"Camp Orapax is built around three sides of a valley."

Y.M.C.A. BOY'S CAMP WILL OPEN WEDNESDAY 

The State Boys' Camp of the Y.M.C.A. will open Wednesday when 100 boys leaders in the HI-Y club in the high schools throughout the State gather for ten days of camping and intensive training in leadership and recreational activities. 

The camp, know as "Orapax," is situated in New Kent County near Bottoms' Bridge. It is the the gift to the state association of St. John Duval, and it has been equipped through contributions of people from nearly every part of Virginia. It is expected that the Central "Y," community fund agency, will make the most use of it because of its proximity to the city. 

Camp Orapax is built around three sides of a valley. In the valley is a lake to be used for swimming and boating. On one side a large mess hall, with ample facilities for feeding hungry, growing boys, with refrigeration, ranges and all the equipment of an up-to-date kitchen. At the head of the valley a large assembly hall is to be built in circular form, with provision for a council fire in the center.

-Richmond Times Dispatch, June 14, 1926

"Fellows, You Have Not Had Any Fun Yet"

When western New Kent was home to both a Methodist Orphanage camp and a large Y.M.C.A.camp . . .

Y.M.C.A. CAMP TO BE HELD JUNE 19 TO SEPTEMBER 1

Fellows, you have not had any fun yet, not until you have been to Camp Orapax. Camp Orapax is operated by the Y. M. C. A. and is located only seventeen miles from Richmond. This camp consists of six hundred acres of woodland and lakes, and is the most modern equipped camp in Virginia. Camp Orapax is operated from June 19 to September 1. At Camp Orapax you live in cabins with six boys and a leader. There is always something doing from morning till night. At camp all kinds of summer sports are indulged in, such as swimming, rowing, hunting, baseball, tennis, and others. Every boy in John Marshall and George Wythe is eligible to attend camp for not only the two weeks' period, but throughout the summer, and during the week-ends. The fee is only $10.00 for a ten-day period.

For further information see Irving Solomon in Room 112, or see Mr. Blayney at the Richmond Y. M. C. A.

-The Monocle,24 May 1929
The Monocle was the newspaper of John Marshall High School