Camp Greystone
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Camp Greystone is a Christian summer camp for girls located near Tuxedo, North Carolina, in the Blue Ridge Mountains in western North Carolina.[1] The camp offers sessions ranging in length from 1 week to 5 weeks for girls ages 5–17.[2] Sessions begin in late May and continue through mid-August.
Greystone was founded in 1920 by Dr. Joseph R. Sevier and his wife Edith. Before founding the camp, Dr. Sevier was the minister at First Presbyterian Church in Augusta, Georgia.[3] The camp originally started on Greystone Mountain in Tennessee in 1920, however, after exploring the Blue Ridge Mountains, Dr. Sevier found a permanent location for the camp in Tuxedo, North Carolina. When Dr. Sevier died in 1945, he passed the camp leadership on to his daughter, Virginia, and her husband, Joe Hanna. The Hannas led the camp through the 1950s and 1960s. The camp was then passed on to the Hanna's daughter Libby Hanna Miller and her husband Jim Miller III. Libby used to serve as the senior director at the camp, until she died on September 19, 2017. Jim died January 29, 2010. Their son, Jim Miller IV, and his wife, Dr. Margaret Broadbent Miller, currently own and run the camp. Jim received his Master of Divinity from Reformed Theological Seminary in Charlotte, North Carolina.[4] Dr. Margaret Miller serves as the camp's Health Director and is a board certified pediatrician.[5]
Campers
Camp Greystone serves over 1850 campers each summer. Campers live with 8–12 other girls in cabins with one or two counselors. These cabins are called different things depending on their size and the age group they house. The order from smallest to largest is tentalows, bungalows, and cabins. The oldest girls live in the Palace or the Castle, two groups of cabins that are larger and have more amenities, such as two showers instead of one. Greystone is structured around a fourfold philosophy of nurturing the spiritual, physical, mental, and social development of young girls.[6] Camp Greystone has a 98% return rate each summer, as well as a waiting list that can take years to get off of.