Alumni Features
May 2, 2025
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Keith Worthy
Keith Worthy is an alumni of Camp Glen Brook and the Waldorf School of Garden City, Class of 1982 and has been on staff for many years (1981-1989,1991,2003-2020 2022,2024,2025). He has been working with children for the past 36 years as a school counselor and now a School Principal/Administrator and Athletic Director. He is a father of five children, four of whom are Glen Brook alumni themselves.
What is one of your favorite things about Glen Brook?
The family atmosphere and lifelong relationships and connections built over the past 5 decades, have transformed my life personally and the lives of all of my family members. When I leave Glen Brook every summer I feel like we, as a staff, have made a difference in so many lives.
Share a favorite memory from your time at Camp Glen Brook.
The Banquet. A culmination of so many great experiences and memories. You are never happy that camp is coming to an end, but you wouldn’t trade the memories for anything.
How has Glen Brook stayed with you over the years?
After my first summer in 1981, I knew what I wanted to do in life and that is work with children. My Glen Brook experiences have made me who I am today, and I live by the Glen Brook motto, “Always leave things better than you found it.”
Dounya Bilal
Dounya Bilal, Camp alumni and past staff member, shares beautiful reflections about special moments at Camp Glen Brook. Dounya spent many years traveling the world, from Hawaii to Australia to New Mexico, and found her calling while farming tropical flowers in a little town on Maui, and now resides in Honolulu where she works as a floral designer. Dounya shares that Glen Brook is, “Why I’m
me.”
What is one of your favorite things about Glen Brook?
Share a favorite memory from your time at Camp Glen Brook.
How has Glen Brook stayed with you over the years?
Bella Brodsky
Bella is a farmer, graduate student, and the founder of Sage Magazine. She spends her time veggie farming, completing her master’s in food systems, and working on the communications team at the Institute for Agroecology. Outside of work, you can find her hosting dinner parties, making zines, or backpacking in the Green Mountains. She says that the three words that describe Glen Brook for her are magic, joy, and nourishment.
What is one of your favorite things about Glen Brook?
How to pick just one?! The sense of liberation to be present in each moment and play and engage in stewardship! Especially as a camper, not knowing the time, made this even more palpable.
Share a favorite memory from your time at Camp Glen Brook.
CIT meal chores and all the silliness and song that came bubbling out of the kitchen during that time!
How has Glen Brook stayed with you over the years?
In a multitude of ways. It built my muscle memory for community care, stewardship, and hard work primarily. How can I help my neighbors and friends and show up with my best work ethic? Doing all the dishes when friends cook me dinner, or helping a neighbor wheel barrow compost to their garden for the afternoon. Bringing silliness and joy to manual labor – song/movement/jokes/stories! I learned all those skills from mentors of mine at Camp, primarily Mark and Jake. Glen Brook also taught me how to build deep relationships and bonds through shared experiences, outdoor adventures, food and meal sharing, etc. It taught me how valuable and nourishing community is.
Jackie Proctor
We recently chatted with Jackie Proctor, Camp alumni and past staff member, about her time at Camp Glen Brook. Jackie currently lives in Boston working as a project manager and recently got married to her college sweetheart, Connor. She attributes her love of the outdoors to her time spent at Camp Glen Brook and the three words she uses to describe this place are serene, loving, and magical.
What is one of your favorite things about Glen Brook?
Everything?! Just thinking about Glen Brook makes me immediately more calm and throws me back into countless blissful memories. From tetherball competitions, to Iron Camper and even Hobart duty, I smile thinking about ALL of the details regularly. One of my all time favorite things about Glen Brook is the community. I can still tell you names of fellow campers I haven’t talked to in well over 12 years, but I still remember our time together fondly. Over the years, I’ve run into fellow campers in the most random places, from New York City’s Penn Station to Church Street in Burlington, and each time we’ve stopped to reminisce about Glen Brook memories!
Share a favorite memory from your time at Camp Glen Brook.
I have so many fantastic memories from my 10+ years of visits, it would be impossible to pick one. Recently I was talking with one of my closest friends (and a bridesmaid in my wedding) Charlotte Magee and our Waldorf friend Sarah Rokhlin about the pure bliss that was our Falcon camp year. With Mark as our leader, I remember those 3 weeks full of belly laughs, wonderful stories and bonding that forged friendships that will last a lifetime. Falcon year taught me so much about myself, and was the perfect way to end my career as a summer camper (before becoming a counselor).
How has Glen Brook stayed with you over the years?
My love and appreciate of the outdoors was born and nurtured from my years of going to Glen Brook in all different seasons. To this day when I am stressed and need to clear my head, I try and immerse myself in nature by finding new hiking trails or lakes to wonder around. In more recent years, the Glen Brook proverb of “leave the world a little better than how you found it” has rolled through my head in countless situations, always reminding me to do the right thing, even when that is the harder option.
