UNIVERSITY
Camp Adventure offers world travel
By Cathy Peterson
Emerald Reporter
Boxes of Hawaiian leis and hats litter the top
shelf of a cramped Esslinger Hall office. Pictures
of smiling University students taken in Korea.
Hawaii. Japan and Long Beach line the walls.
Within this small space operates the world
headquarters of Camp Adventure, a $366,000
children's summer camp program run on military
bases in Long Beach. Calif.. Hawaii and Asia
Project director Chris Edginton. who is also the
leisure studies department director, started Camp
Adventure in 1985 with 12 student counselors in
three day camps.
Five years later, the program for military de
pendents employs over 100 counselors at 29
camps, with 12 students operating the program.
Eighty of the students were based overseas last
summer.
"I'm very laissez-faire with the students, as
long as they do their job with excellence,"
Edginton said. “I challenge students every year
with a high level of performance and every year
they succeed.”
For the students, camp counselor training starts
in the leisure studies course Contracted Leisure
Services. The course offers students an introduc
tion to the procedures and methods of running a
camp program.
After the course, counselor hopefuls attend an
intense boot camp Camp Adventure College
held every spring on the University campus. Stu
dents participate in songs, games, creative dra
matics and swimming pool activities, as they
compete for counselor positions
Edginton said he looks for students who are
highly motivated, positive and excited about life
They should also have experience working in
camps.
Students who are chosen get a chance to expe
rience living abroad, as well as the opportunity to
travel after the camp session ends One group of
students traveled through Korea. Japan. Hawaii
and Hong Kong, working at different camps
During the last spring training session, more
than 200 students took applications. 15(1 came to
the leadership workshop and 50 were chosen as
counselors.
Counselors earn from S2.000 and up. depend
ing upon the living expenses at their bases
John Nouguier, who worked at the Okinawa
base in Japan last summer, said he migtit look tor
a state department or civil service job after he
graduates because of his experience with (lamp
Adventure.
Nouguier said he appreciated "the chance to go
overseas, the ability to travel cheaply afterwards,
the upper division credits, and uist the whole dif
ferent perspective of military life I'll never gel
that experience again "
lie added that the summer of 1990 was espe
i tally challenging for the counselors, as well as a
learning experience as they discussed with the
children the possibility of their parents going to
war in Kuwait.
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“Increasing Minority Partic
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title of UC-Berkley professor
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his successful work with noil
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