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180 campers departed Pok-O-MacCready Saturday. Among them, five 16-year olds who have combined for 31 years of camp experience. It’s especially hard for them to say “good-bye”, but they are thankful for the experience and the memories.
Lex Artuso, Jack Kinney and Benn Singer:
This is our last year of being campers. In fact, these are our last minutes as a camper at “the greatest camp in the universe,” according to Erik Zimmerman.
As our last year as a camper comes to an end, we are filled with mixed feelings. Friends start to say good-bye, gather up email addresses and make plans for next summer in a new section. This year, we won’t be doing that. Camp Pok-O-Moonshine 2007 is our second year in ADV (Advanced Section) and our last as campers.
We will miss going to overnights at Indian Rock in Pioneer... We’ll never forget “Hammer of the Gods” and “Black Line” in Intermediate... We’ll always look back at S.H.L. in Senior. And, of course, these past two years in ADV have been the most fun summers.
The sadness of of never being able to be a camper again, the pride of having completed the Advanced Section; we now have the opportunity to move on to something else, something better, maybe even being a counselor.
We’re not sure what the future holds but we hope that it involves camp, and that future summers at Pok-O-MacCready are as great as our years as a camper.
The best is yet to come!
Meredith Carroll and Megan Rossini:
For the past seven summers, Camp MacCready has been our second home.
At camp, you meet your best friends who become our family; and as every camp year passes, that family grows larger.
Although it is our last summer as campers it does not mean we are leaving the Pok-O family. We soon hope to return as counselors.
It will be hard to adjust to the new lifestyle we are approaching, yet we are excited to give back to the camp that gave us so much. But we will miss the camp culture that we know so well.
Rev. War... Inidan Days... Free swim and section activities are just a few of the things we have enjoyed as campers. But while missing these things, we are still looking forward to becoming role models for the camp: teaching classes, and the responsibility and respect counselors receive.
Camp MacCready is now, and forever will be our home.
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