Our History

History of CampStaff

The year was 1996. Two guys worked at summer camp in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. One, from the suburbs of New York, grew up at summer camp and continued his love of frisbee golf and s’mores while working at camp every summer. The other, from rural Louisiana, stumbled upon a camp counselor job in college and immediately fell in love with camp and all that the summer camp culture had to offer. In true camp fashion, their very different backgrounds did not keep them from forming a lifelong friendship. The unlikely pair teamed up to help their own camp hire the best possible staff, and CampStaff was born.

At the time, college campuses were among the few places that provided fast and free access to the Internet. Remember, this was 1996. CampStaff was the first service to encourage camping professionals to tap into technology as a means of efficiently staffing their camps with quality counselors from across the country.

Skip ahead 20 years to modern day. We all seem to use our phones for everything, including finding a summer job. Now more than ever, CampStaff continues its mission using the best of today’s technology: to provide two-way matching between summer camps and camp staff!

Both Bunkie and Eric continue to play and work in the land of summer camps, along with their wives and children. Eric and his wife Debbie are full time camp directors and send their own daughter to camp (their second daughter is not quite old enough to attend yet, but will in the future!). Bunkie and his wife Lynn send their three daughters to camp every summer and Lynn spends her summers working at camp, too. Camp is engrained in the very fibers of these two families, and is a constant source of joy in their lives.

Bunkie and Eric stay in tune with the needs of camping as it evolves, and they continue to adapt CampStaff to meet the needs of today’s camps and staff. Whether you hire 15 or 150 counselors a year, you’ll want to give CampStaff a try. We guarantee that you’ll like what you find.

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