Louis Katz on mon 6 dec 04
Hi,
I started working at overnight summer-camp (just one place) when I was
18. I worked as an assistant in a ceramics shop with 12 homemade
wheels, two shimpos a 27 cubic foot salt kiln, two Olympic reduction
kilns and the first year a 27 cubic foot reduction kiln. We had all the
materials we needed. The shop was endowed. I worked there for 8
summers. The place is Camp Tamarack, just north of Detroit in
Ortinville Michigan it is situated on about 1 square mile of land
(approximate, don't hold me to it.)
It is a Jewish summer camp, although the other ceramics counselors most
years were not Jewish, I had a Hindu counselor when I was a camper
there, but it is Jewish cultural, religious etc.
If Tamarack is not your kind of camp and not your students try other
camps. I was frugal in the summers and saved my money. They don't pay
much until you consider:
1. Room and board
2. Ceramics
3. Sailboats
4. Fun
5. The chance to teach.
Pick a good place. Low pay is a bad sign. The camp does not have to be
rich though. I would just look careful.
The one summer I was not teaching clay I was a counselor in a village
where we built marionettes, rehearsed, and performed a show that toured
other Jewish Camps in the Lower Lower Peninsula of Michigan. It was a
great program. I tried to become the apprentice of the marionettists.
Unfortunately these fine craftsman were retiring.
Louis Katz
WIKI site http://www.tamucc.edu/wiki/Katz/HomePage
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