Staff Members Archive

Ron has been involved with the JMG program since 2007 and has been a tester since 2009. Former, Director of the Bryant Pond 4-H camp (2007 – 2021), Ron looks forward each year to the camp’s four-week immersion program as well as to meeting youngsters from all over the country at the JMG encampment. In […]

Ginny became a JMG while at Wyonegonic Camps in the late 1960s and has pursued her love of the outdoors ever since. As a Wyonegonic counselor she led trips and was a JMG instructor. After a summer of camping across the U.S. and Canada she returned to Maine and started Camp Runoia’s JMG program, at […]

Marie has been a Registered Maine Guide since 1983 and has been a JMG tester since 2006.   She has been owner/operator of Wild River Adventures Guide Service out of Bethel, Maine since 1986.  During those years, she created a JMG program in order to bring candidates to testing camp.  After experiencing JMG camp Marie saw […]

Lynn became a JMG in 1982 as a camper at Camp Pondicherry in Bridgton, Maine. A JMG staff member for the past 21 years, she calls being a JMG a lifelong positive experience. She takes great pleasure in working with youngsters seeking program certification and also looks forward each summer to sharing the friendship and […]

Bill Southwick became a JMG in 1981 while a camper at Camp O-AT-KA, following his sister, who was a JMG from Camp Bendito.  Bill’s son and two daughters are all Junior Maine Guides, and his oldest daughter became a Registered Maine Guide with him in 2021. A longtime camp trip leader, Bill joined the JMG […]