Camp parties!

Want to learn more about Camp Gailor Maxon? Want to show off CGM to your friends? Come to one of our camp parties! Co-directors Kathryn Jasper and Charles Houston Beaumont,III will be there, along with veteran campers and some of our summer staff!

Memphis area: February 27th at the Holt Family's house, hosted by the Holt Family and co-hosted by the Mathes family. 2-4pm, 5356 Glade View in East Memphis

Nashville area: March 6th from 2-4 at the Sarratt Family's house in Franklin, TN - 2701 Longwood Drive

Hope to see you there!

Welcome to the Camp Gailor Maxon blog!

Greetings from Camp Gailor Maxon! You've found our camp blog, where we journal our daily life at CGM. During the summer sessions, we post each day with pictures and stories from that day. If you scroll through the site, you will see a glimpse into the daily life of CGM. If you're new, you might want to start by reading about CGM here and then visiting our virtual tour here.  Our dates for Summer 2011 are posted to the right and if you want an e-mailed or snail mailed copy of our 2011 Camper Application as soon as it comes out (so you get the early bird discount!), sign up for our mailing list (also to the right). 

Camping Registration Season begins!

Happy New Year!! As of today, January 1st, our online registration system is up and running for all camps, Pre-Camp through Camp III. Go to http://duboseconf.or/applicationsandforms and register your camper. You pay a $250 deposit online through our secure server, then we send you a bill for the rest of your total, payable by the beginning of camp. We are very excited about the online registration, as we believe it will be easy for our camp families to register their campers online. 


Deadlines:
-Register by March 15th and receive our Early Bird Discount (-$25)
- Register by May 15th to avoid late fee ($75 for registrations after May 15th)


We are continuing the referral discount program again this year - $50 off the returning camper's fees for EACH new camper they refer!


We are looking forward to seeing you at Camp Gailor Maxon 2011


- Charles Houston and Kathryn

Camp Three: The End

Today brought the end of Camp Three and the end of Camp Gailor Maxon 2010. What a summer. Truly the "Best Year Ever." We saw a lot of changes and improvements, a lot of new faces, and a lot of fun. Saying goodbye today was very hard. 


Goodbye cabin

Goodbye friends

Goodbye bus

Goodbye Kitchen Lovelies, Goodbye Magic Bars, Goodbye Tie-Dye, Good Bye Country Roads, Goodbye Fiery Gizzard, Goodbye CAMPGAILORMAXON HOW DO WE FEEL, Goodbye golden dustpan, Goodbye yellow school bus, goodbye four square, goodbye bonfire, goodbye family groups, 
goodbye campers, 


goodbye staff.

Camp Three: Banquet, Eucharist, Carnival

Tonight was the final night of Camp Three. We had our banquet, Eucharist, and a Carnival. 

Banquet:

We had two camp birthdays this week, Grant on Tuesday and Natasha tomorrow. Here's Natasha with the cake the kitchen lovelies made her:

 The Eucharist:

 The Carnival:

 The loot:

 The DJ:

Camp Three: Skit Night/Coffee House

Thursday night is always our version of a talent show, Skit Night and Coffee House. Every cabin does a skit and then whoever wants to sign up to perform for Coffee House can do so as well. This year we had a lot of different acts from our camp three kids:

Cabin 6 Skit -  Mini Montana

 Cabin 2 Skit - Counselor Impressions

 Cabin 5 Skit - Class revolt against teacher

Coffee House Acts:
Gracie Singing

Ramzi and David singing

 Julia performing "Not So Magic Magic"

Rachel singing (with Cody on guitar)

 Lizzy and Jani singing

 Mia singing

 Bitsy juggling

 Caroline singing

 Evelyn and Hannah doing a skit

 Maggie singing

 

Camp Three: Sewanee Trip

We always take a trip into our neighbor town, Sewanee, to visit the University of the South campus. For Camp Three, we also included a picnic dinner. We got to Sewanee, went in the bookstore so the kids could get little things, and then sat out on the lawn for a picnic. Afterwards, we went into Sewanee's chapel, All Saints, for an Easter Vigil service. Wednesday of our chapel program was Holy Week and Thursday is Easter, so a condensed Easter Vigil was perfect for the Wednesday night service. 

After our service, we went to the War Memorial Cross at Sewanee that has a gorgeous overlook. We sang lots of songs!

A little explanation for above: at All Saints there is a seal in the entrance and you are not to step on it, so we make a big deal of it and put "guards" there.

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Renewing our Baptismal Covenant at the font in All Saints

Overlook at the Cross

 Most of the staff (missing: Jani, Lizzy, Charles Houston)

 Our awesome JCs for the week, Will, Nayla, Mary Blythe, and Winn.