by PIC | Jan 23, 2024 | PIC News, Pine Needle
Monte Ball performs The Lion Hunt at the Final Campfire, circa 1985 Montague G. Ball, Jr. November 18, 1938 – January 17, 2024 It is with sadness and a deep well of gratitude that we bid Montague G. Ball, Jr. a final farewell. Monte died in hospital near his home in...
by PIC | Dec 4, 2023 | Pine Needle
Greetings from Needlenews the Needlenosed Newshound. Your favorite publication, The Pine Needle, is being assembled as we speak, and I need your help as I seek out news of Pine Islanders far and wide. If you’d like to be included in the ever-popular NeedleNews...
by PIC | May 8, 2023 | Pine Needle
New program poised to revolutionize PIC performance analytics By Xander Schwartz Pine Island’s position at the pinnacle of summer camp excellence is well-established and in no danger of diminishing, but several months ago, my associates and I became aware of a...
by PIC | May 2, 2023 | Pine Needle
Pine Islanders Find Athletic Success in the Real Worldby Sumner Ford Pine Island is far from a sports camp; indeed, our lack of competition is one of our major selling points. For campers and counselors who spent much of the year battling in various competitive...
by PIC | Apr 13, 2023 | Pine Needle
Since the foundation of Pine Island’s illustrious Leadership Training Internship Program, its staff of rising high-school seniors, known as LTIPs, have been semi-nomadic, living in a variety of places around the island: North Hampton, Tent 1, Kopa Kababa, even a...
by PIC | Apr 13, 2023 | Pine Needle
The job of an LTIP, as anyone who knows will tell you, is work. Long, arduous, sometimes pouring-rain work, which tends to focus everyone on the task at hand. Any apprehension I might have had about being on the marquee as ‘The FIRST Female LTIP at Pine Island Camp...
