| Summer Camp 2009 |
Camp Greenwood
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| Weeks of Camp: |
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| July 6-10: |
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| July 13-17: |
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| July 20-24: |
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| | Beach Day Rocks! | | The weather changed from hot and muggy and rainy to beautifully
sunny and warm and dry — we had the perfect summer day on Thursday.
Camp Greenwood campers changed (mostly) from their "work" attire to
their bathing suits, and lunchtime found them outside on the
playground involved in some serious summer fun. Through the efforts
of dedicated volunteers, they had 300 water balloons to toss around
(we didn't see even one caught successfully), and the Slip-N-Slide
attracted a line of campers that stretched half the length of our back
porch. After getting wet through and through, many of the campers
dried off (mostly) during the barefoot soccer game, while others
enjoyed their Froot Icees (courtesy of the industrial-grade — or at
least summer-camp-grade — ice crusher/blender that camp director
Rejena Girton brought in). As lunchtime came to a close, one could
follow campers returning to their classes by the damp footprints in
the halls.
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| Why a Camp at a Quaker School? | | Greenwood Friends School has run summer programs in the past, most
recently two years ago when some of the teachers did week-long
half-day classes in cooking and acting. Farther back in time,
Greenwood ran Super Summer Science, week-long full-day camps in
subjects such as our multi-media world (with field trips to area
newspaper, TV, and radio offices), clay and pottery (in which the
children dug their own clay from local sources), kitchen chemistry
(not only cooking, but a trip to a farm to milk a cow), and Pollywogs
and Pond Scum (self explanatory for anyone who wishes to think about
such things). Continued...
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| | Noodle Hockey Game Draws Spectator | | During lunch hour on Game Day at Camp Greenwood, the back porch
rang with the click of dice (as a Monopoly game got started — no one
has ever finished a Monopoly game in one lunch hour, right?) and the
click of chess pieces, while out on the blacktop a gaggle of campers
undeterred by drizzling rain took up the latest sports sensation:
Noodle Hockey. Played with standard-issue swimming pool noodles as sticks, a
tennis ball, and two overturned beach buckets as goal... Continued.
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| Drama Campers Will Perform | | On the last day of their week in Drama camp with Shelly Mato and
Audra dePrisco, campers will perform the scenes that they have
developed — and they will perform for you. At 11:45 on Friday
morning, and 3:45 Friday afternoon, each Drama group will take to the
stage, and they invite everyone to play a part of their audience. The
morning campers will present "Seeing Beyond" and the afternoon campers
will answer the age-old question "Who Stole the Farmer's Pig?" We
hope to see you there!
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| | Bringing Computer Art into the Light of Day | | For the first three days of Computer Art, afternoons at Camp
Greenwood, passersby in the lobby might look into the Tech Studio and
wonder: What have they got going in there? In order to see the large
projected image of one computer's screen on the wall, instructor Lee
Millard kept the lights off, and anyone looking in saw campers dimly
illuminated by the glow of their own screens. In Paint Shop Pro,
campers learned the basics of manipulating the program's tools, and on
Tuesday afternoon images started to appear, seeing the light of day
for the first time. By yesterday, the artists had progressed to using
the Dodge & Burn and Smudge tools, as well as the ever-popular Clone
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Portrait of the Artists
One might consider this week of Camp Greenwood something of a busman's
holiday for Painting and Drawing instructor Vince Hron, who spends his
usual work hours either in his own painting studio at home or teaching
painting and drawing at Bloomsburg University. A native of the
Midwest, Vince studied in Iowa, Michigan, and Germany, and he and his
wife, artist Cindi Harper Hron, have lived in this area since 1996.
In Cindi's Camp Greenwood position this week as Beading instructor,
she has also stayed very close to home: Cindi teaches art during the
school year at Greenwood Friends. She also has studio space at home,
where she works on sculpture and other installation pieces as well as
drawings. Cindi studied art in California, where she grew up, and an
artist-in-residence position brought her to Nebraska, where she and
Vince met. Cindi and Vince have exhibited throughout the United
States; one may see them occasionally on the highway with a pick-up
load of work en route to and from galleries. The couple's two sons
attend Greenwood Friends School.
| But Wait, There's More!
Down the hall in Drama, it seems that someone tried to convince
her campmates that the old telephone that appeared out of the Central
Casting prop box could perform a multitude of handy household tasks:
"It cooks, and it dusts, and it answers messages!" (Before you think
she had lost her marbles, remember that this camper did have
instructions from her teachers to try to sell the object.) Greeted
with understandable disbelief, and not a little laughter, the camper
went for broke, with the most important household chore she could
think of: "It will also clean your bathroom!" Sold!
| Crazy Hat Day a Rip-Roarin' Success
How many times have you gone out of the house and wished you had
something more exciting to wear on your head? Participants at Camp
Greenwood on Tuesday had no excuse to feel that way: They arrived
wearing miners' helmets, sombreros, and decorated headgear of all
shapes, sizes and descriptions. Some hats made noise, others sparkled
in the sun, and every one made the wearer stand a little taller and
walk a little prouder. Even the camper with a strainer on his head.
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