The CampLine Your Winter 2014 issue of The CampLine is attached on page 9. The CampLine, ACA’s legal, risk management, and legislative newsletter, became a digitalonly publication in 2009. In an effort to understand members’ interest in reading the important content of The CampLine in print once again, we have included it in this issue of Camping Magazine. Please complete the short survey at http://svy. mk/1bOz90U (or scan the QR code) and tell us whether you prefer to read The CampLine digitally or in print. This will help ACA understand and meet your needs with the future of this publication. Thank you for your time! Child Abuse Prevention April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month, and ACA has a number of critical resources for camps to help them recognize, prevent, and report child abuse. Topics covered include staff screening and training, policy establishment, awareness, and more. Read the seven top tips for camps and find expert advice at www.ACAcamps.org/child-health-safety/ child-abuse. Prepare today for your upcoming camp season. Association News Camping Magazine Camping Magazine welcomes Robin Galloway to the Editorial Advisory Committee. Galloway is a professor at the Oregon State University Extension Service, in Linn County, Oregon, with an extensive history in both camp and education. Galloway joins the committee as Rita Yerkes — principal at Yerkes Consulting, LLC, and former dean of the School of Experiential Leadership at George Williams College of Aurora Tell Us What You Think! Have something to say about an article in this issue? Comment about it online! Visit www.ACAcamps.org/ campmag/1403, click on the article you want, and then scroll to the bottom to leave a comment. (Make sure you’re logged in.) Why manage up to 40 separate bottles of sunscreen every day? We take the hassle out of applying sunscreen! • Broad Spectrum • Water Resistant up to 80 Minutes • Fragrance Free • Bulk Savings • Parental Consent Form Template GALLON LOTION QUART SPRAY 20+ years of supplying schools, childcare centers and camps! TM www.rmsunscreen.com ACA affiliate camps get 10% off any online Quart or Gallon purchase! Enter Code– ACA University — completes her second and final three-year term. Camping Magazine is grateful to Yerkes for six years of outstanding service to the magazine. The Editorial Advisory Committee is comprised of five volunteers committed to reviewing and improving the quality of articles in Camping Magazine. Standards Volunteers: We Couldn’t Do It without You! Many thanks to the 1,068 standards visitors who visited 828 camps this summer! Without their help, the ACA Standards Program would never function. If you are interested in this great professional development opportunity, please contact your local office. Visiting other camps is a great way to learn about ACA accreditation! Obituaries Annette W. Black Annette Black, once an executive director of ACA’s Pennsylvania field office and codirector of Pine Forest Camp, Lake Owego, and Camp Timber Tops, passed away on January 6, 2014. She was the wife of Marvin Black, cofounder of Camp Timber Tops and Lake Owego Camps, and was a cofounder of ACA’s Pioneers in Camping. Richard Frazier Richard Frazier, a member of the ACA, Northern California Local Council of Leaders, passed away in January 2014. Richard was once the director of Via West (formerly Camp Costanoan) in Cupertino, California. Sabrina Hirschfeld Sabrina Hirschfeld passed away on December 1, 2013, at the age of thirty-six. Hirschfeld was the family enrichment coordinator of the Lattof YMCA of Metro Chicago, where she had served for fifteen years, and a recent ACA, Illinois Honor Award recipient. Robert “Bob” Rick Robert Rick passed away January 16, 2014. Rick had a forty-one year career in YMCA camp programs, thirty-one of which he spent as a camp director. Rick was a standards visitor, a member of the National Standards Commission, and an Acorn Society member. CAMPING magazine • March/April 2014 7
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