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November 18, 2021 By 'Ghany Guest Posts

TBT: The Alleghany Rattler July 1981: The Green Team

Some of the hardest workers at Camp Alleghany are the guys on the Green Team. In this 1981 piece, we have a rare example of a Green team member contributing to the Alleghany Rattler.

Filed Under: Alumni Tagged With: Cooper Dawson, Dining Hall, Green Team, The Alleghany Rattler

November 7, 2019 By Casey Tucker

Increased Involvement with the American Camp Association

Over the years we’ve been very involved with The American Camp Association. And to add to that, now our Program Director Casey Tucker has taken on some volunteer leadership roles with the organization.

Filed Under: Directors Tagged With: American Camp Association, Camp History, Cooper Dawson, leadership, Off-Season series, planning, professional development, staff training

Noah Cooper Shreckhise

October 13, 2016 By Elizabeth Shreckhise

Welcoming Baby Noah

If you were around camp this summer you know that I was on my way to my third child. He’s here now, and this is his story.

Filed Under: Directors Tagged With: Camp History, Celebrations, Cooper Dawson, family

February 26, 2015 By Elizabeth Shreckhise

A short history of our camp furniture

Sometimes the most unexpected things come full circle. This was brought home to me recently when a camp alum sent me an article about an old motel — the Penn-Daw — that was located near to where I grew up in Alexandria. The story got me reminiscing because it was the the Penn-Daw motel from where we […]

Filed Under: Directors Tagged With: Camp History, Cooper Dawson, Dining Hall, family, Hoppers, Memories

flag protocol at camp

November 14, 2014 By Elizabeth Shreckhise

Veterans Day remembrance: Cooper Dawson

I wanted to put this blog post out earlier this week, on Veterans Day itself, but was still awaiting some details about my grandfather — S. Cooper Dawson, Jr. (known as Cooper and as the first Dawson family member to own and run Camp Alleghany), and so, while it’s a little bit after the fact, I hope […]

Filed Under: Directors Tagged With: Camp History, Cooper Dawson, family, Memories

Upstarts

December 11, 2013 By 'Ghany Guest Posts

The Upstart Program at Alleghany, Part Two

In part one of this blog post, I talked about the responsibilities that come with being an Upstart at Alleghany, and the leadership training undertaken by the girls to prepare them for this. What I didn’t talk about, though, was the fun side of being an Upstart, and that’s because I felt like I needed […]

Filed Under: Counselors Tagged With: Babies' Boats, Candlelight Campfire, Cooper Dawson, Junior Counselors, leadership, Upstarts

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April 2, 2013 By Elizabeth Shreckhise

April 1986 Rattler: Future shock

The year 2016 must’ve seemed like an exotic future date to the young campers of 1986. After all, it was 30 years away and in the next century —  I mean millennia —  to boot! I got a real kick out of reading a story written by a young camper — Cathy Canaga — from […]

Filed Under: Alumni Tagged With: Cooper Dawson, Greenbrier River, The Alleghany Rattler, the barge

reflecting

August 16, 2012 By 'Ghany Guest Posts

Helping kids become better citizens through summer camp

“The organized summer camp is the most important step in education, in the broadest sense, that America is giving the world,” said Harvard University President Charles W. Eliot, over seventy years ago. On this basis we have developed the philosophy of summer camping in which we strongly believe, based on the theory that a democracy […]

Filed Under: Directors Tagged With: activities, Camp History, Cooper Dawson, Counselors, family, Greenbrier River, leadership

Watercolor of camp

August 7, 2012 By 'Ghany Guest Posts

Prune juice and P.I.

I’ve been remembering Cooper’s beginning-of-term Assembly speeches, which marked my summers as faithfully and predictably as a lighthouse beacon, but a darn sight funnier. Most of us who made it past 4-year Figaro Flip Flop initiation could recite this speech from memory, imitating but never duplicating the voice. Regrettably, I’ll never do the humor justice: […]

Filed Under: Staff Tagged With: Camp History, Cooper Dawson, Johns, Memories

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