Putnam patriot., 1920-08-06
IEASTFORD NOW
 SCHOOL CENTER
Eastford Camp For Boys Brings New Life to Village.-ldeal
 Boy Spot
Stanley Kelley to Establish School
 Camp, Too

 into the public eye from time to time and this summer it has about reached its record. The truth of the matter is that Eastferd is having all kinds of boom. More summer visitors have ieome than ever before, and what is more important, a number of them have purchased homes with the avow- ed intention of sticking to Eastford the rest of their natural lives.
 But the Exhibit A in Eastford this year is the Eastford Camp for Boys. of which Stanley Kelley is the Head master. Mr. Kelley has had the camp for several years but 1t has never been so large nor so popular as it is this year. Located in a wood on the edge of Crystal Pond, a couple of miles out side of Eastford Village, it comes about as near the perfection of adol- escent paradise as any place in Con nectieut. Mr. Kelley has not stopped with the camp. but this year he will establish the Eastford School for Boys and next summer there will be main tained under his direction at Black Pond in West Woodstock twin camp for girls, which is to bear the name of the Romany Camp.
 But up on Crystal Pond the fifty boys under Mr Kelley's wing this year are leading--in the argot of the army -''the life of Reilly When the boys arrive from New York or Chicago or any other crowded city that is repre- sented in the group, the first thing they do Is shed most of their city clothes put on q pair of bathing trunks and stay in that abbreviated but none the less comfortable costume until the camp ends late in August. The soft muscles and white skins and pinched faces of late June are turned rapidly in the ten weeks course of the camp into hardened biceps, tanned faces and lusty youngsters The mot to of the camp is sensible play con ducted with equally sensible restrie- tions the governing spirit of the camp resting among the boys themselves.
 Mir Kelley maintains his camp on a semi-military basis There is every day a section nominated for the duties of kitchen police, but unlike the K. P" of the army, Eastford's K. ?. are generously rewarded with extra privi- leges Discipline is maintained by a court which sits every Monday morn 1 ing. with Mr. Kelley acting as judge. l All kinds of cases are brought before the court and arrests by the camp po- i lice are numerous but usually are con ducive to d great deal Monday morn i ing merriment.
 Mir Kelley has simpified life to the lowest limit. He maintains an enter tainment hall with pool table, piano and games for the wet weather, and this may be said to be the limit of lux ury in the camp. The boys sleep Tn tents well raised from the ground. They have their mess in a small build ing with oilcloth coverings for the ta- bles. In the center of the camp is the fireplace. around which the evening story telling is conducted and which at the close of each day brief devo- tional services are held.
 The boys have plenty of occupa- ton. Aside from swimming in the I lake-for which an excellent diving board and guards are provided-to- gether with boats, canoes, and launch, they are kept at work with studying woodcraft, tramps and learn E ing nature at first hand What in- struction there is is of the most in- i formal kind.
 Mr Kelley will open this year for the first time the Eastford School for Boys, which, if it meets with the great approval that the success of the sum mer camp has manifested, will soon become a distinct feature of the win ter life of the village The school is planned as an all-year round school with vacations of one week granted at l the end of every three months. The summer session will be conducted at the camp at Crystal Lake and in the 1 fall the boys and masters will live in 1 house in the village as one family It i is proposed to take only limited number of boys during the first year of the school, and these will be added to each year as the facilities of the place increase.
 l Stanley Kelley master of the school, received his training at Clark College and Yale University, and then spent a year in Europe, where he studied boys and school work among boys. That i he has chosen the right profession is shown by the general affection in which he is held by the tribe of nut brown youngsters who are under his l Eactfn,J fbic c,rnmar