It's a New Camp Year

At the turn of the new year as everyone was freezing, digging out of snow piles, and celebrating the start of 2011, Campus Kids-NJ was preparing for our official beginning of the new camp year: our annual Leadership Team Winter Retreat.

Our camp leadership team is made up of those staff members with camp-wide responsibilities who take time throughout the year to prepare for an amazing camp summer. This year we met on January 7-9 in Madison at the CK-NJ office (and Tom's home) for three very full days of planning (and fun, of course).


I always consider this planning retreat the official beginning of our new summer because it's the first gathering of next summer's staff members. The LT will continue its work via online Internet forums (yay for technology), and gather together again in early June. Our 14 members came from near and far: Mississippi, Colorado, Oklahoma, Maryland, way Upstate New York, Pennsylvania, and of course New Jersey, and we were grateful to dodge the snowstorms that have so disrupted travel this winter.


I want to thank our wonderful team for their dedication and hard work. If you could have experienced the excitement of this group, you'd agree that Summer 2011 is going to be out of this world.

Tom

P.S. -- Here's Kim, Stu and Teri at our planning retreat.  We have lots more photos of that weekend on our website: http://www.campuskids.com/njblog/campuskidsnjblog2011_01.htm