February started off with a Bang!
We had our most successful night ever for Reach
Out on Feb. 2nd and are just $8,000 shy of our goal. Thanks to
volunteers Andy Doyle, John Trump, Eric Henchey, Ruth
DeBay, Loretta Fleurs Goodwin, Steve Gordon, Charles
and Cathy Sorenson and Bobby Morgenstern who came out that
very cold night.
Special thanks to Bobby for hosting the phonathon at the Coldwell
Banker in Wellesley! The wonderful environs certainly made it
easier for all who participated.
Our final phonathon is on Monday, Feb. 7th at the Waltham
YMCA. The
friendly competition between campaign teams is tight and this evening may
well determine whether the Young Alums retain their bragging rights as the
most successful group.
The Victory Celebration will be held
on Wednesday, Feb. 9th from 6:30 to 9:30pm at the Charles
River YMCA and all our volunteers and their families are invited!!
Those who have been making pledge calls
from home, please bring your cards with you or get them in the mail. Those
cards could well make the difference.
If you have not been contacted by one of our campaigners, please consider
making a pledge. You can find all the relevant information here
to help make your decision.
In other news:
- Almost all the '99 LITs have gone through their interviews and will form
a solid core of the 2000 CITs. All returning applicants to become
Assistant Counselors are on deck.
- Next on the schedule is the first annual International
Staff Reunion in London! For those of you within travelling distance of England, we will be
staying at the Copthorne Tara Hotel in London from Friday, Feb. 11th
through Feb. 18th. We will be participating in the Camp America fair at
the Kensington Town Hall on Saturday and Sunday.
- Speaking of fairs, we just completed our third successful camp fair in successive weekends and the response has been quite gratifying. We are now
ahead of last year in terms of camper weeks and have yet to send out our
school distribution of brochures. If you know of anyone who would like to
host a slide show, please drop us a note so that we can put it on the schedule!
- Finally, we continue to get updates from campers and staff. Dave Fuente
is off to New Zealand and will return in time to join the North Woods
Tripping Staff 2000 and Andy Sherman is down in Aiken, SC at the WW
Long 4-H Leadership Center and will return in May to head the Forestry
Patrol. If you are a former camper or staff member and have not visited
the alumni page and/or sent in your update, please take a moment to do so!
David Goodwin
North Woods Director
"Buckle your seatbelts so we can start the camp van!"
