This uniqueness is the combination of many things described throughout this booklet, most focusing on the individual and the general pro gram design. Brown Ledge girls are not bound by a rigid activity schedule. Participation, and timing of participation, in all activities is elective. Senior counselors are available in each activity to teach mornings, afternoons and sometimes evenings. Campers may therefore choose throughout each day what they will do, and having chosen are sure of receiving superior instruction.
Riding is an exception.
Those who wish to ride are given a scheduled class time so that efficient use of horses, and proper ability grouping of riders, may be accomplished. This system of activity choice has consistently proven itself and remains unchanged during 70 years of continuous operation at Brown Ledge. We believe that its success lies in its ability to effectively teach activity skills while developing a host of life-skills. Guidance of 'play-life' by experts in education is one of the most important factors in the development of personality. To this end is offered not just a chance to go in swimming, or to go riding, but an opportunity of learning under expert instruction HOW to swim, HOW to ride and HOW to acquire the various skills that add up to one's total personal ability.