On the last Sunday of October, over a hundred CRS alums and friends gathered virtually to celebrate 90 years of Camp Rising Sun. Over three live sessions to suit our global audience in Asia, Europe and Africa, and the Americas, our community came together to remember the goals and mission of creating a better world that unite us.
We were thrilled to surpass our fundraising goal of $25,000 during the final session! With a generous match from alumni Steen Sauerberg, we were able to raise over $85,000 for our Virtual 90th Anniversary Campaign!
Rich Richter joined us from his home in New York
The events featured a welcome address from Board Director Tim Wong, speeches by Camp Historian and friend Rick Ritcher and more. The three sessions were hosted by HuiChen Wang ‘16-’17, Dr. Thomas Berger ‘78 and Andrea Alexander ‘99, ‘00, ‘06.
We are grateful to our community for supporting Freddie’s vision and the future of the Rising Sun community and the initiatives LAJF is working on. We look forward to a promising path for our organization and to gathering with our alums from all over the globe.
P.S. We wanted to take this opportunity to share the remarks that former LAJF Executive Director, Bill Dubey ‘‘40-’42, ‘77-’86 , shared with the Board earlier this summer. You can find Bill’s remarks here.