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A Special Announcement from Surprise Lake Camp
The Surprise Lake Camp Board of Directors is pleased to officially announce the promotion of two of our key staff members in order to make us a more effective and responsive 21st century agency in the various communities where we work. This is an extraordinary moment in Camp's history.
Effective August 25, Sheryl Kirschenbaum, our Associate Director for the past three years, will become our Camp Director. She will be responsible for the planning and management of our biggest and most important program, the summer camp program that has been changing children's lives since 1902. Our Board is confident that she will continue the long history of exceptional leadership that Surprise Lake Camp has always enjoyed.
This will enable Jordan Dale, our Executive Director for 24 seasons, to devote his full energies to the work of an Executive Director. The truth is that Jordan has been doing two full time jobs all these years. While he has had the title of Executive Director, he has also run the camp, directing both its summer program and its year-round work. But Surprise Lake Camp has reached a point in its history where we need someone of Jordan's knowledge and ability to devote his full energies to executive functions: working with the Board, managing the finances of the organization, raising funds for our daily operation and to meet our future capital needs, overseeing the Teva Program, visioning multiple roles for our camp to retain its leadership status in the camping movement, doing strategic planning and site development, and supervising the department heads who assist with these aspects of our work. After 107 years, Surprise Lake Camp has come of age, and we are confident that having Jordan in this role will help us reach new heights as an organization.
These two promotions will become effective the day after the 2009 season ends so that Sheryl can devote the entire year to the planning of the 2010 season. Jordan, as Sheryl's direct supervisor, will continue to lend his considerable expertise to the success of the program, but Sheryl will be running the camp.
The Board wishes to congratulate both Jordan and Sheryl on this achievement. We look forward to continued success working together.
Sincerely,
Margery Arsham
President, Board of Directors
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