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Our Crisis Management Presentation

October 26, 2016 By Elizabeth Shreckhise Leave a Comment

Crisis Management Camp Conference

We recently attended a one-day workshop and presented insight from our situation with the flood this summer.

Filed Under: Directors Tagged With: ACA Virginias Conference, American Camp Association, conferences, education, leadership, professional development, staff training, team work

Introducing Parent Resources

June 3, 2016 By Elizabeth Shreckhise Leave a Comment

A new page on our Website brings together articles, blogs, podcasts, books, videos, and other resources helpful to parents in all steps of the camp journey.

Filed Under: Directors Tagged With: education, family, new campers, parents, planning

Internship vs. Camp: No Need to Choose

March 16, 2016 By Ellie Frazier Leave a Comment

Camp Counselors

Camp Counseling jobs offer a compelling array of skill sets to develop, and opportunities to gain more responsibility over the years. They’re a great compliment to internships.

Filed Under: Alumni Tagged With: #GhanyJobsWeek, Camp Alleghany Alumni Association, Counselors, education, professional development, staff training, Why be a Counselor?

Three Reasons to Rein in Technology in Childhood

October 30, 2015 By Elizabeth Shreckhise Leave a Comment

Play together

We let personal e-tech devices take over contemporary life without anticipating the negative affect on kids and families. It’s time to really talk about it, and rein it in!

Filed Under: Directors Tagged With: education, family, friends, No Tech Series, traditions

Camp preparation tips — nature edition

April 21, 2015 By Elizabeth Shreckhise Leave a Comment

Happy Camper Card

Help your daughter get familiar with spending time in nature at camp with these helpful ideas.

Filed Under: Directors Tagged With: education, family, friends, Greenbrier River, Mini Camp, nature, new campers, tents

How camp can help nurture the “free range” in kids

February 24, 2015 By Elizabeth Shreckhise Leave a Comment

Slip slide

By now you’ve probably heard of the serious dust-up in in the Washington D.C. area that a respected professional couple faced after allowing their 10- and 6-year-old children to play at a playground alone, including walking home about a mile from that playground. The kids and their parents, part of the “free range kids” movement […]

Filed Under: Directors Tagged With: education, mission, No Tech Series

Camp is essential in the digital age

October 3, 2014 By Elizabeth Shreckhise Leave a Comment

Great Outdoors

I had a recent study passed on to me the other day by our good friend Carson Gleberman that said the research group, writing for Computers in Human Behavior, had found that just “Five days at outdoor education camp without screens improves preteen skills with nonverbal emotion cues.” Of course we always knew this at Camp […]

Filed Under: Directors Tagged With: campers, education, No Tech Series

Sing, sing a song

July 31, 2014 By Elizabeth Shreckhise Leave a Comment

Songfest

It’s one of my biggest goals to bring back the singing at Alleghany. Yes, we sing a lot, but many — too many — of the traditional songs have been lost by the wayside. For some reason or another, certain Campfire or Assembly songs are sung less and less each year to the point where […]

Filed Under: Directors Tagged With: Alleghany Singers, Celebrations, education, Memories, Songfest, Songs, traditions, Vespers

Unplugging comes naturally at Camp Alleghany

July 28, 2014 By Elizabeth Shreckhise Leave a Comment

Paint face campers

It’s wonderful to see more and more news outlets talk about the benefits of a summer spent unplugged from iPhones, video games, Facebook and the whole Internet. That’s why it was great to see a recent article in the Wall Street Journal —  “To Attract Campers, a Promise They Will Unplug: Many Camps Follow a Classic […]

Filed Under: Directors Tagged With: Camp History, education, No Tech Series, traditions

Bug off!

June 4, 2014 By Elizabeth Shreckhise Leave a Comment

Some kids are born entomologists — they just love creepy, crawly things. Bugs of all sorts excite this kind of girl’s rapt attention as she gazes intently through a magnifying glass at an insect’s every move. Other girls, not so much. So if your daughter is the kind who would sooner run from a beetle […]

Filed Under: Directors Tagged With: education, Greenbrier River, packing, tents

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