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Countdown to the 100th: the 1950s

by Sarah

by Sarah

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Another month means one step closer to our 100th celebration, and this month, we are celebrating the 1950s! What a great decade to be a camper; the 19...

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Countdown to the 100th: the 1940s

by Sarah

by Sarah

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Welcome back to our monthly Countdown to our 100th celebration as we take a special look at the 1940s. The 1940s may be my favorite decade of them all...

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Celebrating 100 Years: Website is Live!

by Sarah

by Sarah

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We are so excited for today! We are kicking off our upcoming 100th celebration in a BIG way, as our Celebrating 100 Years website goes live! We can’t ...

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Alumnae Reunion 2018

by Laura

by Laura

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The Alumnae Reunion is one of our favorite weekends of the year! Getting to be back at camp, with your camp friends, singing camp songs, enjoying camp...

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Countdown to the 100th: the 1930s

by Sarah

by Sarah

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We are another month closer to summer 2019, which means we are another month closer to celebrating our 100th anniversary at camp! This month, we will ...

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Countdown to the 100th: the 1920s

by Sarah

by Sarah

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We are officially kicking off our Countdown to the 100th this month!!! Hard to believe that in just 9 months, we will be celebrating our huge centenni...

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Parent Blog: Camp Joy - No Filter Needed

by Zoie

by Zoie

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Camp. Just the word elicits such warm, feel-good memories from spending eight summers of my childhood there. Summers of tentalows and lip syncs and ta...

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100th Logo Contest Winners!

by Sarah

by Sarah

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With our 100th anniversary coming up in just over a year, we ran a 100 Year Logo Contest last month, which marked the first steps towards our centenni...

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100 Year Logo Contest

by Sarah

by Sarah

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Alumnae, parents, campers, and friends of Greystone – we need your help! In 2019, we will celebrate our 100th summer at Greystone – can you believe it...

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100th Archives: We Need Your Help!

by Catherine

by Catherine

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Even while we’re busy getting ready for our 99th summer, we know that the 100th is just around the corner in 2019, and we can’t wait! It’s going to be...

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Greystone Brought Me to Tokyo

by Mary Wade

by Mary Wade

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My mom has always said that Camp Greystone is the ‘gift that keeps on giving’, from keeping in touch and visiting friends from across the country as a...

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Senior-Senior Year and a New-Found Love of Mornings

by Claire

by Claire

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I never thought I’d like mornings. Besides the sunrise and promise of breakfast, mornings were completely unappealing. On weekends, I’d snooze ’til no...

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How Did Sarah Get Here?

by Sarah

by Sarah

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She’s camp’s dark talent and comes up with all of your favorite EP’s (and t-shirts!), but how much do you really know about Sarah Brown? How did she e...

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Camp Friendships: Fearfully and Wonderfully Made

by Cate

by Cate

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For twenty-five years, any time I have been asked to describe my favorite place on earth I have always described sitting in a white chair on the edge ...

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How Did Laura Get Here?

by Catherine

by Catherine

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You know her as your favorite camp mom, the apple cart queen, and the one who reminds you to “wash, water, and screen!” but how did Laura become Laura...

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The 2017 Alumnae Reunion

by Laura

by Laura

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What a great weekend! Our 2017 Alumnae Reunion was filled with hugs, laughter, singing, memories, friends, delicious food, the Great Day 5k, Challenge...

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For Such a Time as This

by Nina

by Nina

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Camp Greystone is a gift. It is a blessing. It is a place unique and unlike any other. It is where the values of confidence and self-worth are discove...

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Proud to be a Greystone Dad

by Dan

by Dan

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96 years. Almost a century. That is how long the women of my wife’s family have been at Greystone. Starting with my wife’s grandmother who attended he...

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Passing on the Gift - Alumna Blog

by Elizabeth

by Elizabeth

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I often tell people that my Greystone experiences have had the single most influential impact on my life of anything. I was blessed to be able to atte...

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Home - Alumna Blog

by Elizabeth

by Elizabeth

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Since you are reading this, I am pretty sure you are one of the fortunate ones who know how special Camp Greystone is. I’d even bet you agree it is “T...

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Camp Friends and the Reasons We Return

by Kim

by Kim

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The real reason I signed up for Greystone was because of the young lady who spoke at the “in home marketing movie” my mom and I attended all those yea...

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Save Your Memories and Run the Race

by Anne

by Anne

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In June 1983, I flew from New Orleans through Atlanta, where a Greystone alumna met us and helped us change planes, to Greenville/Spartanburg for 3-we...

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Alumnae Blog: Save the Memories

by Katherine

by Katherine

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The mind is an amazing thing . . . I can’t tell you the name of my son’s science teacher, but I know the name, hometown, college and sorority of ever...

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Check out this 2006 snippet from “Greystone’s Finest and Oldest Newspaper” detailing the counselor triumph over the campers during the Tennis Tourname...

by Catherine

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Alumnae Throwback: QLB

by Laura

by Laura

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I was a camper back in the late 70’s, early 80’s. One of the highlights of Main Camp each summer was the Queen of Love and Beauty (QLB). At that tim...

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