Say goodbye to 2018 and hello 2019! We have many fond memories from this past year. So much so, we are sorry to see the year end. While it is difficult to let go of 2018, the new year provides the opportunity for a fresh start, to make changes that will help us improve and do better. Have you made any New Year’s resolutions? They are easy to make, but are unfortunately harder to keep. To our camp family, we

wish the new year is filled with happiness, success, and laughter.

At this time of year we often reminisce about the past, but let’s also look forward to the adventures to come. Circle your calendar, this year’s Winter Reunion is scheduled for Sunday, January

13th from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. It will again be held at Sportime USA in Elmsford, New York. The reunion is the larg-est off-camp gathering of Lake Greeley Camp campers and staff members of the year. You do not want to miss it. We hope to see you there!

Year In Review 20182018 was an exciting year, highlighted of course, by an awesome summer! Over the past twelve months there have been so many incredible events and discoveries that we couldn’t list them all. It’s too bad it went by so quickly.January 9th - The University of Alabama defeats Georgia 26-23 in overtime to win the NCAA Football Playoff National Championship. It is the second national title for Alabama in three years, the sixth for head coach Nick Saban, and the 17th for the university.January 18th - In a world’s first, a drone rescues two swim-mers off the coast of Lennox Head, New South Wales in Australia by dropping a safety device to them.January 21st - Lake Greeley Camp’s Winter Reunion is held at Sportime USA.January 28th - Bruno Mars wins album, record, and song of the year at the 60th annual Grammy Awards.February 4th - The Philadelphia Eagles win the Super Bowl, defeating the New England Patriots 41-33. It is their first championship title.February 9th - 25th - The 2018 Winter Olympics are held in Pyeongchang, South Korea. The U.S. finished with 23 med-als, including 9 gold medals, 8 silver medals and 6 bronze medals.February 28th - The United Kingdom’s weather service, Met Office, issues its highest level warning, a red alert for parts of Scotland due to heavy snow. It is the first time a red alert has ever been issued in Scotland, and only the second time anywhere in the United Kingdom.March 7th - A message in a bottle found in Australia is confirmed to have been adrift for almost 132 years, making it

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Inside this Edition• 2019 Winter Reunion

• LGC Trivia Contest Results

• Camper & Staff Member Birthdays

• Matt’s Facts of the Day

• Dates to Remember

THE SPIRITLake Greeley Camp

Winter Office: P.O. Box 219, Moscow, Pennsylvania 18444 (570) 842-3739

LGC Trivia ContestWhen we said that this contest might be our toughest one yet, we weren’t exaggerating! Even though camper par-ticipation for this contest was out-of-sight, not one camper answered all ten questions correctly. The highest number of correct answers was nine. While that’s pretty good, we’ll expect better with the next contest.

Congratulations to our winners (in the order in which their entries were received): Leah Bragin, Maya Krushnick, and Laila Baluk. They have won their choice of a free water sports session on Lake Wallenpaupack or a RailRiders base-ball game.

For those of you who may have been unsure of the answers to some of the questions, the correct answers are listed below.

1. In what building is Gymnastics held?answer: d. Goody Hall

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reportedly the oldest known message in a bottle.March 16th - For the first time in the history of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, a #16 seed defeats a #1 seed, as University of Maryland Baltimore County shocks Virginia, the top overall seed, 74-54.March 19th - The world’s last male northern white rhinocer-os dies in Kenya making the subspecies functionally extinct.March 31st - The largest cruise ship in the world, Royal Caribbean International’s MV Symphony of the Seas costing $1.35 billion, commences its maiden voyage.April 1st - Notre Dame’s women’s basketball team wins the 2018 NCAA Tournament over Mississippi State 61-58, with the deciding points coming on a dramatic 3-point shot just before the final buzzer.April 16th - Desiree Linden becomes the first American woman to win the Boston Marathon in 33 years.April 19th - For the first time since 1983 movie theaters open in Saudi Arabia with the film “Black Panther” chosen as the first movie to be screened.April 28th - 82 of its 140 paintings at the Terrus Museum in Elne, France are revealed to be forgeries.May 7th - Marvel Studios’ superhero film Avengers: Infinity War becomes the fastest film to make $1 billion worldwide, in just eleven days.May 19th - The wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle is held at St George’s Chapel with an estimated global audi-ence of 1.9 billion people.May 31st - Paleontologists at the University of Bristol an-nounce the discovery of the world’s oldest lizard fossil, estimated to be 240 million years old. The fossil is the most ancient known ancestor of all modern lizards and snakes.June 7th - The Washington Capitals win their first Stanley Cup after defeating the Vegas Golden Knights 4-1 in the finals.June 12th - Off the coast of Nazaré, Portugal, Brazilian surfer Rodrigo Koxa breaks the record for the largest wave ever surfed. The wave measured 80 feet high.June 24th - Hooray! Lake Greeley Camp opens.July 3rd - Seattle becomes the first U.S. city to ban plastic straws and utensils in all restaurants.July 25th - Scientists at the National Institute for Astrophys-ics, announce the discovery of a liquid water lake one mile beneath a polar ice cap on Mars. This is the first known body of water on the planet.July 27th - The longest total lunar eclipse of the 21st cen-tury, lasting approximately 1 hour and 42 minutes, colors the moon reddish orange in parts of Africa, Asia and Europe.July 31st - Great Britain, captained by Alex Gagyi and Javier Vinals, wins the 31st Lake Greeley Camp Olympiad.August 3rd - The Space Needle in Seattle unveils the world’s first revolving glass floor.August 18th - The saddest day of the year, Lake Greeley

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answer: c. James

3. What happens if your cabin loses the campfire handclap competition? You and your cabin...answer: a: Jump in the pool in your pjs the following morning

4. Complete this phrase. “Everyday at Lake Greeley Camp is like a parade, every meal a banquet, another day in...answer: b. Paradise

5. When a counselor raises his/her hand in the Dining Hall, all campers...answer: a. Stop talking and listen to announcements

6. What day is referred to as the best day in camp?answer: c. The day laundry is collected

7. What is the highest daily score a cabin can receive from cabin inspection?answer: a. 10

8. On Backwards Day, what does not happen?answer: b. Wear our clothes inside out

9. What does “How How” mean? It means...answer: b. You are happy with the announcement you had just heard

10. What is Derek’s favorite baseball team?answer: c. Pittsburgh Pirates

Thank you to everyone who participated. We hope you had as much fun as we did. Start studying now, the next contest is coming soon!

Matt’s Facts of the DaySince camp ended, Matt has been diligently scouring through mountains of text books, encyclopedias, and schol-arly writings to come up with facts that are entertaining yet educational for this month’s installment of his Facts of the Day. His hard work has definitely paid off!Now remember, before you read each fact below, you must begin by saying, ”Did you know”, and then after reading the fact, you must clap your hands twice, perform the tomahawk chop, and say, “Fact!”.Fact #1 - The song, “Eye Of The Tiger”, was created to be

the theme for Rocky III because Queen would not give Sylvester Stallone the rights to use “Another One Bites The Dust.”

Fact #2 - Cats have 32 muscles that control the outer ear while humans have only 6.

Fact #3 - Only one third of the snakes that appeared in the movie “Snakes on a Plane” were real, and no more than 60 real snakes were on set at any one time.

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The Winter Reunion is by far the most anticipated off-season camp event of the year. Coming together as a camp after months of being apart is exhila-rating for everyone; campers, staff members, and parents. Simply put, it is amazing!This year’s reunion will be held on January 13th from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at Sportime USA.Located in Elmsford, New York, Sportime USA is an indoor amuse-ment center that is huge, 24,000 sq. ft., that’s nearly twice the size of the gymnasium at camp. It’s filled wall-to-wall with games and amusements that will make your mouth drool, and the whole place has been reserved exclusively for Lake Greeley Camp. That’s right, all that Sportime USA has to offer is ours for the entire three hours!

During the reunion we have unlimited use of:• amusement rides: bumper cars, Himalaya roller coaster, mini-

twister, and the brand new super fly• Lasertron laser tag - 3,000 sq. ft. glow-in-the-dark arena• 24 ft. climbing wall• batting cages• 3 level indoor playground filled with slides, climbing mazes, and ball pits• 150 arcade games - each camper gets an unlimited use arcade card• XD Theater - a 4 dimensional interactive ride

There is so much more to this reunion than just fun and games. It is a great opportunity to get together with your friends from the summer, catch up on what’s been happening since the end of camp and reminisce about the great times we shared this past summer. We’ll be serving bagels, donuts, and juice in our party room throughout the reunion, present a slide show of pictures we’ve taken from last summer, and even hold a Lucky Lotto raffle drawing. It’s guaranteed FUN!For more information on Sportime USA including driving direc-tions, visit their website at www.sportimeusa.com.There’s no charge to attend the winter reunion, and it is open to Lake Greeley Camp campers from previous summers and new campers who are enrolled for the 2019 summer, their siblings and, of course, parents.Lake Greeley Camp staff members will be present at Sportime USA during the reunion. We, however, recommend that a parent or adult guardian ac-company all campers to the reunion and remain at Sportime USA. Parents can relax and enjoy a coffee and free Wi-Fi in the adult’s lounge inside Spor-time USA. We’ll make sure you get a raffle ticket too!Registration for the winter reunion is required. You can register two ways: online from Lake Greeley Camp’s homepage at www.lakegreeley.com or you can down-load the registration form from our Forms webpage at www.lakegreeley.com/Parents/forms.html. If you use the paper form, once you have filled it out in its entirety, return it to the Moscow, Pennsylvania office by mail or fax at (570) 842-0410. All registration forms must be submitted no later than Monday, January 7th.

See you at Sportime USA on January 13th for the Winter Reunion!

Winter ReunionSunday, January 13, 2019

Happy Birthday...to our campers and staff members who celebrate birthdays in January & February!

Wyatt Abernethy, Pablo Alvis, Benjamin Amerman, Jack Banghart, Owen Banghart, Daria Barbosu, Oliver Boye, Alexis Brown, Samantha Brown, Tyler Caswell, Sarah Char, Frances Cooke, Sofia DeGroot, Joe Dittmann, Lucinda Dittmann, Clara Dorman, Stephen Dreyer, Eglantine Dupuy, Jason Edington, Rory Ehrenkranz, Seamus Ehrenkranz, Mia Feil, Seiver Galindo, Cecilia Gaya, Tomas Gonzalez, Mari-ana Jarrin, Luke Jones, Declan Keegan, Ella Koepke, Ana Koutras, Ekaterina Kozlova, Erik Leer, Charles Levy, Caitlyn McKiernan, Helena Nilsen, Finnegan O’Brien, Sarah Quin-tero, Jake Slaven, Laila Sonowski, Anna Sosinsky, Logan Tom, Colby Zino, Elise Beale, Natasha Cebular, Gina Ed-ington, Tajah Hyde, Mazin Odeh, Andrew Shaw, and Han-nah Stepanek, Alex Baliotti, Paola Boye, Kendra Brown, Kaylee Camputaro, Maya Chertorisky, Andrew Cimino, Julia Cimino, Juliana Cipriano, Ian Darby, Skye Debarbieri, Luka Delangle, Valerie Delangle, Kevin Devlin, Katherine Ev-ans, Emiliano Fernandez, Emily Fox, Elliot Galazommatis, Lindsay Hogan, Blake Jankowski, Nandita Kalra, Kai Kam-mer, Natalie Kranick, Camila Lafita, Isaac Lind, Sheldon Lipets, Will Masters, Robert Matthesen, Carter Paganini, Zaara Patel, Sophia Perlman, Alexandra Purcell, Caroline Purcell, Beatrice Rosa, Raul Salas Genero, Samantha San-drew, Shane Sandrew, Jake Schonberg, Melanie Sendrovitz, Cordelia Shaw, Grace Singleton, Helena Sushon, Kaj Ureno-Champagne, Gia Villella, Paula Vinals, Avery Wallace, Lola Weinkam, Fiona Wells, Erica Bent, Damian Ciszek, Alex-ander Gmoser, Jade Kiddy, Emerson Maud, Lorren Pallone, Joanna Pucinska, Daniel Roman, Grace Ryall, Leidy Sinis-terra Lasso, and Adam Sosna.

It’s your special day, so get out there and party!

Camp closes for the summer.August 25th - A 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO is sold for $48.4 mil-lion at an auction in California, making it the most expensive car ever sold through auction.August 28th - The world’s first autonomous taxi service be-gins operating in Tokyo, Japan. Full commercial operations is expected to start in 2020, when the city hosts the 2020 Summer Olympics.September 5th - A pair of Judy Garland’s famous ruby slip-pers she wore in The Wizard of Oz, stolen from a museum in Grand Rapids, Minnesota in 2005, are recovered by police.September 15th - Researchers from Stanford University report the discovery of the oldest known evidence of beer. Dating to approximately 11,000 BC, the primitive brewery was located near Haifa, Israel.September 17th - The world’s first commercial hydrogen-powered passenger train begins service in Germany.September 25th - Dunkin’ Donuts announces it will drop the Donuts part of its name and be simply known as Dunkin’ beginning in January 2019.October 6th - After selling for $1.4 million at an auction in London, the painting “Girl with Balloon” by Banksy self-de-structs through a built-in shredder hidden in the frame.October 19th - 136 years after beginning construction, the Sagrada Família (Basilica and Expiatory Church of the Holy Family) in Barcelona, Spain receives a building permit to complete construction.October 23rd - It is announced that a replica of the original RMS Titanic that sank in 1912, will set to set sail in 2022 and travel the same route as the original ship.October 29th - The Boston Red Sox defeat the Los Ange-les Dodgers in five games, winning the best-of-seven game series and claiming the team’s ninth World Series title.November 4th - Ross Egdgley becomes the first person to swim around Great Britain. The 1,780 mile journey took 156 days.November 18th - 6 years after being stolen from a Dutch museum, a painting by Pablo Picasso worth $900,000.00 has resurfaced in Romania.November 26th - The NASA robotic lander InSight lands safely on the Elysium Planitia plain of Mars. Its mission is to study the geology of the red planet.December 9th - Beavers are caught on camera in Northern Italy, a species that has not been seen in the country since 1471.December 13th - YouTube Rewind 2018 becomes the most disliked YouTube video of all time, with well over 10 million dislikes, achieving the feat in only seven days.December 24th - The Dow Jones Industrial Average drops 2.9%, its worst performance ever on Christmas Eve.

2018 was such an amazing year that we can’t help but get excited for the new year. What does 2019 have in-store for us? Only time will tell.

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Dates to Remember 1/13/2019 - Winter Reunion 1/23/2019 - SummerFare Campfair Greenwich, Ct. 2/19/2018 - Application deadline 6/26/2019 - Camp opens 7/13/2019 - First Half Visiting Day 7/22/2019 - First Half ends 7/23/2019 - Second Half begins 8/10/2019 - Second Half Visiting Day 8/18/2019 - Last day of camp