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First Female Winter Camper to earn the Winter Camp Participation Award: Gwen Pratt
Gwen earned the award despite only having spent two nights at camp over two years.
Submitted by Steve D. on January 3, 2022
First Winter Camper to post a first using the PHP version of the page: Steve Donohue
Still working to get rid of the spam.
Submitted by Steve D on August 1, 2006
First page of the WCU to be driven from a database: The History Pages
The header section of each history page is now based on reading from a MySQL database to determine the various elements. This also allows us to make comparisons between camps some day.
Submitted by Steve D. on July 31, 2006
First page of the WCU to use PHP scripting: The Wall Archives
The archives were rewritten to use PHP on September 2, 2003 and became the first page to do so. PHP scripting is more is nigh invisible, but the title, header graphic, and content of the archive are all derived by PHP.
Submitted by Steve D. on July 31, 2006
First Winter Camper to have "Winter Camper" in his Vigil name: Ethan Rein
Ethan's name is "Winter Camper who hunts snowy owl" a semi-obvious reference to his rivalry with fans of Okpik, a winter survival course.
Submitted by Steve on July 31, 2006
First Person to see the preview of the firsts: Steve Donohue
Tired of seeing firsts that were just a little off, I added a new feature for those adding a first.
Submitted by Steve D. on July 31, 2006
First Gump's First Non-Human Gump: Duke (Brake)
At 9 monthes old all he does is eat and sleep just like his owner(Ryan Brake) already he weighs nearly 80lbs.
Submitted by Ryan Brake on July 31, 2006
First Winter Camper First person to receive the wintercamp particiapation award: Philip Roscoe
Philip was the first person to earn the prestigious award for participation at wintercamp.
Submitted by Steve Clark on July 31, 2006
First Winter Camper First in a year to post a first.: Jeff Rand
The last first was posted July 6, 1999.
Submitted by Jeff on July 31, 2006
First Person to post on The Wall using WebTV: Lou Pezet
Much like a cellular phone user, Lou's first reaction to using Web TV was to make a post saying "Hey, look, I'm making this post using Web TV".
Submitted by Steve D. on July 31, 2006
First Person First Baden-Powell Scout to be registered in Canada since the formation of the Association in 1998, who also happened to be the first female youth registrant for the W.F.I.S. in North America.: Scout Meaghan L.G. Conlin
The Baden-Powell Scouts' Association of Canada (BPSAC) is part of the parent Association BPSA (UK) who broke away from conventional scouting after the advance party changes of the late 1960's. Since then, some 12 million Scouts in 85 Associations remain independent from WOSM in different World Movements. The BPSAC is a member of the World Federation of Independent Scouts. Meaghan became both the first youth member registered in Canada but also the first female youth member to join. The Association practices traditional style scouting methods enhanced with current social values and camping technologies, but remain loyal to the traditions and original style uniforms.
Submitted by Patrick Conlin on July 31, 2006
First Day without news in '99: The Winter Camp Universe
April 8th was the first day in 1999 to go the entire day without a news file. I'm still awaiting the first piece of news to be submitted for '99.
Submitted by Steve Donohue on July 31, 2006
First Person to actually post a thought of the day: Mark Bollman-->
Mark posted a thought from George Carlin on June 18th.
Submitted by Steve on July 31, 2006
First Winter Camper The first WCYL to command Chi into making a web page.: LSH
I commanded Chia to give us a web page and he did. THe username is "dhqx" and the password is "spudgun"
Submitted by LSH on July 31, 2006
First Winter Camper First person to sleep on the toilet. Even though Tommy stole it.: me
Tommy stole, but I did it. I slept on the toilet.
Submitted by Steve on July 31, 2006
First Winter Camp with no recorded snowfall: Winter Camp XVI (1992)
While there was rainfall in abundance, there was no snow that year.
Submitted by Mark--> on July 31, 2006
First Winter Camper born after Winter Camp I was held: Brian Mann
Brian kicked off the "second generation" of Winter Campers when he came to Winter Camp XV in 1991.
Submitted by Mark--> on July 31, 2006
First to sleep on the john the first preson to sleep on the john: Steve Harig
he slept on the john at winter camp xx
Submitted by tom lee on July 31, 2006
First Event A day with out a posting from Big Bro: Big Bro
Sunday, Febuary 15th there was not a single post from Big Bro or anyone else for that matter. They ate Robins minstrels and there was much rejoicing that's how I feel when I don't see a post from Big Bro.
Submitted by Tom on July 31, 2006
First Winter Campers to bear the title Goon: Tim Hunt and Dave Milon
Dave and Tim were given this title way back at Winter Camp XIIi or XIV when aging advisors Steve Donohue and John Howey were forced to concede that at the ripe old age of 21 (or more), it was no longer appropriate for them to convince the kids physicallyDave and Tim, beiing between 18 and 21, lived in the "Grey Area" and were dubbed "Grey Area Goons" with the specific task of convincing recalcitrant youth (particularly then tiny Lou Pezet) that they should do as the two old men wanted.
Submitted by Alpha Goon on July 31, 2006
First Person to post in the Hall of Fame: Steve Donohue
It wasn't really much of a contest, since Steve got to build the darn thing.
Submitted by Steve (again!) on July 31, 2006

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