Sunday, July 22, 2007

tomorrow's the day my Hird's a-gonna come...

Kelly Zingone is the Director of Camp Henry Hird this summer ("the Hird" - as in "the [mighty] herd") and John Butler is the Assistant Hird Director. They make a wonderful team. After many years associated with girl scout camping, Kelly is in her second year at FV. She has great camp instincts, is unflappable, and is fantastic with the staff, who all admire her. John Butler, a recent graduate from Brown University, is an FV lifer, having started his time here as a young camper. He was my son's cabin counselor in Outpost in '03, was here only briefly in '05 and served ably as Hemlock VC in '06 before his promotion. Jeff Daly, himself a lifer (I believe his first summer here was in the late 80s), is the co-Director of Camping Services focusing on teen programs (in other words--the older campers plus CITs) and supervises Kelly and John. More on the Wawayanda team in another post.