Ohio-West Virginia Youth Leadership Association

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Our Alumni

The Youth Leadership Association (YLA) is proud of the many youth and adults who have been touched by their experience with our programs. Many of them have sent us their comments about their experiences and how their lives have been changed due to their association with this YLA. Alumni bring commitment, experience and new support to all our youth programs. Our new Alumni Program offers many ways to stay involved, to share leadership advancing all our programs and to offer YLA experiences to many more young people.

Nelson Dodd Alumni

Camp Nelson Dodd opened in 1921 through an initial gift of land to the State YMCA of Ohio (a predecessor to the current Ohio-West Virginia Youth Leadership Association) by J. Foster Dodd. He gave family farm land near Brinkhaven in Knox County, Ohio, as a memorial to his youngest brother Nelson. The camp's last operating season was 1967. It was sold to the Newark YMCA who operated it for a few years and then closed the camp. In the early 1990's the Newark YMCA sold Camp Nelson Dodd to the Evans Foundation in Newark.

Many former Camp Nelson Dodd campers have sent us their memories about their Camp Nelson Dodd experience. [ Read their Comments ].

If you were connected with Camp Nelson Dodd in some way, we want to hear from you. Please take a few moments to fill out the Nelson Dodd Participant Reply Form.

Alumni News

Periodically we plan to produce a newsletter highlighting many of our alumni and what they have been doing.Currently we do not have a newsletter available.


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