Fall-Winter Newsletter
The Fall-Winter Newsletter is hot off the presses! In this issue: All about the 2016 Summer Enrichment Camp Jacob’s Ladder turns 25 Fundraising events and updates Fast Facts for 2016 and news from the Executive Director
Category: News
Change of Scenery: New Camp Location
For the past several years, the summer camp has been held at St. Margaret’s School in Tappahannock, Virginia. However, this year the St. Margaret’s administration restricted Jacob’s Ladder to use of the athletic and performing arts facilities. Given the camp’s increasing focus on theatre, this was a non-starter. Mr. Hall and the…
Jacob’s Ladder – Celebrating Twenty Five Years
In the summer of 1990, Aubrey and Margie Hall took a mission trip to the Eastern Shore of Virginia. What they found while working with the children of migrant farm workers was that many of the children were bright, intelligent, even academically gifted, yet no matter how much ability these…
Where have they been? Where are they now?
Jacob’s Ladder – as many of our loyal supporters know – strives to provide opportunities for gifted, at-risk students during their formative years between fourth and eighth grade. What is not as well-known is that we try to keep up with our former Climbers after they graduate our program and…
Giving something back
Zoie McMillian, JL ’12, speaks with enthusiasm about the International Baccalaureate (IB) program at Henrico High School in Richmond, Virginia. It is academically challenging and extra work, relates the senior, and with the help of her IB teachers she is making her way through the maze of required long written…
The Alumni Climb
A newsletter for Jacob’s Ladder Alumni is now available. With stories, updates, and photos about the Alumni Climbers of Jacob’s Ladder, The Alumni Climb will keep you up-to-date on your fellow Climbers (where are they now? what’s been going on? who’s in the news?) and will build camaraderie among this…
Spring Retreat, 2014
Video from the Spring Retreat at Camp Piankatank, April, 2014. Music – “Happy” by Pharrell Williams See you this Summer!
2013 – The Year in Review
2013 brought many new things into the world of Jacob’s Ladder – a new site, a new study on watersheds and environment, and of course a new group of Climbers. The following “newsletter” will bring it all together … An Amazing Summer – Camp, 2013 St. Margaret’s School was the…
Change of Scenery: New Camp Location
For the past several years, the summer camp has been held at St. Margaret’s School in Tappahannock, Virginia. However, this year the St. Margaret’s administration restricted Jacob’s Ladder to use of the athletic and performing arts facilities. Given the camp’s increasing focus on theatre, this was a non-starter. Mr. Hall and the…
Jacob’s Ladder – Celebrating Twenty Five Years
In the summer of 1990, Aubrey and Margie Hall took a mission trip to the Eastern Shore of Virginia. What they found while working with the children of migrant farm workers was that many of the children were bright, intelligent, even academically gifted, yet no matter how much ability these…
Where have they been? Where are they now?
Jacob’s Ladder – as many of our loyal supporters know – strives to provide opportunities for gifted, at-risk students during their formative years between fourth and eighth grade. What is not as well-known is that we try to keep up with our former Climbers after they graduate our program and…
Giving something back
Zoie McMillian, JL ’12, speaks with enthusiasm about the International Baccalaureate (IB) program at Henrico High School in Richmond, Virginia. It is academically challenging and extra work, relates the senior, and with the help of her IB teachers she is making her way through the maze of required long written…
The Alumni Climb
A newsletter for Jacob’s Ladder Alumni is now available. With stories, updates, and photos about the Alumni Climbers of Jacob’s Ladder, The Alumni Climb will keep you up-to-date on your fellow Climbers (where are they now? what’s been going on? who’s in the news?) and will build camaraderie among this…
Spring Retreat, 2014
Video from the Spring Retreat at Camp Piankatank, April, 2014. Music – “Happy” by Pharrell Williams See you this Summer!
2013 – The Year in Review
2013 brought many new things into the world of Jacob’s Ladder – a new site, a new study on watersheds and environment, and of course a new group of Climbers. The following “newsletter” will bring it all together … An Amazing Summer – Camp, 2013 St. Margaret’s School was the…