The Pemi experience provides innumerable opportunities for boys to have fun, try new activities, improve in areas of strength, and learn how to live in community with their peers. In addition to all these benefits, Pemi provides some less obvious but equally important chances for boys to develop, as our mission states, into “caring and engaged citizens of our diverse and ever-changing world.” Through a number of service projects offered every summer, Pemi boys engage with the broader New Hampshire community and give their time and energy to several worthy causes. This has taken different forms over our 116 years of existence. Highlighted below are several of the current opportunities Pemi boys have to engage in service. Volunteering with The Prouty Initiated in 1982 by four nurses from Dartmouth Cancer Center, The Prouty raises money for cancer research and patient services. It has become northern New England’s largest family-friendly fundraising event, with a goal in 2023 of raising $7 million. The 77-mile and 100-mile bike routes that form a core part of the fundraising traverse Route 25A, the road Pemi is located on. The hardest stretch of the whole ride is a 3-mile climb up and over Mt. Cube, right down the road from us. In order to assist riders as they crest this hill, Pemi campers operate a SAG (stop-and-go) Station, providing hydration, snacks, and vocal encouragement! The Pemi team wakes up at 5am, eats an early breakfast in the Mess Hall, loads into vans, and heads to the Thompson Family Farm to set up the bike racks, food tables, water station, and recycling/compost/garbage station. All supplies are provided by The Prouty and have been picked up in Hanover the previous afternoon. Campers are on-site and supporting riders from 6am until noon, while also interacting with other medical, radio, and bike tech support volunteers. Pemi campers have assisted with Prouty operations via the Mt. Cube SAG Stop since 2006! Long-time Prouty-Pemi liaisons have been Tom Ciglar (head of dining services) in the early years, Deb Kure (head of nature) since 2011, and as of 2022, Michaella Frank (head of ACs), along with about 20 annual sandwich-making, watermelon-cutting, water jug re-filling campers, and occasional Silver Cornet Band musicians or staff fiddlers to make it “The Best Party on The Prouty!” It is an ideal community involvement, as it is also an opportunity for the Pemi campers to witness long-haul
The Pemi experience provides innumerable opportunities for boys to have fun, try new activities, improve in areas of strength, and learn how to live in community with their peers. In addition to all these benefits, Pemi provides some less obvious but equally important chances for boys to develop, as our mission states, into “caring and engaged citizens of our diverse and ever-changing world.” Through a number of service projects offered every summer, Pemi boys engage with the broader New Hampshire community and give their time and energy to several worthy causes. This has taken different forms over our 116 years of existence. Highlighted below are several of the current opportunities Pemi boys have to engage in service. Volunteering with The Prouty Initiated in 1982 by four nurses from Dartmouth Cancer Center, The Prouty raises money for cancer research and patient services. It has become northern New England’s largest family-friendly fundraising event, with a goal in 2023 of raising $7 million. The 77-mile and 100-mile bike routes that form a core part of the fundraising traverse Route 25A, the road Pemi is located on. The hardest stretch of the whole ride is a 3-mile climb up and over Mt. Cube, right down the road from us. In order to assist riders as they crest this hill, Pemi campers operate a SAG (stop-and-go) Station, providing hydration, snacks, and vocal encouragement! The Pemi team wakes up at 5am, eats an early breakfast in the Mess Hall, loads into vans, and heads to the Thompson Family Farm to set up the bike racks, food tables, water station, and recycling/compost/garbage station. All supplies are provided by The Prouty and have been picked up in Hanover the previous afternoon. Campers are on-site and supporting riders from 6am until noon, while also interacting with other medical, radio, and bike tech support volunteers. Pemi campers have assisted with Prouty operations via the Mt. Cube SAG Stop since 2006! Long-time Prouty-Pemi liaisons have been Tom Ciglar (head of dining services) in the early years, Deb Kure (head of nature) since 2011, and as of 2022, Michaella Frank (head of ACs), along with about 20 annual sandwich-making, watermelon-cutting, water jug re-filling campers, and occasional Silver Cornet Band musicians or staff fiddlers to make it “The Best Party on The Prouty!” It is an ideal community involvement, as it is also an opportunity for the Pemi campers to witness long-haul
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