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Del-Mar-Va Council Camps Alumni Association
Del-Mar-Va Council is pleased to announce the formation of
the Del-Mar-Va Council Camps Alumni Association. The mission of the association
is “to identify people with a connection to our camping programs, to build on
their collective experiences in our camps, and to draw on that relationship to
further the goals and objectives of the outdoor program of the Del-Mar-Va
Council and the Boy Scouts of America”.
The first focus of this effort will be to develop a contact
database of prior camp staff members from both Henson and Rodney since their
respectivengs! Pat Press of Bear, Delaware, a former Rodney and Henson
staff member has agreed to assist with data collection for Rodney Scout
Reservation. Bill Sterling of Ocean City, Maryland has agreed to provide the
same effort for Henson Scout Reservation. The Camp Alumni section will occur
regularly in the Del-Mar-Va Scouter as the primary means of communication with
the association. If you are receiving this issue for the first time it may be
because you have been identified as having a connection with one of our camps.
If you would like to update your contact information OR be deleted from the list
please use the address above.
Join and Remember “The
Scout Camp on the Chesapeake”
From 1923 to present there have been thousands of campers
and hundreds of staff members that have been at Camp Rodney. At this time we are
inviting the staff of the past to return to revisit the camp and their fond
memories of summers past. Are you one of these people or do you know someone who
is?
Come to camp in mid July (date to be announced) meet old
friends, visit the camp and reconnect with good memories of your time spent at
Rodney. This event is just the start of the Alumni
Association. We are trying to build a database of people with a connection to
the camp to get them re-involved, whether it is in time spent at camp, stories
of the past events, history of the property, or just a renewed interest in the
camp and its well being.
We currently have one thousand and forty one names on the
list. If you are a past staff member, recent or far past, or know someone who
is, please e-mail that information to the address above.
Which Rodney Camp Director do you
Remember?
I've seen a snack vending machine that sells cigarettes. I've seen a snack Vending machines that sells hockey cards. I've also seen a snack vending machine that sell bus passes to access the local transit system.
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James Pyle
46-61 Tom Bowers
85
James Case 62 George
McDowell 86-92,94
Howard Christy 63-64 George
Fleckenstein 93
Ernie Wolf 69-70
Jim McGinn 95-96
Jack Lawson 76 John
Todd 98
Max Thomas 77-80 Mike
Prince 99-01
Bill Black 81-84
Dave Rahn 02-Present
Interested in being a part of the Rodney planning team?
Let us know when you contact the e-mail address above or write to Camp Rodney,
400 Rodney scout Rd., North East MD 21901. Current team members are; Don
Seybold, Pat Press, Dave Rahn, Charles Shirley.
Henson 40th Anniversary
Celebration
Henson Scout Reservation - Camp Nanticoke is planning to
celebrate 40 years of enriching kids lives. On July 21, 2005 we will have a
special evening of events which will include a camp wide retreat ceremony, a
family style dinner with a special multimedia slide presentation, and a time of
remembrance for past staff members who have died. The entire Del-Mar-Va Council
family is invited, including those in the Camp Alumni Association. If you have
any information regarding a former camp staff member from Henson please contact
us at the email address above.
Attention Scoutmasters!
If you have any troop records or current knowledge of your
scouts working at either camp please send their contact information to any of
the addresses above. If you are aware of a former staff member who has passed
away please also forward that name. Henson Scout Reservation is planning on
creating a former staff member memorial plaque to be unveiled as part of their
40th anniversary celebration on July 21, 2005.
Camp Alumni - Where Are
They Now?
Patrick Press
Pat is an alumnus of both council camps serving as an
Aquatics Instructor, Assistant Aquatics Director, Brownsea Director and
Scoutcraft Director at Rodney Scout Reservation from 1986 until 1991 and as the
Program Director at Henson Scout Reservation from 1992-1994. Pat attended
Salesianum High School. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from
the University of Delaware in 1993 and a Master of Science in Management
(concentration in Human Resources Management) from Wilmington College in 2004.
He has just been accepted into a doctoral program at George Washington
University which will commence in June 2005.
Pat is married since 2000 to his wife Rosie who is a day
care center director in Pike Creek, Delaware. They have beautiful two year old
twins, Abby and Zack. After his undergraduate work, Pat spent several years
working in the non-profit sector. In 1998 he began working at First USA Bank in
Wilmington, Delaware and has grown with the company as it has undergone two
mergers. He is currently a Vice President and Production Assurance Director at
JPMorgan Chase & Company.
Pat looks back at his years spent at camp, especially the
early years, and acknowledges them as being some of the most formative periods
in his life. He believes serving as a camp staff member contributed in large
part to the person he is today. He says that of his many roles on camp staff
nothing beat the thrill of teaching a scout to swim. When he thinks of all the
things of which he has to be proud of in life, he still remembers the names of
boys who came to camp as non-swimmers and left having passed their swimmers
test!
Pat has agreed to assist with data collection and the first
annual Rodney Scout Reservation Alumni Gathering this July. His contact
information is: 8 Eaton PL, Bear, DE 19701, home phone: , email:
patpress
Bill Sterling with
his three sons (l to r) Kevin, Travis, & Gene
Bill Sterling is an Eagle Scout and charter camper from the
1965 summer camp at was called at the time Nanticoke Scout Reservation. He
served on camp staff from 1966-1971. Bill is currently a United Methodist Pastor
at Atlantic United Methodist Church in Ocean City, Maryland. Bill earned a
Bachelor of Arts degree from Salisbury State College, a Masters in Divinity from
Wesley Seminary and an Masters in Clinical Psychology and Pastoral Care from
Loyola College in Baltimore, Maryland. He has been a United Methodist Pastor
since 1972. Bill also served as an Army Chaplain in the first Gulf War and was
deployed for seven months.
Bill is married to his wife Jackie Beth and is father to
two adult Eagle Scout sons Gene and Kevin. His third and youngest son Travis is
currently a Life Scout. Three of his sons are included
with him in the photo above. He and Jackie Beth also have a
son Steve and daughter-in-law Kerri, and daughter Tricia and son-in-law Ryan and
4 grandchildren who all live in Atlanta, Georgia.
Bill has served as a volunteer commissioner for the first
week of camp for each of the past several years. He was selected by the Council
Camping Committee to chair the 40th Anniversary Celebration at Henson
during the summer of 2005 and has agreed to be the point person for the data
collection of the Henson camp staff alumni for the past 40 years.
Bill and Jackie Beth live at
10039 Bonita DR, Ocean City, Maryland 21842, his home phone is and
his email address is
billydiner
The camp alumni work group can be
reached at
CampAlumni
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