Our RulesPlease review carefully
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To help create a respectful camp living experience, it is essential that all members of our camp community understand our policies and regulations. We ask for your full cooperation in following our policies, especially as they pertain to respect, food, phone calls, visiting, cell phones, technology, packages, and valuable items.
Behavioral Protocol: Respectful behavior is expected between all people at camp. This means between campers, between campers and staff, and between all staff.
Gratuities: Parents should not tip staff members at Point O’Pines. Our staff members are well aware of this policy and understand that they are receiving a generous salary and should not accept tips or gifts from parents. The acceptance of any tip or gift means immediate dismissal for the staff member without exception. Please protect our staff members by not offering gratuities that tempt them with a violation of this policy.
Money at Camp: Your daughter does not require money at camp. She will be given a sufficient amount of spending money to cover her personal needs on any trips outside of camp. We cannot assume responsibility for money kept in bunks. We make our camp safe available for any funds that might be needed by girls with special pre-camp or post-camp travel requirements. Withdrawals from the camp safe must be made at specified times.
Prohibited Items: The following items are prohibited at Point O’Pines and will be confiscated if they come to Camp: 1) any electronic communications device, including, for example, cell phones, pagers, walkie talkies, Kindles, iPod Touch, Nintendo DS, PlayStation Portable, devices connecting to the Internet or e-mail via Wi-Fi, cellular or any other means, or any other device containing a radio transceiver; 2) any video device, including portable DVD players or PlayStation Portable, and any other device capable of playing a video, movie or DVD (some iPod models and other music players are fine if they contain no video or movie content); 3) decorative pillows, bed rugs, portable dresser units, bedskirts or dust ruffles, foam mattress pads and inflatable items.
Valuables: Although the Directors make every effort to safeguard the belongings of every camper, camp cannot be responsible for campers’ personal property. We do not recommend that valuable items be brought to camp.
Food: We permit parents to bring a limited amount of candy or fruit to camp on Visiting Day. The amount must be consumable during your visit as any excess is destroyed after Visiting Day. It is against camp rules to send candy or food to camp or to include it in your daughter’s trunk. Your compliance with this regulation will help us to maintain your child’s health and avoid bugs and animals in the bunks. Our girls have a healthy, well-balanced diet and receive a reasonable amount of candy and plenty of fresh fruit. All food and candy packages received at camp are confiscated and their contents discarded.
Bunk Gifts: You may, of course, bring a gift for your daughter on Visiting Day. In order to maintain the atmosphere of equality in camp, gifts for girls other than your daughter, including birthday favors or decor, are not permitted. Your adherence to this policy will avoid potential embarrassment. Bunk gifts will be confiscated in order that all of our girls receive equal treatment from bunk parents.
Packages: Please note that we have a limit of ONE gift package (no food, candy, or gum) for the summer. If more than one gift package is sent to camp for your daughter, it may be refused and returned to the sender. If your daughter is missing items necessary for camp and you need to send an additional package, please notify your daughter’s Area Head. See “Birthdays at Camp” for more details on the exception to the one package rule for birthdays.