Carysbrook Lingo

G House - Stands for Garden House. The shower house or bathroom located behind back cabin row. In times past, before indoor plumbing, outhouses were often located at the end of the garden hence the name garden house. Prior to about 1960 the facilities here were all outhouses.

D-Hall - The dining hall whose proper name is the Phoenix.

Charms - Patches the campers earn in the activities.

Pennants - Pennants with Camp Carysbrook written on them. Each new camper is given a pennant the last night of her stay here – the pennant has the charms they have earned on it. Returning campers   bring their pennant to camp and are given the charms they earn to add to it.

Rules - Normally refers to the rules of an activity which a camper must learn before participating in the activity. Some activities have two sets of rules – courtesy and safety.

KP - The campers (2 from each table) who volunteer to clear the dishes from the table. Also used as a verb in “Will you KP?”

Head Table - The small table in front of the dining hall. The director, the assistant directors, Head Counselor, nurse, and guests sit here.

The Bell - A bell which is rung by the director signaling such things as time to enter the dining hall, time to be quiet in the dining hall for an announcement or dining hall dismissal.

Junior - A camper completing K-4th grades. Ages 6-10. Bed by 9:30.

Intermediate - A camper completing grades 5-7. Ages 11-13. Bed by 10:00.

Senior - A camper completing grades 8-10. Ages 14-16. Bed by 11:00.

CIT - Counselor in Training. A camper who is 16 or has completed the 10th grade. These campers have committed themselves to an eight week program of learning about organized camping and related fields.

Banquet - The festivities planned by the senior campers for the last night of camp. The theme is a surprise for the rest of camp.

Toasts - The salute given each staff member by a camper after the meal at the banquet. Toasts are arranged by the senior campers.

Vespers - A Saturday late afternoon all camp gathering, usually at the bottom of the hill below the Virginia Creeper. The short program revolving around a theme such as caring, sharing, remembering is organized by various people and coordinated by Kathy or Betsy.

Green/Brown - The two teams of campers. Once a camper is placed on a team, they are on that team the entire time they are campers.

Team Captains - The senior campers (2 from each team) who are elected by the campers of each team to lead them for the summer. Occasionally, the captains will serve for only 4 weeks if they are only staying for 4 weeks. In this case, another election is held.  

Purple Team - The staff.

Rosetta Stone - The camp’s benevolent ghost.

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CarysbrookBillionaire

by

Cali Williams and Morgan Conroy

I want to be at Carysbrook so very bad

Try all the things I never have

I wanna be on the cover of the Little River Record

Standing next to Kathy and Betsy.

Every time I close my eyes

I see my name in fireflies

Working hard to get my points

Oh, I swear, this camp better prepare

For when I’m at Carysbrook.

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Teams of

Green and Brown

Gather round camper for a story I will tell

About a camp you all have come to know so well

Round about 1923 is when it all began

Here in the mountains and fields of beautiful land. 

So it happened at this camp we all have come to know

That maybe a little competition would be good for us who come and go

So the camp decided that to coordinate the lovely mountain scene

That we should have two teams to be known as brown and green. 

And so these teams have grown and competed year after year

To see what team you’re on – well the time is finally here

So whether it is green or brown where your loyalties lie

You’ll see in our hearts we love them both and you’ll see why. 

For at Carysbrook you see as our story will begin

It matters not what team, nor if you lose or win

But the spirit that stays with us year after year

Is the teamwork, friendships and memories that we hold so very dear.

So listen carefully as we call your name

Because tomorrow you will compete in your first game

The Brown team captains will call you out for the team of Brown

And the Green tram captains will ask those of Green to hang around.

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