Online Enrolment in 2012 - Inscriptions sur l'internet en 2012

 

One major change planned for 2012 will be online enrolment. We feel that this will make the enrolment process easier and more efficient for most of you. Information that is entered in the first year will be maintained in the system, eliminating repetition over the years. Enrolment will open on November 1st.

 

Un grand changement que nous planifions pour l'année 2012 sera l'inscription de votre enfant sur internet. Nous croyons que ce changement simplifiera le processus pour les parents et rendra l'inscription plus efficace pour tout le monde. Les informations que vous inscriviez cette année resteront dans la base de données et, au fil des ans, il y aura moins de répétition. Les inscriptions commenceront le 1er novembre 2011.

 

                       

 

Dates for 2012 / Dates de la saison 2012

 

#    Session   Length                   Dates
1.   J7          7 days/jours         June 30 - July 6 / 30 juin au 6 juillet
2.   J15A       15 days/jours       June 30 - July 14 / 30 juin au 14 juillet
3.   J15B       15 days/jours       July 8 - July 22 / 8 juillet au 22 juillet
4.   J23         23 days/jours       June 30  - July 22 / 30 juin au 22 juillet
5.   LITJ        23 days/jours       June 30  - July 22 / 30 juin au 22 juillet 
6.   J39         39 days/jours       June 30  - August 7 / 30 juin au 7 août
7.   A7          7 days/jours         July 28 - August 3 / 28 juillet au 3 août
8.   A14A      14 days/jours        July 25 - August 7 / 25 juillet au 7 août
9.   A14B      14 days/jours        August 3 - August 16 /3 août au 16 août
10.  A23       23 days/jours        July 25 - August 16/ 25 juillet au 16 août 
11.  LITA      23 days/jours        July 25 - August 16/ 25 juillet au 16 août
12.  A39       39 days/jours        July 8 - August 16 / 8 juillet au 16 août 
13. JA48       48 days/jours        June 30  - August 16 / 30 juin au 16 août
14. Family Camp / Camp familial   August 18 - 26 / 18 au 26 août

 

                          

 

August 2011 Awards / Lauréats août 2011

 

1) DIP AWARD: Middle
2) NUMBER OF LAKE SWIMMERS: 38
3) BEST KAYAKER:  Daniel Hetzel
4) Most improved Swimmer: Matthew Crowell
5) ATHLETIC SHIELD
Section 1 & 2: Jake Blachford
Section 3: Charles Gravel
Section 4: Andrew Poirier
6) TEAM TRIATHLON
Section  5: Jules Grandsen, Richard Dulude
Section 6: Blaise Frenette, Frédéric De Serres

 

              

7) TRIATHLON
Section 7:  Maxence Frenette
8) NIGHT ORIENTEERING: Pat Quinn & Dan Quinn (Staff)
9) INTERMEDIATE CANOE RACE:  Justin Dulude & Simon Martel
       SENIOR CANOE RACE: Daniel Hetzel & Troy von Breitenstein
10) CUMULATIVE FEATHER POINT LEADERS:

Section 1: Victor Tolgyesi (4)
Section 2: Jake Blachford (2.5)
Section 3: Jack Ellis (6.5)
Section 4:  David Khazzam (4)
Section 5: Simon Martel (9.5)
Section 6:  Jose Roberto Garcia Aguas (6)
Section 7: Mathew Crowell (8.5)
11) PATCH CUP WINNER: Simon Martel
12) VOYAGEUR GAMES: 1st  Champlain, 2nd Cartier, 3rd La Vérendrye, 4th Radisson
13) LEADER AWARD: None
14) Voyageur Award: None
Staff Awards
15) Mark Conner: Scott McIlveen
16) Shannon Memorial: Yusef Farah Chalita

 

                   

 

Lower Canada College - "Camp Nominingue Adventure"

 

There has always been a strong link between Camp Nominingue and Lower Canada College, the Montreal independent school. Many LCC students have attended Nominingue as campers and a large number have gone on to become staff members. Over the years, more than a dozen LCC teachers have provided leadership as members of the Camp's Senior Staff. 4 former Directors of Program & Personnel were LCC staff members as well as one Grade 12 graduate.

In recent times, the most direct link between the 2 organizations has been a program which began in 1991 and will be celebrating its 21st year in 2011.

In 1991, grade 7 and 12 were major entry points to the school. Approximately half of the students at both levels were new to LCC. It was recognized that an orientation program was needed at the beginning of the school year to encourage the students to get to know one another and feel a part of the School. The 4-day program was called the "Camp Nominingue Adventure."

 

The grade 7 students were placed in tent groups with an equal number of new and old students. The grade 12 students, after a brief training session, became their counsellors, staying with them in the tents. With the exception of certified waterfront staff, all other staff, including the kitchen crew, were LCC staff members. Following his retirement from LCC and Camp Nominingue, Chef Richard de Grandpré, returned to serve as the chef for a number of years. He was ably assisted by a group of parent volunteers who served as kitchen staff, helping to prepare the food, distributing it, and cleaning up afterwards. Doctors for the event have included LCC & Nominingue alumni Dr. Jeff Heseltine and Dr. Eric Lillie.

The first activity on the schedule was Frisbee golf. Each student was given a souvenir Frisbee made for the event and sent off around the Camp Nominingue Frisbee Golf Course with their tent group. It was a fun but chaotic event as more than 100 frisbees filled the air.

 

                 

                 

 

The program included many familiar camp activities; canoeing, kayaking, campcraft, orienteering, golf, archery, tennis, nature study, swimming, Gordon Allan's game War of the Words game, campfires, "Johnny Appleseed", Spot and even the Gotcha game.

 

LCC was an all-boys school until 1991. Girls arrived at the Grade 12 level in 1992 and at all grade levels in 1995. The tent line was divided into 2 sections. The boys stayed in the Lower Camp area and the girls took the Upper Camp tents.

In recent years, the grade 12 program has developed its own orientation program and so it has been LCC's Middle School teachers who have assumed the role of counsellor.

 

The program was been very successful and has stood the test of time. While some of the activities have changed from the earlier years, the integrity of the program remains intact. Some of the students' fondest memories of their LCC experience occurred at Nominingue.

 

Marketing Camp Nominingue

 

The best sales people for Camp Nominingue are our campers, staff and parents. Lots of our parents talk with other parents about their son's experience. Another way that some of you might be able to help out is by writing a short text about your son's summer experience or having your son write something which could then be published in a school newsletter. This is what Maryam Mohit did in the fall of 2010. "In Praise of Summer Camp" appeared in her children's school newsletter.

 

                    

 

Les meilleurs vendeurs du Camp Nominingue sont nos campeurs, nos moniteurs et les parents de nos campeurs. Plusieurs parlent de leurs expériences avec leurs amis. Vous pourrez aussi penser à écrire un court texte ou suggérer à votre fils d'écrire un texte au sujet de ses expériences au camp et le publier dans une lettre de nouvelles de son école. C'est ce que Maryam Mohit a fait à l'automne 2010. Voici le texte qui a été publié en Californie.

 

 In Praise of Summer Camp             Maryam Mohit  

Family Camper - Parent - Alumni  San Francisco, CA

 

As we waited for the camp bus to arrive, I wondered how had Jake, our 8 year old, survived his two weeks at sleep-away camp? Had he been homesick? Did he make friends? Were the other boys kind? Did he miss us? Had we made the right decision, sending our 2nd grader to sleep-away camp?

 

The bus finally pulled up and boys started pouring down the steps. In an instant, I could see that it had been the right call. As Jake climbed into the car, he started regaling us with tales of capture the flag, thunderstorms, and earning "feathers" in canoeing, orienteering, campcraft. Each story was interspersed with a shy smile and the comment, "Um, yeah, and well, camp was fun, really, really fun." Within the hour he was beseeching us to let him go for three weeks next year.

 

                          

 

Camp wasn't part of my childhood, and I'd been hesitant to send our 8 year old to sleep-away camp for two weeks. One week seemed more reasonable to me. Why not start slow and easy? But my husband, Erik, had been to camp as a boy and convinced me that post-second grade was the ideal age to start camp and that two weeks was better than one. "I went when I was 7, for a month, and I loved it every year!" "Right, and in winter you walked 2 miles in the snow, uphill both ways," I grumbled. "He'll love it, trust me." And so I did.

 

Camp Nominingue was the camp Erik had gone to. It is a boys' camp on 400 forested acres in the Laurentians, just north of Montreal. It has a gorgeous lakefront, the water is warm and the boys live in platform tents with canvas walls that roll up to let in breezes and views of the lake and trees. No TV, movies or iPods, just canoe trips, wilderness skills, games, crafts and lots of dirt between the toes.

 

The previous summer we'd taken the whole family to Nominingue's Family Camp to get a taste of camp life. After our first day there whatever latent West Coast, progressive prejudices I harbored about the idea of an East Coast boys camp that had been running since 1925 truly disappeared. The counselors were kind, supportive of the boys, full of joy and reverence for the natural world. They were wonderful teachers of outdoor skills and exemplars of responsibility; just the kind of young men I hoped our sons would some day grow up to be. I suddenly realized how the summers Erik spent at camp contributed to his appreciation of simplicity, his deep self-reliance and resilience. And now, filled with pride at the new things he learned at camp, Jake seems to be on his way as well.

 

                 

 

 Nominingue Walks for ALS

 

Hello fellow Nomininguers,

 

On Saturday, September 10th at 11h45, the Tony Proudfoot - Montreal Walk for ALS will be held at Parc Maisonneuve.

 

Tony Proudfoot was a member of the Grey Cup winning Montreal Alouettes, a respected member of the Montreal Alouettes broadcasting team, and an excellent physical educator at Dawson College. He was also an outstanding waterfront director at Camp Nominingue. In August of 2009, he was awarded the Pillar of Nominingue award for his important contribution to the success of Camp Nominingue. He lost his battle with ALS earlier this year.
 
To join me as part of "Camp Nominingue & Friends" team at the Team Proudfoot- Montreal Walk and lend your support, please click on the link below. It would be wonderful to have a strong Nominingue contingent at the Walk. Last year, we had 14 walkers. I hope that we can more than double that this year. Invite your friends.

 

https://secure.e2rm.com/registrant/StartUp.aspx?EID=75429&Lang=en-CA

 

If you are having trouble viewing the above web address, copy & paste the entire URL into the address bar of your browser. When searching for our team, enter "Nominingue." If you can't join me, you can still help by sponsoring my participation in this event. To sponsor me by making a secure donation online, click the link above and search for me.

 

                    

 

Tony provided his support to so many campers and staff while at Nominingue. Now it's our turn to remember him and support his legacy. Thanks for your support.

Yours,

 

Trevor Smith
Pillar of Nominingue 2008
Lower Camp Section Director; Program Director; Family Camp Director 1970s-1990s

 

 Tumpline Submissions - Soumissions pour cette lettre de nouvelles

 

We are looking for submissions for our newsletters from campers, staff and parents... from this summer, as well as from recent and less recent alumni. These submissions may be general memories of camp experiences or specific memories about a canoe trip, about a favourite program or a funny experience. Please send your submissions to grant@nominingue.com. You may submit your stories and memories in English, French or Spanish.

 

Nous sommes à la recherche de textes de campeurs, parents et de moniteurs de l'année 2011... et de souvenirs de nos anciens campeurs et moniteurs des années récentes et moins récentes. Vos textes peuvent décrire vos expériences en générale ou une excursion de canot, un programme favori ou une expérience drôle. SVP envoyez votre texte par courriel à  grant@nominingue.com. Votre texte peut être en français, en anglais ou en espagnol. 

 

                          

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