Paul Sundick
Camper, Handyman, Creative Director, Historian
Paul arrived with his family in 1960, and the first friend he made at Tyler Hill Camp was Herman Pingel. After a lifetime as a camper and waiter, He found himself riding shotgun in Herman's pickup truck, where he worked as a handyman. Among his many jobs was driving the green John Deere tractor. The view of Paul tooling around the camp aboard that vehicle was a familiar sight in the late seventies. But Paul offered a series of other services that can truly be described as "behind the scenes," and that were, quite literally, part of the fabric of Tyler Hill Camp.
Paul created the Color War Shirts, coversheets and the names of the Color War teams for many years. He orchestrated several Color War breaks, including the one where he and Artie Sunshine dumped nearly a thousand blue and white ping pong balls onto the campus from a helicopter. He also hid the hatchet for many years.
By the time the Sundick's finally left Tyler Hill Camp after the 1990 season, Paul had provided the camp with 14 sets of Color War shirt designs, more than a dozen coversheet designs, as well as a pair of painted scoreboards that are still on the ceiling of the Dining Room (1979 & 1980).
He is also a photographer, who for nearly two decades compiled a wealth of beautiful images of the camp, as well as hundreds of memorable candid shots of campers and staff. Out of his great love and respect for the history of THC, Paul is helping to preserve Tyler Hill Camp's history. He has chronicled the camp's story and made a pair of documentaries about Tyler Hill Camp. Many of his photographs are on display on the "Tyler Hills AmAzing" web site.
Video Clip: Paul & Artie drop ping-pong balls from above for the 1985 CW break!
Video Clip: Paul narrates from his video "Tyler Hill: The Way It Was"
Paul took with him many memories, many artifacts, two THC alumni wives, and countless good friends from his thirty years at Tyler Hill Camp, but he maintains that his friendship with Herman was among the best things he ever got out of his camp experience
