The Role of Summer Camp

A camp has no rival as a place where children can spend a Summer filled with new adventure, new experiences, and new friends. What other place can make the claim of being purposefully designed to serve the many, varied physical and psychological needs of healthy children? While good fun and wholesome adventure must clearly be obtainable for all, it goes without saying that a modern camp is also obligated to inform and instruct children in many social and physical skills considered indispensable for the “adequate personality” and to help children successfully meet the many challenges of our society in this shrinking world.