Sagamore Beach
Colony Club
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Life by our beautiful Cape Cod Bay continues to thrive as
a year-round community, remaining vital because of the many
families who gather here to support and bond with the community
focus of its residents. We have been “worthy of the
challenge to perpetuate for our inheritors that which has
been left to our tender loving care,” as hoped for by
Dottie and  Don
Clark in their 75th Anniversary booklet. While many of the
houses of Sagamore Beach have weathered almost one hundred
years, so also have the traditions of family and neighborhood
support.
While the state of our world is in turmoil, Sagamore Beach,
both a place and a gift, helps us place our focus on perpetuating
the older conventions and convictions that mutual responsibility
toward one another is both a heritage and a charge. Heimar
Niit, (President, 1976), challenged all members in the Introduction
to the club's membership booklet, “to accept and be
part of a long tradition which has endured only because of
the willingness of individual members to shoulder the yoke
of responsibility again and again.”— and —“convey
to our children that these traditions must be in a constant
state of repair; the flame must be kindled again and again…For
the flame is fragile, however beautiful the light.”
Each successive President has continued the publication of
this booklet and presently Barbara Doran Sullivan is more
than successfully supporting the costs with ever increasing
numbers of advertisements from local merchants, and in the
development in this website. In fact, Barbara acts as an ombudsman
for all who need some service or help in the community.
The children and traditions continue to thrive at our Day
Camp. The Day Camp which became club-sponsored in 1953
was transformed by Henry and Muriel Pappas in 1956. It was
redefined and restructured by Kathy Hegenbart, Beverly Niit
and Ellie Harold in the late 1970’s, because the afternoon
session of older campers had lost numbers.
Thus, a decision was made in 1977 to begin a Teen Tennis
Program, encouraging participation by the older group,
not quite of working-permit age. Others of camping age, with
professional directors in place, would begin their day at
nine, bring their lunch and head for home at 1:00 PM. Swimming,
tennis, field games, arts and crafts, and teamwork were, and
continue to be, the essence of the 8 week program, culminating
in a spectacular Camp Show, with Clark Hall filled to capacity.
Other activities which have carried us through the 80’s
and 90’s have been a very successful family night with
a DJ for parents and children, golf tournaments, Monday-night
bridge, and the continuation of the Reading Circle to name
a few. While the spirit of the Colony is alive and well, so
also is the treasury which supports the varied lands and buildings
necessary to the club's activities. Please visit these web
pages and Beverly Niit's wonderful
summary of the club's purpose and activities. With your
participations, our community spirit will continue to thrive.
 Some
of the almost century-old homes still stand on the shores
of Sagamore Beach, having weathered the infamous blizzard
of 1977 and Hurricane Bob in 1991. So too, our nation has
weathered the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001. At the
same time, so also has the heart and soul of our colony weathered
the years and stood together, drawn closer in our human connectedness.
Though conflicted with the challenges of modern life and a
highly technological world, we continually are inspired and
enlightened by our wondrous jewel on the Bay, returning to
our older, more grounded conventions.
Our leif motif is surely the salient understanding that
family life and mutual support continue to keep the colony’s
flame alive. As the tide of our affairs ebbs and flows, we
here on the shore continue to hold on dearly to our steadfast
love of Sagamore Beach.
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