The American Camp Association, New York and New Jersey has recognized two men in Central New Jersey for their extraordinary contributions to the summer camp industry. Awards were presented at the national conference in Orlando, Florida, on February 5.
Douglass Fullman of Plainsboro received the special recognition award. He is the retired associate regional director of the Northeast Region of Boy Scouts of America and a leader in the camp industry. His volunteer work as a board member for the New York State Camp Directors Association, the American Camp Association, and the New Jersey Camps Government Affairs Project required that he bring together camp directors from many different types of camps.
Andy Pritikin, owner, director, and founder of Liberty Lake Day Camp in Bordentown, received the National Honor award. He has worked in the summer camp industry for 20 years and is involved in many aspects of the business. During most of those years, he served as treasurer of ACA, NY and NJ Board of Directors, the Professional Development Chair, and Chairman of the Tri-State Camp Conference, the largest conference for camp professionals in the world.
Pritikin has been on numerous American Camp Association committees, and was recently named president of the American Camp Association NY and NJ. An active supporter of Morry’s Camp and SCOPE, two non-profit organizations that raise money to send inner-city youths to camp each summer, he recently created the Liberty Lake Foundation to do the same for children in the Bordentown.
Pritikin also does consulting for the Foundation of Jewish Camps and is the founder and president of the New Jersey Camps Government Affairs Project, an organization created to protect the interests of all New Jersey summer camps.
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