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Aunt Kate and Uncle Van, Camp Van Vac's founders and managers for many years, said:

Give the children memories to take with them to school or college. Ideas for themes. Ideals for living. Let them form new friendships with other young people who like the things they like. Let them find out how many other young folks there are who care for wholesome outdoor amusements and put cards, dancing, and the movies in their proper place, the "chinking" for life and not the logs of which it is built. Let them get the feel of solidity and permanence that comes from living within log walls, seeing that trees actually gave their lives to shelter us. Living close to nature for even a little while gives young and old a firmer hold on realities; and the sharing of responsibilities and even of minor hardships makes good sports of us all, increases appreciation of taken-for-granted comforts, and revives the Pioneer Spirit, dormant in all of us, which makes all eager for the next trip so we "may do all the things we hadn't time for this year."