As many of you know, Jeremy Klotz, GUCI's current Director, literally grew up at camp, with his father serving in the role as Director for more than 30 years. Understandably, there are thousands of photos from throughout these years, but Jeremy has hand-selected his...

Jillian Shkolnick is an Assistant Director at GUCI. When I talk about my job, I usually get one of two responses. For anyone that has no history or affiliation with a summer camp, they tend to be confused and ask what I do when camp isn't in session. For anyone that...

Michael Kaplan is an Assistant Director at GUCI as well as a Regional Advisor for NFTY Ohio Valley. I first met Casey in 2003 – I was in my last year of Shoresh and she was in her first year of Gezah (apparently I had a thing for more mature ladies as Casey is a whole...

Jordan is a first session Gezah camper and for one of his classes, was asked to write about something in his past that he would change if he could. If I could change one thing from my past, I would've asked my parents to go to sleep away camp two years earlier. My mom...

Grateful for Being Whole-Hearted, Vulnerable and Finding Self-Love – at GUCI “But what if it’s not good enough?”, I asked myself 2 minutes before our last board meeting. As chair of the GUCI Board of Advisors, it is a goal to ensure there is a short bit of Jewish...

Shalom from Overland Park, Kansas! My name is Ben Walker and I am excited to have recently joined GUCI’s Board of Advisors. What’s the board of advisors? Great question, and one that I had myself when I heard from Katy Shapiro asking whether I would be interested in...

Throughout the summer GUCI is lucky to place host to many guests – faculty, alumni, camp doctors/nurses and artists-in-residence. During Kallah Bet (second session) we had a visit from Alan Goodis, a national touring Jewish musician based in Chicago, who grew up here...

Every camp parents know this car-ride conversation: “How was it?” “Great!” “What’d you do? “Lots of fun stuff.” Sound familiar? After a session at camp, I’m sure your child has countless camp moments they can share – but will they? Getting kids beyond the “it was...

Prepared by Shirah Kraus Juice: Summit Rosenberg, the Gezah (7th-8th grade) unit head, enjoyed Yom Lilah, or Day of Night. Instead of attending the regularly-scheduled evening programming with the rest of camp, Summit surprised his campers with a camp-out on Gezah...