The year 1999 marked the eightteenth year the John M. White Youth Camp has hosted students throughout the world. The camp is nestled into a wooded area on the campus of Virginia Wesleyan College in Norfolk, Virginia, and is centrally located in the south Hampton Roads metropolitan area, which provides easy access to all activities. Students are housed in dormitories, two per room, in a manner ensuring different native languages. The majority of the meals are taken in the college cafeteria. Following orientation on the first day, students visited the oceanfront at Virginia Beach to enjoy an afternoon in the sun and surf.
Students experience hot weather during their camp stay.
Bathing suits and casual clothing are standard dress. On Wednesday morning students headed northwest by bus into the mountains, stopping near the small town of Luray, where they were provided with canoes for a trip down the Shenandoah River. The group continued north from Luray through the Shenandoah Valley to cabins in the District 24-A Northern Virginia Youth Camp near Winchester, Virginia. Next morning the students travelled to Washington, D.C. for a full day of sightseeing on tourmobile busses. That evening they attended a major league baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and Texas Rangers at Camden Yards in Baltimore, Maryland, acknowledged to be among the finest baseball parks in the major leagues.