Camp Wah-Nee

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Camp Wah-Nee is a coeducation summer camp for children and teenagers. The camp is located in Torrington, Connecticut, United States. The camp is situated by a man-made pond named "Park Pond", referred to by those at the camp as "Shadow Lake". Wah-Nee has been running for over seventy years.

The camp's indoor gym, the "Gordon Garden", was intentionally burnt down before the summer of 2005. Plans to build a new gym for 2006 were delayed and the new gym is promised for 2007.

1 Organization
2 Trivia
3 External links

[edit] Organization

[edit] Ownership

Over the years the camp has gone through a series of owners; most notably the Gordon Family until 1993. In that year, Dave & Donna Stricker and Mark & Meryl Transport purchased Wah-Nee from the Gordon family.

[edit] Staff

The camp is primarily run by Harvey Mandell (Director/Boys Head Counselor), Hal Rosen (Director/Head of Waterfront) and Frayda Jay (Girls Head Counselor). There is also an athletic director for each gender: Peter Sale for the boys and Jordanna Dopazo for the girls.

[edit] Campers

The campers are split up age-similar groups, known as "Divisions," by the grade they are about to enter.

Entering Grade	Boys Division	Girls Division
4th	Freshman	Angels
5th	Sophomore 1s	Demons
6th	Sophomore 2s	Comets
7th	Inters	Jets
8th	Juniors	Fantastics "Fannies"
9th	Senior 1s	Lodge 1
10th	Senior 2s	Lodge 2
11th	Super Seniors	Mini Lodge

Entering 12th grade, campers become "Waitrons". The Waitrons serve the camp in the dining hall, known as "Conyers' Hall", in recognition of Jimmy Conyers, the head cook and also longest returner. It doesn't make sense, however, that though the waitrons work for the camp they continue to pay tuition. When returners are entering their freshman year of college, they are eligible to become full counselors.

[edit] Trivia

Those who return to Wah-Nee year-after-year are known as "Wah-Neeites."
The camp motto is "10-for-2", referring to a wait of 10 months for the 2 spent at camp.
The official alma mater is called "In Dreams".
The official camp colors are red and white.
The biggest tournament of the summer is a basketball tournament "Jack D. Gordon", which the whole camp attends and watches.

[edit] External links

Camping Facilities in the state of Connecticut

Buck's Rock (New Milford) \| Camp Chinqueka (Bantam) \| Camp Jewell YMCA (Colebrook) \| Camp Laurelwood (New Haven) \| Camp Sloane (Lakeville) \| Camp Wah-Nee (Torrington) \| Hole in the Wall Gang Camp (Ashford) \| June Norcross Webster Scout Reservation (Ashford)