2011 Photo Yearbook Published

This fall as we travel around to our camp slide show parties, we’ve got something cool to show you— our new yearbook of photos collected from last summer. It’s an awesome full-color, bound photo book showing some of our favorite shots from all three sessions. There are 112 pages and more than 200 camp photos in all! Hit that Fullscreen icon and enjoy!

Don’t forget to tell your friends about the book by hitting that share icon!

Awesome Camp Photo Book

Seen this yet? If you’ve come to one of our camp slide show parties, then you’ll recognize this cool book of photos collected from last summer. It’s a full-color, bound photo book showing some of our favorite shots from all three sessions. There are 132 pages and more than 200 camp photos in all! Hit that Fullscreen icon and enjoy!

P.S. Feel free to share the book with your friends on Facebook (by clicking the “share” icon)!

P.P.S. You can buy your own copy if you like, but it’s kind of expensive!

Thinking Back to Summer

As we finish up the year, we thought it would be fun to look back at some of the fun from summer 2008. It was a great camp season, and we’re excited and looking forward to the new camp year! How about you?

Traditional Camp Photo

Since Rockbrook is 87 years old (It was founded in 1921), you can imagine that its got loads of traditions… traditional activities, traditional songs, traditional ceremonies, and so much more. Well, it does! One the most meaningful ceremonies is pictured here in the photo: the final campfire of the session called the “spirit fire.” Since the very beginning of camp, it’s been a tradition held to close each camp session. The Spirit Fire represents “the spirit of Rockbrook” by bringing all the girls together and giving everyone a chance to think about their camp experience, the good friends they’ve made, and how much camp means to them. It’s really special and magical every time.

When the Rising Bell Rings

Here’s something from this summer’s “Photo Phun” activity where the girls at camp run around with digital cameras taking pictures.  In addition to learning about photography and how to use the cameras, they play loads of games… things like scavenger hunts, nature alphabet, and photo stories.  This is an example by Deborah P. (passed along by awesome counselor Eva) that illustrates one of the classic RBC songs, “When the Rising Bell Rings.”  It’s pretty funny, but you have to click on the image to see the larger version and read the words.  Way to go Deborah!

Traditional Summer Camp

Here’s a great old traditional photo of camp back in 1928. It’s hard to say exactly what’s going on, but it looks like a canoeing performance of some sort. Four girls to a canoe, synchronized paddle movements, it brings to mind dancing. You can see the stone Lake View Lodge in the background, and to the right, Vesper Rock. It’s so great seeing these old traditional summer camp photos!

Camp Carrier Pigeon 2007

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It’s on the way! …This year’s Carrier Pigeon, Rockbrook Camp’s summer “yearbook” has just been mailed out to all of our campers. It’s bigger and better than ever this year.

76 pages… 117 photos… 53 drawings… all the cabin photos from every session… 31 poems… and all sorts of other camper writings!

It’s so much fun to think back to all the fun from last summer— banquet, spirit fire, carnival, birthday night, granny bingo, rafting, the alpine tower, and on and on! We think you’re really going to enjoy looking through the whole thing.

So check your mail! It could come today!

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Photos of Summer Camp Friends

Here’s a set of photos taken one Sunday afternoon at camp. We were queuing up for our cabin photos and took these at the same time. They show our traditional uniforms (white shirt and shorts, plus a red tie) that we wear on Sundays and at other special events.