Camp Greystone is a Christian summer camp

Summer camp

Summer camp is a supervised program for children or teenagers conducted during the summer months in some countries. Children and adolescents who attend summer camp are known as campers....

 for girls located near Tuxedo, NC in the mountains of western North Carolina

North Carolina

North Carolina is a state located in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina contains 100 counties. Its capital is Raleigh, and its largest city is Charlotte...

. The camp offers sessions ranging in length from 1 week to 5 weeks for girls ages 5–17. Sessions begin in late May and continue through mid-August.

History

Greystone was founded in 1920 by Dr. Joseph R. Sevier and his wife Edith. Before founding the camp, Dr. Sevier was the minister at First Presbyterian Church

First Presbyterian Church

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 in Augusta, GA

Augusta, Georgia

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. After exploring the Blue Ridge Mountains

Blue Ridge Mountains

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, Dr. Sevier found a location for the camp and began with the first campers in 1920. When Dr. Sevier died in 1945, he passed the camp leadership on to his daughter, Virginia, and her husband, Joe Hanna. The Hannas led the camp through the 50's and 60's. The camp was then passed on to the Hanna's daughter Libby Hanna Miller and her husband Jim Miller III. Libby still serves as senior director at the camp today. Jim died January 29, 2010. Their son, Jim Miller IV, and his wife, Dr. Margaret Broadbent Miller, currently own and run the camp. Jim received his Master of Divinity

Master of Divinity

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 from Reformed Theological Seminary

Reformed Theological Seminary

Reformed Theological Seminary is a non-denominational, evangelical Protestant seminary. RTS's first campus remains in Jackson, Mississippi, United States though the school has expanded to include several additional campuses.-Founding:...

 in Charlotte, NC

Charlotte, North Carolina

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. Dr. Margaret Miller serves as the camp's Health Director and is a board certified pediatrician.

Campers

Camp Greystone serves over 1850 campers each summer. Campers live with 8 - 12 other girls in cabins with one or two counselors. Greystone is structured around a fourfold philosophy of nurturing the spiritual, physical, mental, and social development of young girls. Camp Greystone has a 98% return rate each summer.

Program Activities

During the one-week Junior camp session, campers travel with their counselor to a number of different activities. During the three-week June camp session and five-week Main camp session, campers choose 14 activities to take during the summer. Two-week August camp campers register for 7 activities.

Greystone offers water activities in its 3 to 8 ft (2.4 m). pool, 10 to 12 ft (3.7 m). pool, and lake front areas. These activities include sailing

Sailing

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, kayaking

Kayaking

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, competitive swimming, diving

Diving

Diving is the sport of jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard, sometimes while performing acrobatics. Diving is an internationally-recognized sport that is part of the Olympic Games. In addition, unstructured and non-competitive diving is a recreational pastime.Diving is one...

, rowing

Watercraft rowing

Watercraft rowing is the act of propelling a boat using the motion of oars in the water. The difference between paddling and rowing is that with rowing the oars have a mechanical connection with the boat whereas with paddling the paddles are hand-held with no mechanical connection.This article...

, waterpark, synchronized swimming

Synchronized swimming

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, lap swim, swimming lessons, water polo

Water polo

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, water aerobics

Water aerobics

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, and many, many more.

Greystone offers different artistic programs in its 6000 sq ft (557.4 m²). Fine Arts Center. These activities include metal jewelry, crafts, ceramics, glass beads, glass fusion, scrapbooking

Scrapbooking

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, sewing

Sewing

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, knitting

Knitting

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, and painting

Painting

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.

Greystone offers active and non-active land activities, including tennis

Tennis

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, soccer, basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

, track, cross country

Cross country running

Cross country running is a sport in which people run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road...

, softball

Softball

Softball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of 10 to 14 players. It is a direct descendant of baseball although there are some key differences: softballs are larger than baseballs, and the pitches are thrown underhand rather than overhand...

, volleyball

Volleyball

Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...

, prep sports, lacrosse

Lacrosse

Lacrosse is a team sport of Native American origin played using a small rubber ball and a long-handled stick called a crosse or lacrosse stick, mainly played in the United States and Canada. It is a contact sport which requires padding. The head of the lacrosse stick is strung with loose mesh...

, field hockey

Field hockey

Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...

, ballet

Ballet

Ballet is a type of performance dance, that originated in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th century, and which was further developed in France and Russia as a concert dance form. The early portions preceded the invention of the proscenium stage and were presented in large chambers with...

, tap

Tap dance

Tap dance is a form of dance characterized by using the sound of one's tap shoes hitting the floor as a percussive instrument. As such, it is also commonly considered to be a form of music. Two major variations on tap dance exist: rhythm tap and Broadway tap. Broadway tap focuses more on the...

, jazz

Jazz dance

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, gymnastics

Gymnastics

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, tumbling, fencing

Fencing

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, fitness

Physical fitness

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, high adventure, high ropes, summer reading, creative writing

Creative writing

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, French, Spanish, cooking

Cooking

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, guitar

Guitar

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, riflery, archery

Archery

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, dog camp, drama, modeling, dance team, juggling

Juggling

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, jump rope, and more.

Campers can also register for special activities, which they take in addition to their everyday activities. Greystone's riding program offers private lessons, group lessons, and trail rides. Campers can also register for skiing

Skiing

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 or rafting

Rafting

Rafting or white water rafting is a challenging recreational outdoor activity using an inflatable raft to navigate a river or other bodies of water. This is usually done on white water or different degrees of rough water, in order to thrill and excite the raft passengers. The development of this...

 trips throughout the summer. Campers ski at Lake Keowee in South Carolina, raft at the Pigeon River in Tennessee, and ride at the camp's own 60 horse barn. There is also another smaller barn for trail rides.

Recognitions

Greystone was featured in Life Magazine

Life (magazine)

Life generally refers to three American magazines:*A humor and general interest magazine published from 1883 to 1936. Time founder Henry Luce bought the magazine in 1936 solely so that he could acquire the rights to its name....

in 1941 in an article titled "Life Goes Calling at Camp Greystone." Greystone was also featured in the 1956 Ties: The Southern Railway System Magazine in an article "All Aboard for Summer Camp," which featured Greystone campers traveling via train to attend for the summer.

More recently, Town & Country

Town & Country (magazine)

Town & Country, formerly the Home Journal and The National Press, is a monthly American lifestyle magazine. It is the oldest continually published general interest magazine in the United States.-Early history:...

magazine photographed Greystone and its campers for its July 1992 article titled "The Boys and Girls of Summer." Tom Nebbia, retired National Geographic photographer and book illustrator, visited the camp in 2008 to photograph a natural take of camp life.