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Well, the good news is that the early spring-like weather has given way to, well, summer. Shorts and t-shirts are the order of the day. Ye Directors like camp a lot when the sun is shining. This is just a short note to bring you up to date with a few details about life at [...]
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GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN Since last August, Ye Directors have been anticipating the opening of Kamaji’s 98th camping season. We spent all “off-season” working toward June 18, 2011. Even when winter weather made camp seem so far off, we imagined campers bounding off the buses on opening day, greeted by the warm summer [...]
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As Mike wrote in an earlier blog posted on July 21st “Most days at Kamaji, the campers attend four different instructional activity periods — two in the morning and two in the afternoon — and have a free period at the end of the afternoon. They don’t necessarily go to instructional activities with campers from [...]
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Greetings from Camp Kamaji where it is much too quiet for our liking!! Although summertime has yet to give way to Autumn, the life-and-breath, the heart-and-soul, the campers and staff are no longer in residence. Camp is simply not “camp” – the last of the departing buses two+ weeks ago took with it all traces [...]
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Way back in 1986 a genius movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off starring Matthew Broderick was released. Many of you might fondly remember this movie, but just in case . . . . . . Ferris fakes sick in order to skip out of school for a day. But he doesn’t fake sick just to [...]
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When I first met Mike, he always talked of owning his own camp. And when we got married, we began the search for our camp. Upon taking ownership of Kamaji, we faced several years of fumbling our way through updating the facility, revamping the program, re-establishing the spirit and atmosphere that is uniquely Kamaji, and [...]
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Recently someone not connected with camp asked me “Why did you choose a girls’ camp to own?” Truth is, Mike and I did not intentionally choose a girls’ camp over a boys’ camp. When we started out in 1978 to look for a summer camp to own and direct, we had no preference other than [...]
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Did you know that summer camp is an American invention – with camps becoming more and more widespread 90 to 100 years ago?? As discussed in a 2002 article written by Kay S. Hymowitz titled Notes on Camp, “Back then forward-thinking youth leaders worried about the influence of corrupt city life on the young and [...]
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2009 heralds my 30th(!!) year as co-owner/co-director of Camp Kamaji . . . and my first venture into the social networking world of linked-in, blogging, twittering . . . When Mike and I purchased Kamaji in 1980, the closest we came to technology was the vintage1959 electric typewriter and the huge-barreled mimeograph machine that was [...]
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Did you know that a four week Kamaji camper spends 648 hours at camp during a summertime? And an eight week camper spends 1320 hours at Kamaji? And during the off-season those same Kamaji campers spend about 1260 hours at school? Who would have ever guessed?? For better or worse, for most campers – regardless [...]
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