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I invested quite a few hours in Octo-ber viewing Ken Burns’ video tome,

“The National Parks: America’s Best Idea.” In the process I learned differ-ent things than I had anticipated from a series apparently concerned with U.S. natural wonders, from Acadia to Zion. The production did portray America’s outdoor glories, of course, in thou-sands of images and words drawn from nearly two centuries of struggle to conserve our country’s shrinking wilderness. As interesting, though, and even more inspirational, at least for me, were stories large and small about individual protectors of nature’s mag-nificence, and people whose lives have been enriched profoundly as a result of their efforts. There was John Muir, of course, the famous Scots botanist and some-time mountain shepherd who walked and sketched his way from Indiana

On Nature and Nurture

A Note from Jim

Lanakila alumnus Trip Wileman lives on the side of a mountain in Lowell, VT so close to the Canadian border that the radio dial is largely comprised of French speaking stations from Québec. The home he shares on 1800 acres

with his wife Jennifer and children Addison and Grayson has sweeping views to the north and west, with Lowell Mountain rising to the east behind the house. Trip’s grandmother, Josephine Emerson Meek, who attended Aloha Camp from 1923-25, along with her husband, Oklahoma native Robert Meek, purchased this piece of land in 1958 and used it as a summer get-away from their home in Ponca City, Oklahoma. Many members of the Meek and Wileman family have spent summers in Lowell, VT, in addition to their time in Fairlee at the Aloha Camps. In 2002, the renewable energy company enXco, in conjunction with Vermont Environmental Research Associates (VERA) approached Trip and adjacent land-owners on the Lowell Ridge about the possibility of a wind farm project. The align-ment of the long Lowell ridgeline, with elevations from 2200 to 2700 feet, running from southwest to northeast puts it in a prime position to take advantage of the strong and persistent prevailing west-northwest winds to convert the wind energy into electrical energy. At that time, there was a combination of political, technical and financial obstacles that precluded the success of the wind project, and the idea for the farm was unfortunately put on hold.

Winds of Change Blow Through the Northeast Kingdom

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Table of Contents

Note from Jim ......................... Cover

Winds of Change ...................... Cover

Peter Corbin The Art of the Sporting life ............. 4

News from the Camps Aloha .........................................6Hive ........................................... 8Lanakila ................................... 10Ohana .......................................12Hulbert .................................... 14Horizons ...................................15

Alumni News ................................ 16

in Memoriam ............................... 19

Marriages ..................................... 20

to Florida and San Francisco to the Sierra Nevada; wrote incessantly for nearly a half century about the spiritual meanings of nature and the politics of wilderness preservation; and cajoled Congress as well as several Presidents to create parks at Yosemite, the Grand Canyon, Mount Rainier and the Petri-fied Forest. Not to mention Teddy Roosevelt, inveterate hunter and champion conservator of the wild. But there was also Charles Young, born the son of a Kentucky slave near the end of the Civil War, who graduated from West Point in 1889 and became the first African American Captain in the U.S Army. Young’s all-Black cavalry regiment, the “Buffalo Soldiers,” was dispatched to the Giant Sequoia Forest, upon its inauguration as a national park, to protect the majestic redwoods against the depredations of heedless poachers and sheep grazers. We have

him to thank for the survival to this day of the largest living thing on earth: the General Sherman Tree, nearly three thousand years old, around thirty stories high, with a trunk wider at the roots than your average country road. Then there was Juan Luan, a young, uneducated, out-of-work laborer in a Texas border town during the Great Depression. In the 1930s Luan joined the U.S. Government’s Civil-ian Conservation Corps to build the infrastructure for Big Bend National Park along the Rio Grande. The experi-ence brought him together at work and play with people of many different backgrounds, setting him on a course of learning that led to a doctorate in biology and a college teaching post years later. And finally, Chiura Obata, who came to the United Sates from Japan in

Summer 2010 Camps .................... 20

Future Campers .............................21

Mystery Photos ............................. 23

Capital Projects................. Back cover

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Nature, from page 1

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A combination of coincidences and hard work brought the project to the forefront again, and this time with the support of Green Mountain Power (GMP) and Vermont Electric Coopera-tive, a new effort was made to develop a wind farm on the Lowell Mountain ridgeline. In fact, fellow Lanakila Vi-king Charlie Pughe is Project Manager for the development effort now being led by GMP! As Green Mountain Power put its financial and technical clout behind the project, the focus of the farm was more sharply defined as a way to produce low-cost, low-carbon and highly reliable energy in Vermont, for Vermonters, and, importantly, by Ver-monters. With these efforts, Kingdom Community Wind (KCW) was born and the task of educating the community and developing the technical side of the project began. Although wind power seems like a wonderful alternative and clean power source to many people, there are some who object to the idea of wind farms, whether in Vermont, off Cape Cod in Nantucket Sound or in the American west. The reasons behind resistance to wind energy vary from the perceived negative impact of tall towers chang-ing a landscape, to the potential for noise generated by the turbines, to the concern over the effect on wildlife. In

Lowell, Green Mountain Power has made significant community outreach efforts and Charlie Pughe is often the man at the front of the crowd an-swering questions about the project. Instead of trying to force the project through without the committed sup-port of the town, GMP has been hold-ing community gatherings in order to let the residents ask questions, voice their concerns, and be educated about the project which has the potential to power 20,000 Vermont households with clean wind energy. When Charlie talks about the project, he shares lots of numbers. The farm would encompass approximately 20 towers, approximately 400 feet tall, along nearly 3.5 miles along the ridgeline. The blades, aerodynamically designed to reduce noise and avoid wildlife casualties, have a diameter of approximately 300 feet (95 meters). Power would be generated from each 1.5 megawatt to 3.0 megawatt turbine (the design and turbine selection process is ongoing) in a range of winds from 9 mph to 45 mph. Charlie points out the significant future financial benefit of KCW to Lowell, VT. The taxes that Green Mountain Power would pay to the town would exceed their entire municipal budget. In addition, the construction of the project would

provide work for local companies pro-viding gravel, earthworks and concrete work for the foundations of the towers. The financial boost to the community could be enormous, all with the goal of reducing the use of carbon-based power in the Green Mountain State. Wind power is growing rapidly throughout the world, and capacity in the United States has more than doubled in the past three years putting the U.S. in front of Germany and Spain as the largest producers of wind power. The largest domestic projects are in Texas, the Plains states, and California. In the past, the U.S. wind industry relied largely on imported components for its projects; recently however, there has been growth in the domestic manufacturing of wind turbine parts. The United States looks internationally for models of projects that have been successful due to community involve-ment and in some cases, where wind farms have become popular tourist destinations! Kingdom Community Wind is poised to go forward in March 2010 with a town vote “for” or “against” the project, probably at the Lowell Town Meeting. Trip and Charlie hope with extensive efforts to educate the community about the benefits of the project, that a “yes” vote will allow GMP to then file for a 248 permit, also known as a “Certificate of Public Good,” approving the continuation of the electric generation project. A year of permitting would follow with an am-bitious plan to begin tower construc-tion in 2011. If all were to proceed on schedule, the facility could be up and running, producing locally-generated, carbon-free renewable electricity in 2012. No matter when KCW is ready to go online, Trip and Charlie agreed, that when the time comes to flip the switch and start the towers, a hearty “Skol!” will be a fitting blessing to the moment.

For more information about Kingdom Community Wind, visit their website at http://www.kingdomcommunitywind.com/

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It isn’t often you have a chance to talk with an artist of international repute. That chance was afforded me when Lanakila alumnus and camper parent Peter Corbin

recently agreed to meet with me and be interviewed for Reveille!, carving time out of a travel schedule that takes him away from home for weeks at a time. Peter is recognized as one of the best sporting art painters in the nation. His work is on permanent display in several museums, including The National Art Museum of Sport, The Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, and The American Museum of Fly Fishing. Peter’s work has been included in too many exhibitions to count, he has been commissioned by a U. S. President to create memento prints for White House guests, and his paintings, drawings, and prints grace homes and offices all over the country. Peter is a soft-spoken man, with an attentive gaze. Whether he’s recording the physical characteristics of field, forest, river, lake, or ocean, studying the play of light that informs and energizes all his works, or observing his clients pursuing that most ancient of rituals, the hunter and the hunted, his view encompasses both the timely and the time-less. Though he says he now prefers painting to hunting and fishing, Peter has tallied up an enviable number of days spent

in the outdoors and in some classically beautiful country. Peter’s association with the Aloha camps started in the early fifties, when he followed his brother, Hunter, to Lanakila, part of the Corbin/Day/Carter/Kellogg clan that first came to the camps in the twenties, has been represented in every decade since, and are still here today. Peter’s first sight of Lanakila was at the age of five, when he and his mother brought Hunter to camp. “We dropped Hunter off and then I got to tour New England. I made such of nuisance of myself on that tour that the next summer my mother said I could come to camp, which I desperately wanted to do. Hunter was in Hillside and I was in Brookside. Lanakila, for Peter, was full of fond memories, complete with being taken on a snipe hunt, “well-armed” with pil-low case and stick, working in camp crafts, the nature hut and, in his second year, learning to use a compass. Peter was introduced to archery at Lanakila and loved to use the rifle range. “It was a wonderful time before all the sports camps started. Then you’d have to do two weeks here for hockey and two weeks there for lacrosse and all of a sudden life got a lot more hectic.” All my early years growing up, until boarding school, we had, from the fall to the spring, every Sunday dinner at my

Peter Corbin – The Art of the Sporting Lifeby Tom miller


grandfather’s house, with his five children and their spouses, and my 17 first cousins (13 of whom came to Aloha camps!).

“My grandfather, Horace Corbin, was quite a gentleman, but also quite autocratic. You went to church most Sundays, but you always went to grandfather’s for dinner. And you couldn’t leave until two o’clock—he was that kind of guy and it was that kind of time. Consequently, when I was growing up, my father refused to make any decision for me; he said,

‘I don’t care what you do, as long as you work very hard at it and to the best of your ability. You can pick up garbage, you can do anything.’” Apparently Peter’s dad understood the Lanakila motto: There are many ways to be a man. The freedom to make his own decisions helped Peter discover and develop his career as an artist. First at Pomfret School, then at Wesleyan University, Peter began his formal training in art, graduating from Wesleyan with highest honors. After a stint at the California College of Arts and Crafts, Peter returned east, met and married his wife, Lillian, who was pursuing her own career in banking. Having grown up surrounded by the sporting art of Ogden Pleissner and A. B. Frost, Peter began acquiring works for their home, some of which he felt were, “Overpriced and un-derpainted.” Determined that he could do better, and encouraged by Lillian to either, “Put up or shut up,” they quit their jobs and took to a cabin in the Catskills, so Peter could devote all of his time to painting. It wasn’t easy getting established as a commercially successful sporting art painter, but Peter captured the attention of his future clients when one of his works was selected by the Atlantic Salmon Association in 1981. Three decades later, Peter is acknowledged to be one of the finest sporting art painters anywhere. His work, primar-ily oil paintings of hunting and fishing scenes, along with pencil sketches and the occasional portrait, keep him on the go much of the year. He travels with his clients to their favorite places: rivers, fields and ocean flats they’ve come to know and love. As Peter put it, “I’ll be with clients who are on vacation, and the less I bother them the better. So I’m pretty much a fly on the wall, taking a lot of photographs of the place and the people in that place. We talk a lot about what’s special about those places, and I try to get inside their heads so I can capture what’s significant to them. Good sporting art is like a portrait, painted from the inside out. A lot of my paintings hang in people’s offices, where they can look away from their day and instantly be on that river, that place that they work so hard to be a couple of weeks a year. That’s meaningful to me, when someone tells me, ‘I’ve had your painting for 20 years and I love it better every day.’ That makes me feel good.” Peter divides sporting art into three categories: the moment when time stops; anticipation; and reflection. The

paintings he did for L. L. Bean catalog covers is the moment when time stops. “You remember that moment,” he said,

“the first time you hook a tarpon. You’re looking at something that weighs nearly as much as you do, and it’s above you! It’s this great big rattling thing, and ‘who’s really got who?’ is going through your mind. That’s the awe-inspiring mo-ment and that’s what everybody is trying to paint when they start out—the catalog cover. But increasingly, I paint those contemplative moments, or the anticipation, when, the fish isn’t in the air, it’s more the sense of its being there. They say a salmon is the fish of a thousand casts, but every time you drift that fly across and wonder if he’s there and going to take it, there’s that anticipation.” The camera is Peter’s sketch book and he takes hundreds of pictures on every trip with particular attention paid to the

light. “It’s always been about the light for me, whether it’s an upland scene, fresh or saltwater, or a lady in her garden. Light defines the thing. In narrative painting, you’re telling a story. Ogden Pleissner said it best, ‘to capture mood is the most difficult and rewarding thing.’ That mood for me is set by the light; it defines form and the time of day, and that’s what we really remember.” Over his life, Peter has seen a lot

of country and I wondered if he was concerned about any of the changes he has seen. “To me, it’s more about trying to preserve the simplicity of the past. When we were growing up, we had a wooden row boat and a fly rod. You’d row out to a patch of lily pads, cast your fly, twitch it a little bit and hope for the best. That simplicity still enthralls me today. It’s not so much about success, it’s about being there and doing it. What else are you really there for?” Working hard and being willing to put in the time to gain the knowledge that leads to expertise seems to be a hallmark of Peter’s life. His standing among the community of sport-ing artists is evidence of that. When asked how it felt to be acknowledged among the best in his field, Peter responded,

“I think we all have an ego, but I am a bit frustrated by the hype. Basically, you have to come and be yourself. I was raised to be the best that I could be. I see my contemporaries and some of the younger fellows and there’s a lot of talent. But to me it’s a matter of being the best that I can be.” He continued, “I see artists as problem solvers. I had a teacher at Wesleyan who said most great paintings weren’t inspired directly from nature, they were inspired by other paintings. What he was saying is that paintings are problems. If it’s a plein-air painting, you’re trying to capture the fresh-ness of the thing you’re looking at. If you’re doing a narrative painting, you want to be telling a story, but you still want to have that sense of freshness, of mood—they may be different problems, but they’re problems. So when I look at someone

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Aloha News Marijean Parry, Director

Aloha photographers took thousands and thousands of photos this summer. It takes a while to sort through all those photos from the summer to create a slideshow for the Reunion Open House tour. There were fantastic pictures of archery, swimming, arts, kayaking, trips, special events, scenery, etc. etc. that would help tell a story of Aloha. But what really captured my attention were the faces of the girls. Their faces filled with joy, excitement, concentration, pride, reflection, contentment, and of course, so much laughter and a few tears, tell the real story of Aloha.

Everything that fills our days and nights at camp serves as just the backdrop to the most important things that hap-pen at camp – girls discovering their best selves. At Aloha, girls find in themselves the perseverance and focused effort it takes to reach their goals. They discover what it feels like to be not only accepted, but appreciated for their unique self. There is a great reconnection to their creativity in having fun without all the trappings of their everyday world at home. They make choices that are for them and not just because it’s what everyone else is doing. Girls make mistakes at Aloha and figure out how to “make it right”. They take time for reflection and celebration. And girls build such deep friend-ships that are based in respect and a true love for each other. This is really what camp is all about. Girls will often say they love the person they are at camp. One of the challenges that girls talk about is how to take their “Aloha Self” home with them. This was a theme of one of our Sunday Services this summer. A few girls and counselors talked about their personal approaches and their stories were so diverse – everything from how they handle relationships, to setting goals, to feeling comfortable dancing awkwardly. For every person, meeting the challenge of taking their Aloha Self home is different and I believe it is one of the most important chapters of the real Aloha story. I feel so fortunate to share this story with our girls.

Save the date! Aloha’s 105th reunion

August 13-15th

“…girls build such deep friendships that are based in respect and a true love for each other.

This is really what camp is all about.”


Photos from the 2009 Aloha Alumnae Trip to Crawford Notch

Aloha Maidens, mark your calendar!Woody Needell has been planning again and we have reser-vations in the Rangeleys on Sunday night, July 18 through Wednesday night July 20, 2010 for an alumnae canoe adven-ture! We’ll leave from Fairlee after lunch on Sunday and will

be back by lunch on Wednesday. We’ll use campsites on Big Beaver and at Whitney Point on the Upper Richardson, with plenty of time to explore, swim, paddle, and share. Interested? The trip is limited to 12 and will cost $150 p.p. with a $25 deposit. Email [email protected] or call 802-333-3400 to reserve your spot!


Greetings from Lake Fairlee!

The temperatures have started to drop and the mountains are ablaze in color! It is a beautiful time of year to be in Vermont. The sounds of laughter from the hillside and singing from the Comb would make it just perfect. Hive celebrated its 95th birthday this summer! Imag-ine 95 years of women and young girls living and learning together. During camp we celebrated by having two Hive birthdays so all campers could enjoy the experience of wish-ing Hive a very happy 95 years. Campers and counselors, past and present, came together to share the amazing bond of a summer spent at Aloha Hive. Once campers left, some of the staff and I geared up for the 95th Reunion celebration at Hive. About 65 alumnae and family members gathered for the weekend to enjoy the beauty of Hive, share memories and stories from the past and see all the new experiences that are now a part of Aloha Hive. One exciting part of our reunion weekend was borrow-ing National Public Radio’s StoryCorps premise of recording oral histories to share and honor. Posie Taylor and Nancy Pennell met with Hiver alumnae of different generations and asked them to tell their Hive stories: what were their most

Hive News Kathy Plunkett, Director

significant memories, what were the funniest escapades, who made a big impact on them while at camp. If you would like to listen to some of these recordings you can find them on The Aloha Foundation’s YouTube page at http://www.youtube.com/user/AlohaFoundation. Capturing these memories allows us to find the common thread between eras of women who have attended Hive and contributes to the sense of what it means to have attended Hive as a young girl. Everyone enjoyed activities from basket-weaving on the docks, passing a swim test and enjoying the lake, sailing, milking goats and participating in Saturday night’s talent show, all in true Hive style! Our Sunday Assembly celebrated the contributions of some of Hive’s past Directors: Helen Shaw, Ginny Stevens, Posie Taylor and Helen Rankin-Butler. Each of these directors shared unselfishly of themselves to create a beloved and rich tradition that lives on today at Hive. So many women have touched what is now the culture of Hive that lives on each summer, connecting the campers of the past, with those of today and tomorrow.


Hive’s 95th Reunion

Top to Bottom: Hivers from the 1940’s: Ginny Hazelwood Stevens, Susan Carr Hirschman, Debby Shaw Link and Chippy Bassett Wolf; Anne Downey, Ginny Hazelwood Stevens and Nora Downey; Ginny shares memories with former Swimming staff.

Top to Bottom: Directors then and now: Ginny Hazelwood Ste-vens and Kathy Plunkett; Generations of Hivers: grandmothers, mothers and daughters; Nancy Linkroum Pennell celebrates Hive’s Birthday with her granddaughters in The Comb.


Lanakila News Barnes Boffey, Director

An Odin for Lanakila

At our final Council Fire of 2009, Ethan Langsdorf- Willoughby became Lanakila’s 16th Odin. As he received his Odin sword, scroll and cape, the entire camp applauded, each person sharing in Ethan’s victory and the culmination of all his work and that of others who supported his journey. One such supporter was Rudy Glocker, Lanakila’s 14th Odin, who returned a day early from a business trip to England to present Ethan at Council Fire. It was the 25th anniversary of Rudy’s own Odin ceremony, so it had great import at many levels. The Odin Viking Honors tests are rigorous; they are focused on specialty skills, teaching, and projects that add to the camp program. Throughout the spring, Ethan, Program Director Jeremy Cutler, and department heads wrote back and forth, creating plans for acceptable and high quality projects. When Ethan arrived at camp, he hit the ground running. Among other things, he wrote and directed a short musical entitled “A Dream that Stayed Alive,” based on the early Lanakila history when Chauncey Hulbert died and Carol took over as director. (Write Barnes if you want a copy). He also did ground breaking work on preparing campsites and a boat landing on nearby Flagg Island in the Connecticut River, getting several Hillsiders to help clear away brush and debris. He created Geology Exploration which will now be part of the Exploring program, and he did an in-depth port-folio in Photography and taught for over 40 hours in various departments Rudy Glocker said, “No one gets his Odin alone.” What he meant is that the community must support Ethan as he continually puts himself on the line, and he must respect and be grateful to that community for that support. Without the mutual honoring of both sides of the process, the moment of attainment can lack the depth of honor and pride that ev-eryone felt this summer. Ethan’s last test was in Swimming, a department in which he worked many hours to learn skills which did not come easily or naturally. When he finished, the entire Swimming department carried him on the backboard to the Viking Chart at the Main House. I wish you each could have been there to feel the energy in camp as they carried him across the athletic field. It was joyful; it was honorable; it was truly a moment of Victory. You would have been proud; it was a moment when every Lanakila community member had

a full heart and a deep sense of what one can accomplish with hard work, courageous effort, steady persistence, and trust-ing the love that holds our community together. Skol!

Lanakila’s newest Odin, Ethan Langsdorf Willoughby

Counselors from the Swimming Department carry Ethan up from the waterfront after he passed his final test.


Through choosing, modeling, mirroring, and mentoring, lanakila counselors actively seek to moti-vate, inspire, and nourish campers so that they might become “outliers” in their lives. Thoughts from the lanakila staff of 2009.

Through Choosing

On a basic level, what we do is give campers choices. We give them choices about the activities they can do and the skills they can learn; we give them choices about how hard they want to try and whether they’re willing to risk trying at all. With coaching and encouragement, we help kids see choices where they never saw them before, perhaps in decisions to handle conflict with generosity, loss with courage, or success with grace.

We do this because we believe that recognizing and celebrat-ing these choices empowers campers to go about the busi-ness of self-discovery with intention. Fueled by curiosity, determination, and love they begin to develop their skills, their relationships, and their character—not by chance or accident, but by choosing to lead the lives they want to live.

Through Modeling

Counselors serve as models of adulthood. We understand the value of good examples, and we do our best to model the in-tegrity, generosity, courage, and faith that we hope to inspire in our campers.

Campers also see counselors as masters of their crafts. In that role we celebrate our passions in the hope of nurturing theirs. We don’t hide our work, practice, and effort, because we believe that lessons of perseverance and diligence are as important as the skills we teach.

Through Mirroring

We believe in the value of clear, consistent, and compas-sionate feedback. Whether working on a serve at tennis or talking through a disagreement with a tent mate, campers are surrounded by counselors who will help them stop and consider their actions, adjust their outlook, and celebrate their choices.

Counselors help campers redefine success to measure not only what they achieve, but also how they act along the way. Failure becomes an opportunity for self-discovery, growth, and even humor, and success becomes the medium through which campers expand the boundaries of what they believe possible about themselves.

Through Mentoring

In an environment filled with friendships of varying ages and interests, counselors relish the opportunity to be transfor-mative mentors for campers—to shape character, provide perspective, and serve as support during times of failure or frustration. We work to create a community where adults trust children more than those children may even think they can be trusted, to believe in them more than they may believe in themselves, and to push them to become the fine people we see inside of them, even when they don’t yet see what we see.

We do this because we know that we discover our truest selves through service to others; we do this because we have experienced the transformative power of this place and these people; we do this because others did the same for us.


Ohana News Andy Williams, Director

As I opened the gate at Ohana early one morning in October, I could hear a flock of geese honking in the distant sky. I watched as they passed overhead in their “V” formation, honking to the leader as they headed south. It was a sure sign that winter was on its way. Winter is a quiet time at Ohana, a time for reflection about what makes this camp such a special place, and a time for planning for the return of our many families next summer, of the joys, hopes and plans for the year to come. This moment caused me to reflect on a wonderful children’s book, Winter Barn, by Peter Parnall. I read it to my children often when they were young. From time to time I find myself pulling it off the shelf to marvel again at its story. The drawings and words depict the life and the goings-on under and around a typical New England barn during the sub-zero winter temperature. The book begins with the idea that as winter arrives, life and activity beds down, and although it appears that not much is going on, nothing could be further from the truth. In actuality, there is much activity

within from barn owls, to field mice to fox, to our local fisher cat and even ants. As many of you know, who have been at Ohana, when we close in the fall with our Volunteer Work Weekend, is just the beginning of another chapter in the life of Ohana. Our “quiet” winter phase includes a review of the prior summer, communications with alumni, program plan-ning and expansion, brochure design, camp fairs, market-ing and the ongoing maintenance of the facility. As I write this, work is underway on Cabin 11 (alias Area 51!), as it is renovated for housing and much needed meeting space. The “old” arts building has become the “new” maintenance shop and our brochure is in the final stages of being reworked. As we start our winter work, I am reminded of how life goes on through the seasons, and how Ohana too moves with the rhythms of the year. Right now it is quiet but full of activ-ity. As Parnall writes in his book, the “barn sings its own songs about winter, summer, and the lives held safe within the great dark cloak of hand-hewn wood.’’ I think I will take a walk out to the barn today.

Volunteers pose for a photo during Ohana’s 2009 Fall Work Weekend.


Ohana News Andy Williams, Director

vYCC TRAil JOURNAl AT OHANA

This summer a group of eight students and two trail crew leaders from the Vermont Youth Conservation Corps created a new trail at Ohana. They worked hard and constructed a beautiful trail that folks enjoyed all summer. Here are some excerpts from the Ohana Journal:

Day Four

Mid week finds the group making great progress. They have come together as a team, and have learned much about trail construction. In the evening, after they have cooked their dinner and cleaned up, they can be found playing spirited games of volleyball and soccer. It brings to mind the saying that they “work hard and play hard.” They are terrific team of young people, with very able leaders Maggie and Emily.

Day Seven

It’s completed!!! The staff of Ohana Family Camp were treated to our first walk on the newly completed trail to the waterfront on Friday. It is a terrific trail, as it meanders through the beautiful woods, by old stone walls and by amazing rock formations. The Vermont Youth Conservation Corps worked very hard, in blistering heat and humidity, to complete their project by Friday. On behalf of the Ohana Staff, The Aloha Foundation, and all the future “walkers” on the path, we say a huge thank you to this wonderful crew and their leaders. Come walk with us on our new trail!

Day One

The VYCC crew arrived at Ohana Family Camp yesterday. They are part of a larger group of Vermont young adults who will be working on crews all over the state this summer. They have set up camp in the Tent Unit at Ohana, where they will cook their own meals and make plans for the trail construc-tion which starts on Sunday. With their leaders, Maggie and Emily, they will plan and inspect the area that has been designated for the Ohana Trail. They will look at potential routes, soil depths, topography of the terrain, interesting points along the way, and a myriad of other details before they actually take any tools to the woods. This energetic group of four young men and four young women, all Vermonters, have been chosen, as have many outstanding students, to work with this statewide program this summer. The Vermont Youth Conservation Corps is a non-profit youth, leader-ship, service, conservation, and education organization that instills in individuals the values of personal responsibility, hard work, education, and respect for the environment. This is accomplished by using conservation projects as the vehicle for learning in an intense environment. Read more about their important work at www.vycc.org

Elderhostel participants at the Dowd’s Inn, summer, 2009


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Hulbert News Brendan Madden, Director

Hello!

It is with a mix of humility and excitement that I take the helm of Hulbert at this important time. I would like to ex-tend my warm thanks to Andy Williams, who has helped me through the transition with his customary warmth, energy, and passion. Over the last 22 years, Andy has made Hulbert a home for a rich variety of programs, from Elderhostel to the School Program; from Wilderness Paddlers to the SnowWalk-ers Rendezvous, and the list goes on and on. Looking back over those years, it is impossible to count how many people got either their start in outdoor adventure, or a long-awaited return to it, from Andy. Thousands. I know I speak for you all when I say “Thank You”. I look forward to a long partner-ship with Andy as Directors of Aloha Foundation programs.

As Hulbert has grown over the last thirty years, so has the need for, and relevance of, outdoor education. Common buzzwords of the day, such as “climate change,” “nature-deficit disorder,” and “the risk-averse society” illustrate an increasing awareness of the negative effects of our drift away from a nature-based life. What an exciting time to be an outdoor educator. My goal for the next few years is to maintain the strong programmatic foundation laid by Andy, while searching for new opportunities for top quality outdoor education. Your thoughts on the future direction of Hulbert Outdoor Center are welcome: please feel free to email me at [email protected]. I hope to hear from you.

Events coming to Hulbert early in 2010!NeW YeAR’S vACATiON FAMilY CAMP Sunday, December 27, 2009 - Friday, January 1, 2010

lAKe MOReY SKATe-A-THON January 9, 2010

lAKe MOReY WiNTeRFeST Sunday, January 10, 2010


Horizons’ News Danny Kerr, Director

Danny Kerr retires!

It is with heavy hearts that The Aloha Foundation bids farewell to Danny Kerr, after 30 years at The Alohas, as a camper and a counselor at Lanakila, Head of the Bridge, head of Athletics and Assistant Director, then Direc-tor of Horizons. Danny and his wife Julia, who met one year at the Lanakila bonfire, are off on a new adventure as Danny becomes Director of Camp Pemigewassett in June 2010. Horizons campers, parents and friends will miss seeing Danny and Julia, and the shores of Lakes Morey and Fairlee will be dif-ferent without them!

Danny Kerr having fun at Lanakila and Horizons through the years

Top photo: with his wife, Julia.Above: Monkeying around with Tracey Mc-Fadden and Anna Alden.

At right, Danny as Lanakila counselor, posing with his unit in the late 1970’s.


Aloha/Hive 1920s-50s

Jean Young Behan: “I was on a schol-arship during my 1960 summer as a camper, and was a counselor-in-train-ing the following summer. My Aloha experience was something I will never forget. What a fantastic family it was.”

Penny Forney Canny: “Aloha is a great place, with great people, and has been an incredible part of my life.”

Margaret Richards Chapman attends aerobics three times a week and is in excellent health thanks to being a vegetarian and taking good vitamins!

Sally Chase Flynn: “I had two grand-children at Hive and one at Aloha this summer. And through them, I’ve discovered other “Aloha family” in the area!”

Thayer Buurma Gershon: “My daugh-ter, emily [Gershon], just earned her MA in Special Education in Autism, and continues to work as an ABA thera-pist in San Francisco.”

edith Miller Heier: “My great-niece, Kate Miller vickers, spent another wonderful summer at Hive, continu-ing the Aloha tradition that my mom, Harriet Miller Hight, started in the 1920s.”

Nancy Main linsley: “I visited with my nephew, Andrew lane, and his wife, Becky Proulx, and their daugh-ter, Lucy, at their home in July. I had dinner in April with my niece, Becky Benham, during our visit in the Boston area.”

Colin Reed: “My years at Hive with Helen Shaw remain a never-to-be-forgotten experience which changed

my life and gave me memories which have lasted a lifetime.”

enid Kastor Rubin: “Despite good friends and good daughters (some may have seen alumna Alissa Rubin’s byline in the New York Times or non-alumna, Hanna Rubin’s in Dance or Pointe), it is emptier now that I have lost my wonderful husband. Notwith-standing, I had a terrific, almost-free trip to Paris and England on air miles and rewards to visit longtime (though not seen in a long time!) friends, and my daughter’s apartment. All provided lodging chez luxe and logistics on com-ing and going.”

Aloha/Hive 1960s-2000s

Perry Allison has recently been hired as managing director of Northern Stage, the theater company in White River Junction, VT. Perry and her husband have moved to Thetford Hill, and look forward to living in the Upper Valley, close to family and friends.

Dibbie Spurr Appleton: “I treasure great memories of a marvelous sum-mer at Hive.”

Mary Combs: “I had a great visit with Seashols Starks here in Naples, FL. We remember swimming in Lake Morey when we were 11 and 12 years old! I’m now swimming in the Gulf.”

Mandy Spooner Frank: “I live in Boston with my husband, Brendan, and five year old daughter, Marlo. I had the pleasure of seeing Posie [Taylor] at a Boston event last year and had such a great time seeing all of the

camp memorabilia. It brought back so many memories: bug juice, Mississippi Mud, Barnyard, and the smell of pine at the Banquet. My daughter will be ready to join the Hivers in a couple of summers!”

Mare Oliver Fromyer: “We so enjoyed our visit in 2008 to Hive to see our daughter, lucy [Fromyer], a swimming counselor, and to Lanakila where our son, Philip [Fromyer], was a second year Bridger. It’s wonderful to see the camps doing so well.”

Kathy Wood Graves: “My family and I had a wonderful visit with Nancy and Hugh Pennell in July. I was a camper in Nancy’s tent at Hive in 1964 and also attended Nancy and Hugh’s wedding in 1965! My husband, Eric, and I live in Woodland Hills, California, outside of L.A. We have three grown kids and one grandson. The Pennells are such special people; we hadn’t seen them in 30 years and it was such a treat to spend time with them, and Helen Young Savage, my best friend in high school in Atlanta, GA, who joined me as a counselor at Hive in 1971 and 1972. We also had fun walking around Hive and stopping to see louisa Savage at Aloha.”

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Meg Anderson Hagen writes from Beitostølen, Norway that she has been enjoying catching up with camp friends on Facebook and sharing photos of her beautiful home in central Norway.

Jessica Cobb Hall: “My husband and I had our first child in April, and I cannot wait for him to experience the Aloha camps as I did!”

lisa Tracy Jenkins: “Tracy [Jenkins] is now a sophomore at the College of William and Mary. After spending his summer working on the excavation at Jamestown Fort where he helped excavate the first well dug by the Eng-lish colonists in 1608, Tracy has taken on the role of president of the W&M College Company (militia). Marina [Jenkins] is a junior at the Grier School in Tyrone, PA. She is enjoying being a midfielder on the Grier soccer team.”

lauren McGeoch: “I’m still in gradu-ate school at UC Davis, studying for my PhD in Ecology. My fieldwork is in central Kenya, so I’ve been spend-ing lots of time abroad. If you’re ever looking for an African adventure, come visit! When I’m not in Kenya, I’m spending lots of time climbing and biking in the Sierras.”

Beth McGregor has been busy at work as a comedian in NYC, doing stand-up as well as improv comedy with a

group that includes Kara Klenk, and also starting “Topanga,” a web-series. She’ll be teaching 4th grade at Col-legiate School and looks forward to her “teacher-by-day, stand-up-by-night” year to come.

Kam Damtoft Raiselis: “I completed work on a 1700s house in Rollinsford, NH, which finally opened to the public this summer. I’m enjoying my seven-voice a capella (contemporary) group, and doing all sorts of unusual gigs.”

lara Ramsey completed her second Ironman Arizona, breaking her 14 hour time barrier with a final time of 13:44:45, and finishing the marathon in 4:55:49. It was the race of her life!

ellen Stanley: “I just released my first full-length album under my stage name “Mother Banjo” and have been playing gigs across the country. I recently saw Caroline McGregor when I was out in DC. When not on the road, I live in Minneapolis and work as the publicist for Red House Records. My sister, Sarah Stanley, will move here and attend the University of Minnesota Law School in the fall.”

P.J. Wood enjoyed catching up with former campmates Cathy McGrath, Sally “Woody” Wood Needell, Perry Allison, and others at the Show Weekend After Taps party at the lovely Middlebrook campus. Her son, Alex [Kirch], just finished his fourth summer at Lanakila. Alex has been emailing his Woodside buddies since returning home, and is enjoying 7th grade football, robotics, and science.

Kathryn Mohn Wooters and her sister, Susan Mohn, attended Hive’s 95th reunion this August. They posed for this photo in the same location as one taken more than 40 years ago when

their parents and sister Sally [Mohn Kneen] visited them at camp!

lanakila 1920s-1950s

Walter Hodge: “My wife Bobbie [Taylor Hodge] and I are now 96 years old, have been married for 60 years, and are still enjoying life. Bobbie now lives in our “assisted living area” in a lovely one-room, but large, apartment with an outdoor porch where she can enjoy the gardens and flowers nearby. She can walk with aid of a push-cart, and we get together daily and take rides in our car into the adjacent country-side. Unfortunately, our children live far from us; one in Oaxaca, Mex., one in CA, and Lanakila alumus, Peter, in Santa Fe, NM”

David Jarratt’s book Quarry is now in the library at Lanakila!

Bob MacDonald: “After living in Weston, MA for 38 years, we now divide our time between summers in Rock-port, MA and winters in Atlantis, FL where I play a great deal of golf. I often reminisce about my counselor years in the ’50s at Lanakila where I taught canoeing. Years later, I made two white

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water canoe trips down the St. John’s River and one down the Allagash – all in May when everything is very cold (no bugs), and flooding.”

lanakila 1960s – 2000s

Moran Berger is recently engaged and just returned from a terrific trip to the Netherlands.

Charlie Brown: “I am starting year number 28 working with dyslexic stu-dents at the Gow School in New York.”

Matt Cercone stopped by Lanakila on the 4th of July with his family and fiancé. He checked out the dining hall, barn (and his shield), Council Fire, Chapel, and finally the waterfront, and reports that all looked great. Matt chat-ted with some of the counselors – just like ol’ times and made him want to come back!

Melissa ebert: “I’m officially a Denver resident and I am absolutely enamored with it! It’s GREAT here! So far my time has included sushi, yoga, riding my bike around the area, going to a Rockies baseball game, and settling into my ‘studio’ apartment.”

Randy Grayson directs Camp Augusta in California.

Andy Hemphill: “I’m still working in London. Though I consider myself a freelance journalist, I’m still employed by Newsquest LTD. I’m keeping my options open however, and keeping up my freelance writing for various companies. I’ve even started working on podcasts and video reviews, which can be found at http://www.yourlo-calguardian.co.uk/leisure/games/gameon. I’ve also finished the second draft of my children’s book, Bedlam

High, and provided I get it printed (I’m starting negotiations with agents now), I’m planning on setting the sequel at a summer camp—though I haven’t thought of a name for it yet!”

Sean Macy: “I’m singing my kids to sleep at night from the Lanakila song-book. Any ’87 Bridgers around?”

Graham Quigley: “I’m an acupunc-ture student at a school in Berkeley, California. I’m loving it! I’ve found my passion. I also work with people and their pets to teach them how to do all sorts of alternative healing work. My family is living in St. Albans, VT. My sister, Heather Quigley Tremblay is a nurse and proud mother of three beautiful kids. Without Lanakila, I would not be who I am today, and for that I am ever so grateful. I got a fresh perspective on life.”

Ross Reichard finished second in the solo swim around Lake Zurich in Switzerland, completing a distance of 26.4 kilometers.

George Steele and his father, Andy, spent this summer Muni-riding (mountain-unicycling) Colorado’s 14 peaks above 14,000 feet, including 14,433-foot Mount Elbert, highest in Colorado. The father-son duo is the

first to take fat-tire mountain unicycles to Colorado’s summits!

Thomas Tannert: “I moved to Swit-zerland last year. I finished my PhD in Vancouver and work now as a research fellow in a small technical University close to Bern.”

James Thompson: “In the last four years, I have finished university, trained and qualified as an airline pi-lot, and have ascertained my first com-mercial job for the UK carrier Flybe. I’m really enjoying it so far. I still keep in touch with some counselors, such as Jacob Mushlin, Fraser Boyd, Jeremy Cutler and Richard Kirkby. I even received an email from Tiaan Jacobs, which gave me a big smile on my face!”

Kit Zipf graduated in May from the United States Naval Academy with a BS in Economics and a Presidential handshake from Barack Obama.


in Memoriam

Henry Adams, former Aloha Foundation Trustee, on August 7, 2009. He was the father of libby Adams-Swann and Katherine Adams, and the grandfather of Helen Swann and Susannah Swann.

Curtis Fowle (L27-28,*33) in January, 2009.

Richmond “Ricky” Hosley (L56-59) on March 10, 2007. He was the brother of David Currier, Henry Hosley, and Charles Hosley.

Daniel Stewart Berkey

Dan Berkey, a great friend of the Aloha Camps, passed away on October 19. Dan was born in 1941 in New Bruns-wick, NJ. He earned his Bachelor’s degree from Lehigh University in 1963. From 1963 to 1968, he was a captain in the United States Army. Dan served as a company com-mander in Vietnam with the 25th Infantry Division and was awarded the Bronze Star and the Army Commendation Medal. He received an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1970. He and Ann moved to San Francisco in 1977, where he launched a financial services consulting company. An Eagle Scout, Dan was an active parent and Assistant Scoutmaster of Troop 6 in Berkeley; he also served on the vestry of St. John’s Episcopal Church in Oakland. He shared his love of camping, hiking, skiing and the outdoors with his fam-ily. Dan is survived by his wife, Ann Richardson Berkey (H60, HP91-92, AP93-96,*97-98,*02-03, LP94-98,*00, 02), his daughter, elizabeth “Berkey” Berkey (H91-92, A93-96,*97-98,*02-04, HOC*02-03) and his son, William Berkey (L94-98,*00,02). If you would like to join the many Aloha family members who have made memorial

gifts celebrating Dan’s life, you can send a check to the Foundation, or make your gift online via our secure web site (https://www.alohafoundation.org/static/alohafoun-dation/giving.php) and simply add Dan’s name in the note field. As requested by Ann, Berkey and William, all gifts received will be used to support a project designed to enhance campers’ experiences in nature.

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Marriages

Jim Zien to Helena Binder on August 30, 2009.

Sally Thompson to Dave Goldberg on September 26, 2009. Front Row (L to R): Andrew Pennell, Ellie Thompson Pen-nell, Sally Thompson, Dave Goldberg, Jenny Searles, Kara Klenk. Back Row (L to R): Alissa Creany, Erin Sylvester, Jeremy Cutler, Liza Cohen, Katy Weinberg, Nekesa Straker. In attendance but not pictured: Nancy Linkroum Pennell, Hugh Pennell, Megan Pennell Seidner.

Daniel Merritt to Melissa Oberkotter on July 5, 2008.

Summer 2010 Camps Calendar

Aloha, Hive, LanakilaFull Season dates: Wednesday, June 23 to Wednesday, August 11

Half Session Dates: Wednesday, June 23 to Sunday, July 18 and Tuesday, July 20 to Wednesday, August 11

Show Weekend: July 17 & 18

Aloha Hive elfin Program: Tuesday, July 20 to Saturday, July 31

Horizons:Session 1: Monday, June 28 – Friday, July 9Session 2: Monday, July 12 – Friday, July 23 Session 3: Monday, July 26 – Friday, August 6


Future CampersTo Josh and Karen Danforth, a son, Russell Parker Danforth, on August 13, 2009.

To Marissa and Kano Mayer, a son, Auty Francis Mayer, on March 4, 2009. Proud grandmother is Holly Rollings Mayer, and proud aunt is Maile Mayer Shea.

To elyse Johnson lyons and Lloyd Lyons, a daughter, Charlotte Anne Lyons, on July 17, 2009. Proud grandfa-ther is Clark Johnson.

To Alison and Ben-jamin Merrick, twin daughters, McKayla Jocelyn Merrick and Samantha Marie Merrick, on June 12, 2009. Proud

grandmother is Sukey Childs Merrick. Proud aunt is Jocelyn Merrick and proud uncle is Tim Merrick.

To Melissa and Daniel Merritt, a son, Dominic Robert Sayre Merritt, on June 25, 2009. Proud grandfather is Sayre Merritt.

To Jenna Howland Ditcheos and Nick Ditcheos, a daughter, Charlotte Lillian Ditcheos, on August 3, 2009. Proud grandmother is Cindy Howland.

To Courtney and Pax Dunnack, a daughter, Jada Dunnack, on May 27, 2009. Proud grandfather is Bill Dunnack, and proud aunt is Misty Dunnack Sinsigalli.

To Jessica Cobb Hall and Leon Hall, a son, Leon Joseph Hall, on April 6, 2009. Proud uncle is Joey Cobb.

To lindsey Bosch Olm-stead and Mike Olmstead, a daughter, Geneviève Felice Olmstead, on January 7, 2009.

To Brian Plumer and Pam Tomawski Plumer, a son, Samuel Joseph Plumer, on June 10, 2009. Proud uncle is Jeff Plumer, and proud aunts are Jeanine Plumer and Beth Plumer Poehlein.

To Gretchen Purcell Straczewski, a daughter, Annika Claire Sraczewski.


1903 at the age of 18 with a penchant for painting and great talent; fell in love with Yosemite and hiked its mountains with an easel on his back; and cre-ated dozens of subtly rendered Sierra landscapes widely admired in America and Japan. Obata went on to teach art at the University of California at Berkeley, but he and his family were sent to an internment camp for the Japanese during World War II. There he founded

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else’s work, I look to see what problem he’s solving. I think about how I’d approach solving it. How successful I am in putting them down and com-municating them to others is how I’m judged. “If 85 percent of your work is good

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an art school for his fellow prisoners, encouraging them to look to nature, as he did, for the strength to withstand the agony of their incarceration. You will find articles in this edition of Reveille about some of the ways people in the Aloha community explore, illuminate and portray nature. It’s a fundamental purpose and a central value of the Aloha camps to conserve our natural environments

for the education, enjoyment and nourishment of generations of camp-ers, friends, families and neighbors. Through this commitment we uphold the spirit of wilderness preservation embodied by the creators of America’s National Parks, and we inherit the sustenance nature offers in the best of times, as well as the most trying.

During the first week of August, counselors from Aloha, Hive and Lanakila descend on the Foundation office for the annual Phone-a-thon. In this photo, Laura Lee and Zoe Jacoby, counselors from Aloha, share an office and work as a team calling alumni. The Development Department is grateful for the energy and fun that the coun-selors bring to this effort on behalf of the Annual Fund.

UK ALUMNI REUNION WITH NANCY PENNELL Saturday April 24th 2010Edinburgh, Scotland Join us in Europe’s finest historic city for our now-traditional biennial Aloha/Lanakila/Hive counselor and alumni reunion! This year’s guest of honour will be Aloha Director Emerita, Nancy Pennell and her husband, Hugh! Make a weekend of it in Scotland’s capital, with sightseeing opportunities and culture abundant, not forgetting the chance to share dinner and happy camp memories with Brit-ish, Irish, European and, no doubt, many American camp friends! The event will take place in the brand new Bistro at Edinburgh Central Youth Hostel – a very modern venue! Contact Fraser Boyd in the UK on 01786 821387 or e-mail [email protected] to sign up. Keep up to date on the Foundation website and Facebook fan pages, too.

enough to sign, you’re doing well. I was fortunate enough in that respect that I could support my family, live where I wanted to live, and be a father to my children. Not a lot of people—let alone artists—get to do that. I wanted to raise my children, wanted to give them

something I couldn’t get sometimes, which was more time with my father. For that I’m very thankful to my father and my grandfather and my wife’s fam-ily, for their successes and sacrifices. But with their gifts goes responsibility. “Now I’m in the part of my life where my children, Parker and Lind-sey, are in good shape and taking care of themselves. My wife has her passions, and me, I’m really enjoying painting. Right now, I’d rather paint than fish. When I travel, I have a real passion to record the place. A fishing friend asked me, ‘How many hundreds of years are you planning to live in order to paint all this?’ And my answer was, ‘I don’t know, two or three…’” If you get to live your life the way Peter Corbin has, that could almost be enough.


Mystery Photos!Dick letts, l ’37-’41 writes, “After 70 plus years it takes some doing to identify faces but here goes. On page four, I BELIEVE the camper on the cover of Life standing on the Viking ship could be a former cabin mate of mine—Eddie Southworth. I still have a battered copy of that Life issue—inside, the photo of campers “working” on the railroad contains me in the background with my back to the camera and my cousin Roger standing to the right supervising the group. The photo above the Life cover COULD be a counselor named Hudson Winn instructing canoe paddling technique to some camper. I remember someone who looks like him that taught archery.”

Many responses to the Hive Grasshopper photo:Diana Murray McDonell wrote in, “I think that is my head sticking out of the truck in the Hive photo on page 23 of the recent edition of Reveille! I was at Hive in ’55, ’56 and ’57. As Marcia Hunkins suggests, that could be Nancy Linkroum Pennell next to Nan Denio — Nancy was a camper in my unit.”

Mary Kohring Highberger wrote to Nancy linkroum Pen-nell with the same identifications, “Reveille came yesterday. It was fun to read people’s guesses to the Mystery Photos. Isn’t that you in the back of the Grasshopper, second from the left? And Nan Denio next to you?”

Nancy replied, “Yes, ‘tis I!! I concur that Lynne Harwood is iden-tified, and of course it is Nan Denio, I loved that woman! And can still see and hear Jock telling the Brer Rabbit stories in the Hale with a fire in the background. The blond to my right – name on the tip of my tongue and the girl below her I am pretty sure is Lolly Blossom. Don’t know who is poking her head out. They all look familiar. What fun!!”

Sandy Steele Greenfield who has been enjoying the Mystery Photos wrote in to say she thought she might be one of the campers in the Grasshopper as well.

There are clearly lots of happy memories of trips in the Grasshopper!

Do you know some of the faces in this issue’s archival photos? Drop us a line at [email protected] to let us know.

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Capital Projects Need Your Help!

Every year there are capital projects at the camps, as well as projects of particular interest. These are improvements that have a lasting impact on the quality of our programs and on the camping experience in general. Some of these are funded through our annual operating budget, others are more in the “wouldn’t it be great, if we had the money…” category. Below are three capital projects at the residential camps where gift support will be most welcome.

Aloha Art Barn Renovation—$125,000Aloha’s Art Barn will undergo an extensive renovation in the fall of 2010. The aim of the renovation is to expand available program space by incorporating the unused hay loft on the second floor. A second floor will be added and studio area created over the first floor enameling area. Windows will be added in the three gable ends of the roof, and two dormers will be added. The building will be rewired, repairs com-pleted, and will receive a fresh coat of paint.

Aloha Hive Nature Exploration Program Headquarters—$20,000 Over the past two years the Hive has expanded its Nature Exploration program to incorporate use of the camp’s

forestland. A unique headquarters for the Nature Explora-tion program is planned in the form of three interconnected tree houses. These playful yet functional structures will be built with recycled natural materials including wood from trees removed on the recommendation of our forester from other locations on the Hive campus. Constructed to com-patibly occupy up-in-the-air space within the branches of living trees, the tree houses will serve as arboreal classrooms as well as shelters for overnights. Ten to fifteen feet above the ground, the three tent-platform size tree houses will be joined by rope bridges with wooden walkways.

lanakila Arts and Crafts Workshop Renovation—$10,000One of Lanakila’s most popular centers of activity, the Arts and Crafts Workshop, faces Lake Morey Road at the entrance to the camp, with a view to the lake. A recent renovation add-ed a wide covered porch to the front of the building, provid-ing a protected open-air space for campers’ creative work. In addition, the current façade and trim detailing of the work-shop will be replaced with materials consistent with neigh-boring historic structures in the rustic camp vernacular.

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