An icy autumn wind whipped across the Rider University campus in Lawrenceville on a recent late-November morning, but Sue Millstein-Weiner had summer in her heart.

Millstein-Weiner, who was recently named director of the Abrams Day Camp of the Jewish Community Center of the Delaware Valley, was on a visit to the pavilions, playing fields, and recreational facilities at Rider, where the day camp has found a new home.

The move comes in the wake of the JCC’s sale last summer of its 38 acres in Ewing — including its aging facility and its campgrounds there — to Mercer County and Ewing Township.

“The camp will be at Rider, and we’re very excited about the new facility,” said Millstein-Weiner, a resident of Holland, Pa. “It’s an opportunity to be on a university campus and to have some of their staff working with us.

“We’re going to be able to have the NCAA Division I athletic coaches from Rider in all the different sports, and we’ll be using the wonderful facilities at Rider — the state-of-the-art new gymnasium; the indoor, Olympic-size swimming pool; and the theater,” she said. “We’ll have access to the fields, the community room, and the student center. We’re going to be all over. It’ll be a fun, exciting camp.”

The JCC’s Teen Travel Camp, which has been under the direction of Jerry Schwartz of Ewing for the past 26 years, will also be based at Rider.

“I’m very enthusiastic about the move,” Schwartz said in a separate interview. “I think it’s a very positive move for the Jewish community, and I look forward to working with the team here.

“There are tremendous facilities here,” added Schwartz, who teaches fifth-grade math and science at the MacFarland Intermediate School in Bordentown. He pointed to Rider’s extensive athletic and recreational facilities, as well as its theater, chapel, and Koppelman Holocaust/Genocide Resource Center.

“All of them will provide venues for the teens to share their interests and develop their friendships,” Schwartz said. “It will be a great location for bonds to develop between the teens from the various communities we service.”

For Millstein-Weiner, taking on the challenge of overseeing the JCC’s day camp program is a kind of coming home. She has been associated with the JCC camps since 1987 — as a junior counselor, senior counselor, unit leader, and director — a position she first held from 1996 to 2002, when she left to have her daughter, Lara. Since that time, she has been serving as director of youth and family programming at The Jewish Center in Princeton. Now she is back at the JCC, bringing with her, she said, “experience, enthusiasm, and a love of camp.”

“I’m just very excited to be back in the camp atmosphere and looking forward to a great summer,” Millstein-Weiner said. “I want [the campers] to have the same love of camp and Judaism and fun summers as I had and the great memories of summer friends and summer camp.”

An open house for the JCC camps is set for Sunday, Jan. 7, from 1 to 3 p.m. at Rider. Camp will run in four- or eight-week sessions, June 25 through Aug. 17, from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., with extended hours available. The Abrams Day Camp is open to campers ages two and a half through sixth grade. The Teen Travel camp, which will sponsor trips next summer to the Pocono Mountains, Niagara Falls, Washington, and Los Angeles, is open to campers in grades seven through 10. Both camps will be kosher and peanut-free.

In addition to resuming her role as director of the Abrams Day Camp for the JCC, Millstein-Weiner has been named program director of the agency. “That entails doing community programs for youth, adults, and families in the Princeton Mercer Bucks area,” she said.

Working in conjunction with area synagogues and the Board of Rabbis of Princeton Mercer Bucks, Millstein-Weiner is planning her opening event of the season on Saturday, Jan. 20, from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. — a family program featuring ice-skating to Israeli music at the Princeton Sports Center in Monmouth Junction.

In addition, Millstein-Weiner said, she hopes to bring craft classes, sports activities, speakers of interest, and other adult programming to venues throughout the community.

“Part of my job is to come up with activities for the community in all different places,” she said. “The JCC is continuing — not within one wall, but within many walls.”

For information about the JCC camps or programs, contact Millstein-Weiner or 609-219-9550.