Ladies and Gentlemen,

Good news from Camp!

I have spoken often with many of you about the enormous turnaround and positive direction of the Camp under the leadership team of The Rev. Peter Larom, as Executive Director of Incarnation Center, and Nancy Nygard Pilon as Camp Director and, more recently, as Associate Executive Director.

I am now pleased to be able to tell you that the Peter and Nancy team will continue, in a different configuration, as we move forward to continue the great momentum of the Camp and its role as the emotional fulcrum of Incarnation Center.

As you know, Peter has dedicated his talents and skills to resurrecting Incarnation Center for the past seven years. All of us who have gotten to know him appreciate his vision for the Center and marveled at his ability to get things done and willingness to get directly involved doing so. Peter has a special fondness for Incarnation Camp and recognizes its role as the foundation for all that the Center has become today. He supported Nancy as she successfully revived the Pequot and Sherwood camp program and brought Pioneer Village back from the dead.

Peter now wants to refocus his energy and ideas on the Camp alone, and has asked the Board of Directors to allow him to step down from his role as Executive Director to become Camp Director. At the same time, Nancy has agreed to take on the role of Executive Director. The Board has unanimously approved this new leadership structure. While unrelated to this development, Karen Fairbairn, the Camp Director for the past two summers, resigned at the end of the camp season to pursue other opportunities.

Peter comes to his new role with ambitious goals and practical plans to implement them:

1. Fill the overnight camp to capacity by retaining more return campers and recruiting more 8- and 9-year-olds.

2. Recruit more American staff and develop a strategy to retain them.

3. Retain present staff in order to build a solid human capacity and camp program knowledge for the future.

4. Work with Nancy to continue our reconnection to camp alumni and establish an alumni association.

5. Identify potential candidates for consideration to be the next Camp Director.

As you know, Nancy took over the leadership of the Camp eight years ago at its lowest point in history. Nancy’s knowledge of our Incarnation Camp traditions along with her passion, leadership and competence are testaments to the resurgence of the Camp under her stewardship. She reached out to the alumni and garnered our support. She brought new ideas and energy. She made Incarnation Camp home again.

The Board recognized Nancy’s initiative and skills two years ago with her appointment to the position of Associate Executive Director with the charge of managing the Center’s administration and operations. Under Nancy’s stewardship the Center’s operations have improved and thrived. In Nancy’s new position – for which she has the full support of the Board – she will implement a compelling vision of Incarnation Center’s future. Nancy started at the Camp when she was seven years old and now she is poised to be the Center’s leader for years to come.

Nancy and Peter will start in their new roles on Monday, November 1. Please keep them both in your thoughts and prayers as they assume their new positions. Thanks to all of you for your support of Incarnation. Please share this news with others in the Incarnation family.

Cheers,

Marcus