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Selecting the appropriate camp experience
will yield many wonderful benefits for the rest of your
child's life. The magical chemistry of Program, Faculty
and Peers will nurture and foster the healthy, happy and
safe development of your child that you have so painstakingly
orchestrated. When we do our job right we become your four
or two week partner in parenting, and when our approach
supports yours, BINGO! We all have a FUN-Tastic summer!
My son, Christopher and daughters Hanna
and Emma are the fourth generation of my family to be
involved with this nearly 100 year-old camp. I am proud
to have inherited such a grand tradition of providing powerful
and life-altering growth experiences for young men and
women.
The Kennebec Camps, established in 1907
as the Premier Outdoor Adventure Camp, long known as the
Harvard of Camps, created the Maine Golf Academy in response
to parents' cries for more than just another "Golf
Camp" at a college or private school campus. Living
in a location whose best use is as a prep school or college
for 19 - 22 year olds with little to do other than play
golf for 4-5 days is just not good enough. We kept our
95-year tradition of the wholesome camp experience and
added to it the high quality specialty instruction and
play of Golf and Tennis.
We believe that our camp program, especially
with the interest in Golfand Tennis that first ignites
a young campers interest to venture up to Maine, fosters
a sense of courage, independence and resourcefulness that
few other places can rival. Young boys and girls develop
life long connections, relationships, and skills in this
nurturing environment. Generations of "Kennebecers" return
to this very spot year after year and give testimony to
the fact that the values and lessons learned here provided
the foundations for their personal and professional development
and success.
We have selected and sought out for you
the Best of Best: Safe, fun, and challenging traditional
programs in golf and summer camping, are lead by the finest
staff and faculty. We selected the most popular trips and
activities, the most innovative sports instruction techniques,
the most caring counselors, the most knowledgeable and "kid
friendly" professional instructors, and of course,
the most picturesque and rustic Maine Summer Camp nestled
along the shores of Lake Salmon.
Our approach is nurturing, supportive
and challenging. We believe that this is a time when your
son or daughter can learn new social skills, practice old
ones, stretch further than he or she imagined and learn
above all that life is what you make it. Needless to say
it is quite a stretch for your son or daughter to bunk
with 8-10 others, share a bathroom, walk to the shower
house and have to clean up for the community well being
daily. Somehow it has become a wonderful American tradition
to have kids make their bed at camp, sweep the floor, and
care about how they effect others in their little world.
Golf does the same thing. I call it MOPS. Making Other
People Successful. In Golf we hold the flag stick, repair
divots and ball marks, keep our shadow out of the way,
keep quiet, stand still, etc. Basically we are very concerned
about making the other golfer have the best experience
possible. We try to make him or her successful. Wow what
a wonderful concept.
I told my soccer team that if you spend
all your time thinking about how to be successful, you
have only one person, yourself, trying to help you out;
however, if you, and everyone else on the team, thinks
about the team's success, you then have TEN people thinking
about you. In golf, at camp, and for life, we believe we
are all here because of those who wanted to make life better
for all of us. So when we say repair your ball mark and
two others, and Leave Your Campsite in a Better Condition
than you found it, we are establishing values for the rest
of your life for which you will be rewarded in ways greater
than you can imagine.
My wife Crista and I, along with our
family and entire staff, look forward to sharing with you
the joy this wonderful institution has brought to so many
others.
I know you will be as thrilled to have
discovered us as we are to have found you.
YOU WILL LOVE WHAT WE DO HERE!
Till we meet in person,we are respectfully
yours in camping,
Joel and Crista
Joel Lavenson, MA, NCC, LPC- Owner/Director
Marriage and Family Therapist and
Crista Lavenson, CBA - Owner/Director
Social Worker and English Professor
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