By Norman Cain, June 11, 2020 — There’s a man whom he is probably seven to eight years older than me, and he’s a member of Broad Street Senior Center. And we got to talking one day, and he probably was at [Camp Joseph & Betty Harlam Camp, where I worked] maybe six years before I was there, you know? It was a similar experience.
And the thing was, this fella, he was before Walt Chamberlain at Overbrook High School, the famous basketball player, and he was a basketball player. What was happening back in those days, maybe even today, the various camps would hire basketball players during the summer and they would have competitions. And so this fella got to go to that particular camp through the boss, Mr. Goldblatt, and then years later when this fella went to the Army and worked at the Post Office for a while. Then he went to Temple University, became the physical education teacher and went back. And well, he was from Overbrook but he went and he did his practice teaching that part to himself. It was like a circular type thing, you know? And the situation was that during those days when I was a kid, things were so much better with the rec centers and the programs they had for youth and whatnot. They did have a program where they would take inner-city kids up to a particular camp in the Poconos, but they don’t do that anymore, no.