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Is MGM FOR YOU?
1) My favorite thing to do in the summer is:
a) Go swimming and hang with my friends.
b) Play sports outside.
c) Learn new skills and create cool projects.
. d) Go to new and exciting places.
2) This best describes me:
3) My favorite thing to do in school is:
a) Social
b) Athletic
c) Creative
d) Adventurous
a) Recess
b) Gym
c) Science and/or arts and crafts
d) Go on a field trip
hOW TO SCORE:
Mostly A's: You are very friendly and love to have a good time. Our four-week
traditional camp on the JCC's 250-acre campus in West Bloomfield is perfect for you.
Swim, play sports, do arts and crafts, sing, go outside, fish and more in this all-
encompassing camp.
Mostly B's: You're great at sports and have a healthy competitive nature. Choose from
our one-week Maccabi Pro-Sports Camps. ranging from baseball to basketball to
fencing to rock climbing. With 15 camps to choose from. we know you'll have a blast.
Mostly C's: You have an amazing imagination and love to invent new things. Our one-
week lmagitivity camps will let you explore the topic of your choice. including science,
arts and crafts and performing arts.
Mostly D's: You are very energetic and love to see new places. Four-week travel
camps Will take you to new and exciting destinations as well as old favorites:
A little bit of everything: You are,curious by nature and hate to miss out on anything.
You love ordering the sampler platter when you go out to eat. Customize your summer
by mixing and matching camps to your heart's delight.
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Join the fun at Camp Akiva a Jewish Day Camp featuring:
experienced teachers & loving assistants
Outdoor Fun
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State of the Art Playground
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Sand .& Water Play
Sports
Painting
Arts and Crafts
Music
Science
Story time and more!
Offering programs for children 2% years of age and older
June thru July
Monday through Friday
10 am to 2 pm
girls," Betsy says. "It was
Two generations at
also interested in con-
also important to us that
Camp Blue Star in
necting with her southern
Julie have choices over her 1995: Verne, Jamie
heritage. She fell in love
activities and that she
and Ed Royal.
with Blue Star immedi-
could meet completely
ately." Jamie returned
new people."
summer after summer,
Betsy and Eric settled on Lake of
eventually becoming a counselor.
the Woods Camp in Decatur. When
"It was like the closing of a circle
son David, now 12, was ready for
to have Jamie go to Blue Star," Verne
camp, they enrolled him in LWC's
Royal says. "She went to services in
counterpart across the road,
the open air chapel where we went
Greenwoods Camp for Boys. The
to services. It was our dream that she
Appletons settled on the Decatur
would love it and she did. We reliv-
camps not only because they met
ed a wonderful part of our lives
their criteria but because she wanted
through her." Jamie, now a sopho-
her children meeting "kids with
more at Emory University in
diverse backgrounds."
Atlanta, shares an apartment with
another Blue Star camper.
At the other end of the spectrum,
Jewish Experience
the Subia family of Huntington
Jewish pride and the camp experi-
Woods opted for close-to-home
ence were high on the list of West
when it came to sending Sam, a
Bloomfield parents Verne and Ed
third-grader at Hillel Day School of
Royal. Southerners both, the couple Metropolitan Detroit, to sleep-away
met at Camp Blue Star in
camp. Sam attended Tamarack's five-
Hendersonville, N.C. Raised in a
day camp session last summer and
small town in South Carolina, Verne
according to mom Alice, "Loved it.
says that Blue Star was her main
He didn't like getting bitten by mos-
connection to Judaism.
quitoes, but that's camp. He even
"Blue Star was the spark that made said they had good food. Sam did it
me feel Jewish and love being
all — horseback riding, swimming,
Jewish," she remembers. "We were
mini golf.
one of two Jewish families where I
"We chose Tamarack because it is
grew up. We went to Sunday school
closer than some of the other camps
20 miles away. I never felt the con-
kids go to from here. If something
nection [in Sunday school] that Blue goes wrong, I want to be able to get
Star made for me."
there within two hours.
Daughter Jamie had heard about
"Eventually I'd like Sam to become
Blue Star not only from her parents
a counselor and really know the
but from aunts and uncles as well,
whole camp experience. I'd even like
most of whom also attended Blue
him to go camping and rough it and
Star. "It was the only place in her
have those kinds of skills one day."
mind to go," Verne recalls. "She was
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