“Having camp
as a second
family for all
of us has just
been incredibly
important and
meaningful in
our lives.”
— Alicia Berlin
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ght Berlin’s husband, Neil, went to Camp
Airy and now works for both camps
as director of operations. When asked
if there are any drawbacks to working
with your spouse, Berlin says no,
because the two are so passionate about
camp and share that common mission.

The couple has three daughters and
“they have been here at camp since
the day they were born.” Her in-
laws, as well as her parents, also
work at the camp during the summer,
watching their grandchildren and
working with campers. Both Berlin’s
mom and her mother-in-law went to
Camp Louise as campers. “It truly is
a family affair,” she says. “Having
camp as a second family for all of us
has just been incredibly important and
meaningful in our lives.”
In 1966, Pete Rice decided to buy Echo
Hill Camp after years of running camps
there through his job at Sidwell Friends
School in Washington, D.C. Today, his
son, Pete Jr., owns and serves as
director of the Worton-based
camp and his wife,
Libby, works
there as a
registered nurse along with their three
children: Katie Rice Moulsdale serves
as assistant director; Julie Rice Blyman
is employed as an assistant director and
waterfront director during camp season;
and Pete Rice III works as director of
operations and an assistant director.

Moulsdale says the camp is her
favorite location in the world and
helped shape the person she is today.

“It’s just an exceptional place and we
love it, and it is a part of who we are
and our life,” she says. “We all live 10
minutes away, too. We are very much
centered around this place. ... Working
with your family is really a unique
and special experience.

Thankfully we get along
really well and
we have
“My siblings and I are best
friends. We get to spend
three Februarys attached
at the hips, and that is a
pretty cool experience.”
R ice
the same visions and goals, so that
makes it easy. My siblings and I are
best friends. We get to spend three
Februarys attached at the hips and
that is a pretty cool experience.

Not only is the camp a family affair
for her own family, but also for
people who come there at an early
age as campers and later stay on as
counse lors. “Helping children have
the time of their lives is ... incredibly
fulfilling,” Moulsdale says. “Making
the experience for them that I had, and
hundreds of other children had, is just
really cool.”
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— Katie Rice Moulsdale
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