July 12

Sunday. Our first Assembly as separate teams! The excitement in our bunk was palpable. We dressed in team colors: White shirts and green shorts for us Whities, and all green for the Greenies. After breakfast, clean-up and inspection, we waited impatiently for the bugle call to assemble in front of the Senior So. The Inter White Team gathered in marching formation: two by two, in size order. So, I basically got to march right behind our officers! Once in our order, we had to remain quiet while the Junior teams marched in. "Listen!", one of the girls whispered. "It's Nancy Kaye!" We were all lucky to have as our accompanist, a former camper, Nancy Kaye, who could play piano by ear, and knew just about any song in the world. She would be playing for us, too. Soon enough, it was our turn, and the captains, holding their Camp Lenore pillow, with the team's stuffed animal mascot, got us marching in place. Then the double doors of the Social hall opened, the song-leaders started flailing and we burst into the room singing in our loudest voices, "Spirit Undaunted, we march on to victory..." The Hall was set up with six different sets of benches around the periphery, with spectator seating in the center, facing the stage. We filed into our positions behind our appropriate green benches, in perfect, military precision., with Joanne and Nan leading us from atop their bench in front. When we were all in position, and our marching song complete, the song leaders gave us the special hand signal to be seated, and we did so in unison. We then had to watch respectfully as the Inter Green Team marched in. After us, the Senior Teams repeated the process. Next, each group performed their "standing songs." This was quite a process, but we had to be on our best behavior, because our assembly decorum was part of our overall team score. After our standing songs, we often performed a group song, where the teams sang together, under the conduction of our music director. Then, the head counselors would get up and announce the results/scores from the week's team games. Since our first game was that evening, there was nothing to report yet. Our last duty for assembly was to sing together, "See Them Go!" (This was another song that took years to figure out the lyrics to) Then, just like the lyrics stated, we exited "Row by row, under the morning sky..."
By the way, according to the Lenorlog, for our first game, the Campus Inters had relay races and the Lane played Newcomb. The Greens won.