One of my memories is the collect calling telephone call codes, I remember the day before visiting day a boy called collect and say his name was brang hoyzin, and the operator said in gotches dafts de nisht
I stopped using postcards to send home after one of the boys in the bunk wrote home that the counselor is a behaymer and retard and the head cnlr. asked him why he wrote that.
Most of the staff worked for tips and gave it all, much more devoted back then.