The final team of counselors for Camp Siberia was selected at the end of November. The applicants this year were truly outstanding and the Board had a tough job selecting from among them. After a rigorous selection process, in which applicants submitted written essay applications, withstood personal interviews with Board members and former Counselors, and had their references checked, 18 terrific Bainbridge teens were selected to conduct Camp Siberia’s final summer camp for Russian orphans. They will join one other Counselor who was selected last year, but at the last minute, was unable to travel to Russia.
Between now and July, the team will be busy with community service projects and fund-raising (each Counselor has taken on the task of raising $4500 of the total $82,000 it will take to get the team to Novosibirsk and to conduct camp.) They’ll also be learning crafts, songs and games and, by July, will be a terrific team.
The 2011 Camp Siberia Counselors are:
Ali Blake
Carly Burt
Kore Busath-Haedt
Michael Crowley
Kelsey Gonwick
Skylar Horner
Will Houser
Katrina Kerrigan
Colin Lea
Dylan Lehotsky
Maureen McCormick
Cali Moore
Chloe Pinto
Emily Schneider
Rachael Self
Bea Sheffer
Mary Stewart
Casey Taylor
Isabel Vassiliadis
Welcom aboard! It’ll be a great year!
