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https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/peg
From Peg“We may have come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.” — Martin Luther King, Jr. When I review ACA’s enrollment and business data (see page 44), I think of this quote by MLK. The...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/movies-you-dont-want-see-no-water-or-no-water-out
The Movies You Don’t Want to See: No Water In or No Water OutThe Producers At camp, two facilities crises are truly "show stoppers." Hands down, the first is "no water." The old saying "You only want a drink when the well runs dry" couldn't be more true...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/creating-maintaining-healthy-camp-environment-strategies-camp-staff
Creating & Maintaining a Healthy Camp Environment: Strategies for Camp StaffAs summer begins and all those carefully recruited campers begin to arrive, camp professionals often revisit orientation to assess if they've adequately prepared staff to handle various aspects of...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/aquatic-safety-staff
Aquatic Safety for StaffIt's a bright, sunny, warm day and you and your friends have the next twenty-four hours off. Not far from camp, about an hour away, is a remote yet popular swimming area where you can hang out, swim...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/ways-make-camp-memorable
Ways to Make Camp MemorableBuilding a warm rapport with the campers in your group as well as the coworkers you live and work with day to day is the single most important way to positively impact the camp experience for...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/camp-counseling-twenty-first-century-connecting-disconnected
Camp Counseling in the Twenty-First Century: Connecting the DisconnectedThroughout the year, Camping Magazine publishes articles for full-time camp professionals. Once a year, it is written specifically for you — the camp staff who are on the front lines doing...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/summer-camps-popular-culture
Summer Camps in Popular Culture"Hey, you must be the short, depressed kid we ordered. Glad you made it." — Meatballs, 1979 (Reitman) I highly doubt that camping pioneers such as Ernest Balch or Frederick Gunn would...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/always-thank-bus-driverand-other-words-wisdom-all-campers-ill-never-meet
Always Thank the Bus Driver...And Other Words of Wisdom for All the Campers I'll Never MeetOn the occasion of my fiftieth birthday, I contemplated the unthinkable: retirement. Not that I am anywhere near ready to conclude my career, but I now know what before I refused to acknowledge: Some...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/gumption-grown-here-how-adventure-camps-help-adults-youth-toughen
Gumption Grown Here: How Adventure Camps Help Adults and Youth to ToughenThere was a day when it was thought that being an American and having "gumption" went hand in hand. As Dennis R. Rader writes in Learning Redefined: Changing the Images that Guide the Process...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/place-share-lessons-summer-camp
A Place to Share: Lessons from Summer CampBobby arrived later than all the other campers, a habit I would soon come to expect. He waited awkwardly in the rec hall doorway. He clutched a black plastic bag of clothing and toiletries, and in...