Taking The Plunge–YWCA

For Harriet Crumb, who camped in the early twenties, it was tough to face crawling into a cold, wet swimsuit in the morning. “Of course, we swam three times daily, if that first dip can be called a swim. It was a matter of in fast and out fast and how quickly we could dry, […]

Directors #2

Camp committee minutes in 1959 indicated suggestions to not only employ a camp director that could be a year round employee for better integration between the camp and the association, but preferably a YWCA staff member. The job descriptions from the sixties were available for the position of director. The interview process was through the […]

Escaping Home–

A great many girls found camp to be their escape and distraction from their tumultuous lives at home. Dawn Kober’s father had just remarried a woman she was not fond of, so her grandmother brought her to and from camp in 1977 with her friend Kelly Kirk. “It was totally foreign to me”, said Elaine […]