80 Years After: Angie Ouellette discovered her calling at Pine Tree Camp
When Angie was a girl, her father, Greg Ouellette, was the director of Pine Tree Camp.
“My dad started at Pine Tree Camp in 1967 when I was just two years old,” she recalled. “I spent every summer there until I was 18.”
Now in her 60s, she is an assistant principal. She credits much of her success to what she learned from her many years growing up at camp and when, as a young adult, she returned to work in the summers.
“When I was young, I started out working in the kitchen,” she said. “I did that for a lot of years until I became a counselor and eventually head counselor. It was lots of hard work and I developed a strong work ethic and learned the importance of being part of a servant workforce.”
It’s that spirit of serving the needs of others that propelled her to follow in her father’s footsteps as an educator. She taught for many years before becoming an assistant principal.
“At Pine Tree Camp I learned to do things to the very best of my ability and that’s what I’ve carried over into my adult life and what drives me to be a servant leader,” she continued.
The friends she made at camp are an equally big part of what she gained from those years.
“Camp friends are friends for life,” she said “I met amazing people and we went every summer and gave it everything we had and more. When you work with the campers, you automatically give so much and want to do more. I carry that with me today and always do the very best I can for my students.”
