Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-06-24
Y. N. c. A. RECREATION
FOR SUMMER
Miss Carol Baldwin of Syracuse,
N. Y, Engaged as Special
Workers m a | ! Educational
Camps Planned-Camp Hoche-
Iaga Opens Thursday, July 1

Miss Carol Baldwin of Syracuse. N T.,
teacher of physical education at William
Smith College, Geneva, y. Y, ana
graduate of the New Haven School of
Physical Education, has been secured by
the Vermont Y. w. c. A. council to serve
as special recreation secretary during
July and August. similar worker was
in this state last summer and her work
was so cordially received that provision
has been in the service plan of the Or
ganization to cooperate with communities
actively interested in recreation again
this summer
1t was announced some weeks ago that
Miss Baldwin's services might be had
for a few days in a community by send
ing a request to the Y. w. G. A. field
secretary, Miss Marion Gary of Rutland.
| Nearly 20 towns have asked for her;
some have made provision for super
vsed recreation already and wish the
| benefit of her advice; others had tho
| worker last year and know the value of
| her visit; still others are just beginning
| to think along this line and want to be
, started Alright. Miss Baldwin's first date
is at West Addison. where, at the re-
quest of the Addison county home demon
stration agent, she will have charge of
| the recreation at a community get-to-
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similar way at the Addison County Field
| Day. to be held in Middlebury in August
In Charlotte she will advise with two
young women from the University of Yer
mont who to have charge of a play
ground in their own town this summer.
| In Waterbury. as direct result OF inter-
| est in recreation aroused by the Y. w.
G. A. funds have been raised for a
local supervisor. and Miss Baldwin will
go there. Other towns on her list in
clude Dorset, Brandon, Whiting Eden
Mills, Georgia, East Burke. st. Johns
bury. Lunenburg, Norwich, Sherburne,
Johnson. North Craftsbury and STAFFORD.
Miss Baldwin also will visit the two
small educational camps which the
Y. w. C. A. is operating this summer.
One Of these. under the direction of
Miss Grace Brooks of st. Adams. at
St Adams Bay is known as Camp Worth
While and this is it's second season. These
camps are especially for girls of limited
means and environment; they are invit-
ed to the camps by the leaders who spend
much time in seeking out the girls to
whom 1t will mean most; charge is
made through a registration fee for each
girl which covers about one-fifth of her
camp expenses. The rest is offered her
as scholarship and is cared for by
the Y w. c. A. Practically all the girls
who were at st. Adams Bay last year
wish to come back. and some of them
will. with about one-half the camp new
girls. This camp will open July IL and
will have two groups of ten each for
two week periods. A second camp of this
same kind will he opened in a cottage
on Mallett's Bay. where a group of about
twenty such girls win be under the di.
rection of Mrs. D. G. Jones Of Water.
bury for two weeks in July. These edu-
cational camps are a distinct feature OF
the Y. w. c. A. service work in Yer
mont. and they accomplish much for girls
, who get very little contact with Other
: girls.
In the meantime, Camp Hochelaga. the
large State camp for girls. in preparing
,, TO receive it's first guests on Thursday
!. July l. Already. many girls from al
parts Of the State have registered. The
camp director Miss Julia b. Thomas Of
Z. New Haven. Conn, Mrs. e. A. Macon
Der camp mother. and the five counsel
lors Miss Anna McIntire Of NORTH
Adams. Mass, Miss Elzab beth White o.
3 Rutland, Miss Edith Hazelton of Barn
, et Miss Hildegarie Olson of Athol, Mass,
:. and Miss Emira Compton of Camden
:, n. J.. will be there several days in ad
J vance. making things ready. 1t has beer
Q necessary to appoint a new creation di
e rector. owing to tho illness of Miss Mar
r garet Darling. Miss Marion Mack o
! Brooklyn, N. Y, a trained leader for th
r kind of work. has been secured. Sh
s comes from one OF the Y. W. c. A. healtl
c Ccnters in New York city and has ha,
excellent exDerience