Camping Magazine articles from March 2004

Camping Magazine archives from March 2004

Articulating the value of your site and facilities.
March 1, 2004... "The program is most important because that's where lives are changed!" cry the program leaders. "But without the site (and facilities and services) you wouldn't have a program!" cry the site leaders. In many camps and conference centers, there...

Building principles: drama in real life ... as seen from the engineer's seat!
March 1, 2004... For many years, Boys' Life magazine ran a regular column that chronicled the heroism of certain Scouts who had been in the right place and time, maintained a cool head, and saved the day for an unfortunate catastrophe victim. In a small way, we...

Can't touch this--intangible assets.
March 1, 2004... One of the goals of risk management is to preserve the assets of the organization, so leaders and managers can use them to fulfill the organization's mission. As risk managers have become more sophisticated, there has been a realization that...

Counselors are teachers.
March 1, 2004... As Ms. Olsen questioned her captive audience about the digestive functions of a shark, her student campers actively participated with one arm raised as the symbol of the Socratic method while the other arm was busy dissecting the shark mold on...

Effective staff recruitment and retention or, how to compete when McDonald's is paying $8 an hour!
March 1, 2004... Whenever I present to a group of camp counselors, teachers, directors, and other educators, I tell them all--even the fifteen-year-old counselor-in-training--that there is no job in the world more important than theirs--and that theirs is the...

Horses and the wilderness meeting the needs of youth at risk.
March 1, 2004... The staff at Kamp Kessa, an adventure education and treatment program utilizing horses and the wilderness for youth who are considered at-risk and who have special needs in Frankfort, Kentucky, are often asked, "Why do you use horses?" and "Why...

It takes a community.
March 1, 2004... Anyone who works in the camp industry knows that on any given day many acts of creativity, dedication, and commitment pass largely unnoticed by the outside world. Far from hearing our good works trumpeted from the mountain tops by a world more...

Job fairs ... standing out in the crowd!
March 1, 2004... The world of resident camp recruitingis a competitive one! Job fairs--the necessary bane of existence for any camp administrator looking for summer staff. How often have we stood among the rows of camps and eagerly scanned the fresh young...

Riding programs at camp enrichment of a different kind.(Includes information on riding camps.)
March 1, 2004... Horseback riding has deep roots in the history of American summer camps, but stereotypical images of the expense and elitism of riding may get in the way of a full appreciation of the benefit and relevance of this activity today. Children need...

Staff your camp for less! Effectively use the Internet to recruit staff while saving valuable time and money.
March 1, 2004... In a recent survey of both overnight and day camps across the U.S. and Canada, many camps responded that recruiting quality staff is a key priority (NicheDirectories 2002). As many camps have discovered, this priority can be easily addressed by...

Success with horses = success with life.
March 1, 2004... W.L. Lorimer, founder of Lorimer Family Camps, included the cavalry style of horsemanship along with the athletics, aquatics, and outdoor skills that were the basics for all camps in the early 1900s. More than that, he believed that the...

TechnoTrends: spreading the word through the Internet.
March 1, 2004... With each passing season, more summer camps have migrated toward digital solutions for the management of their businesses. How many camps use a paper ledger to manage their financial accounts? It sounds silly, and in 2004, it is. What hasn't...

Transitioning teens into responsible young adults: a camp on the cutting edge: second in a series of case studies.
March 1, 2004... Each generation tends to look at the next generation and claim things aren't as they used to be. There was a time in the 1970s and 80s when summer job opportunities for teens were so limited that many camps could rely on their former campers...