Saturday, April 22, 2006

Camp Blanchet


Here's a 1965 picture of campers boating near the dock at the old Camp Blanchet, where we're holding our summer party.

According to this article in The Catholic Northwest Progress, "CYO is... associated with summer camps and the original four to open prior to 1960 were Camp Blanchet, Camp Don Bosco, Camp Cabrini, and Camp Nanamakee. Camp Blanchet, the first to open, was built on land donated by Leo Gallagher of Tacoma..."

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