Camp Daggett on Walloon Lake - Northern Michigan Camp

The first Camp Daggett Father-Son Weekend came and went without a hitch! The weather could not have been more spectacular for a weekend retreat hosting over 50 fathers, sons, grandfathers, grandsons, and even a few foster children. The positive feedback from the young men and their guardians was off the scale. We received such comments as:

• “The help offered for fly-tying was awesome – I learned how to tie a woolly bugger!”
• “Rock climbing with my son was a high point.”
• “The experts for maple syrup and wildlife education were great.”
• “Sons are already talking about next year!”

But what made it even more spectacular was the long list of talented and knowledgeable people that who volunteered their areas of expertise to help make it special. Indebted thanks goes to Ed Leverenz – Facilities Manager for Camp Daggett and Nelson Greenier – Maintenance Director for Camp Daggett for making the idea become a meaningful and memorable reality for all those that attended. Our long list of volunteers were the following:

• John Guirey – Camp Daggett Summer Camp Director team up with members of our local chapter of Trout Unlimited to teach fly tying
• Troy Greenier and Roger Wiklanski demonstrate life as 1700’s era French Canadian Voyagers
• Jim Liska of Liska Taxidermy demonstrate from start to finish how to complete a whitetail deer shoulder mount
• DNRE Conservation Officer- Duane Budreau educate everyone on ice safety, fishing rules and various regulations, as well as instruct ice fishing techniques
• Bill Wehrenberg, friend and neighbor to Camp Daggett, demonstrated and taught the process of “sugar-bushing” to make maple syrup
• Brent Marlatt - Executive Director for Camp Daggett hosted wildlife seminars that included indigenous pelt and animal skull identification and the aging of whitetail deer per tooth and jaw analysis.

Other adjunct volunteers that offered logistical support were Mark & Jennifer Tarquini, Karen Marietti, and Julie Guirey. Camp Daggett simply cannot thank this group of people for all of their energy and commitment to assisting this new program. Volunteers are not paid because they are worthless ~ volunteers are not paid because they are priceless. Still keeping the "Other Fellow First" at Camp Daggett for 85 years and counting!

Yours in service,
Brent A. Marlatt - Executive Director