Whith SUMMER (AMP 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. 21100 West 12 Mile Rd. Southfield, MI. 48076 248.386. 1625 FAX 248.386. 1632 jcc 12/13 2002 68 (24110432-5578 WWW.MLORG ACCREDiTED CAMP Attxtritan Cawing AssaCizrtiOn Join the fun at Camp Akiva a Jewish Day Camp featuring: experienced teachers & loving assistants Outdoor Fun 10 lir State of the Art Playground ,A 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 CAMP on page 70