Barbara Burns introduced our speaker, Scott Hicok, Deputy Executive Director of Camp Ocean Pines. She told us that Scott is a newly married musician and summer camp entrepreneur who took over the summer camp at Camp Ocean Pines in 2010 and has grown the program by over 400%!
Scott gave a very entertaining speech explaining that, despite what we may have heard, Millennials are really no different than Baby Boomers. He said Millennials have been characterized in a number of different ways. On the negative side, they've been described as lazy, narcissistic and prone to jump from job to job. However, he is considered a Millennial but he left his home town of Phoenix after obtaining his Bachelor’s Degree in Business and entrepreneurship and landed a job as a summer counselor at Camp Ocean Pines. He is still here, after working is way up to Deputy executive Director. He maintains that every generation is thought of in somewhat negative terms by the preceding generation. Case in point: over 2,000 years ago, Aristotle was quoted as saying “The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority, they show disrespect to their elders.” and in the 11th Century, Peter the Hermit said “The young people of today think of nothing but themselves.”
The Truth is we are all people