Preston/Hancock Experience

This past week Camp Wayne for Girls has been host to the Preston/Hancock Experience, a weeklong day camp for underprivileged kids from the surrounding Preston Park, PA and Hancock, NY areas.  The camp was started and is directed by Noel’s brother Michael and his wife Randy.  Many people may remember that Michael successfully owned and directed Camp Wayne for Boys from the 1970’s until the mid -90’s, along the way building Camp Wayne for Boys into one of the most successful summer camps in the country.

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Counselors and Camp

Thanks to the contribution of countless souls, I’m happy to say that Camp is off to a fantastic start.  We spend so much time and energy just getting ready for camp that every year on the day the girls arrive I’ve somehow forgotten how awesome they are and just how amazing camp is.  Literally within minutes of their arrival Continue reading

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Race to Camp

I finally saw the movie ‘Race to Nowhere’ last night, a movie I’ve been trying to see for some time. The film looks at the impact that our culture of success, achievement and grades has on our children.  I first became interested in this topic of over ‘home-worked’, over-scheduled, over stressed and sleep deprived kids about 10 years ago when many of the girls at camp would relate to me stories from their own school driven ‘winter’ lives.   As I watched the movie I couldn’t help Continue reading

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Spring Fling!

In just 41 days the buses will be rolling into 56 NPP for another amazing summer at Camp Wayne.  But on Sunday May 15 thirty-eight of our newest campers gathered at New York Sports club in Livingston, NJ for our annual Spring Fling for their first official Camp Wayne event!

Soon these girls will be standing on chairs and singing and joining in the all the awesome activities we’ve come to love at Wayne.  And on Sunday they had a chance to meet many of the staff (special shout out to Robbie Schapiro!) and fellow campers who they will be spending seven weeks with this summer.   After some brief introductions the campers headed to a separate room with Adena, Chrissy, Andi and Rona to do some icebreakers and crazy games while mom and dad had a relaxed Q&A session with Ilene, Matt and Noel.  As we said our good-by’s everyone was treated to some yummy cake and ice cream.

It was a great start to the summer and a great way to get all of us excited for June 25th.  We want to welcome all of our new families to our Camp Wayne Family !  Thanks to all for making the trip out to Livingston and we can’t wait to see you at camp on Visiting Day!

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Camp Games for a Cause

Camp Games for a CauseDear Camp Wayne Families,

We are excited to let you know that Camp Wayne is participating in the first annual Camp Games for a Cause fundraising event sponsored by the American Camp Association on Saturday May 21st at the Columbia University sports facilities in New York City. We want you to join our team as we compete against hundreds of other camp alumni, staff and friends in this mega “camp Color War/Camp Olympics” style event, filled with games, food and of course, plenty of camp spirit! Events will include activities such as basketball shootouts, tug-of-war, sing-offs, wacky relays, dance competitions and much more! No need to start training for the day – it will be a day of friendly competition and there will be plenty of activities for non-athletes.
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Welcome!

Welcome to the Camp Wayne Girls Blog

 
Welcome to our first ever Camp Wayne for Girls (CWG) blog post. We’re very excited to launch and explore this new way of communicating with our Camp Wayne families and anyone else in the extended Camp Wayne Family. We hope this new venue will allow us to stay better connected to all of you as well as solidify our partnership with you parents in our quest to help raise well adjusted, thoughtful young women. Continue reading

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