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The most important consideration in choosing a camp is its safe environment and qualified staff. At O-AT-KA we understand this and work hard to build a strong leadership staff. With decades of camp expertise, our leadership staff strives to provide a caring, supportive and safe environment for every camper. Leading the way in providing a safe setting is our senior staff. There are also many women working in camp in various roles on a daily basis. Whether it is in the infirmary, Bungalow office, arts & crafts, on the waterfront or helping with meals, the campers enjoy the support they receive from the female staff.
Executive Director
Ron Hall, brings a broad range of educational and camping experience to his role with over 35 years of education administration and camp management experience. A camper in 1954, Ron became Executive Director in 1994. In 2000, Ron retired but did not stay away for long! He returned to camp as the Executive Director in 2006. In addition to his camp and school work, Ron has held numerous leadership positions with the Maine Youth Camp Association and the American Camp Association. He currently serves on the ACA-New England Board of Directors.
Summer Camp Director
Bill Southwick, began his career at O-AT-KA in 1978 as a middle unit camper. Over the years, Bill has served as a cabin counselor, wilderness trip leader, senior unit head, and assistant director. When he is not at camp, Bill is a middle school English and history teacher and an interscholastic swim coach at Dexter School in Brookline, Massachusetts. An American Camp Association Standards Visitor, he has served on the Junior Maine Guide Board (JMG) since 1991.
Service Master
Bob Courtney, has spent 50 summers at O-AT-KA. He began his O-AT-KA career as a junior unit counselor, and has held positions including unit head, head of work crew, head of Commons and service master. Bob is a retired professor of mathematics at Baker University in Baldwin City, Kansas.
Program Director
Charles Donovan, has fifteen years of camp leadership experience. Charles has dual roles as program director and cabin counselor in the junior unit. He is a high school biology teacher and debate coach in Baltimore, Maryland.
Senior Unit Head
Dick Gibson, has been with O-AT-KA for twenty-five years . Dick has served as the waterfront director and senior unit head. A retired physical education teacher and coach, Dick and his wife, Chris, live in Tucson, Arizona.
Middle Unit Head
Jim Millard, joined the staff of O-AT-KA in the summer of 1995, when he began a seven-summer role as junior unit head. He has also served as program director, middle unit head, and assistant director. Jim is the director of O-AT-KA’s Dennen Week program. For 16 years, Jim has taught English and coached in Portland, Maine, where he is also a sixth-grade advisor.
Junior Unit Head
Dave Fox, was sixteen when he camp to camp in 1957 as a junior counselor-in-training. He stayed for seven years as a cabin counselor and boating instructor. He returned periodically during his career as an Episcopal priest and has been our junior unit head and camp chaplain for the past three summers.
C.I.T. Director
Galen “Bubba” Brownley, has been with O-AT-KA for seven summers. After three summers as a cabin counselor, he became director of the Counselor in Training Program. Bubba is an environmental educator in Houston, Texas, teaching fifth graders environmental science, canoeing, and fishing.
Infirmary Staff
under the direction of Linda Robbat, RN, the health team brings together over twenty years of nursing experience and provides coverage 24-hours a day, seven days a week.
