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Chips & Splinters

Check out the latest edition of Chips & Splinters, our newsletter, to see what’s been happening in the Hi-Rock world. Read the most recent issue of Chips & Splinters. Click here for past issues

Not Your Grandfather’s Bug Juice

When Don Hutchinson, Hi-Rock alumnus and member of the Plantain Pond Mortgage Club, visited Hi-Rock this summer for the first time in years, he had his heart set on a cup of good old fashioned bug juice!

The Berkshire Bowl

The YMCA Camp Hi-Rock versus YMCA Camp Sloane staff soccer match has been held each summer since 2008. It has always been a close competition with no team ever winning back-to back games.

Team Hi-Rock – London 2012

A group of Hi-Rock alumni (and other friends of Merritt Hopper) have been making their way from one Olympics to the next since the Salt Lake City games in 2002.

Junior Olympian

Campers who took martial arts as a coaching period this summer had a special treat – an instructor who just returned from the Junior Olympics in Texas where she won a bronze medal in Tae Kwon Do!

ALUMNI SPOTLIGHTS – Tim Morehouse

Many Hi-Rock campers spent this summer dreaming about being in the Olympics someday. Alumnus Tim Morehouse has realized that dream three times as part of the US Olympic fencing team.

ALUMNI SPOTLIGHTS – Alumni on Both Sides of the Aisle

Hi-Rocker’s around the world are watching closely as election season heats up. Three Hi-Rock alumni who serve in the Connecticut State Senate are part of the race.

New Programs, Happy Campers

Stand-Up Paddle Boarding, Explore 30 Reading and American Sign Language were big hits in 2012!