I continue to be amazed at the continuity represented by what you'll see in this video. For anyone since 1976 who (as a program staffer, a director or a village chief) has attended the weekly VC/Program meeting, this video will speak for itself. After the round of announcements, the VCs scramble to negotiate the use of spaces, program staff, and other resources, sharing them (through a grid arrangement of the daily schedule) with all the other villages and programs such as Tokyo, Day Camp, etc. Watch and listen as VCs, who weren't born when this exact system was invented, talk with their colleagues, make reservations, confirm plans, and collaborate with each other to resolve scheduling conflicts - and then, ultimately, sketch out a beautiful weekly plan on one side of one copy-able page. What I find amazing, as I've said, is how absolutely the same this has been for 35 years. Below are two photos capturing the busy earnest scene, taken just a minute or two after the bugle was sounded (as it were) for the start of the sign-ups.
