52 Pizzas, 40 Pitchers of Soda and 210 Pairs of Skates

Those are some of the statistics from last Sunday's camp reunion. And it's one reason that the Ice Vault likes hosting our party. Another reason, they tell us, is that we are such a "nice group", which I most definitely agree with.


This was one of the most fun reunions for me. Even though we've been doing them for a long time, we came up with some improvements for organizing things, which Teri outlined in a little job chart for the staff. The new system worked out really well and ended up leaving me with practically nothing to do! So I got to skate a lot and even eat a couple of slices of pizza and just enjoy seeing everyone. The only problem was that it's too hard to talk to every one of the 300 people or so who came to the reunion. But I tried!


We announced the bunk group theme for 2011: Outer Space. Now it's time for all campers to think up cool bunk group names that fit the theme. We'll put up a response form on our CK-NJ home page tomorrow so you can start submitting your ideas.


We also announced that Josh I. was the camper winner of our t-shirt photo contest and Donald C. won for the staff. They will be getting their embroidered CK fleeces soon! Check out all the photo entries.


I'm sure you've seen them already, but if not here's the link to all of our reunion photos. Thanks to Stu and Paul for taking them. If YOU have any you would let us share on this website, we'll create a reunion photo gallery just for you!


It was a busy week as we stepped up the pace of counselor hiring, now that we've got our leadership team in place and the staff assistant interviews are over. We also attended the annual ACA dinner (which we will tell you about in another blog) and Jeremy represented CK today at a camp fair at Ethical Culture School in Manhattan. There's lots on the calendar for this coming week, including a visit from Katrina!


Talk to you soon.
Tom