Chicago area campers and staff spent their Sunday afternoon catching up with friends and bowling at Pinstripes in Northbrook. The crowd of more than 200 also included plenty of new and prospective campers, allowing them a chance to experience some North Star fun first-hand. Those who were at camp last […]
Happy Birthday to our January birthday boys and girls! Bully for you and don’t forget to thank the kitchen staff for your cake! January 1 – Ethan Schaefer January 2 – Jack Gruen January 3 – Ethan Lichty January 6 – Jamari Anthony January 11 – Palmer Levy January 11 […]
An excerpt from Angela Duckworth’s “Grit”: According to Stanford developmental psychologist Bill Damon, such a beyond-the-self orientation can and should be deliberately cultivated. Now in the fifth decade of his distinguished career, Bill studies how adolescents learn to lead lives that are personally gratifying and, at the same time, beneficial […]
Happy Birthday to our December birthday boys and girls! Bully for you and don’t forget to thank the kitchen staff for your cake! 12/2 Eli Goodman 12/2 Gaby Sanabria Torres 12/4 Ethan Rane 12/6 Jack Sorenson 12/7 Joshua Koutroubis 12/7 Asher Borstein 12/8 Dillon Conway 12/9 Zachary Schlacter 12/10 Noah […]
On this Thanksgiving, I want to share with you our traditional grace, a poem by Edwin Markham: There is a destiny that makes us brothers, None goes his way alone,All that we give into the lives of others,Comes back into our own. Come Thanksgiving each year, I find myself feeling […]
With autumn weather upon us, it would be easy to thing that things have been quiet at camp. While the lodge may be quiet and the grass is growing tall on the athletic fields, the work of camp never stops. There are lots of things that need to be done […]
Join Team North Star and help raise money to send kids to camp! 2016 Team North Star Members Andy Shlensky Max Goldberg Dan Lichtenstein Nathan Margrett Max Rosenfeld Oliver Rockman Zach Blumenfeld Chad Prater Dylan Jacobs James Freedman Cameron Beltzman Jaden Beltzman Adam Beltzman Rachel Beltzman Alyssa Shlensky Jami Shlensky […]
Last month I wrote to you about the North Star Settle Up Challenge, a gift matching campaign that invited our camp alumni to match donations made by our current staff from their camp paychecks at the end of the summer for the benefit of Camp for All Kids. I am […]
Vickie and I hope you are enjoying your summer. Even though there is always “plenty of camping left,” it’s hard to believe there is only one more week left of second session. It’s been an amazing summer at camp with some big new additions. We built the brand new Fieldhouse, […]
Now that we are a couple days into second session, it is time for an update on how the first few days are going. After the busses rolled into camp on Sunday, we immediately got underway with unpacking and then challenge games. challenge games are when cabins compete with each […]
Now that we are a couple days into second session, it is time for an update on how the first few days are going. After the busses rolled into camp on Sunday, we immediately got underway with unpacking and then challenge games. challenge games are when cabins compete with each […]
