| Below is a list of articles with the most recent ones listed first. |
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The Player, the Coach, and the Camp Director |
Topic: About Stanley |
| If the old warning is true, and that into each life a little Stanley Felsinger must fall, then Columbia’s Jack Rohan is going to ride out this existence in grand style. Rohan spent 13 years as the Columbia basketball coach, three of them in the “Golden Age” of Felsinger. When he walked away from t... |
| Published: Friday 19 February, 2010 |
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Summer Camp - Growth and Fun |
Topic: Camping Articles |
| “In an era when the default position is overprotection, over- indulgence and overscheduling … camp is a wildly potent antidote,” says Mogel. She broke her leg riding bareback at camp one summer but stayed and learned to fish. |
| Published: Friday 19 February, 2010 |
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Cash vs Camp |
Topic: Camping Articles |
| Summer camp might not be the first item on a family’s list of budget necessities during the economic slump. But many experts believe that camp is crucial for a child’s educational and social development, arguing that parents should think twice before cutting back. |
| Published: Friday 19 February, 2010 |
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I am a magician |
Topic: Letters / Stories |
| Peter Golden is an award-winning journalist and the author of 6 full-length works of non-fiction and fiction AND a Camp Monroe Alumni. |
| Published: Wednesday 27 January, 2010 |
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Profound Connections |
Topic: Ben's Blog |
| One of the many things Camp Monroe teaches us is how to stay connected. Isn’t it interesting that most camp people consider other camp people their best friends in the world? The summer at Monroe is amazingly intense in a way that encourages you to quickly form deep relationships. More importantly, ... |
| Published: Monday 21 December, 2009 |
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It's Time To Pack, Again |
Topic: Ben's Blog |
| Looking deeper, camp provides an interesting dichotomy; while spurring essential maturation, it allows you to revel in the joyful nonchalance of childhood. You don’t have to grow up too quick. You don’t have to give up valuable adolescent pleasures for some mirage of adulthood. |
| Published: Wednesday 17 June, 2009 |
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Reminds Me Of Camp |
Topic: Ben's Blog |
| I’m sure that everyone who has been to Camp Monroe has a unique, yet equally meaningful, list of things that are reminiscent of camp... There are few places that can make such visceral and long-lasting impressions on people; Camp Monroe is definitely one. |
| Published: Friday 22 May, 2009 |
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A Place You Can’t Just Leave |
Topic: Ben's Blog |
| That’s where the beauty of camp comes in. Camp Monroe is a place that you can’t just leave. Monroers are people that you can’t just forget. Though it’s impossible to stay in touch with everybody... that’s why people come back year after year: whether for entire summers, for visiting days and Stanley... |
| Published: Sunday 10 May, 2009 |
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Nettie Amdurer - The Last Hug Of Summer |
Topic: Letters / Stories |
| A camp grandmother’s job is to be, well, a grandmother. Every July, and this year was no different, she would brush away a tear from a homesick child’s cheek and say, just wait, everything was going to be all right. |
| Published: Thursday 07 May, 2009 |
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Summer Camp- One of Biggest Parenting Challenges |
Topic: Letters / Stories |
| One of the big opportunities of summer camp is for our children to learn a small degree of independence, to discover what they can and cannot do, what they really enjoy, and perhaps what they are less fond of. |
| Published: Wednesday 06 May, 2009 |
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Dear Stanley...
