From the Archives – 50 Years of Slides: A Sample
All living alumni have precious recollections of their days at Camp. These are often etched into our memories because of intense friendships or courageous experiences. By taking a visual trip down memory lane with images from the past, these memories can be rediscovered and nurtured.
During the past seven years, our volunteer archivist team— #7289 Ace Scharges, #17855 Lora Langston and other volunteers—has worked tirelessly to start the process of moving the old celluloid slides onto a digital platform so they can be preserved and viewed by more of the Dudley and Kiniya family as time marches on. The process has been a tedious one. First, thousands of slides were removed from their carousel trays and sorted by the year stamped on them. While not a perfect system, this was our best chance to organize so many physical slides.
Next, they were reviewed and loaded in trays for scanning. It took the old scanner about an hour to complete a tray of 50 slides. Once scanned, they needed to be unloaded, bundled up into groups by year, and stored so the process could be repeated again and again. This all took place before digital processing could begin.