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For the average pole vaulter what could trump winning an Olympic gold medal?For 1960 gold medalist Don Bragg the answer was easy open a camp where innercity boys could have a taste of the great outdoors and play some vitalscholastic catchup. For ten years Don and his wife Theresa treated hundredsof kids to such a program ably abetted by a cast of characters that rangedfrom a talented and terrifying chef through a score of pranksters turned denmothers all the way up to The Greatest himself Muhammad Ali. With thegrandeur of the New Jersey Pinelands as a backdrop the kids who called KampOlympik home wrestled with fractions and capsized canoes and turned ingeniousin the neverending game of Can You Top This? Don and his dedicated staffshowed their young charges how to compete in the classroom on the playingfield and in the art of growing up great. And the kids even learned how topole vault. Kamp Olympik forever «
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