Nathan Newquist ’05 just spent another summer at camp — his ninth to be exact.

In fact he’s managed to turn summer camp into a career. Newquist was recently named program director at Camp Falling Creek, a scenic camp for boys nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina that was dubbed “Boy Heaven” in a Time magazine cover story last summer.

The article linked the popularity of the “The Dangerous Book for Boys” with the need for boys to have outdoor experiences. The camp offers mountain biking, rock climbing, whitewater canoeing and kayaking. Each summer the camp welcomes 245 boys and has a staff of about 100.

“Camps like ours provide experiences outdoors that give boys structured freedom,” he said. “We offer a variety of outdoor activities and the boys have the freedom to choose the activities that appeal to them the most. It could be a kayak trip on a nearby river one day, then a pottery or guitar lesson the next day.

“With the continuing reduction of recess and physical education in public schools, camp provides boys the outdoor time our parents and grandparents enjoyed in their childhood.”

Newquist oversees the day-to-day running of the camp in the summer and also helps with the Web site, marketing and publications for the camp, located in Tuxedo, N.C.

He said having the camp featured on the cover of Time underscored some of the lessons learned in public relations classes at TCU.

“Covers are priceless and free publicity is the best publicity,” he said