“When we slow down, stop the busywork, and take in beautiful natural surroundings, not only do we feel restored, but our mental performance improves too.” -Florence Richards, National Geographic. “This is your Brain on Nature.” The setting at camp is fantastic. Located on a chain of lakes in the Northwoods […]
“Children love to learn, but they get tired of being taught by adults. Children want to learn from older children, and, at a camp that means older campers, C.I.T.’s (counselors in training) and camp counselors. They want to live with them, emulate them, absorb them. In our age-segregated society, camp […]
2/1 – Jack Ballen 2/4 – Jonny Faust 2/5 – Kai Rubenstein 2/6 – A.J. Borsand 2/6 – Tarron Stewart 2/7 – Ethan Garnes 2/7 – Grant Perlberg 2/9 – Benjamin Kite 2/9 – Aaron Black 2/11 – Ryan Gershowitz 2/11 – Spencer Malkin 2/12 – Charlie Matyas 2/12 – […]
Happy Birthday to our February campers! We hope you have a great day, don’t forget to thank the kitchen staff! Bully for you! February 6- AJ Borsand February 7- Ethan Garnes February 9- Benjamin Kite February 11- Ryan Gershowitz February 12- Charlie Matyas and Marty Askenazi February 13- Sam Schulman […]
A special thank you to Alumnus Tommy Feldman for sharing a piece of North Star history with us recently. Tommy sent us the 1945 Birthday list, as well as a list of staff from the summer, a picture of some work being done on the athletic fields, and an invitation […]
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 […]
