Bob Cleveland Arrived home safely to Ann Arbor, Michigan at the end of the summer

Hi David,

 

You don't know me however I am a neighbor who has lived just west of the camp since its closing.  Bob Cleveland made it safely home from camp I know for certain.  After the camp was closed he stayed at our cottage for several weeks before returning to Ann Arbor, Mi..  I was returning to U of M as a sophomore that fall and he road back with me.  Where he has gone since I have no idea since I never saw him again.  My brother Ken Peters was a counselor at the camp I believe in 1958 or 1959.  Our neighbors at the lake , the Olsaver family, Gary and Rich Olsaver have responded to your web site I see, were neighbors of ours in Adrian, MI. and that is how we were able to buy the land we now have from Nick in 1960.  I remember staying at the camp one night when my brother was a counselor and stayed in a cabin with another counselor.  I had funny feelings about the way the guy was talking to me and I now understand why.  My other lake neighbor John Kafer, who is now with Spoon Foods in Petoskey, forwarded this web site after I introduced him to a friend Markie Rogers former camper from Ann Arbor.  Mark had come to visit the camp this summer to see if he could find his name on the wall he had helped build at the lake shore.  His wife thought he had made all of this up.  So, he could now prove that there was a Camp Manitou.  I and my family have enjoyed our many summer years on the lake.  The Tale of Camp Manitou is one of the great legends.  I also was a classmate of Dick Wynn.  We graduated together in 1960 from Adrian High School.  It is a small world.  I have forwarded this site to Markie Rogers. I trust you will hear from him in the near future.

 

David O. Peters