Ray Rosenbaum, thirteen-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Max Rosenbaum of 570 Ralph avenue, Brooklyn, was selected as the first of the 500,000 children on the city’s relief rolls to be presented with a two weeks’ vacation at camp, marking the opening of the city’s “Send a Child to Camp Week.”
Ray, proud and happy, was formally presented yesterday by Mayor LaGuardia at City Hall with a certificate entitling her to a two weeks’ stay at Camp Mikam at Arden, N. Y., beginning July 10, as the guest of the Workmen’s Circle, of which her father is a member.
In greeting the little Jewish girl from Brooklyn, Mayor LaGuardia said:
“This is a campaign which should get the backing of every responsible citizen in the city. The health of our children must protected. With the warm weather already with us, we should do all we can to get our needy children out in the country.”
Mayor LaGuardia’s decision to designate a special “Send A Children to Camp Week” was occasioned by information from the Children’s Welfare Federation of the precarious financial condition of the 195 camps. The Federation reports that while there are over 500,000 children on city relief rolls, the capacity of the camps is at best 100,000.
The 195 camps include sites in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, sponsored by churches of all creeds, clubs, settlements, welfare agencies, newspapers, magazines, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Camp Fire Girls, Y. W. C. A., Y. M. C. A., Y. W. H. A. and Y. M. H. A.
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