Camp Greylock

06/05/2026

The Countdown to Camp keeps getting lower. As we get a little closer, the excitement continues to build.

The next in our series of posts is about some top staff members coming back. Our adventure department is one of the areas in camp of which we are most proud. Whether you do it for the hiking, the nature classes, the ropes course, the zip line, the climbing wall, archery, fishing, or mountain biking -- we have got it all.

Let's say a giant Greylock hello to Doug, Sam, Juan Carlos, and Willi!

06/04/2026

It’s graduation season and it’s great to see all the Greylock seniors from 2019 take their next step forward! We are so proud of everyone who graduated this year! Let’s give them all a great big GGR!!!

06/03/2026

A great article in the Wall Street Journal highlighting the potential that visiting day weekend can have!

Its great to see the Berkshires being recognized for the beauty and events held in the area and a special shout out to Greylock!

Across the Northeast, summer-camp visiting day has turned into a midsummer booking frenzy. Here’s how to make the annual camp run worthwhile—and a little less stressful.

05/28/2026

We are less than a month away from Opening Day. We have about thirty people at camp now preparing the campus and it is coming along great. Each day we get a little closer and a little more excited.

Our next set of posts will be about some top staff members coming back. Basketball is one of our most popular activities and our three head coaches from 2025 are all back in for the summer.

Say a giant Greylock hello to Scott, Rio, and Chris!

05/10/2026

A big Greylock salute to all of the Mom’s out there for a very happy and healthy Mother’s Day today. We have so many great real-life mom’s at Greylock, so a special shout out to all of them. Here are some photos of Greylock’s greatest!

05/04/2026

We had a great day at our annual camp get together yesterday. We had a large group of boys and staff in attendance. Excitement and enthusiasm for the summer could not be higher. It was amazing to see everyone and how tall they have gotten this winter!

The camp office has moved to Becket and we are all at camp now getting primed and ready to go!

05/01/2026

Congratulations to Greylock alumnus Tyler Terens on the announcement of his doing the play-by-play for the upcoming World Cup. Tyler has had this dream for many years, and it is wonderful to see it. Come true! We, like the rest of the world, will be watching you!

04/23/2026

Today is Earth Day, 2026. The day also has a special relevance to Greylock.

According to an article in the New York Times, activists were planning a national day intended to draw attention to environmental issues in 1970. The group struggled to come up with a catchy name for the day. One of the early ideas was “Environmental Teach-in” which most people in the group thought was not catchy at all. They consulted a supporter who was a major figure in the advertising world named Julian Koenig. A few days later, he sent several suggestions — Earth Day, Ecology Day, Environment Day, E-Day — but he made it quite clear that it should be Earth Day.

The event was planned for April 22, 1970, which was Julian’s 49th birthday. He said that part of his inspiration was that Earth Day rhymed with birthday.

Julian was a long time Greylocker. He spent 12 summers at Center Lake from 1929 through 1940. He was a two-time Captain of the Grey team. He kept his relationships from camp going all throughout his life, and he lived well into his nineties. Here is a photo of Julian in his Greylock days on the 1937 Greylock Basketball squad. Julian is the one on the far left of the photo. He was a great guy.

Julian spoke about his life on an NPR radio special a few years ago. During the special, he mentioned his time at Greylock several times. Here is a link: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/383/origin-story. Then, click on Act One.

Help us celebrate Earth Day and Julian Koenig today.

04/14/2026

Part ten of our series of highlights from the 2025 Yearbook! Here are shots from our Camp Brother program!