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April 21, 1928 WINNETKA TALK 9 Summer Camps By Charles A. Kinney Editor's Note: This is the first of a series of four articles by Charles A, Kin- ney on boys' camps. As a camp director for the past six years, and as a teacher for nine years in three internationally recognized progressive schools, Winnetka, Francis W. Parker, and the Marietta Johnson school at Fairhope, Ala., Mr. Kinney has had an unusual opportunity for intimate study of the pre-adolescent boy. Choosing the Summer Camp Each year as the summer camp wins a wider recognition of its importance in the education of children a larger and larger number of parents are faced with the problem of selecting a camp for daughters and sons. With the tremendous increase in number and variety of camps the prob- lem becomes increasingly involved. At the present time there are more than three thousand organized summer camps in this country, wtih an as- tonishing diversity of aims, ideals, lo- cations. : There are riding camps, canoeing camps, camps for woodcraft, dancing, photography, manual training, tutor- ing, "touring" camps, not to mention athletic camps, sailing camps, co-ed camps; indeed there is hardly an end to the special purpose camps now in operation. Serve General Purpose Also there are many camps which emphasize no one activity above all others. It is this general purpose type of camp that constitutes the bulk of camps today. An interesting phenomenon which every camp director faces continually is the lack of discrimination which the large majority of parents exercise in the selection of a camp. The mother who says, "Yes, I am sending Bobby to Mr. Blank's camp this summer. 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Camps Suited to Ages The shy, high strung, overly sensi- tive lad, hesitant to express himself in a group, often carries within himself the very qualities most valuable to life--imagination, sensitiveness to beauty, devotion to ideals, a sense of the true meaning of companionship. Such a boy might easily be lost in a camp where the physically robust boy was considered the ideal camp type. 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