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“I met my best friend at Camp JCC. We are still best friends.” That is how Marcy Blumberg begins her story. She was once a camper here. Now a parent of three campers. And today, she watches her son Joey walk the same path, from camper to counselor, on the very same field.
“Camp has been such a big part of my life,” Joey says. “I’ve made so many great memories.”
That is Camp Jaycee. For 80 years, that cycle has repeated itself. A child arrives. They make friends. They grow. They come back. And one day, they help create that same magic for someone else. That is L’dor V’dor — from generation to generation.
Starting in the 1940s, Albert A. Hutler, then Executive Director of the United Jewish Fund, believed wholeheartedly in Jewish day camp. He knew it would change the landscape of Jewish life in San Diego. “Everybody had a very strong sense that we were creating something that was going to have a future,” said Barbara London Rakov, reflecting on expanding Camp Jaycee to North City in the 1980s.
So what now? First, we celebrate. On May 31, the community gathers for the Campfire Gala — Camp Jaycee’s biggest fundraiser of the year. And second, we look ahead to this summer. Because right now, there is still time for your child to be part of this story. To meet their people. To try something new. To come home changed.
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