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happyTopic: Celebrate Owasippe
Chicago Area Council is NOW entertaining applications for ALL staff positions for the 2007 camping season from all interested and qualified individuals regardless of gender or council affiliation. ALL positions are open for review including Warehouse and Trading Post Directors, Program Area Directors, Commissioners, Instructors,
Manistee Quest trek guides, Diamond-O Ranch wranglers, outpost managers, store clerks, counselor-in-training, and other positions. Camps/areas to be staffed are Camps Blackhawk, Wolverine, Carlen, and Reneker as well as High Adventure Outposts and the Manistee Quest.
Greg Lange will be returning as the Owasippe Reservation Director for 2007 and has announced recent selections for key staff positions at Owasippe for next summer, namely:
* Peter Klaeser, Asst Reservation Director
* Marilyn Kulak, Blackhawk Section Camp Director
* Candy Merritt, Reneker Family Camp Director
* Tim Gibbons, High Adventure Director
* Ryan Gust, Wolverine Section Camp Director
The first public staff interviews will be conducted on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, November 25th, from 9am to 1pm at St Daniel The Prophet Church Hall, 5330 S Nashville, Chicago IL 60638. Subsequent interview dates and locations are to occur as follows:
Interview #2: Saturday, December 9, 9am to Noon, at the CAC Service Center, 1218 W Adams St, Chicago (1/2 Bl west of Racine Ave).
Interview #3: Saturday, January 20, 9am to Noon, at St Bart's Parish Kruger Hall, 4924 W Addison, Chicago (1-1/2 Bl west of Cicero Ave).
Interested staff candidates should apply ASAP and get their paperwork and reference letters in to CAC and should appear in Class-A uniform for their interview. Please take this opportunity to recruit qualified candidates from within your Scouting circles. There can never be enough skilled candidates.
CIT (counselor-in-training) positions are for those who will be of Star Rank, minimum age of 14 by the opening of camp, in the 9th grade, have been a summer camper for at least 3 years, and can get their Scoutmaster's approval plus two other letters of reference. The exceptions to this are for the girls at Camp Reneker who do not have to comply with the rank or Scoutmaster signoffs. Regular Campstaff must be age 16 by the opening day of camp. Some management positions require one to be age 21 or older and have other experience for the job.
Staff application forms can be received by calling the Chicago Area Council camping center at 312-421-8800 x227 or by calling or e-mailing the Co-chairs of the 2006 Owasippe CIT Program, Chauncey and Mary Beth Niziol, at 708-562-4874 or to Chaunceyn@aol.com or to Bookwormom@aol.com.
For more information and forms, you can go to...CAC's website at www.chicagobsa.org and open the tabs for "Camping" and then for "Owasippe Scout Reservation", then scroll down... OR go to The
Scarlet Sassafras website page, "Camp Staff and More" at
http://scarlet_sassafras.tripod.com/id9.html
AND MORE GOOD NEWS...Owasippe will be open in 2008 and will begin taking reservations as the 2007 camping season opens.
