Summer Camping Faces Lull as War Babies Age In
A Sylvia Porter survey reports 5 million children will attend 12 500 U S camps this year, unchanged since 1959, with a $500 million industry now facing a lull as baby boomers enter teens and travel shifts favor family vacations and overseas camps. Camps adapt by longer seasons, two five week sessions, off season weeks, and using sites for conventions to cut costs.
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New York
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YMCA
Miss Hicks
Camps Open Doors to Families and Solo Guests This Summer
The piece notes camps shifting to rent to families for weekends or weeks and reserving areas for transient guests. It predicts a national trend as camps adapt to teen-agers growing into adulthood, signaling broader business ingenuity. Reports come from around the world by Bob Young on KCRG-TV 9.
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Chinese immigrant earns University of Delaware degree at 68
Sun Pei Lee, a native of China who raised seven children through college, earned a bachelor of science in agriculture at the University of Delaware, becoming the institution’s oldest graduate. He arrived in the United States in 1956 and became a citizen in 1963, hoping to work with international agricultural agencies.
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Wilmington, del
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Lee
University of Delaware
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