Hey, hey everyone. It’s Jeff, one of the few guys at Rockbrook. Here’s my Rockbrook story.

After graduating from Davidson and teaching high school for 3 years in Athens, GA (Athens Academy), I first came to Rockbrook in 1988 to be the hiking and climbing guide. At the time, I was just starting graduate school, so taking outdoor trips at camp was a nice way to earn some money for school, and as it turned out, a nice break between all those years in Boston and Chicago (nine in all… yikes!). I really enjoyed being at Rockbrook and came back just about every summer, though I took a couple of them off to do research in Nigeria.

One unusual thing about my RBC history is that I met my wife Sarah here. She too worked many summers at camp, and over the years we got to know each other. As those things sometimes go, and after dating (long distance!) for 4 years, we got married at Rockbrook in August, 1996. We had the ceremony in the upper hillside lodge, and the reception in the dining hall. It was great fun having our friends stay at camp.

Before becoming one of the RBC directors, I was a college professor who taught Anthropology and Comparative Religions courses. That’s what you’re supposed to do when you finish a Ph.D. I taught at Vanderbilt, Davidson and the University of South Carolina. So if you’re interested in that kind of stuff, we should talk!

Then in 2000 Sarah and I moved to Brevard to start the Castle Rock Institute at camp. Jerry Stone (the previous owner and director of camp) and I had an idea to create an outdoor education program for college students where they would come to camp for a semester, take four humanities courses, and go on tons of adventure trips… even to Australia and New Zealand. http://www.castle-rock.org

Sarah and I became the directors at Rockbrook in 2006, so this will be our 6th year in that role, even though we started working here back in the 80s!

I am also a lucky Dad for two girls: Eva (8) and Lily (4). If you haven’t met them, you will this summer! I put a couple of photos of them in my album. They are awesome fun kids, so I hope you enjoy getting to know them.

Every summer I look forward to camp starting up. It’s such a nice change from “ordinary life.” Being outside most of the time, staying really active, hanging out with super enthusiastic people (kids and staff!), all the special fun events—it’s really a great thing. It will be great to see you back at camp, and if you’re new this summer, I look forward to meeting you.

Hello everyone!

I can’t wait to meet you all. Sofie has been telling all of the rest of us in the office how fantastic you all are! We are going to have a blast this summer, and I can’t wait to get started.

Here’s a little more about me… I’m 27, and I grew up in Georgia and started at Rockbrook in 1993 as a Junior camper. I became addicted and haven’t ever left! Now, I am the Program Director. My favorite camp activities are any of the crafts, riflery and archery. I graduated from Georgia Tech… GO YELLOW JACKETS! I have a new love of running, as I just ran my first 10K. And I love living in Brevard. It’s a great town, and you will love being part of it this summer.

During the summer, you will see me doing all kinds of crazy camp things… dressing up in nutty attire, driving the camp bus, doing announcements, organizing special events, scheduling activities and the calendar, running around camp in a hurry, chatting with parents, etc… Feel free to come find me with any questions. I live in FBI, The Fanny Bell Inn, up behind the dining hall. Then, during the off-season, I travel around showing the camp movies to interested families, planning out the summer schedule, ordering supplies and camp gear, and assisting in getting our fun campers registered.

See you all very soon!

Hey folks!! My name is Emily Johnson and I’m going to be a “newbie” counselor this summer at Rockbrook!! It’s not my first rodeo, but first one of this category! I’ve loved the camps I’ve attended, but know this one will be the best in my life.

I’m currently making my way through my sophomore year at the University of South Carolina, where I am studying biology with an emphasis on pre-med. I absolutely love people, especially kids, and hope to fulfill my dream of becoming a pediatric neurosurgeon. I love reading, playing guitar, and being spontaneous. I’m not exactly used to being on stage, but that actually is one of the many things I’m looking forward to. I look forward to meeting EVERYONE and can’t wait to meet some new sisters

Random facts: I have been featured for about 3 seconds on MTV’s MADE. I’ve been playing guitar for about 12 years now, and will bring it along with me this summer so we can have some campfire music! I have been playing tennis off and on for about 8 years, although unfortunately I’ve been a little rusty lately. But, I hope to be helping out there. I will go wherever y’all think I’m best suited for

If this post is just so riveting and you’d like to contact me, feel free to. I’m on Facebook and you can find me in the South Carolina network Or, you can call/text me at 803-331-1203 or email me at johns455@email.sc.edu

Hello, ladies (and Jeff)!
My name is Jane and this will be my 7th summer at Rockbrook. I started as a middler and have now been a middler counselor for two years. (Middler ’til I die!)
I am from Sanibel, FL and am finishing up my sophomore year as a fine art photography major at the Corcoran College of Art + Design in Washington, D.C.. I am so thankful to be able to carry over my love for photography into my summers at Rockbrook as a teacher of Photo Fun. I hope to be a fashion photographer someday, but don’t let my passion for fashion fool you, my favorite camp attire includes camo craziness for counselor hunt and neither ice-cold Nantahala river water nor being attacked and subsequently covered in shaving cream can stifle my Rockbrook spirit!
I absolutely cannot wait to reunite with the old Rockbrook gals and am so excited to welcome new staff and campers, too!

Please feel free to add me on facebook or e-mail me at janehpierce@gmail.com.

I LOVE CAMP! See y’all soon!!!

Good MOOOORNING all you Rockbrook girls! At least… I think it’s morning there. I’ve been in Florence, Italy for the last four months, and I have yet to really get a grasp on this whole time change thing. I was just beginning to get it, when America had to go and switch to daylight savings time two weeks before everyone else in the world and I got all thrown off again. Is it 6 hours difference? Seven? Is it even April 9th there? Who can tell…
Anyways, my name is Grace Wallace and this will be my fifth summer at Rockbrook and my second as a counselor. I’m seriously SO excited about camp. My friends here are starting to get a liiiittle tired of hearing my camp stories over and over and over again, so it’ll be nice to be around people that actually care about my awesome Granny Bingo anecdotes again. I’ll be Middler line head this summer, so if any of you future Middler counselors (and anyone else as well, of course) have any questions about what to bring (every Halloween costume you have ever owned) or what to expect (awesomeness and ice cream), then please feel free to email me (egw820@gmail.com) or facebook me (I’m on the University of Michigan network).
Ok things about me: I go to the University of Michigan; I’m from Jackson, Mississippi (Fowlkes, I met someone from Oxford in Rome a few weeks ago and about cried I was so excited); I have been known to get so into “An Austrian Went Yodeling” during mealtimes that even my eleven year old campers have asked me to tone it down a bit; I will be teaching drama again this summer because freeze skits are my liiife; I have had, no lie, three dreams this year in which I was eating Illahee Swirl ice cream from Dolly’s; and I will be bringing the first Harry Potter book with me to camp, because too many of my campers last year had only ever seen the movies–a tragedy of epic proportions–and I see it as my civic duty to introduce them to the books.
Ok, that’s all I can think of, but please please please feel free to friend me on facebook (so I can feel cyber-popular), and I can’t wait to meet you all this summer!

Grace

Hey Everyone!!

I’m Brittney Holland and this is my first year at Rockbrook! I am beyond excited to get to spend the whole summer at camp, since the other camps I’ve worked have been just a few weeks. I am a freshman at UNC Chapel Hill studying English and Dramatic Art. I hope to be a costume designer, so I am ubber excited about all the dressing up that will be happening this summer!! I love all things artsy and can’t wait to teach the needlepoint class! I guess some random facts are that I am in Kappa Kappa Gamma, I love singing loudly and out of tune, and almost every story I tell begins with “This one time at camp…” I am totally looking forward to spending the summer with all of you and making great camp memories!! Feel free to look me up on Facebook or text me at 336-769-7469!

Brittney

PS-Mallory, we should totally meet up some time since we are at the same school!

Hey!
I’m SO excited to be coming to Rockbrook this summer! This will be my first summer as a camp counselor, and I just can’t wait. I am from Utah, about an hour south of Salt Lake City. Am I the only one all the way out here in the west? I lived in Virginia, near D.C., last year as a nanny, and I fell in love with the East Coast! I am a junior at Brigham Young University, and I am studying Family and Consumer Sciences Education. It’s a mouthful, but it’s a lot of fun!! Add me on facebook, or you are more than welcome to email me @ stephanielewis90@gmail.com. To all you seasoned counselors, send me your secret tips and tricks! So excited to meet all of you!!
Crazy facts about me!
- I have moved 26 times, and I’m only 20 years old! I love change, and I love to travel!!
- I love music! I have played the piano for 15 years and the guitar for 3 and I’ve sung ever since i can remember! I also love being in musicals!
- I love to sew! I took a clothing sewing class this last semester, and have become a little bit obsessed with revamping my wardrobe, and/or finding things at a thrift store and making them awesome!
- I LOVE eating at Panera Bread. It is probably one of the things I miss most about living in the east!! Thank heavens Costco sells their broccoli cheese soup!