New Jersey 2006

• Settling In Day • The Arrival • Senior and Super Senior Boy's Pool Party • Fine Arts Explored • Deal or No Deal • The Goonies On Ice • The Belline Family Farm • The Staff Talent Show • A Day in the Life of the Quad • Celebrity Dress Up • Carnival • The Social Mixer I • Frito Pie • Thursday Night Live • Wonders of the Ancient World Soccer Tournament • Archery • Banner Night • Schooley's Mountain Park Day Trip • Survivor • Tom's Day Trip • The Cup Game • The Sunken Lounge Earns its Reputation • Lou • Week Three Talent Show • Counselor Antics • The Midnight Sun • As Campers Dreamed, Counselors Dribbled • Ga-Ga • Campfire • Parachute Games • Extreme Duck-Duck-Goose • Cookie Baking • Hackey Sack • Social Mixer II • Shade • Captain Fantastic • Ultimate Frisbee Tournament • Impromptu Ro-Sham-Bo Tournament • The Arrival: Part Deux • Drama Games • Gladiator • Horseback Riding • Super Senior Pool Party • Capture the Flag • Day Trip to...The Pool? • Drag Race • Impromptu Slip 'n Slide • Trick My Wagon • Skate Park • Bunk Time: Reeves' Second Floor • Chess • Drums • Canteen • Gymnastics Show • Holy Cow! • Global Rover • Camper Bowling • Fashion Show • Intercamp Games • Dance Show • Late-Night Goonies Dodgeball • Camper-Counselor Challenge • The Gym is Getting Torn Down Soon, So We'd Better Do this Quickly... • Lost & Found • Guitar • Clubs • Skit in a Bag • Younger Divisions Chill Out • Tennyball • Shade Antics • Water-Balloon Volleyball • Skate 57 • Boat Wars • 7 • Golf Challenge • The Beauty that is Centenary College • The Italian Leisure Club • Fencing • The World That Is Campus Kids • Digital Photo • Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day • Matt Lurrie Appreciation Day • Campstock • Gladiator Tournament • Ryan's Choice of Very Bad Things.htm • The Staff Assistant • The Final Farewell •

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Survivor Click a picture to enlarge it. Photos and Articles by Matt Lurrie
Many evening activities are located in the cafeteria, the theater, or even the quad. These activities require little physical movement, and more creativity. Well, enough with the sedentary games, said the evening program coordinators.
	With Super Senior groups gathered in the quad, coordinators announced that they were going to play survivor.
Teri explained the rules: each member of each team would have to hold on to a group rope. The object of the game was to find hiding counselors, and collect badges which represented food, water, and shelter.
	All the while, four counselors (from left to right) Ryan, David, Paul, and Teri, were predators. Their job was to actively search for groups. if a group was caught by them, they would have to give up one of their life points, represented by a heart.
Teams began to organize, and get acquainted with each other, for they were in very close proximity to each other on the 8 foot ropes.
	At the sound of a whistle, the groups were off.
Teams searched the campus for counselors bearing survivor badges.
	Some counselors were easy to find, hiding in bushes, or shrubs.
Some made themselves slightly more difficult to find.
	While groups searched...
...predators lurked in the shadows.
	Many groups were caught.
And many hearts were lost.
	Many campers, in the beginning, did not take the game very seriously.
But they're attitudes changed when, while walking calmly around a corner, three predators jumped out on them. Suffice it to say, the look of panic and fear, and subsequent lunge for something familiar to grab onto in a time of fright, were not feigned.
In the end, it was determined that the bunk group Pants, if left in the wilderness, and in need of laminated pieces of paper, would best survive. On a personal note, I have been at camp for half a decade, and participated in numerous evening activities. I must say that after following around both groups and predators, this was one of the most intense evening activities ever.