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 Meet the Camp Quinebarge Staff
 Our Quinebarge Staff ? Consistently Great! Young and Young-at-Hearts from 18 to 78 and from all over give diversity and experiences to share. This shot of part of last years staff on a hike up Mt. Rattlesnake illustrates our cabin counselors. From left to right- Matt from NY: camper, then CIT turned kitchen staff, Cabin Counselor this summer(?); Maryna from the Ukraine: kitchen staff; Will from MA: camper, then CIT, then Archery/Sports Counselor; Paul from Ohio: camper, CIT, Sports/Waterfront Counselor and all-round live wire; Lee from Great Britain: Horses and Waterfront and dependable good cheer- and back again for 2010! Rob from NY CIT extraordinaire!; Yusuf a future engineer from Great Britain: Ropes, Climbing Wall, Mtn.Bikes and Hikes- and back again in 2010!; Lauren from Ohio(front): camper, cabin counselor, Lifeguard, then Waterfront Safety Instructor and all-round leader, a teacher in the real world; Ellie from Great Britain (above) Waterfront, Arts & Crafts, Drama, and game for anything; Colton from NH: Outdoor Leadership/Trips-he's headed to Yellowstone this summer to fight fires! ; Demond from GA: Sports of all Sorts and maintenance; Hannah from Great Britain: vet student, expert horsewoman, tireless worker and all-round counselor…
For this summer we have a lot of great experienced staff…and some new ones too!
Oscar and Claudia are returning with their 2-year old, after last being on staff in 2007- Oscar will be in Ropes and Sports while Claudia will anchor Arts & Crafts; Liz Schwartzer is back to work the waterfront, Jerod McLachlan from FL. and Josh Cleveland from NH. are both campers turned
staff; Blaine and Joe are newbies for trips and all round camp activities; as are Abby to help with horses and her sister Emily to help in Arts & Crafts and Gymnastics…
The CIT Program for ages 16 & 17:
Quinebarge has always hoped our camp kids will continue on as staff after they age-out of being campers after 15… The CIT program is the gateway to being staff in late High School and through College. Nearly half our staff this summer are alums!
We look for those kids who are interested and engaged in camp activities. Who show that difficult to describe "camp spirit" :
- an interest in all things camp, activities and trips - a good upbeat outlook - wit and humor without meanness
- the willingness to chip in and help out, doing what needs to be done even when it seems to be "work!"
- concern for others, caring about and for and sharing with those who are younger - show respect for those who are older
- and are growing into the independence to handle things when they are "in charge"
… So only some of our 15 year olds will "graduate" into CIT's, and we'll seldom accept kids who've not been in camp with us in prior years as CIT's unless they have skills and show real potential as great future staff.
CIT's are still campers, with their parents paying half the regular tuition. They traditionally have been expected to stay all 7 weeks, but we will split this into 4 or 3 weeks. They actually work a bit- usually a couple of hours each day and will stay in a cabin of younger kids at night to help out in cabins. They assist counselors at activities and on trips. They may even work a little on maintenance and construction projects and trail repair. In return they earn a group night out each week and some extra perks to honor their maturity and helpfulness.
The Junior Staff ages 18 to 20: Cabin Counselors, Run Activities, Lead Games, Evening Activities
The Senior Staff ages 21 and up: Lead Activity Areas, Lead Out of Camp Trips, Drive Camp Vehicles
The Leadership: or Who's Running this Road-Show, anyway?
Director: Tom Hannaford arrived at Quinebarge in 1964 as a camper under Mr & Mrs B, glad to be away from home and feeling he'd rather read than play sports. Gradually he realized that Camp Q let you try anything as many times as you wanted to and he could actually be good at some things he'd been afraid to try… He stuck with Camp Q through 2 seasons each as Camper then CIT and was on Staff through his BS in Geology at Tufts University where his main interest was in the Tufts Mountain Club- the closest thing to Camp Q he ever found in the real world. His outdoor skills include ski-mountaineering and telemark skiing, camping, hiking, rock climbing, caving, canoeing and kayaking, archery & riflery, and an ability to teach. He has spent years in facilities management caring for commercial and apartment rental properties and runs an auto parts store for obsolete vehicles called Then & Now Automotive when he is not at Camp. He bought Camp Q in 1984, and finally felt he'd learned enough to Direct in 2009. Lucky for him five other folks at camp are equally or more qualified to keep him on his toes and advise him. So far so good!
 Assistant Director:
Cori Ditommaso
Cori raised two daughters in Girl Scouting, one all the way to Gold Award and her son in Boy Scouts up to Eagle. She has taken Scouting's Wood Badge Training- a widely recognized leadership training program. She started out as a camper at "BoulderBrook" then "Camp Winnetaska" in the 1970's and keeps us connected to that camp's noble goals. She brings a mom's caution and genuine caring, fairness and sportsmanship to camp, as well as outdoor skills and enthusiasm. Cori is a CIT in the top row of this mid-1970's Camp Winnetaska group photo
Facilities Director: Paul "Arnie" Wooten Arnie started with Camp Quinebarge in the late 1970's as a cabin counselor, then Trips Program Leader, and now Facilities Director. He's worked with 5 Directors, and has been director himself for 4 years. But all along he's been making sure everything in camp was safe and ready to use from the roads and trails to the Cabin roofs and stairs- he's our "Arnie-of-all-Trades". Campers praise him as "tough, but fair".
Directors Emerati: Tom & Barbara Brunelle ("Mr. & Mrs.B") from the Boy Scouts' Camp Clark in Plymouth MA in the late 1950's to Camp Quinebarge from 1963 to 1984 the Brunelles have amassed several lifetimes worth of camp directing and child rearing experience- their campers were like their own children, and their children and grandchildren have been campers then counselors and now their first great grandchild is at camp too. They are everyone's surrogate grandparents and run the Wood Shop and Nature Program and provide a deep well of decency, parenting knowledge and faith to us all.
Nurses: Maggie Lohman, RN. (Staff Week to Week 4) Jean Parady, RN. (Weeks 5-7) Maggie has been "vacationing" with us for many years from her duties as School Nurse in Franklin, NH and the Ski Patrol. Her daughter Kat and their puppy Abbie have both grown up in camp, as Maggie herself did at a camp in NY. She kept our hands clean and the flu at bay last summer. Jean is another well qualified NH School Nurse. Her kids Laura and Henry will camp with us.
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PHONE: 1-603-253-6029
FAX: 1-603-253-6027
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