THE TALL PINES PAGE
www.tallpinesdaycamp.com
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Volume 13 Issue 2 January 2007
In addition to the changes above,
Uncle Mike has improved the
drainage in front of the Pinecones
Locker Room & Playroom. Uncle Mike
has also rebuilt the entire
handicapped accessible ramp and
landing area located on the side of
the office.
Important Dates
Feb. 9
Open House 12—3 PM
Mar. 8
Open House 12—3 PM
April 12
Open House 12—3 PM
June 23 1st Day
July 4
No Camp
July 16
Visiting Day
July 21
2nd 4 weeks begins
Aug. 1
Junior Camp Show
Aug. 6
Grandparents Visiting Day
Aug. 15
Last Day
Thanks for
the Referrals
Congratulations and thanks to the
following families for referring new
campers to Tall Pines:
► The Billig Family for Dylan Kovler
& Isabella Postorivo
Each family that refers a new
camper receives $200 off their
tuition or $100 if more than one
family makes the same referral.
In 2007 the number of referrals
doubled from 2006. Please
continue to send in those referrals
via e-mail or phone. It is a great way
to save money on your tuition.
Phone: (856) 262262-3900
New Club
Program
What’s New
Each summer campers look forward
to seeing what is new. This year we
have read our camper, parent and
staff surveys and decided to improve
our program and facility yet again.
All summer long we watched
campers throw tennis balls against
many of the buildings with solid
walls. Lo and behold they were
playing wall ball and only managed
to break one window last summer.
We are now adding a Wall Ball to our
All Purpose Surface next to the
tennis courts. Wall Ball has turned
into a great early morning and after
lunch period activity. It will also be
used as a new Superclub and Club
activity.
When it comes to the program we will
be overhauling the Club System where
campers are permitted to choose their
activities. The new system allows
campers to choose a new club every
day without getting locked into a club
for four consecutive weeks. Similar to
the way we currently choose
Superclubs in Senior Camp, campers
lineup in the Assembly Area and,
when called upon, choose their clubs.
Campers rotate to determine who
gets to choose their clubs first. Staff
will escort campers to and from clubs
each day.
We will no longer need to spend time
putting clubs into the computer,
sorting them out and having campers
change their club each day. The
process allows campers to choose a
different club each day. Instead of
having four choices during a fourweek period, campers will now have
Fishing continues to be more popular eight choices per week.
each year. One season we had 80
campers try to sign up for the
boating and fishing club! To try to
accommodate this overwhelming
demand we will be adding a new,
“fishing only” dock.
dock Uncle Mike
Spano, our Facility Director, will also The 2007 Yearbook has been sent
cover the new dock and the existing
to the printer. Hopefully, it will be
dock to provide more shade.
completed by mid-February.
Yearbook
Update
Tall Pines Adds
Retreats &
Teambuilding
Tall Pines is now hosting day and overnight
retreats for athletic teams, middle school, high
school and college peer leadership groups, staff
training, student led organizations, religious
groups and corporate teambuilding.
We recently entered into
a strategic alliance with
Optimal Performance
Associates (OPA),
(OPA) a
leading team training
and development
company. The
partnership allows for a
large variety of
workshops, seminars
and retreats that
accommodate overnight
programs and outdoor
meetings, athletic events and catering by
Anthony Michael’s Catering. For more
information about the programs and services
provided by OPA, please visit their web site at
www.opawinningteams.com.
If your school, athletic team, youth group or
company needs to conduct staff training or
bond together then Tall Pines is the place for
you. Our clean and modern facilities are sure to
make your group’s stay comfortable. Please
call (856) 262-3900 to discuss your group’s
next retreat or staff training. Please ask for
Uncle Andrew or Aunt Barb.
Food Allergy
Support Group
Dr. Richard Wachs, father of camper Hayden, is
leading a South Jersey Food Allergy Support Group
called Food Allerg y Connections. Their next meeting
is scheduled for Wed., Feb. 6th from 7:30-8:30 PM
at the Garden State Allergy and Asthma Center
located on 200B Route 73, Suite 3, Voorhees, NJ.
All are welcome to come exchange information and
ideas. To register or for more info e-mail:
[email protected] or call (856) 7538989.
Look Who’s Coming to
Tall Pines in 2008
The following campers
registered for camp this
summer between
October 15th and
January 10th. If your
child’s name is mi ssing
from the list please call
our office immediately.
Emily Altman
Madelyn Altman
Livia Barkow
Marlee Beder
Jake Bernstein
Daq Cole
Anjali Dominique
Mya Dominique
CJ Durkow
Emily Fendrick
Marly Gates
Rachel Gates
Evan Gibson
Harry Goldstein
Molly Goldstein
Hannah Hauptman
Caitlin Hill
Thomas Hill III
Dylan Kovler
Hope Lapinson
Joseph Lapinson
Jacob Lippincott
Hannah Manzo
Jamie Manzo
Samantha Markoff
Eva Matusow
Max Matusow
Zachary McGrory
Zoe McGrory
Jenna McIver
Kyle McIver
Jordan Pinette
Shelby Pinette
Jaclyn Platt
Jacob Platt
Isabella Postorivo
Jonathan Rich
Alyssa Rosenberg
Zachary Rosenberg
Elizabeth Schmidt
Jacob Schmidt
Sam Serata
Billy Spitzer
Anthony Stella
Dominic Stella
Maia Venuti
Max Venuti
Carlie Wiseman
Chase Wiseman
Evan Zelig
Daniel Zurichin
Staff Members Sign on
for 2008 Season
The following staff
members have returned
their contracts for this
summer. This list is
complete as of January
10th.
Karl Allar
Jacquelyn Altman
Kyle Anerousis
Gary Bada
Allison Balchiunas
Dawn Barford
Kevin Bargeron
Joshua Barnas
Ryan Bartel
Julie Barton
Kristen Baxter
Mindy Beder
Rachel Belville
Michael Benko
Christopher Bennett
Max Berk
Lillianne Bershaw
Katie Bojanowski
Grant Bolopue
Jerrold Bralow
Sarah Brannan
Rebecca Brooks
Jonathan Brown
Justin Brown
Joan Bucci
Joe Canino
Allison Caren
John Casey
Patricia Cassady
Dana Castagna
Paula Cattell
Nicole Colamarino
Lori Colanzi
Ariel Comer
Brandon Comer
Ann Connelly
Amanda Cox
Greg D’Amico
Kasey Daly
Deborah DePhillipo
Scott DeVries
John Deitelbaum
Dennis Dellaquilla
Barbara Demain
Jordan Demain
Tim Dempster
Deena DiBacco
Joni DiEmma
Elise Dicht
Amy Dichter
Bridget Dobbins
Ophilla Dominique
Scott Donocoff
Edward Douglas
Karrie Douglas
Steven Drourr
Susanna Drourr
Bruce DuBoff
Caitlin Dunbar
Victoria Dziuba
Joshua Elkan
Deborah First
Michael Flynn
Samantha Folkman
Steven Freed
Kaitlyn Freeman
Shawna Freeman
Ayrel Funderburk
Jeremy Gardner
Gerald Garmony
Susan Gates
William Geiger
Danielle Genovese
Melissa Gerhardt
Lisa Gershenfeld
Jamie Giglio
Susan Giglio
Noelle Giorgi
Geoffrey Gollihur
Allison Gollin
Marcy Gooberman
Cristina Gray
Gwen C. Green
Kadesha Green
Brittany Gresh
Kevin Gross
Lisa Halbruner
Your E-Mail Address is Required
No, you weren’t sleeping while the legislature passed a new state law. We are simply asking that we have your email and your spouse’s e-mail, if applicable, in our computer system. We are radically changing the way we
communicate with our camp families and we need your assistance. If we do not have your e-mail you need to
send it in as soon as possible. If you get a phone call from Aunt Lisa asking for it please e-mail her with all of the
possible places to which we can e-mail you. Otherwise you risk missing important information.
Gone are the days of printing and mailing large packets of information to our parent body. We are attempting to
e-mail everything to you to try and be a little friendlier to the environment. In addition to e-mailing important
documents to you we will post many of the items on our web site.
Some of you may have already received your Confirmation form and Invoice in November. We will continue to email your updated invoices until your balance has been paid in full. Horseback Riding and Shore Shuttle
Registration Forms will also be e-mailed to you. In April we will e-mail the Parent Handbook and the Health Form.
In June we will mail the most important information of all, the Camp Menu, Camp Calendar, Bunk Schedule,
Horseback Riding Lesson Schedule, Swim Groups, and the name and phone number of your children’s
counselors and drivers. When camp is in session we will be e-mailing a daily update. We will stop sending home
thousands of pieces of paper in our vehicles in an effort to keep you informed. This is one of our efforts to try and
satisfy the quest for information as determined from our Parents Surveys. If you miss a day or week of camp you
will always know what is going on in camp. How many times have you caught yourself saying, “I didn’t know…”?
If you have not sent us your e-mail address please do so ASAP. E-mail addresses can be called in to (856) 2623900 or by clicking on the link: [email protected].
More Staff for 2008 Season
Lynn Handley
Ed Harder Jr.
Maureen Hartman
Suzanne Hartman
Aaron Hauptman
Elaine Hawthorne
Rebecca Heier
Laura Hill
Burton Holcomb
Abby House
Hillary Inver
Karen Jacobs
Gregory Johnston
Danielle Jones
Jake Kauffman
Joseph Kearney
Joseph Keough
Julia Kinzey
Amanda Klein
Ian Koernig
Samantha Kofsky
Jason Kondas
Sharon Kondas
Tami Krupn ick
Tiff Kupersch midt
Daniel Kurtz
Jason Lan ing
Wanda Lee
Carol Levin
Sara Levine
Gayle Levinthal
Emily Maguire
Douglas Mann
Andrea Manzo
Julia Marchese
Sidney Maycock
Danielle McFarland
Graham McFarland
Jamie McGu ckin
Alec McIver
Lyndsay McIver
Alice Meeks
Janet Meeks
Kevin Meeks
Alyssa Meri cle
Ashlee Mericle
Stacie Mi les
Micah Milner
Samantha Mo ck
Janet Monitzer
Carla Moore
Kathleen Moore
Sarah Moore
Paul Neal
Christopher Noce
Nicholas Noce
Laurel Nocella
Iredia Olaye
Eric Oleson
Nina Orwitz
Marielle Pezzano
Jessica Pezzato
Ilyse Pinette
Danielle Pollock
Daniel Poussart
Dan Ragone
Morris Ravert
Kathryn Reed
Kathleen Reilly
Sharon Rigilano
Michelle Rodio
Aileen Rosenberg
Maria Rossi
Carly Rothenberg
Lauren Ruediger
Joanne Sch midt
Desiree Schwartz
Julia Schwartz
Jeremy Sharp s
Patricia Silpe
Patricia Si mmon s
Samantha Si mon
Matthew Slater
Jason Smith
Mallory Smith
Morgan SmithWashin gtn
Jenna Snyder
Amanda Soslow
Kirsten Souder
Michael Spano
Barbara Spevak
Carolyn Stella
Kimberly Stockman
Linda Stock man
Diedra Stone-McGrory
Allie Swartz
Emily Swayngi m
Amanda Sylvester
Paul Theisen
Zaven Torres
Connie Townsend
Jaimie Traenkner
Janet Trielo
Jake Tuff
Gianna Valentino
Anthony VanDerVort
Matthew VanLiew
Theresa Vennell
Kerri Venuti
Jillian Warin g
Zachary Weinberg
Jennifer Weller
Betty Wisk
Barbara Wolf
Abby Wolfe
Ingrid Wolfe
Alysia Wri ght
Kristen Wri ght
Nichole Wr ight
Matthew Yates
Adam Yichye
Joshua Yichye
June Zelig
Verna Zimmer man
Show Your
Tall Pines
Pride and
Earn $$$
Our spotters are out on the street
looking for your Tall Pines magnet.
If one of our secret spotters sees
the Tall Pines magnet on your
vehicle you could win up to $25.00
off of your camp tuition. In midFebruary we will e-mail our parents
with three license plate numbers.
If one of those license plate
numbers is yours and you are one
of the first three people to e-mail
us back then you will win. The
contest will be run in February,
March and April so get those
magnets on your car, dog, bicycle
or other mode of transportation
and tell your neighbors and friends
that you send your kids to the best
day camp in the Delaware Valley!
CITs Register to go to Baltimore/VA & Disney
This year’s 7th and 8th graders who enroll in the Teens-On-Wheels Program will have an
opportunity to travel to Baltimore and Virginia. Highlights of the week 3 (July 7-10) trip
include: Baltimore Inner Harbor, National Aquarium, Duck Tour, Six Flags America near
Wash., DC, Fun tours of Wash., DC, Busch Gardens and
Baseball Game (Orioles, Nationals or Minor League game depending upon schedule.)
The following CITs will be going to Baltimore/VA:
Erin Andreson, Daralyn Belote, Casey Rose Bernotavicius, John Collini, Anthony Curran,
Eric Falkenberg, Michael Gonzalves, Kyle Lockman, Frankie Malamut, Danielle Pouleres,
Rebecca Shannon, Jamie Silpe, Brandon Waddingham, and Jon Woloszyn.
Our 8th grade CITs can’t wait to get to Disney during week 6 (July 27-Aug 1). Highlights of the trip include: Magic
Kingdom, Epcot, Animal Kingdom, MGM Studios, Disney Quest, Blizzard Beach, and participation in Disney’s
behind the scenes “YES” Program. To date, the following CITs will be going to Disney: John Collini, Kyle Lockman
and Adam Rubinovitz. For more details and registration forms please call the camp office or visit our web site.
Did You
Know...
Tall Pines is a peanut aware
facility! Although it is impossible to
facility
eliminate peanut butter from
existence at camp we are striving
to ensure that we are as close too
peanut-free as possible. We have
replaced peanut butter with soy
nut butter. We also request that
no food containing peanuts be
sent on any of our vehicles.
Each day our Food Services
Director, Paula Cattell, scans
ingredient labels and posts any
type of allergy warning for the staff
and campers to see. This year our
Cooking program will be following
the same format.
Open House
Please alert your friends that our
next Open House will be on Sat.,
Feb. 9th from 12—
12—3 PM . Please
RSVP by calling our office at (856)
262- 3900 or e-mailing us at
[email protected].
Please dress appropriately for the
weather as part of the tour is
outside.
More Tall Pines Babies
We are lucky to have so many new babies born to our staff members. Uncle
Geoff & Amy Gollihur had triplets this fall. Babies Brianna, Carter and Emily
will be starting their own bunk in 2010. The triplets are pictured (left) with
big brother Drew. Uncle Tim Dempster’s new daughter, Marianna Grace
(bottom right), who was born this fall, will join the Gollihurs. Aunt Amanda
Spano & Uncle Amadeo Cosentino’s new son, Zion (top right) was born just
after the New Year. The birth of “Baby Z” makes Uncle Mike Spano, our
Facility Director, a grandfather. Thanks to all of the parents who sent in
diapers for the Gollihur family. We collected over 5000 diapers for a staff
member who has been with us since the day we opened twelve years ago.
By Uncle Geoff’s calculations the triplets should go through all the diapers
in about 3 days. Just kidding! He said they would last a little longer than
that. Congratulations to all!