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*Your phenomenal Blue & White Coordinators this year will be, JULIA SPATHIS and JULIA ZAZOVE with  talented SYDNEY SALIT assisting.

*Evening Programs will be directed by REBEKAH PINK, LAURA MEADOWS AND SAMANTHA SOLOWAY.  It can’t get much better than that!

*SYDNEY BERENS a professional tennis management student and player from Ferris State University will be heading up our tennis program this summer.  Anyone interested in additional lessons please contact the office.

 

Hey New Campers!

Just wanted to remind you to wear your blue “NEW CAMPER” t-shirts on the very first day you arrive—June 24th or July 19th!!  Whether you are taking the bus, being dropped off or coming by plane, please wear your blue shirt so our returning campers can introduce themselves and give you a warm AGAWAK welcome!  

Don’t worry—if you haven’t received your shirt yet, it will be at your house before you leave for camp!!

 

Welcome to the AGAWAK FAMILY!

We hope our new campers are ready to have the time of their lives this summer.  Get ready to go “FULL SPEED AHEAD”!!

Wrigley Bialkowski, Waunakee

Elly Abrams, Buffalo Grove

Eden Plotsky, Hawthorn Woods

Dallas Brodersen, Chicago

Kaitlyn Wetzel, St. Charles

Lily Bellowe, San Diego

Natalie O’Brien, La Grange

 

Keep those forms coming! All forms are due by May 1st.  

· If you are waiting on a physical, please send in ALL OTHER FORMS (including a copy of your insurance card) noting health history will follow.

· Cabin requests will NOT be honored after May 1st!

 

April Birthdays

Sophia Goldsmith 2

Tasha Netzky 2

Zoe Rosenstock 2

Alexandra Pielet 2

Lily Hammer 4

Kylie Keiser 4

Cindy Trejo 5

Kim Wasserburger 5

Karla DeLima 6

Hannah Keller 7

Cori Dyner 7

Camryn More 8

Hannah Margulis 9

Lily Emalfarb 9

Lilia Tenorio 10

Casey Schwab 11

Lindsey Fink 11

Abby Rudman 12

Morgan Gurtz 12

Amelia Horwitz 12

Morgan Paull 13

Katie Morgan 13

Kara Bunkers 13

Joanna Howson 15

Alexis Becker 19

Shayley Polikov 19

Emma Plattner 20

Emma Santiccioli 20

Lucy Winter 20

Allison Reed 21

Charlotte Winter 21

Macy Shutan 22

Emily Wilensky 22

Riley Sauer 23

Blair Morris 23

Josie Lowell 23

Caroline Routh 23

Monica Soto 23

Rebecca Klawans 24

Erin Henschel 24

Aliza Greenberg 24

Kiera Abramson 24

Charli DeGraff 26

Maya Rudman 26

Dylan Balber 26

Will Jeffery 26

Sloan Oblonsky 27

Mia Staub 28

Sabina W-Cully 28

Yvonne Dillard 30

 

Directors Corner

We are anxiously gearing up for another fun filled summer. The grounds have laid dormant since September but soon will be alive and flourishing. The physical preparation of getting camp ready for everyone's arrival is a major undertaking. I'm thankful last week we were able to get in two full days of raking before snow greeted us again. It's exciting as I watch camp transform back into our summer home.

Some of you may recall we had a significant wind storm which ripped through camp in September. It uprooted 42 major trees, wiped out several canoes and left behind a monumental mess. Our cleanup still continues. I always chuckle to myself when people ask me if I've been enjoying my free time in the "off-season". There isn't an “off-season”. It takes a full 10 months of diligent preparation to make our 2 month camp season a success. 

Parents and campers please remember your commitment to make sure that all electronics including cell phones remain at home. Campers, you won't have your electronics at camp but I promise you the connections you'll be making at camp will far surpass any electronic connections. Let's stage for success by following through on this simple camp rule.

Please remind yourselves to pack light. Shelves are small and cabins get overstuffed very quickly. In this situation, less is certainly more. Laundry goes out once a week and is returned folded within 24 hours. Pack for a week NOT a session. Packing light will help your cabin succeed during cabin inspection but more importantly a clutter free cabin will be a healthier cabin.

Like all of you, I'm counting down the days until we are assembled on the beach chanting Blue and White cheers. Every summer is different, no two are ever alike. Every summer presents new challenges as a camp director yet every summer is better than the summer before.  I'm not quite sure how that's possible but it is and I'm just as excited for everyone to arrive as I was my first summer in 1989.  Let our camping days soon begin.

Camp Hugs, 

Mary