The 50th was a huge event. When I think big parties I usually imagine a few hundred people. For Eisner’s 50th Anniversary though there were about 1,500 alumni, friends, family and others who came to share in the joyous occasions. That’s not including the 800 campers and staff.

I was sitting in a debrief meeting of the event at around midnight on Saturday, following all of the guests departure. I was exhausted from the event, had been running around for days and all of the rabbis, program coordinators, chair people etc. were spitting out what seemed to be totally random numbers to me from the event’s happenings. We went through X thousand pounds of chicken, a few thousand feet of flag rope, X gallons of gold cart gas, bags of coal, used a few hundred feet of canvas in the art shack etc. The list continued and didn’t seem to stop. I started thinking that so many things happened at the event. What about the uncountable intangible items? How can we count hugs, tears and friends reconnected to? This is the start of the officially unofficial stat list from the event. Join in and give us your best guess for the frequency of an occurrence, how much something happened etc…

We’ve got the list of things (in no particular order) started for you!

40,000 Square Feet of Tent Cover
8 Small Tents
2,000 Unused Emergency Rain Ponchos
11,000 Bottles of water
216 Reform Jewish Proffesionals
2200-2300 People
1 Film Documentary
2,500 scoops of ice cream
1 Choral Singing of the Alma Mate
2,000 Glow Sticks
1,500 lbs. of Chicken
2,300 lbs. of Produce
23,000 lumens worth of projectors
2 Inflatables
1 Jewish Gospel Band
111 Volunteers
78 Third Party Vendor Workers
1 Clown
1 Caricature Artist
3 Balloon Artists
1 Fortune Teller
4.2 Acres of Parking Space
1200 Flags
512 Balloon Animals
1 10.5 Minute Fireworks Show
1 Rock Band
1 Announcements Song
1 Maccabiah Fake Break
41 Past Song Leader
20 Extra Rented Walkie Talkies
78 Tent Stake
10 15 ft. long Grills
15 Golf Carts
45 Gallons of Golf Cart Gas, 2 Gallons Used
9 School Buses1 Havdallah Candle
230 Shuttle Bus Trips to the Fairgrounds
312 Pieces of Official Signage
21,000 Blog Hits and Counting!

Approximations…

73,456 Hugs
11,598 Tears of Joy
1,345 Phone Numbers Exchanged
789 Alumni that Ran into Former Summer Romances
12 Re-Kindled Summer Romances
557 Former Staff Members
14,506 Re-Kindled Friendships
97 Mini-Friendship Circles
12 Groups of Friends that hunted for a time capsule
1,303 People that searched for their old plaques
34 Married Couples that met at camp
60,432 Stories that started with, “When I went here…”
3,612 Exchanges of Business Cards
22,678 Mentions of “Keeping the Hill Alive”
890 Alumni that hung out at the tree on the hill
7 Frisbee Games
12,456 Conversations started with, “You look great!”
2,119 People who got chills watching “I was Here”