S/o Rav Tov memories

amother

↑ Ruby ↓

Sat, Oct 17 2020, 10:04 pm

amother [ Bronze ] wrote:

גג גג ועלי
גג גג ועלי
ועלי
ועלי
גג ועלי
woooooooooo!!!

They were mondroe. And I believe that Yesodei Barzel was the other 9th grade (bp?).
And the next year was Alos Hashachar and Tzeis Hakochavim.
And (Malky?) Goldman was the headteacher one of these years.
Trying to remember more.
What was your sisters name?

Wasnt it, zoogts es nuch, גג ועלי?
I still remember this but cant remember which age I was. Goldman was my headteacher too but I recall she was twice. Maybe once for the younger kids and the year later the older ones? And esty fekete, who recalls?

amother

↑ Cyan ↓

Sat, Oct 17 2020, 10:20 pm

amother [ Ruby ] wrote:

iirc she was 9th grade teacher, then 2nd transport headteacher. it had to be after gag valeya, bec. she's my age and I'm quite sure we were in 10th grade then.

amother

↑ Ruby ↓

Sat, Oct 17 2020, 10:25 pm

amother [ Cyan ] wrote:

iirc she was 9th grade teacher, then 2nd transport headteacher. it had to be after gag valeya, bec. she's my age and I'm quite sure we were in 10th grade then.

Could be. Im totally drawing a blank with what happened when. I know she was my head teacher for sure (maybe in 7th grade?) and my 9th grade class was p’techei choisem. Everyone loved her to bits.
Mama bear would know the sequence of events.....

↑ minnie mouse ↓

Sat, Oct 17 2020, 10:45 pm

Mama Bear wrote:

Camp got crazier and more inventive every year starting with Miriam Yitty Gruber breaking the trend with her cheer for קמץ. Until then, you just cheered your name and clapped. Making your name cheer with a TUNE was breaking major ground. Then the cheers got crazier and crazier, by the time I was in berekes, Yahalom broke new ground by bringing a strobe light. Everyone went insane! Rmeember this cheer?

אוצרות פארשטעקט!
ווער האט אנדעקט!
רב טוב וואכטס אויף
יהלום אנטפלעקט!
פארהאנען... אוצרות!

So from that year every single year the ante was upped, with the blown-glass signs in the lunchroom, strobe lights, insane choreography... my sister was 9th grade teacher of גג ועלי' the summer I was a working girl and you have no idea how many times I ran to Kohn's fabric store to buy her a bolt of something and put it on the Camp Bus.... I dont think my sister slept taht entire summer. T Ihe pressure to outdo and outshine the other class got worse every single year. It had to burst at some point. And I think it did, they started doing 3 9th grade classes instead of 2...

I remember this cheer! They rocked the camp! But I'm from bp, so I was a HOT berekes backer!

amother

↑ Sienna ↓

Sat, Oct 17 2020, 11:00 pm

"Real Estate" in Rav Tov, circa 1990

uptpwn, downtown, out of town, new town
roite shtein, black shtein, new black shtein
the 54 steps
es zal, mener es zal, guest es zal
kleine pool, groise pool, new pool
uptown laundry, downtown laundry
mike office, new office (shivers...)
frei feld
nurse bungalow
stadium
class platz, raigen class platz
alte shpiel hoiz, new shpiel hoiz, new gebentchte shpiel hoiz
hospital bunk, annex, 12th grade annex

Add more!

amother

↑ Teal

Sat, Oct 17 2020, 11:01 pm

gamzehyaavor wrote:

So no one else was in kerhonkson the year of the fire?

And how many of you were in chudesh and part of toby spitz’s “nurses” crew?

I was in elementary still the year of the fire.

I was traumatized. Left camp right after Shabbos (fire was Thursday night) for almost 2 weeks. I wasn't able to pass that part of camp for the rest of the summer.... Sad

amother

↑ Ruby ↓

Sat, Oct 17 2020, 11:03 pm

minnie mouse wrote:

I remember this cheer! They rocked the camp! But I'm from bp, so I was a HOT berekes backer!

My sister was יהלום׳ס teacher. I was 6 years old and remember everyone running after me after camp

amother

Forestgreen ↓

Sat, Oct 17 2020, 11:37 pm

What a amazing thread! Unbelievable! One word nostalgia!!! Such memories!

Ruby, I think you’re my grade. I was ateres lerush. Monroe. Piticha chosem were our competitors. Lol.

Blimy meisles was my teacher. With tzurty gold. And I remember your teacher steinmetz. So sad.

Mame bear your memory is unbelievable!
You sound like a wonderful person!

So many things you guys mentioned I remember. Thanks so much for this thread. I feel like I’m in heaven!

I’m 38. Ruby , you’re my age?

amother

↑ Ruby ↓

Sat, Oct 17 2020, 11:39 pm

amother [ Forestgreen ] wrote:

Yes ma’am. What wonderful memories.

amother

↑ Hotpink ↓

Sat, Oct 17 2020, 11:41 pm

amother [ Sienna ] wrote:

גן יהודה
8 bunks

amother

↑ Papaya ↓

Sat, Oct 17 2020, 11:43 pm

amother [ Denim ] wrote:

That makes you my neighbor. Lived in the area
Too.

Lived in that area too. Across
We were afraid to go down and watch. We stepped out on our fire-escape, straining our necks, trying to see. We say black smoke Sad

ETA-but you people won't know me, rather my older sisters.

amother

↑ Papaya

Sat, Oct 17 2020, 11:47 pm

Over shabs I reminded myself

Racheim racheim bachasdachu al amchu tzireini........
Ben duvid (clap) avdachu.....
And when it came to al tzion, the shabs head pointed to which side sing 1st and then the other side sing

↑ yksraya ↓

Sat, Oct 17 2020, 11:50 pm

amother [ OP ] wrote:

I ain't posting under my SN. I'm not supposed to be on da treifana Internet.

I fully understand. And for that matter I restrain myself from posting your real name as well. It's just a pity that when I put my detective talent to use, your under amother...

↑ Mama Bear ↓

Sat, Oct 17 2020, 11:59 pm

gamzehyaavor wrote:

Mama bear, one day iyh you’ll regale your shniren with all these fun tales!
We sit hours Friday night after the meal when we’re by my shvigger roftl with her camp stories. Like I said, they were the k’nokers. I’m sure you know my mil or aunts. You know who I am

I know your name but I have to figure out who your MIL and aunts are. I'll check my emails to jog my memory.

↑ Mama Bear ↓

Sun, Oct 18 2020, 12:03 am

amother [ Sienna ] wrote:

One of the amazing wonders of Rav Tov always was, despite the conditions and standard, the camp always attracted the most girls and was the largest girls camp!

Eh, it didnt attract anyone.... you couldnt go to another camp. or you didnt want to. Like, there were the odd girls here or there who went to different camps -- I had a friend who went to Camp Adar Hatorah when she was younger, and she shlepped me to the camp reunions, we thought it was teh coolest thing ever, and everyone was crazy over a lady named Chips.

But by and large you wanted to go to camp with your classmates. So Satmar girls all went to Rav Tov.

You didnt find any non-satmar girls in Rav Tov. I had one classmate who brought her Viznitz cousin (until viznitz had their own camp), and there were a few girls from Lakewood, Montreal, and Tosh in camp. But if you werent a satmar girl you were very out of place bc everyone came with their classmates.

also, thre were no neutral camps. all chasidish camps were school-based. Once camps like Machaneinu, Chaya Sura etc opened, there wree more options to go to non-school-based camps. But when I was growing up, the only camps out there were Satmar, pupa, Belz and Bobov!

amother

↑ Copper

Sun, Oct 18 2020, 12:05 am

amother [ Bronze ] wrote:

גג גג ועלי
גג גג ועלי
ועלי
ועלי
גג ועלי
woooooooooo!!!

They were mondroe. And I believe that Yesodei Barzel was the other 9th grade (bp?).
And the next year was Alos Hashachar and Tzeis Hakochavim.
And was the headteacher one of these years. (Malky?) Goldman
Trying to remember more.
What was your sisters name?

Chayie Goldman I think she was head with Teitelbaum but it may have been a different year I also think she was twice...

Trying to remember when I was in 9th, maybe Achris Duvur and the other one was Nekida Elyona or am I confused?

amother

↑ Blue ↓

Sun, Oct 18 2020, 12:12 am

amother [ Copper ] wrote:

Chany teitelbaum was head two summers

↑ Sunny Days ↓

Sun, Oct 18 2020, 12:15 am

Over shabbos I finally remembered the name of our transport. We were massa I’matan. This was the year of the fire 2002. My class was hamalach hanuiven. Our cheer went something like “hamalach hanuvuin mir firen di machna.... hamalach. Pause. Hanuiven. Pause. Then yelled “firt machna rav tov!”

The year before was yerranani. My bunk was paamuin zuhuv. I remember a class al hashminis, b’minim v’iguv & b’tziltzelei shema And part of some of their cheers!