The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-09-21
YOUTHFUL CAMPERS IN VERMONT
Survey of Boys and Girls Camps Shows
Enrolment of 4,79S.

f1nFOiIInent OF 4,sSS.
The state board of health has recently
completed an investigation of every boys
and girls camp in Vermont in order to de-
termine the sanitary conditions prevailing
at these camps. This work was done by
district and local health officers and prac-
tically every camp they inspected was
found to be in good shape. In the few
cases where defects in the sanitary ar
rangements did exist, suggestions for i'm
provement were made and these sugges-
tions have already been carried out or
soon will be- 1t is likely that regulations
will be drawn up by the state board of
health this fall to which all campers must
conform, and in order to determine what
these regulations will be, reports on pres
ent conditions have been filed at the Office
of the secretary.
The results of this survey are interest
ing from another standpoint also,-in
that they show the Importance of boys
and girls camps in the development of
the state There are 46 of these camps in
Vermont with a total enrolment of 4, 79S,
this number including / ,147 councillors and
helpers, 1903 girls and 1,6SS boys. When
one considers the number of parents and
friends that must visit these boys and
girls during the summer, a new reason is
given for the increase in the Vermont
states, as well as Cuba, Spain, Italy and
Canada, are represented by members of
these camps, some of whom came from
as far south as Florida and as far west
as California. These boys and girls who
come to the camps generally between the
ages of eight and IS, the younger ones re-
/ turing year after year. will in time grow
| to think of Vermont as their second home
and always have a soft spot in their hearts
for the Green mountain state.
The largest single camp in Vermont is
| Qulnnabeck, girls camp at Fairlee with
an enrolment of 275. The two Aloha
| camps, Aloha for older girls and Aloha
Hive for younger girls, also have a total
enrolment of 215. Fairlee and ThetfOrd
are districts which have been especially
| interested in the development of the sum-
mer camp idea, and there are now II
camps which bring 1,23S boys and girls
| into this locality. Eleven of these camps
are clustered about FarIee lakes-Aloha,
Aloha Hive, Big Pine, Billings, Lochern,
! NeshObe, Passumpsic, Quiennabeck
| Wyoda, Kia Ora and Wynona, Hanoum
and Campanoosuc are located in Thetford
and Ken Jockette and Kokosing at camps
| for Orange county.
The northern part of Lake Champlain
has its share of summer camps also. There
are two boys camps eagle Mountain and
Camp Milton) and two girls camps win
|
and at Mallets Bay shere are also two
boys camps (Champlain and Iroquois)
and two girls camps (Bernard and Wan
nahkee). There are three religious camps
| in the state located in Grand Isle county
| -Hochelaga, the Y. W. c. A. camp, at
! Grand Isle Abnaki, the Y. NJ. c. A camp
at North Hero; and st. Anne's. a camp
for boys conducted by the A1srist Broth
ers at Isle La Motto, Ramp Kill Rare at
st. Adams cares for 40 boys and Camp
| Worthwhile at Georgia for 81 girls Other
northern Vermont camps are the Bluebird
at East Berkshires. Songadeewin at West
more, Camp Cliff Haven for boys on Lake
Memphremagog, Camp WinneShewauka at
Luenburg Camp Winape in East Charles
ton and Camp Vermont in Grand Isle.
In the southern part of the state the
Green Mountain and Twin Lake camps at
| HubbardtOn have an enrolment of 30
| boys; keewadin and ZelenkO at Lake Dun
more in Salisbury have pa boys, and the
| Teela Wooket camps at ROxbury care for
| 100 girls. Other camps of southern Yer
mont include Avalon for girls at North
SALISBURY, the Macdonough and Marbury
camps at Ferrisburg, America and Arrow
head at Poultncy, and Wihakowi at
| Mortified.
There is still room in the state for more
of these boys and girls camps and plenty
| of ideal sites available What has been
| done in Fairlee can be equalled or ex-
ceeded in many other sections of Vermont.
as the establishment of boys or girls
camps in any locality means added bust
ness opportunities and a new interest in
the town.