(At Tate's Day Camp) by Chris Strevel, Santa's Favorite Camp Director Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the camp not a creature was stirring, not even an ant. The stockings were hung by the oak tree with care, in hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there. Taboo the squirrel was snug in [...]
I shouldn't have laughed until I knew that he was OK, and reflecting on it now, I'm just glad that we didn't seriously harm an assistant director or damage a porta-potty. The year was 1995, and I was the director of Tate's Day Camp. At the time we had two assistant directors (Andy Lamon and [...]
Recently someone commented that they couldn't believe I have worked at the same place for 25 years. How is that possible and how did it happen? Here's the story! It was 1989 and I was sitting in the University Center at UT killing time between classes when I opened the UT Daily Beacon newspaper and [...]
By Chris Strevel Captain's Blog, Stardate Winter 2013. We are preparing to embark on a magical journey to a place in the galaxy unlike any that we have ever visited . . . a place known as Tate's Day Camp, City of Knoxville, State of Tennessee, Planet Earth. Since the year 1982, our sensors have [...]