Evening star., 1924-06-22
SUMMER CAMPS PUT
IN SHAPE FOR OPENING
GOODWILL to Have Pavilion for
Boys, With Swimming Pool
in Prospect.
TENTS NAMED FOR DONORS
Gifts Received From Groups as
Well as individuals.
TENTS NAMED FOR DONORS

Camp Good Will in Rock Creek Park
and Camp Pleasant at Blue Plains
camps of the summer outings committee
of the Associated Charities, are to open
next week, the former July ,, following
the opening of the latter July t.
Plans are being completed for put
ting the camps in first-claSs shape for
the influx of young visitors and their
mothers Or. and Mrs. William f. Men
CERT will be in charge at Camp Good
VIII and Mrs. Laura B. Glenn at Camp
Pleasant
The boys at Camp Good Will are to
have this year real pavilion of their
own. This will prove a welcome shelter.
particularly in bad weather. The Kiwanis
Club is having the interior of the baby
pavilion, erected by them last summer.
painted throughout. This pavilion also
serves as the headquarters of the dis
penSary at the camp. where the nurse
ana her assistants preside ready to de
tect the first signs of illness and to bind
up bruised toes and fingers or other
minor injuries not requiring the doc
tors attention.
Pool Will Re Popular.
Camp Pleasant, for the first time in
us history, is to have modern toilet
facilities, while the swimming pool
started last year is expected TO be one
OF the most popular features of the
camp. The Mems Club of Zion Baptist
Church IS now engaged in raising funds
10 pay the cost of the pool. The pro-
posed pool at Camp Good Will is still
on paper awaiting the completion of
the funds necessary The estimated cost
of the pool is $3.50. $500 of which is
already in hand. The money thus far
subscribed has come chiefly from the
realtors of the District
The summer outings committee re-
ceived last week from loyal friend of
Camp Good Will a contribution of
sl.5OO, with the request that $500 of the
sum be applied toward the $500 debt
occaSioned by the rebuilding of Camp
Good Will on its new site last year.
glfe to the camps from the Junior
Red Cross consists of fourteen beauti-
fully dressed rag dolls and two dozen
scrap books, which will be used for the
amusement of the younger children in
the baby shackS.
Tents Named for DOners.
Already eighteen tents have been
named during the past week by con-
tributors. each of whom has sent in $50.
the children of Cleveland Park aided
by their elders, have forwarded to the
committee proceeds of their annual
lawn fete fer the benefit of Camp Good
viii. amounting this year to $10l. Two
tents will be named Cleveland Park
in recognition of this gift
Other designations of the tents in
clude for Camp Good Will Miss Anna
Appel" Business Womens Council =
"W. J. Eek" Eileen Erwin H. V.
Hayden, Christian Heurich, In
Memory of Mrs. Tile Nounent Hurley"
The Juanita Nye Tent" philadelphia
Market Company, The Thomas Brad
ley Tent" st. Margaret's Sunday
School" 'Sa'ie Cecil and r, Cecil Al
len" "E,. q. Schafer & Co." sixteenth
Street Heights Club Washington
Lodge, No =, b. +. .. E.,kS.'' and for
Camp Pleasant Lincoln Temple.
John JOY Edison is chairman of the
.ommitter and Harry G.. Meem is treas
urer. Headquartt rs are at the Social
Service House. 1922 1lth street, where
all contributions should be sent, and
will be acknowledged.