camp mother

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1. 1

   Alternative form of Camp Mother.

   • The choice of the Aloha Camps was a happy one; but Mrs. Gulick should be designated as camp director instead of camp mother. Camp mother is used to designate the person in charge of midgets at a boys' camp.
   • A camp mother, who is introduced during registration, has been found a real asset in Massachusetts. She answers questions, solves small difficulties, and is especially in demand in mixed camps.
   • I would tell the camp mother, on my way out, so she would take charge while I was away.
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   A woman in charge of housekeeping tasks in a camp.

   • The camp mother managed to keep the stomachs full and the beds in tip-top shape.
   • Roles for such women were few: Mrs. Perry adopted the role of “camp mother” for her husband's expedition in the arctic; years later, Hannah Breece took a position as teacher in remote arctic villages.
   • At the entrance, a middle-aged woman with heavy eyebrows, black hair pulled back in a ponytail, and a strong smell of mints, introduced herself as Miss Stoakley, their camp mother.
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   A woman who took on the role of adoptive mother to a motherless girl in a concentration…

   A woman who took on the role of adoptive mother to a motherless girl in a concentration camp.

   • She became known as the little girl who sat on the steps of the TB Block, darting inside whenever she saw authorities, then going back to await the return of her camp mother.
   • Adelsberger herself was adopted by two young girls as their 'camp mother'.
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      A woman employed to look after the youngest children at a summer camp.

      • It is no joke to be a "Camp Mother". When I think of it now, all the headaches she must have had. Here are some of the things she had to handle: — One girl was afraid of feathers; another girl afraid of cows;
      • These nicknames ritualized relationships and ways of thinking about community and kinship outside traditional bounds; at many camps, counselors became “Aunt” or “Uncle,” while the youngest children were under the care of a “Camp Mother.”
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      A woman in charge of housekeeping and the supervision of campers at a summer camp.

      • Mrs. Reimann is a true "Camp Mother" to every boy in camp, caring for their intimate needs, helping them tide over lonesome times, sewing on buttons, and doing everything a mother is called on to do at home.
      • Some years at Camp Winsoki, our mother worked as the camp nurse, but more often she was something called Camp Mother, the woman who tended to the needs of several hundred Jewish children: their allergies, homesickness, bedwetting, ...

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