Description: Camp Dudley The First Hundred Years by Tomas Hale et. al. Hardcover with dust jacket. 182 pages. Published in 1984. First Edition. Excellent condition; clean and tight. Westport on Lake Champlain boys camp. Camp Dudley’s history began in 1885, when, with backing from two YMCA associates, George Peck and Rudolph Leypoldt, a 30-year old volunteer named Sumner Francis Dudley started the Boys’ Camping Society or “B.C.S.” Dudley established, through personal example, the importance of committed leadership and the spiritual life. He also developed Dudley’s first daily program, based on swimming, boating, canoeing and hiking, as well as time for spiritual reflection. Boys were soon encouraged to bring their baseball gloves… and a summer camp was born. For his pioneering initiative, Dudley became known as the “Father of YMCA camping.”After bouncing around among various sites, Camp Dudley landed in 1908 in Westport, New York at its current site, and the process of building Camp Dudley as we know it today, began.
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Binding: Hardcover
Author: Hale
Topic: Historical
Subject: History
