Girls Sleepaway Camp in the Adirondack Mountains in Brant Lake, New York
The New York Times talked to us this week about the more refined and healthy choices in today’s camp cuisine. We certainly want our campers to enjoy the same great healthy meals that we love and share with them every day. They learn to try lots of different foods and to match what they eat with the style of the rest of their life. We are foodies ourselves and so are so many of our campers.
Camper of the Week has been a long and important tradition at Point O’Pines. Each week a camper is chosen from each age group and announced in front of the entire camp at our Sunday morning camp fire. Every week there is a theme for the campers: “friendliness,” “cooperation,” “camp spirit,” “generosity,” “honesty & integrity,” “positive attitude,” and finally “citizenship.”
The area heads meet with the general counselors and specialty heads to discuss which campers best exemplify that week’s theme characteristic. They then vote for the campers who might be honored as campers of the week. The chosen campers receive a certificate, ice cream, and, of course, the accolades of the other girls. They also receive a special shirt which can be worn by them forever as uniform which signifies that that camper has been a “Camper of the Week.” Being honored as a camper of the week is a very big honor and we are so proud of those who achieve this recognition.
This week featured our Point O’Pines Senior Tennis Invitational. We hosted five camps who brought their best players to challenge our girls. Inter Bs, Subs, Seniors and Peakers played both singles and doubles all day long. It was a long hot day, but in the end we are proud to say that the home team won 10 medals of the 20 awarded. Congratulations girls, good playing! We look forward to our next tournament.
Last night was our western night. We shared a delicious western meal on the beach, and then everyone had a great time square dancing in the Rec Hall.
