Prospect Point Camp Main Lodge 
The dining hall at Prospect Point Camp still has totem poles from the Camp Navarac years. Note the birch-bark ceiling. Camp Navarac was a summer camp for Jewish girls from 1952 to 1969, established by Sara Blum, and her husband Irving; Sara was a prominent Jewish fundraiser, who had been a partner in Camp Nawita on Paradox Lake. They purchased Adolph Lewisohn's great camp Prospect Point Camp on Upper Saranac Lake and turned it into a girl's camp. The camp had 109 campers when it first opened in 1952.
Since 1971, it has been the site of an evangelical Christian camp, Young Life at Saranac Village.
Tupper Lake Free Press and Tupper Lake Herald, January 31, 1952
SEKON LODGE TO BE MADE GIRLS' CAMP
UPPER SARANAC RESORT SOLD TO SOUTH ORANGE, N. J. GROUP
Sekon Lodge, one of the summer resort showplaces on Upper Saranac Lake, has been purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Irving Blum and Mr. and Mrs William Spiegel of South Orange, N.J., and will be converted into a summer camp for girls.
The lodge, which commands one of the most beautiful settings in the Adirondacks, will be renamed Camp Navarac. Extensive alterations are planned prior to the summer opening. Camp Navarac will accomodate about 90 girls during the coming seaaon, and will be expanded to eventually take care of about 190 girls, from 6 to 16 years of age. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ives Jr. of Tupper Lake have been engaged as camp superintendents.
As Sekon Lodge it had been operated for the past several years by Ralph Dellevie.
Mr. and Mrs. Blum and Mr. and Mrs. Spiegel spent several days here as guests of Mrs. Max Grabenstein during the past week, while making arrangements for alterations at Camp Navarac. Mrs. Blum, a relative of the late Max Grabenstein of this village, has had wide experience in girls' camp work, having operated Camp Nawita at Schroon Lake for the past fifteen years.
Adirondack Daily Enterprise, July 10, 1958
50 Camp Girls Unhurt As Bus Strikes Pole
Tupper Lake Power Cut 45 Minutes
About fifty young girls from Camp Navarac on Upper Saranac Lake escaped injury yesterday when the bus in which they were riding left the highway and crashed into a telephone pole. The accident occurred, at 1:30 p.m. near Wawbeek Corners, about 7 miles east of Tupper Lake on Route 10. The pole fell across the transmission lines of Paul Smith's Electric Co., pulling four other power poles to the ground and blocking traffic.
Theodore Hillman, 47, of Saranac Lake, driver of the bus, owned by George Donaldson, told state police that the accident was caused by a mechanical failure, apparently in the steering mechanism. He said the bus swerved to the right, entered the ditch, then struck the pole. Hiliman told the Enterprise today that he was traveling about 15-20 miles per hour at the time, planning to stop at Donaldson's about 200 feet down the road. He said that after the bus struck the pole, he would not let any of the girls out until he was sure the ground was not charged with electricity.
Within five minutes Hillman said, a neighbor of the Donaldsons appeared and came to the door of the bus. Seeing him, the driver said, he saw it was safe for the girls to leave the vehicle.
Paul Smith's Company officials said that the automatic equipment of the power lines had tripped the oil circuit breakers at both Tupper Lake and Lake Clear, "de-energizing" the lines. This, they said, probably saved the lives of many in the bus, for the wires, carrying 2300 volts, had fallen across the vehicle. The girls, whose camp is less than two miles from the scene of the accident, were not injured. They had planned skating in Lake Placid during the afternoon and were en route there when the accident occurred.
Adirondack Daily Enterprise, July 28, 1965
State police are investigating the theft of 60 bathing suits from Camp Navarac, a girls camp of Upper Saranac Lake.
The campers of Camp Navarac, 1969
Courtesy of Adirondack Experience.
