Island Laker October 2020 - Island Lake Camp
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DEAR ISLAND LAKERS, OCTOBER As October sneaks up on us, this past summer is now a distant memory. It didn’t even feel much like summer since we didn’t get to spend it all together at Island Lake. With that said, we are happy to say goodbye to summer 2020 as we now look forward to summer 2021. We’ve already begun planning for next summer with camper enrollments and hiring staff. We are looking forward to having you join the ILC family and experience all that our camp has to offer - fun, new friendships, fun, exciting activities, fun, new adventures,… oh, and have we mentioned In this issue: FUN? That’s what we’re all about at Island Lake and we’ll do an extra super duper job of providing that to all of our campers next summer, Page 2: that’s for sure. We know that once summer comes around, our staff will be over the moon thrilled to meet you all and take wonderful care of ·Contact Us you to provide you with the BEST SUMMER EXPERIENCE EVER! We just have to get through this school year, as unique and challenging as it Page 3: may be for many of you. ·Important Information for Parents Meanwhile, up at camp the leaves are changing color and autumn is setting in, however many of our thoughts are still centered on our ILC Page 4: friendships and experiences of summers past. Yeah, we know that next summer seems too far away, but rest assured that it will be here before ·Help Wanted we know it. ·Winter Reunion We were hoping to host our thrilling, fun, exciting annual ILC camp Page 5: reunion in November at SportimeUSA but unfortunately, it doesn’t yet ·Staff Stuff seem safe or feasible to do so. If the situation changes for the better in ·ILC Blog the coming months, we will be open to discussing the possibility of hosting a reunion then. We are so sorry because the last thing we want to do is disappoint our loyal campers any further. However, we have to Page 6: be smart and diligent with regards to safety and health concerns, so for ·Important Dates now, we will have to put our camp reunion on hold. Page 7: Hey, if you have not yet registered for summer 2021 but are planning to ·FYI do so, please don't toss the enclosed registration form aside or place it in that pile of paperwork you never quite get to. You can still secure a spot for next summer by signing up now. All families who were enrolled for 2020 were automatically re-enrolled for 2021 unless you requested differently. For those families who had not yet enrolled for 2020 when Find us online the pandemic hit, you should receive a registration form with this newsletter. We also enclosed forms for those who chose to receive a Facebook.com/ refund on tuition. islandlakecamp We want to hear from you and know what you’re doing, who you’ve Twitter.com/ seen or spoken with from camp, and all of that fun stuff. We can share this info with your fellow Island Lakers in the islandlakecamp FYI section of the newsletter. Feel free to send us photos from your own camp get-togethers and Bar/ Instagram.com/ Bat Mitzvahs so we can post them. We look forward islandlakeca mpofficial to hearing from you throughout the winter months! Page 1
Contact Us: Even as everyone continues to work remotely, we can still be reached by using all of our typical off-season contact information: Island Lake Camp PO Box 228 Chappaqua, NY 10514 Phone: (914) 769-6060 Fax: (914) 769-6161 islandlake.com info@islandlake.com Page 2
Important Info For Parents For those of you who were enrolled for summer 2020, whatever rate you registered under will be honored for 2021. Any 2020 families who have a question about their rate for 2021 can contact us individually in our winter office (914-769-6060 or info@islandlake.com). For those of you who have not yet registered for 2021, there is an enrollment form included with this newsletter or you can enroll online by visiting islandlake.com/enroll. Our session dates and prices for next summer are as follows: 2021 Rates Session 1 - June 26 to July 24 (4 Weeks) $7,500 Session 2 - July 24 to Aug 14 (3 Weeks) $5,950 Full Summer - June 26 to Aug 14 (7 Weeks) $11,800 1st Year CIT – Full Summer $10,600 2nd Year CIT – Full Summer $10,300 If you have any questions, give us a call. We look forward to seeing you next year! OCTOBER BIRTHDAYS 1 2 3 4 5 6 Hannah Huddleston Aubrey Benmosche Lily Hufnagel Giavanna Entrekin Wojtek Klonecki Chad Loup Lindsey Ritchie Jonah Lonker Jaime Silla Calum McClelland Lily Stoltz Page 3
ATTENTION PARENTS: We are currently looking for doctors and nurses to HELP work at camp next summer. Doctors can work for as little as one week and nurses have the option of working for either one or both sessions. WANTED If any of our camp parents are doctors or nurses (or have friends who are) and are interested in spending part of their summer at camp with us, please contact Matt at matt@islandlake.com. ISLAND LAKE REUNION , we will most likely not be As we’ve previously mentioned n this year. We were having our annual winter reunio uld change and we would find hoping that circumstances wo way to pu ll it off , bu t it do esn ’t look like that will be the a We ar e sti ll discu ssi ng po ssi bilities, but at this point it case. le to hold any sort of looks unlikely that we will be ab reunion event this year. 7 8 9 10 11 12 Hayden Fruhling Duvan Garman Kiley Goldfarb Hudson Dean Anna Bellinson Layla Horner Henrietta James Jaden Gleiber Nicholas Michaels Camryn Heyman Elliot Kaner Luc Levene Rachel Singer Mason Sheridan Hawley Michelle Skidmore Isaac Simon Ryan Schwartz Jack Stoltz Page 4
Remember, if you ATTENTION ever misplace your Staff Stuff STAFF MEMBERS: newsletter you can Many of you have been always download a in touch with Dustin copy from our throughout the course of the summer website. regarding 2021. If you Just go to are planning to join us for 2021 (even if you islandlake.com/news were not originally and you can find all scheduled to be back in of the newsletters 2020) please contact Dustin (dustin@islandlake.com) from this season! and let him know that you are interested. Believe it or not, we already have a lot of staff signed up for next summer so it’s important to let us know if you would like us to hold a spot for you even if you can’t commit this early in the season. ILC BLOG Don’t forget to keep checking our Island Lake blog for new postings. Better yet, send us your B news, stories, photos, or anything else you have to share and we’ll post it in the blog! To find the blog, head over to islandlake.com and click on the yellow blog icon on the bottom left side of the home page. The same icon can also be found on most other pages throughout the site. 13 14 15 16 17 18 Tyler Moss Carly Harris Shannon Entrekin Hope Mercier William Coleman Myria Ftellecha Arianna Schiller Ryan Harris Ellis Krusch Anna Robson Killian Fynes Corie McHugh Imani Thomas Sasha Savel Alyssa Steinhart Dylan Sawransky Page 5
Important Dates Please mark your calendars for a few important dates during the upcoming summer… If you plan on staying overnight in the area for Open House, Visiting Day, or our Rookie Day, it is important that you make hotel reservations early. We have a complete list of hotels that can be found in the ‘Forms & Mailings’ section of our website. Some families book hotels for Visiting Day up to a year in advance, so it is a good idea to start making your plans early if you intend to make a reservation. Open House Visiting Day Rookie Day Saturday, June 12 Saturday, July 17 Saturday, July 31 All new campers and their Visiting Day will run from All future campers entering families will be invited to 9:30 am until 3:30 pm. We 2nd through 5th grades in camp for a day of tours, will provide a buffet lunch for September 2021 are invited games, meeting other first all visitors and there will be to spend a day with us. We timers, and a buffet performances and activities will have fun activities for all luncheon. The day will run running throughout the day. prospective campers and from 11 am until Should you prefer, you may siblings of current campers. approximately 3 pm. Any take your children out of There is no better way for family with a new camper camp for the day. No prior children to understand camp attending next summer notice is necessary for this life than to experience it for (even if they have a sibling visit, but we recommend that themselves. who has previously been to you start making your plans There is no charge for Rookie camp) will receive an RSVP early if you intend to stay Day, but we ask that you form in the spring time. overnight in the area. register your child in advance. Just give us a call! 19 20 21 22 23 24 Marion Karp Samantha Grossman Aisling Sullivan Olivia Maytin Hilary Katzman Bree Sullivan Evan Siegelheim Page 6
FYI Sammy & Max Silver along with Ellie, Anna & Liv Wojie, and Kayla, Ella & future camper Leah Cullinane all recently got together and sent in this picture! Pearl and Rose Marks met up with Isabelle and Imogen Leight in Acadia National Park and enjoyed a great socially distant hike! Riley Ostroff shared some pictures with us of a few of the friends she has been able to meet up with. Over the course of the summer she saw Alexa Weiss, Maddie Plansky, and Olivia Berlin. 25 26 27 28 29 30 Mollie Sherry Scott Zinman Conrad Seib-Levinson Heynes Brown Morgan Shapiro Elizabeth Hiller Daniel Timlin Joshua Tompkins 31 Codie Campbell LeonardoGallegosZuniga Alix Goldman Conor Kim Lucie Kristkova Page 7 Ulises Medina Ruiz
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