Todd Clay

Hi folks,

A quick reminder, Todd Clay would love to hear from folks. Unfortunately he doesn't have email.

You can call or write to him here:

Todd Clay
549 Heather Dr.
Dayton, OH 45405
(937) 278-5454

Cheers!

Alex

Tonya finds Jon Truemper on Classmates.com

Yes - you found me......I am working for QVC (TV Shopping Channel) - I run operational planning for our distributions centers and call centers. I got married about 5 years ago, and have a 7 month old daughter. I live in Lansdale, Pa

Tonya writes that she will send an email address when she gets one...

Excellent! Our Alumni group grows...

Jim Nieberding=cephjedi. Still playing with animals.

Hey Gang!

As I told Tonya, and the Blog through her proxy submission, the Bronco Junction gang finding me at this time is an amazing coincidence....

...My mother passed away on Christmas, and cleaning her house was like an archeological dig of memories for my Brother and Father! We recovered 16 copy-paper sized boxes of photographs- dating back before my parents met!

Anyhoo....Sunday afternoon's sorting session turned up a few photos from Bronco Junction.

...ahhhh. Memory lane. It's really not interesting stuff. As much as we'd like to relive moments like Boy's 4's hairspray-powered lake monster, "jamaican cliff diving" at the pool (how did we not kill ourselves?) the floating bedroom scene, or any of myriad memories that came flooding back...

but all my photos are: Dorky Jimmy on Big Ben. Dorky Jimmy in front of the bunk car. Dorky Jimmy near the cafeteria hall. Dorky Jimmy down by the lake...etc etc etc.... All the "mom's dropping her kid off at summer camp" photos.

...And of course when I find them again, I'll scan them and post them.

...So Alex..... Can you still solve the Rubik's Cube?

Quick bio:

• Still got asthma. boo, hiss.
• Paying job: AudioVisual Engineer for Uncle Sam. I live in Point of Rocks, MD, and work in Rockville.
• Non paying Jobs: Marine Biologist, Guitarist, Zoologist, Inventor.
• Just turned...ulp...39.
• Married, no kids.

Cheers everybody! Thanks for reaching out and connecting up!


- Jim

Tonya Found: Jim Nieberding

Hi Tonya!
What a weird coincidence! Yeah- I went to Camp Bronco Junction....I'm thinking 81-82. I just found some of the pictures from way back then at my mom's house. Boy did a string of memories come flooding back!
My office email is xxx@xxxx.xxx and at home I'm xxx@xxxx.xx. please pass it along to Alex and anyone else from the camp!
Thanks for getting in touch, and take care!
Cheers, Jim

Way to go Tonya!

-Alex

Found: Mark Elenko

Begin forwarded message:
From: Mark Elenko <elenko@fas.harvard.edu>
Date: March 4, 2008 2:13:12 AM EST

To: Matthew Mintz <mmintz@mfa.gwu.edu>
Cc: ahorovitz@k12.com

Subject: Re: Did you go to an asthma camp in West Virginia

Matthew, Alex,

Wow. Yes, you have the right me. I'm thunderstruck by hearing from you and seeing the blog - it's wonderful. Years ago I reserved broncojunction.org and broncojunction.com to see if anyone would look them up and email me but was resigned to not hearing from anyone - I was practically speechless when I saw your name and subject line (I've just set both domains to forward to theblogspot page). I would love to join the blog - for google/blogger I use elenko@fas.harvard.edu.

Thank you for starting the blog and finding me. Regards -Mark

Good work Matthew! :-)

Lunch with Alex

Lunch with Alex was great today. I had not read his post yet and told me about his conversation with Tonya. I had totally forgotten about the David Saenz bed floating incident! I honestly don't remember what set me off, but I do remember being pretty mad. (In retrospect, I am not sure what I was thinking, given the guy was a black belt in some form of martial arts). The one thing I do remember, was that his bed was made perfectly:sheets, blanket, pillow,etc. I wanted the visual effect of his pefectly made bed in the middle of the lake.

Christina's post was great! Sounds like you have had some very interesting experiences. I am a little surprised about the children part, only because I remember Christina as being very maternal and never a harsh word out of her mouth. The first time I met Chris Hung was in 1978. She was fishing in the lake (They used to stock it with fish. No fishing poles; just a stick, string and hook.) I couldn't catch anything, but Chris just kept reeling them in (though not literally, because again there were no reels on the poles). However, she would immediately throw the fish back in, because she didn't want to be mean to the fish. Sounds like some things haven't changed.

I am so glad that Tonya kept everything, because I can't find a thing. It would be great to digitize and post! Would be happy to support this effort.

Alex is on the money about supervision, or lack thereof. I think we were CIT's in both '81 and '82. Is it ever wise to put a 13 year old in charge of anything? Alex I were talking about the creek monster contest, and the year we built a floating monster that actually breathed fire. Who permitted the adolescent boys to use a butane lighter and an aersol spray to emit flames from something made of paper, sheets and sticks while waist deep in a creek?

Lastly, we need to expand this forum. We need updates from more of you, and need to find others that are out there. Where is Jeff McDade? Kathy Gross?

I remember Mark Elenko as being incredibly smart for his age, and always thought he would go to Harvard and do something in science or computers. Is this him?

That's all for now.

Dinner w/ Tonya

Tonya McClain and I met for dinner in DC last night and had a wonderful time. We dined at Sequoia (3000 K Street) where the food was ok, but the company was great. For me it brought back a flood of wonderful memories.

Tonya had all her stuff from 26 years ago and we poured over it.

The 1982 yearbook has the wonderfully original Stacey Moore artwork ( a collectors item to be sure). Tonya and I agreed that it was time to digitize these and she is going to endeavor to get that done. When finished she'll send me the results so I can put them online for all to see.

One of the topics of discussion that came up was how we were surprised at how (seemingly) little adult supervision we were subjected to. We marveled at the things we "got away with" at ages 12 & 13 respectively. Fellow campers, do you folks remember it that way too?

Perhaps some of the staff can respond? What were you guys doing when we were sneaking out at night?

We laughed and laughed at our collective memories. I must say, a huge grin appeared on my face when she reminded me of the time that Mattew Mintz sent all of David Saenz' possessions floating down the Buttlick on a mattress. Matthew, I can't remember why you did that, but I do
remember how mad you were. I seem to remember being an un-indicted co-conspirator. Can you tell the story?

I'm having lunch with Mattew at 11:30 today...

Hope to see others of you soon.

Cheers!

Alex