Celia Hughes and Sandra Maidment of Broadalbin rolled paint into a wooden ramp. Broadalbin’s Sasha Hovak and Christine Dunham of West Glenville split and cut boards.

The young women may not have been whistling while they worked at the new Camp Clover Patch during the summer of 1967. But they were smiling.

“We couldn’t manage without these kids and all the volunteers,” said Karen Eustice, then director of the camp and Clover Patch School.

The teen force was moving quickly in late July. Clover Patch, which had been entertaining children suffering from cerebral palsy and similar afflictions at Camp Lovejoy in Altamont since 1965, now had its own headquarters. Glenville’s Pinewoods recreation area off Hetcheltown Road was the new place in the woods.

That’s why young people were pitching in — they knew the first guests would arrive in early August. Volunteers repaired the interior of the lodge, painted its walls, split boards for tent stakes, cleaned floors and built a miniature golf course.

Eustice told Schenectady Gazette reporter Gail Shufelt that other members of the community also were helping. Church groups, merchants, service organizations and government agencies had donated money, pots and pans, tents and other camping necessities.

Shufelt wrote that 1967 looked like a big year for Camp Clover Patch.

“A new camping area with a new program and new equipment, a new and old staff listing with a new and old list of campers, a new outlook and old objectives — to let the cerebral palsied youngster experience the wonders of camping and nature — make 1967 a year for expansion and a year for growth,” read her story.

Kids are still having fun in Glenville. Clover Patch Camp, as it is now known, gives children with disabilities the chance to make new friends during July and August. It is operated by the Center for Disability Services and licensed by the New York state Department of Health.