To the wonderful Echo Hill community:

I've taken the good with the bad, the harmony with the heartache, and it hasn't hurt me any. What can I say, some people don't like it, so they don't come back the next summer. Not everyone can look behind the heat, sweat, and mosquito bites to find the love, friendship, and endurance camp brings. After the first summer they simply cannot make it (some don't even make it through the whole summer).

Then there are the others who love camp oh, so much; they come back even as counselors to ensure the tradition of excellence carries on.

Last year was my CA summer. And I tried to squeeze all I could into 2 weeks, but of course, it wasn't enough. I took the 5th annual emergency room visit, did the swamp muck I promised myself I would do and even signed up for archery. The summer was chock full of memories I hope to keep for the rest of my life.

I don't know how to close all of this. Memories of a past Echo Hill camper go on for pages and pages without any concrete ending, and so my ending seems appropriate because for everything at Echo Hill and all I have taken from it, all I can say is thank you.

I thank Nick Kirsch, for thinking I was special enough to share this precious gift called Echo Hill with me. Who knows, perhaps I'll be a counselor when Niko is old enough to come. Thank you Pete and Penny, for seeing my need for Echo Hill and allowing me to come back every year. Thanks Danny for keeping up with me and making a way through any and all circumstances, for me to be back year after year. Thank you counselors and campers from 94-98 for keeping Echo Hill what it should be. Thanks to the Diva's, while not always understanding each other, we did manage to make it out alive! Helene and Christine L. What can I say, if you do it again next year, more power to you, I love you. To all the campers I did not mention, I will see you next summer, counselor or not. And to all the wonderful people,
parents and counselor alumni who donate to the campership fund, I thank you. You really have no idea how much it means that I, along with others, have had such a great opportunity to partake of all that is Echo Hill.

Thank you again, and I will see you soon!

Sincerely,
April Davis