 1969 or 70 (?).  I was 10.  I loved this place.  My brothers Peter and John were across the lake with Carols brother, Andrew.  Hey, I'm looking for Monique Richards.  She was from LA.  Her sister Michelle was at HH, too. Thanks so much for creating this site.  Lisa Torre Nash January 29, 2009 (lisa "dot" nash "at" att "dot" net)

• I just found this site - looks like I'm a little late to the party.  I went to HH in the 50's and every time my cousin, Kitty Halloran, and I get together we sing all the songs.
    
  Holiday Hill's the camp to come to in August or July
  If you wanna have a lot of fun upon our hill so high
  Beautiful horses, cooling waters, boats, and craftshop too
  It's all up here a'waiting just for me and you.  
  
  Ho hum, living in the sun
  Bet you'd like to be here too
  Ho hum, not so very dumb
  We're the lucky ones it's true  
  
  Whether you're in the Red Roofs, Point, or Glen, you're always on the run
  Sleep outs at Davis Pasture or hikes of Washington
  Counselors, Campers, and Directors voices raised in joyful song
  We'll keep the mem'ries living all year long.
  
  Great memories!  Thanks for the site. Ginna Hamilton Zoellner  July 17, 2009 (dgnomads "at" yahoo "dot com)

• Just did a Google search for Holiday Hill...on a long shot...and really enjoyed coming across your website even though it’s been a couple of years since the last post. My sister (Debby Arnold Reale) and I were talking about those great summers in Vermont – the great friends and fun times. Miss Willard and Miss Lowell...singing the “Iowa, Iowa, that’s where the tall corn grows” song as loud as we could so the ladies put napkins in their ears and pretended not to hear. The trampoline, mucking out, the plays, Old Home Days and riding in the “parade”, water skiing, sailing and rowing across the lake from the Point on a foggy chilly Vt morning.  Hiking Mt. Mansfield and buying slalom rings in Stowe. Both of us went to HH for quite a few summers during the 60’s.  Being a bit younger, I was a camper...Red Roofs, Point...lots of great memories. My sister was a CIT and a counselor. A couple of kids from our town, Judy and Gail DiPaolo also went to HH. - Nancy Arnold Collins July 20, 2009 (ncoll "at" optonline "dot" net ) 

• How about this...how long did it take you to learn to water ski?  3 tries and your out?  Well I think it was that FREEZING VT water!  I was dying to get out of the water and up on the skiis!   -Alice

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