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Camper Vs. Wild

Camper vs. Wild Exposes Campers to the Outdoors

Camper vs. Wild is an adventure camp program that pushes campers outside their comfort zone and into the wild. This program teaches campers primitive survival skills and how to survive…
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Girl-Scout Program Adds Variety at Camp

Camp Ondessonk’s Girl-Scout program allows for Girl Scouts to experience Camp. This summer, the Scouts stayed in Brebeuf during Girls Week. “This program is different because the Girl Scouts have…
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Service Areas Running Camp From Behind the Scenes

The Camp Ondessonk Service Areas work behind the scenes to make summer camp run with ease. These areas include the Office/Trading Post, Health and Sanitation, Media, and the Kitchen. Staff…
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Archives Room in Transition!

By Judy Blase Woodruff Where can you find a letter dated February 25, 1959, to Mrs. Belle Brubaker of Robinson Illinois, thanking her for donating a parcel of land that…
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Celebrating 40 years of The Echo Our Father at Camp Ondessonk

By Pati Egan In the summer of 1982, the Girls’ Staff decided to try a new way to close the Friday Night Campfire.  From the 1960’s until 1982, the girls’…
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The Amazing Ruth Halterman & Her Office Machines

By Pati Egan How did she do it?  No computers, no copy machines, just an electric typewriter, a mimeograph machine, and carbon paper. Ruth Hayden Halterman was born and grew…
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