81. Princeton-Blairstown Center
The Princeton-Blairstown Center is an independent, non-profit organization
founded by University alumni and students as the Princeton Summer Camp
in 1908 to offer healthy and character-building camping experiences to
disadvantaged inner-city children. In 1930, the program moved to
its present, permanent location in northwestern New Jersey. The
Center is located on 275 acres of forest, trails, and waterfalls near
to the 77,000-acre Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area.
Today, the program continues to serve disadvantaged youth and their communities
as its primary purpose, often employing University undergraduates as counselors.
In this picture, Susan Lynch ’89 counsels two children at the Blairstown
facility.
- To learn more about William Appleton Potter’s
buildings, see Café Vivian picture #11.
16, and 127.
- To learn more about campus fires, see icon #5
and Café Vivian picture #4, 8,
9, 46, 58,
and 61.
- To learn more about Princeton’s vanished
buildings, see Café Vivian picture #6,
8, 25, 37,
40, 46, 48,
58, 62, and 127.
- To learn more about campus grounds and buildings,
see icon #1, 5, and 8,
quotation #5, 7, 9,
28, and 39, and Café
Vivian picture #4, 6,
7, 8, 11,
16, 20, 25,
30, 33, 37,
40, 46, 48,
54, 58, 61,
62, 67, 68,
71, 85, 87,
95, 100, 101,
102, 104, 105,
108, 109, 111,
118, 124, 127,
and 134.
- To learn more about the history of science at Princeton, see icon #2, 5, 6, and 7, quotation #9, 27, 34, and 39, and Café Vivian picture #14, 15, 22, 25, 32, 35, 41, 43, 51, 64, 75, 83, 87, 90, 114, and 132.