Tradition: Camp Photos

Camp Gailor-Maxon has had a tradition of taking a giant camp picture for a long time. Camp started in the 1920's and the earliest picture we have of camp is from 1936. Dubose (our home for Camp Gailor-Maxon) collected all these photos and made a montage of them on the wall of one hallway. It is so neat to look back on our history (did you know that Camp Gailor-Maxon used to be at a state park but one year the water was contaminated and we couldn't come back? We moved to Dubose in the 1940s). There are some differences between then and now (particularly the clothing - kids dressed very nice for the photos back in the 30s-50s) but overall, camp is camp. Different kids, same mission. 


Here are some of the photos on the wall:


From the old days - 

 From the late 90's and early 2000s - 

Check out this 1998 picture - your very own camp director (that would be me...) is on the first row, 9th from the left. Back in the day.

And here is last year, with space waiting for this year's photos:

We assembled today for our weekly photo. Here we are in the process of getting ready - 

Each camper gets an 8X10 copy of the camp picture to treasure forever!