ACA Presents National Awards.At the ACA ACA - Application Control Architecture National Conference in Albuquerque, ACA recognized several individuals and programs for their contributions to the camp movement, their efforts to promote the camp experience, their service to others, and their dedication to excellence. Distinguished Service Award Donald S. Cheley was honored with the 2000 Distinguished Service Award, the highest honor afforded to members by the American Camping Association. Don was born into a camping family. His grandfather, Frank H. Cheley, founded Cheley Colorado Camps Cheley Colorado Camps is a summer camp owned by Don and Carole Cheley at 3 locations in Colorado, United States. The main camp lies 75 miles (120 km) northwest of Denver on the 750 acre (3 km²) Land O' Peaks Ranch south of Estes Park, Colorado. in 1921, and Don became executive director in 1983. Since joining the American Camping Association in 1968, Don has held many roles at both the section and national level. He has served the ACA Rocky Mountain Section as nominating chair, vice president, president, and awards chair. He was elected to the ACA National Board of Directors in 1982. From 1996-1999, he served as ACA national president and was instrumental in leading the association to where it is today. National Honor Award The National Honor Award, which recognizes meritorious mer·i·to·ri·ous adj. Deserving reward or praise; having merit. [Middle English, from Latin merit service in the part of ACA members, was awarded to Bari Dworken, Ed.D. Bari is committed to continuing education continuing education: see adult education. continuing education or adult education Any form of learning provided for adults. In the U.S. the University of Wisconsin was the first academic institution to offer such programs (1904). for camp professionals. She has served on the National Education Committee, as dean and faculty of the Camp Directors Institute, and currently is a member-at-large on the ACA National Board of Directors. Bari has also served the ACA New England New England, name applied to the region comprising six states of the NE United States—Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. The region is thought to have been so named by Capt. Section as president, member and chair of the ACA/NES education committee, standards visitor, OLS OLS Ordinary Least Squares OLS Online Library System OLS Ottawa Linux Symposium OLS Operation Lifeline Sudan OLS Operational Linescan System OLS Online Service OLS Organizational Leadership and Supervision OLS On Line Support OLS Online System trainer, and workshop presenter. Hedley S. Dimock Award Milton L. Goldberg was honored with the Hedley S. Dimock Award, which is given to a person who contributes to the camp field through related fields, such as outdoor education, conservation, recreation, medicine, education, architecture, and the social sciences. Milton was honored for his work in creating the Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times Morning daily newspaper. Established in 1881, it was purchased and incorporated in 1884 by Harrison Gray Otis (1837–1917) under The Times-Mirror Co. (the hyphen was later dropped from the name). Summer Camp Fund. As executive director of the Jewish Big Brothers Association of Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , he saw many children who would have benefited from a camp experience but could not afford one. He spearheaded a research project to demonstrate his case. As a result, the Los Angeles Times donated $10,000 for a pilot campership project and the United Way matched the amount. Forty-five years later, the Los Angeles Times Summer Camp Fund is still going strong; having raised $21 million over the years and served more than 300,000 children. Special Recognition Award The Special Recognition Award is given to honor groups, organizations, and individuals for their efforts to promote camp. This year, five individuals and groups were recognized for their contributions. Pastor Duane E. Hanson Pastor Duane E. Hanson was honored for his leadership in promoting camping. Pastor Hanson is a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church Evangelical Lutheran Church can refer to many different Lutheran churches in the world. Among them are the following:
ELCA European Landscape Contractors Association ELCA Excimer Laser Coronary Angioplasty ELCA English Language Communicational Association (Japan) ELCA Eagle's Landing Christian Academy ). He encouraged all ELCA camps to become active in their local ACA sections and to become accredited accredited recognition by an appropriate authority that the performance of a particular institution has satisfied a prestated set of criteria. accredited herds cattle herds which have achieved a low level of reactors to, e.g. by ACA. He was also instrumental in creating a new format for the Mid-states Camping Conference. Thanks to his vision the conference will have a youth development focus with speakers on children and family issues followed by in-depth discussion sessions. George Shafer George Shafer was the guiding force behind the amalgamation of three Pennsylvania sections into one new section, the ACA Keystone Regional Section. George spent countless hours getting to know individuals from the three former sections and bringing them together in meeting and projects, leading, eventually, to the new section. George has also served his section as president, standards instructor and visitor, and Tri-state Camping Conference liaison. William (Bill) P. Tighe Bill Tighe has been instrumental in developing camping for people with disabilities in northern Ohio. He founded the Greater Cleveland Greater Cleveland is a nickname for the metropolitan area surrounding Cleveland in Ohio. Northeast Ohio refers to a similar but substantially larger area as described below. Camping Alliance, a group of fifteen-plus camps in northern Ohio that has-raised more than $10 million in camperships in the last twenty years TWENTY YEARS. The lapse of twenty years raises a presumption of certain facts, and after such a time, the party against whom the presumption has been raised, will be required to prove a negative to establish his rights. 2. . He has been a member of ACA for forty years and during that time has been actively involved in promoting quality camping for all people; regardless of religion, race, or culture. International Staff Recruiting Agencies The International Counselor Exchange Programs -- BUNACAMP, Camp America, Camp Counselors USA, Inter Exchange/Camp USA, and International Camp Counselor Program -- have served and supported the work of ACA, the camp movement, and individual camps for decades. Their promotion of the camp experience abroad has spread the word about camp around the world and opened camp and travel doors to thousands of young people worldwide. International Camping Fellowship The International Camping Fellowship, which began in 1987 and has included representatives from the USA, South America South America, fourth largest continent (1991 est. pop. 299,150,000), c.6,880,000 sq mi (17,819,000 sq km), the southern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Japan, Australia, Europe, Africa, and Canada, promotes better camping for all people worldwide, attempting to bring the current one-world approach in business, finance, and the arts to the field of organized camping. National Service Award The National Service Award is given to recognize continued and increasing service beyond the section level. It is awarded to ACA members who have already received a section award and continue to give service to at least three sections or districts. This year's awards were presented to Jay Jacobs Jay Jacobs was a clothing retailer based in downtown Seattle, Washington, founded in 1941 by Jay Jacobs. It specialized in trendy clothing for teens, mainly targeting girls. and Douglas W. Pierce for their work with the SCOPE (Summer Camp Opportunities Provide an Edge) program, an initiative of the ACA New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Section through which hundreds of thousands of dollars are raised each year to provide camperships to underprivileged children. Jay Jacobs Jay Jacobs is an innovative leader in the camp community. He founded the SCOPE program and over the last seven years his leadership has enabled thousands of inner-city children to attend camp. He has also helped to support dozens of nonprofit camps in the ACA New York, New Jersey, and Keystone Regional Sections. Jay also serves on the ACA New York Section board of directors, has been chairman of the legislative and budget committees, and has served as chairman of the Tri-state Camping Conference. Douglas W. Pierce With lay Jacobs, Doug Pierce's tireless work in support of the SCOPE program has enabled thousands of children to attend camp and has raised more than $1.2 million to support the efforts of nonprofit camps in the ACA New York, New Jersey, and Keystone Regional Sections. Doug serves on the ACA New York Section board of directors and has served as section president, membership chair, public relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most chair, and as a member of the Tri-state Camping Conference hospitality committee. Eleanor P. Eells Award for Program Excellence Eleanor P. Eells was a leader and an inspiration throughout her life. The awards for program excellence are designed to: * motivate staff to develop effective, creative responses to the needs of people through camp. * encourage the development of creative responses to societal problems through camp. * stimulate the exchange of creative ideas with others. * promote, in and out of camping, the positive contribution camp makes to the well-being of individuals and society. * give recognition and honor to those whose programs exemplify these objects. Six programs were recognized this year: * Break-Aways: Partnerships for Year-round Learning, ACA New York Section * Camping for children with heart disease, Camp DelCorazon * Program to send battered and neglected children to camp and involve youth-at-risk with therapeutic camp programs, Chicago Camping Committee * The mentor program at Trail Blazers, Trail Blazers * Shelly Ridge Day Camp, Girl Scouts Girl Scouts, recreational and service organization founded (1912) in Savannah, Ga., by Mrs. Juliette Gordon Low (1860–1927). It was originally modeled after the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides, organizations created in Great Britain by Sir Robert Baden-Powell during of Southeastern Pennsylvania * Youth session, Camp Mark Seven J. Wendell Howe Golden Quill quill: see pen. and Lens Awards The Golden Quill and Lens Awards offer camp professionals an opportunity to share their writing and photography talents with their peers and to promote the camp profession. The winners of this year's awards can be found on pages 40-41 in this issue of Camping Magazine. |
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