The final Family Night of Meeting Waters YMCA's 2016 Y Day Camp season will double as an Alumni Reunion for its more than 12,500 former campers and hundreds of former staff, according to a news release.
The event will take place on Thursday, Aug. 11, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Y's Lewis Day Camp facility on Route 5/Missing Link Road.
This is the 52nd consecutive summer of the regional Y's day camp. In the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, when camp took place on loaned space in Gageville and Saxtons River, it was known as Camp Weetomp.
The name of the camp changed in the late 1980s when 52 acres of land in Springfield - on which the camp has taken place since - was donated to Meeting Waters YMCA. At that time, the camp was named Lewis Day Camp to honor the several decades of leadership of Samuel Lewis, the former CEO of Robertson Paper.
A few years ago, the name of the camp program was changed to Y Day Camp to emphasize the value of it being a YMCA program while the facility itself retained the name Lewis Day Camp.
Whether one attended or worked at the program as Camp Weetomp, Lewis Day Camp, or Y Day Camp, all are invited to reconnect with other former campers and colleagues as well as with the activities that have been central to the camp programming for 52 years.
For more information about the Camp Alumni Reunion event, contact the Y administrative office at 802-463-4769 or [email protected].