Camp Roosevelt on Sackett Lake in Monticello, New York

Monticello, New York

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, was a summer sleepaway camp

Summer camp

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. Its colors were grey and blue. At one time, it was owned by Charly and Mary Winston.

It was a coeducational camp in the Catskill Mountains

Catskill Mountains

The Catskill Mountains, an area in New York State northwest of New York City and southwest of Albany, are a mature dissected plateau, an uplifted region that was subsequently eroded into sharp relief. They are an eastward continuation, and the highest representation, of the Allegheny Plateau...

 and campers enjoyed a variety of activities including athletics, dramatics, arts and crafts, Sing, Intercamp games with neighboring camps and Color War.

Campers were primarily from the New York City metropolitan era and most if not all were Jewish. In the 1950s, Ralph Lauren (then known as Ralph Lipschitz) was a camper and a counselor.

Roosevelt first opened in 1945. When the camp closed in the 1980s, many campers and staff members attended Kutsher's Camp Anawana

Kutsher's Camp Anawana

Kutsher's Camp Anawana in Monticello, New York, was a summer sleepaway camp overlooking Anawana Lake. Camp Anawana was owned and operated by the Kutsher family in partnership with Jack Landman, Red Karbel, and Jack Siegel from the early 1960s until the summer of 1992. . The camp colors were blue...

.

Notable alumni

• Ralph Lauren
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• Carolyn Gusoff
• Ian Schrager
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• Claudia Cohen
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• Randy Edelman
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• Julian Schnabel
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• Al Davis
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External links

• Camp Roosevelt Site
• Camp Roosevelt basketball players, 1966

Phil Morse- Head Counselor(boy's side)
Bobbi Morse- Assistant Head counselor (girl's side)
Larry Morse- Counselor
Warren Morse- Counselor
Arlene Morse- Counselor
Ricky Morse- Everyone's little boy

The Morse family was most definitely the most recognizable family at Roosevelt in the 1940's-1960's era. Uncle Tex hired Phil Morse
who was a school principal in NYC to be the new aggressive head counselor. "Uncle" Phil started out as head of the waterfront,
became friends with Ray "Chesty" Crets. Uncle Phil then devised an ingenious program of activities for the campers which proved
to be some of the best year's in Camp Roosevelt's wonderful history.