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current associate directors 
(and lifelong campers) Jason 
Rosen and me, Jonathon 
Koenigsberg, carry Willoway’s 
non-competitive summer fun 
outlook to countless campers. 
Similarly, Willoway inspired 
Marni Katz to become a 
camp professional. A former 
Willoway camper, counselor, 
and program coordinator, Katz 
worked as a Chicago-area day 
camp director for 15 years. 
“When the world changed 
in 2020, we moved home. As 
a social worker, camp direc-
tor and mom, I knew that 
Willoway would be a happy 
place for my then first-grader,
” 
said Katz, who, with her hus-
band and children, moved to 
West Bloomfield at the start of 
the pandemic to be closer to 
family. 
 “Even during COVID, 
we knew we could count on 
Willoway to be safe and fun. 
It was time for the third gen-
eration of Katzes to find their 
love of camp at Willoway,
” she 
added.
There are also many 
first-generation campers who 
attend Willoway. Anna Singer 
of Birmingham sent her sons 
to Willoway for the first time 
in 2020 and again last summer. 
“We are grateful to Willoway 
for providing our children the 
most normal but safe camp 
experience possible last sum-
mer. The amount of outdoor 
activity and physical move-
ment provided at a day camp 

is unparalleled. Our kids have 
particularly benefitted from 
the swimming instruction and 
love the team games and spe-
cial days offered,
” Singer said. 
“Willoway has been in 
my heart for more than 40 
years,
” said Lesley Harding 
of Northville. “
As a camper, 
counselor and parent of kids 
who go to Willoway, there is 
no better place to learn and 
grow. 
“My camp memories are 
days filled with swimming, 
waterskiing, cooking, arts 
and crafts, overnights, ghost 
stories, campfires, hanging 
with friends and doing things 
I would never have had the 
opportunity to do without 
Willoway. 
“I’m proud that my kids 
(Myley and Huston Smith) are 
longtime Willoway campers 
and are excited to become 
counselors in the next year or 
two.
” 
Proud of her decision to 
send her eldest to Willoway, 
Marni Katz said, “Willoway 
isn’t just camp, it’s a fami-
ly. Willoway is a place that 
fosters independence, under-
stands that kids need a place 
to just be kids and will instill 
in you a love of camp that is 
unmatched.
” 

To learn more about Willoway, visit 

Willowaydaycamp.com. Jonathon 

Koenigsberg is associate director at 

Camp Willoway.

Harris Wolf of Bloomfield Hills 
and Jack Singer of Birmingham 
enjoy a day at Willoway.

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