07 Episode-Columns: The Second Scourge Of Electronic Technology
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And new strategic countermeasures that directors can use to thwart the threat
By Chris Thurber
Most day and overnight camps forbid campers from using their phones. Most camps also forbid staff members from the same—at least in front of campers. Since the inception of organized summer camps, most directors have shared the conviction that camp is a place where in-person social interactions flourish, where the encroachment of electronic technology detracts from camps’ core mission. Most parents share that conviction, including Alexander Graham Bell, who in 1916 famously remarked to C. Hanford Henderson, the director of Camp Marienfeld in South Carolina, “It may surprise you, but I congratulate you on the fact that you have no telephone.”
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