House In The Wood 
Camp & Retreat Center
Delavan, Wisconsin
since 1910


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updated 11/2007
NEW Now Renting Summer Weekends (11/07)

-Camp Director Awarded Highest Honor from ACA Wis. (11/07)
-New at Camp (11/07)
NEW!
Blast from the Past. Photos from Past Summers (11/07)
-Camp Alumni to archive Summer 2007 photos (10/07)
-Workbee a Success! (9/07)
-Thanks for Paint Donation and Bay Road Repairs (9/07)
-New Camp Kitty-Tuffy Tuesday (9/07)
-Thanks for LIT Workshop (7/07)
-Thanks to Building with Books (7/07)
-Thanks to Joe Boehrer & Friends for Art Center Steps (6/07)
-Camp Reunion Photos (1/07)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Why we exist  · What we do during the summer  · North Shore Board · What we do the rest of the year  · About Northwestern University Settlement  · What it means to be an ACA nationally accredited summer camp and retreat center   · Directions to camp   · More about Delevan, Wisconsin
 
 

Summer Jobs
We have summer camp positions open from early June through late August for camp counselors, kitchen, health and administration.
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Facilities and Services
We have housing, meeting space, and food service to serve 100 during the summer and 60 during the off season. View pictures of our facility.
 
 

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Retreat Center
We specialize in exclusive use for our rental groups. We can serve 20 to 60 between September and May. We provide comfortable lodgings and meeting space nestled in 23 wooded acres on the quiet shores of Lake Delavan.
 
 

Leaders In Training Program - our camper page
This page is designed by our LIT's. Our LIT program is a four year program open to teens ages 13 to 16. It is a proven way to improve interpersonal relationships and master valuable life skills.
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Slide show is best viewed at modem speeds at 56,000 baud, broadband, DSL or T1 lines. Files are very large so be patient as they load. Recommended for fast internet only. You can click on the individual slides or view the show by clicking on the projector screen in the lower right hand corner. 
 
 

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Val Wright, Camp Director hitw@execpc.com
Office Phone/Fax: 414-329-7585 (weekdays late-September thru mid-May)
Camp Phone: 1-262-728-2752 (ALL summer and weekends)
Contact Val for retreat center reservations/information, employment, volunteering, LIT's and general information
Adam Perez, Associate Camp Director aperez@nush.org 
Office Phone: 773-278-7471 (weekdays mid-September thru late-May)
Office Fax: 773-278-2621
Camp Phone: 1-262-728-2752 (ALL summer and weekends)
Contact Adam for summer camp registration.
Terry Fowler, Food Services Director tfowler@nush.org
Office Phone/Fax: 414-329-7585 (weekdays late-September thru mid-May)
Camp Phone: 1-262-728-2752 (ALL summer and weekends)
Contact Terry for food related questions and concerns.

House In The Wood
3300 Bay Road
Delavan, WI 53115-3265 USA

Camp Phone: 1-262-728-2752 (ALL summer and weekends)
Camp Fax: 1-262-728-4015 (ALL summer and weekends)

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News Details
  Camp Director Val Wright Awarded Highest Honor from American Camp Association Wisconsin--the Acorn Award. The Acorn Award is the highest honor presented to a nominated member of ACA Wisconsin. Its purpose is to honor individual members of the Section who have given truly outstanding and exceptional service to camping within the Section that is “above and beyond the call of duty.” Carrying out the normal duties of an elected office or chairship of a committee is not alone sufficient.
New at Camp. In addition to the new Art Center Steps and the new Nature Center Steps (see below), we also added new furniture and equipment. We added new wooden bunk beds and new equipment in the kitchen--dishwasher and mixer. Click here to see pictures.
NEW! Blast from the Past. See photo gallery from past summers. I am scanning my old photos. The first gallery is from August 1991.  Find Staff Colin, Martin, Mark, Richard, Sarah, Cindy, Angel, Sonja, Ms Val and LIT's Adam, Pharaoh, Daisy, Ramses, Anthony and Kindrick. Watch this site for MORE photo galleries from past summers.
Camp Alumni to archive Summer 2007 photos. Our House In The Wood camp alumni site will be archiving our 2007 camp photos from Bunk 1. In past summers, once they were gone from the Bunk 1 site, no one had access to them again. This is GREAT news. Please click on the Camp Alumni REGISTRATION button to sign up for House In The Wood Camp Alumni. It's FREE!
Workbee a Success! We had a total of 80 people attend workbee! We had a group from the Settlement's Business Office, a group from Noble Street Charter School and a group from the Settlement's Project YES! AmeriCorps program. They completed over 20 hours of work over three and a half days. Click here for the pictures.
Thanks for Paint Donation & Bay Road Repairs. A big thank you to Linda and Dave who recently got married at camp over the Labor Day weekend. Linda has been the camp nurse during the summer on and off for about 15 years. They donated Lowe's Gift Cards to purchase paint for Vittum Lodge. They also did repairs on Bay Road--the road that leads to camp. Click here for a picture of Linda and Dave at their wedding.
New Camp Kitty-Tuffy. Sparky, one of the camp cats whom many of your know because she is so friendly, disappeared for 11 days while at camp. We think that she must have been locked in a neighbor's garage. In the meantime, we got a new baby kitty so that we would have two camp kitties. Meet Tuffy who helps in the office. Now there are three kitties at camp.
Thanks for LIT Workshop. A big thank you goes out to
Carol Kahn, Tracey Hall, Chuck Heisinger and Rod Echols for doing a LIT workshop
over the weekend in July. Carol and Chuck are now making plans to help us get a year around suport program going for our LIT's. It is still in its early stages but it is looking good for mentoring, monthly meetings and life skill field trips around Chicago.
Thanks to Building with Books.
A big thank you to Building with Books who came out to House In The Wood for a week in July and did many community service projects. Building with Books is a service organization that recruits students from Chicago High Schools. There were 22 students in the group that came to camp. They worked on the upper nature center steps, pulled weeds in the boating area, spread gravel and wood chips, and painted our building signs. Thanks! See one picture that says it all. Other pictures are in our photo gallery.
Camp Reunion Photos. Go to KodakGallery.com to view the photos from the January 2007 Camp Reunion in Chicago. It is FREE but you must register.

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