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A Summer Camp for Girls in Lewisburg, WV

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November 22, 2022 By Elizabeth Shreckhise

Sales, Deals, and Deadlines!

Thanksgiving this week, the holidays looming, and the occasional crazy weather day — you're busy at this time of year, and we are too. That's why I

Filed Under: Directors Tagged With: Archived, Camp Alleghany Alumni Association, Celebrations, family, new campers, Recruiting Parties

November 1, 2022 By Elizabeth Shreckhise

When Parents are “Campsick” for their Campers

In the camp industry there's one thing we know for sure and that is that sleepaway campers never really get that homesick. There, I said it. (And I

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November 1, 2022 By Elizabeth Shreckhise

How to Help Campers and Parents Find Out About Camp

Sleepaway summer camps, like any other business, have to rely on marketing to reach potential camp families, and they essentially always have. It may

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October 15, 2020 By Elizabeth Shreckhise

A ‘Ghany Girl’s Guide to Manners in the Virtual Era

    "May I pleases and yes you mays, thank you ma'ams I learned to say..." — Excerpt from "A Place I Call Home," an original Camp

Filed Under: Directors Tagged With: Archived, Camp History, campers, education, family, leadership, No Tech Series, traditions

October 8, 2020 By Elizabeth Shreckhise

The Big Release: Featured Camper Video!

I'm so excited to at long last have a formal release of our featured camper video! I say "at long last," because we actually started making this video

Filed Under: Directors Tagged With: Archived, Camp History, campers, family, friends, Mini Camp, Mini Camp Journeys, new campers, planning, stories, term camp

May 13, 2020 By Elizabeth Shreckhise

‘Ghany Girls Get Creative About Camp in a Totally IRL Way

They say "necessity is the mother of invention." And there's nothing like boredom to make us NEED to find something to do. And thus were born a few

Filed Under: Directors Tagged With: activities, Archived, campers, Greenbrier River, No Tech Series

August 27, 2019 By Elizabeth Shreckhise

How Being Home Reminds Me What Is So Important About Summer Camp

Distilling what I learned, I came up with a kind of ultrasimple coda: Go outside, often, sometimes in wild places. Bring friends or not. Breathe.”

Filed Under: Directors Tagged With: Archived, family, nature, No Tech Series, professional development

May 8, 2019 By Elizabeth Shreckhise

How to Prepare For — and Avoid — Homesickness At Camp

As you prepare your camper for camp this summer, you may find that one of you is already worrying about homesickness. I can sympathize. I pack up

Filed Under: Directors Tagged With: American Camp Association, Archived, campers, homesickness, new campers, parents

October 26, 2018 By Elizabeth Shreckhise

Camp Fills the Need Part 3: Why Summer Camp? Why Now?

Editor's Note: All this week Camp Alleghany for Girls Director Elizabeth Shreckhise is writing a blog series called Camp Fills the Need. It's a series

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