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WELCOME to the 39th anniversary of CAMP TURRELL!!! I, Anthony Chirdo, will be returning to Turrell for my 4th summer as Camp Director and can guarantee that this summer will be even better than last, just as last summer was better than 2008. As a 6 year staff member for the camp I have seen what your scouts want and the Turrell Staff aim to achieve your dreams and aspirations as a camper of Turrell. I have learned what it takes to offer a quality program from former Turrell Program Director, the late George J. Fedor. Even though George will not be physically returning to camp this summer, his spirit and knowledge will be returning through the Staff and Scouters he has inspired for his last 20 year at Camp Turrell.
We have some great programs in store for the 2010 Season. We are looking to have a “Back to Basics” premise at camp. We are looking to go back to 1910 and train all leaders at Camp with everything they will need to be a trained leader in the Northern New Jersey Council. We are then looking to jump 100 years to the present and offer a Technology Program, which is designed to offer computers, graphic arts and the journalism merit badges.
Camp Turrell aims for excellence and with your help and support we will achieve what it takes.
We will be holding our summer camp kick-off meeting Feb 23th at 7:30pm at the Oakland Service Center.
If your scout is interested in “Project Soaring Eagle” (our Eagle week, week 5) he MUST be at the orientation meeting on Feb 23th at 7pm at the Oakland Service Center.
SEE YOU THIS SUMMER!!
Yours In Scouting,
Anthony Chirdo John Kim Lisa Van Kleef
Camp Director Assistant Camp Director Program Director
Iaoapogh Mountains Twin Valleys
District Executive District Executive
achirdo@bsamail.org john.kim@scouing.org
If you enjoyed the summer then look forward to the off-season programs at Camp Turrell
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X-Treme Sports Weekend in the Spring
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Rowing and Reeling in the Summer
WINTER, SPRING, SUMMER, FALL…CAMP TURRELL HAS IT ALL!!!
Try to make one or all of the events and you'll be sure to have a great time. Spread the word to your districts and let them experience the excitement that camp turrell has to offer
COME BE APART OF THE CAMP TURRELL STAFF Camp Applications
Camp Turrell is a Boy Scout Summer camp run by the Northern New Jersey Council of the Boy Scouts of America. Camp Turrell also can be used for off-season camping in the non-summer months. You can stay in tents, Peterson Lean-tos or the Peterson Lodge. At this time Camp Turrell has seasonal well water from May to end of October. Year round water can be found at Camp Kluge Canoes, Row Boats, and the Picnic Pavilion also can be rented.
Camp Kluge
Camp Kluge is an off season camp only. The camp has some tent areas, lean-tos, Kluge lodge and two new cabins that are open for use as of October 2007. The lean-tos sleep 4 and there are 3 available. The Kluge Lodge has a wood stove; fireplace, lights, and sleeps 24. Each of the two new cabis hold 30 and has propane heaters for year-round useage.
The yellow hiking trail will take you to the lake.
Family camping is available at the A frames they have lights, cook top, 3 bed rooms, bathroom but at this time they also only have only seasonal well water from May to end of October. They sleep 6. They also have no heat.
The Campmaster cabin is attached to the Kluge lodge. Check in is at from 6:30pm to 10pm Friday and 8am to 6pm Saturday. The camp closes at 1:30pm on Sunday.
Dow Drukker Scout Reservation is home to Camp Turrell and Camp Kluge.
The land was a gift from Dow Henry Drukker in 1931.
Dow Henry Drukker (December 9, 1872 - January 24, 1963) was an American Republican Party politician from New Jersey who represented the state's 6th congressional district from 1914 to 1919.
He was born in Sneek, Holland, and immigrated to the United States with his parents, who settled in Grand Rapids, Michigan the same year. He attended the public schools of Grand Rapids and then moved to New Jersey in 1897 and settled in Passaic, New Jersey. He worked as a businessman and banker and served as a member of the Passaic County Board of Chosen Freeholders from 1906-1913, serving as director 1908-1912.
Drukker was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Robert Gunn Bremner. He was reelected to the Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth Congresses and served from April 7, 1914, to March 3, 1919. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1918. After leaving Congress, he was the publisher of the Herald-News of Passaic-Clifton 1916-1963 and became president of the Union Building and Investment Co., in 1909. He was knighted as an Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau by Queen Juliana for services rendered in the great flood of 1953. He resided in Clifton, New Jersey and Lake Wales, Florida until his death in Lake Wales in 1963. He is buried in Cedar Lawn Cemetery in Paterson, New Jersey.
To reserve a campsite/cabin/leanto for short term camping, contact the Oakland Service Center at (201) 677-1000 and ask for Camping Secretary.
