BP Totty-
I was a camper in MA from 1967-76. Then I worked there until 1980. I only enjoyed one summer….when I was 14 and in teenage camp (it was not called Heller yet).
The reason for this is that the camp was so regimented and run like a boot camp. I am not the only one to have complained about this. The teenage camp was more relaxed (i.e. you did not HAVE to play a sport if you hated it. You got to choose which sports and workshops you enjoyed).
As a staff member, things were better though being a Federation camp the pay was lousy.
Yes, Rabbi Sachs was great but I enjoyed his shiur to the staff even more than “Ha’aderes V’ha’emunah”. Terrible that his wife Malka was taken so young. She was truly a tzadekes and an eishes chayil.