Group Photos

All-Camp Group Photos

© FNCA 2015Most years at camp, there comes a day when we gather everyone together and take a group photo. In recent decades, it's usually been right after lunch on middle Saturday or Sunday, whichever day the most people are at camp. A group photo is a long-standing camp tradition dating back to the 1920s. Several dozen of these group shots are on display in the Dole Wing hallway and on a nearby wall in the Dole Wing lounge.

So here's a chronological journey © Emily Woofenden 2008through the years, beginning with our earliest days and traveling down through time to the present.

WEBMASTER'S NOTE: Although these group photos were taken nearly every session, we only have 38 out of the FNCA's 98 years represented here. As you can see from the links chart below, however, a surprising number of photos in recent decades are missing. Chances are slim that group photos from the earliest years will turn up (although the 1937 one did in 2016!), but we have high hopes to significantly increase the collection at least back to the 1980's. So please, check your photo collection and contact the FNCA Webmaster if you can fill in any of the missing years. Thanks!

NEW photos on this page in recent months:
Year          Posted
2006           10/10
2021               8/12

1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929
1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939
1940 1941 [1942-1945 — WWII] 1946 1947 1948 1949
1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959
1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969
1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979
1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989
1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
2020 2021

1928

Don't know why there are 2 group photos for 1928, but there are.

6 John Swanton 11 Leona Haley 21 George S. Dole 23 Lillybell Bates 23.5 Gertrude Dole (held up by Louis),
25 Jennie Goddard, 29 John Whitehead © FNCA 1928

1932

1933
August 13

August 20

1934

1935

1936

1937

This is the infamous photo in which Gordon "Gordo" Blackmer, the young gentleman in white standing in the back row on the left, knew that the photo was being taken by a fairly slow moving pan camera. He very carefully stood still on the left until the camera had moved beyond him, then swiftly ran behind everyone, and got in position on the right before the camera got there, and hence appears in this photo twice!

Gordon Blackmer was a life-long camera buff, so he knew what he was doing and obviously planned this stunt ahead of time. You can read a bit more about "Gordo" here.

1938