Attention: Camp Spaulding
alumni and former staff.
Child and Family Services wants
to hear from you!
Do you have stories from
your days at Camp Spaulding?
Great memories you’d like to share?
Click here to submit your summer
memories of Camp Spaulding.
We can’t wait to hear them!
THANKS!
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RING IN OUR NEW ERA!!
You, yes, you, can help us raise our historic brass bell at CAMP SPAULDING to continue our 80-year tradition for camper kids from throughout New Hampshire!! It’s the sound of summer that signals the sweetest memories!
BACKSTORY
Last winter, Child and Family Services’ Camp Spaulding, lost one of its original buildings when it collapsed under the weight of snow. The Associated Press featured this when it covered the devastation in NH as a result of the harsh winter of 07-08.
The 80 year old pavilion had served as a central gathering place for campers and also served as a place for rainy day activities, as a dining hall and as a performing arts center. For the past 30 years, it has been sponsored by the Concord Kiwanis Club and has been known as Kiwanis Hall.
Little survived the devastation…but for a brass bell that resided in a cupola atop the roof that had signaled the start and end of activity periods, mealtimes and gatherings for generations of children.
COMMUNITY ACTION
Since the collapse, CFS board members and staff formed a committee and embarked on a quiet capital campaign to build a new structure on this site…one that would enhance programming and offer many new opportunities for campers and the community. This is the Camp Spaulding ROCKS campaign.
Concord philanthropist, Horace Blood, stepped forward and challenged the community to help rebuild the pavilion. He would match dollar for dollar every gift up to $100,000 to build a new multi-function sports and activity center.
By year's end, CFS board members and friends of Camp Spaulding had met the challenge. The pavilion would be rebuilt as a sports complex with a small “Barn Door” Theater.
Another long time friend of the agency, The Hubbard Family of Walpole, stepped forward at the end of December with an offer to enhance the theater with curtains, lights, a soundboard, dressing rooms and a storage area for costumes and an endowment to engage the services of a theatre specialist as a counselor each summer to provide the campers with yet another creative and enriching activity.
WHAT YOU CAN DO!
CFS would like to offer the larger community, including four generations of former Camp Spaulding campers, staff and friends, the opportunity to participate in the final stage of the campaign, which is to raise $10,000 to help us raise the camp bell once again, so that it can once again signal important daily activities at camp. Every donor to the Camp Spaulding Rocks Ring the Bell campaign will be etched into history on a special plaque displayed at camp and will be invited to a bell-ringing, boot-stompin’, barbecuing bash at camp! Give now. It’s easy. Click on one of the giving levels below:
Liberty bell $150
Brass bell $100
Cow bell $50
Jingle bell $25
For further information, contact Ruth Zax at 603-518-4130. |
