Fall 2012 CAMP It Was the Summer of ‘69
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MERRIE-WOODE Situated, Celebrated on Fairfield Lake Fall 2012 CAMP It Was the Summer of ‘69 Neil Armstrong stands on the moon, July 20, 1969 Ask someone to recollect their memories of the devastating assassinations of Martin Luther King famous moon landing of 1969 and almost inevitably Jr. and Bobby Kennedy, six weeks at summer camp it will center on the television. As Doug Cameron, was a welcome relief. Simon and Garfunkel blared long time CMW boating instructor, recalled, “I was from the hill cabins singing, “…where have you in Cambridge, Massachusetts with a newborn…A gone Joe DiMaggio? Our nation turns its lonely friend and I held our newborn babies up to the black eyes to you…” It was indeed a nation yearning and white TV to see this historic event. Our wives for a new American hero, a new source of hope, were exhausted and fast asleep.” For so many and a restored sense of national pride. But tucked people, the memory of Neil Armstrong stepping away in the hills of North Carolina, for a few weeks foot on the moon evokes a treasured memory of anyway, the most pressing problems seemed to be the family gathered around a grainy television screen, listening to Walter Cronkite’s steady voice ... continues on page 11 reporting history as it happened. But for a number of girls spending their summer on the shores of Inside... Lake Fairfield, a similar and yet distinctly different experience was unfolding during those same Wit’s End ....................................... Page 2 moments on that July 20th night. Staff News ..................................... Page 2 It was the summer of 1969. In many ways, the youth of America was weary and disillusioned. Alumnae News .............................. Page 5 Reeling from a tumultuous year of newsreels Annual Fund Dollars at Work ..... Page 13 dominated by images of chaos in Vietnam, anti- Merrie-Woode Dads at Camp...... Page 14 war riots, protests on college campuses, a country still struggling with civil rights issues, and the Holiday Gifts ............................... Page 16 Camp Merrie-Woode, Fall 2012 At Wit’s End We hope this newsletter finds you doing this past summer. Starting with June session’s well and that you are enjoying the beautiful fall rainy opening Chapel service complete with foliage. We have actually been experiencing very our own camper and staff created rainbow, to chilly nights with temperatures in the low forties! the continued appreciation for our “Unplugged” It has been an exciting fall for all of us at camp policy. There was excitement over our new this year; we are counting down the days until kitchen staff and the delicious food, especially our Josh and Betsy Reese Helms announce they are breakfast options and desserts. Sara Huffman even headed to the hospital for the delivery of their got creative with the table seating assignments. first baby! Josh and Betsy are expecting a baby In one round, we were sorted by our favorite ice boy, and he will be a welcome addition to camp cream favors! The “Nature after Taps” program, next summer. As if this isn’t enough excitement, the new Mountaineering schools, the Harpist in our Facility Manager, Travis Fox, and his wife, Chapel during rest hour, the 4th of July Carnival, Amber, are also expecting their second child, the “Yarn Bombing” created by the Knitting and it’s a girl! We will keep the Merrie-Woode classes, Weaving’s rocking chairs, the llamas, community informed of the arrivals of Baby and the Staff Crew Race all helped to make camp Helms and Baby Fox. more enjoyable. Our Evening Programs were We have just finished the 2013 camper entertaining and the themed Banquets made for a enrollment process and camp is full for the 95th memorable summer. summer. We were pleased with the new online We look forward to our off season projects, registration, and we heard from many returning especially the new Bang Shop and Gem Box parents that the pre-filled application made the (Jewelry Workshop) renovations. Jim and I hope process much easier for them. We are already everyone has a safe and happy holiday season, busy thinking about the 2013 staffing, and we and we hope to see many of you during our will be on the road visiting the colleges where upcoming travels. we have potential staff members in January. We are thrilled that Merrie-Woode continues to Chug-a-Wump! enrich the lives of so many young campers and counselors after so many years of operation. We will celebrate our 95th summer, and the 100th Anniversary Celebration isn’t far behind. There were many highlights around camp Staff News It’s been fun hearing from hard on college applications. summer staff this off-season, and Stuart Bowers and her brother, it sounds like so many people Tee Bowers, live a block away have fun things going on. Juan from each other in downtown Acosta is busy at UNC-Charlotte Charleston, so they get to spend working on his year-long plenty of time together when internship. After taking up they are not in class at College of running at camp this summer, Charleston. Stuart says she is Caroline Bach started running Taylor McGrew and Elizabeth working at the Children’s cross country in school this year. Eades enjoy some time at the Museum in downtown Her school is now trying to Weaving Hut this summer Charleston, and she runs into convince her to run track, as Caroline Carnahan, Ellie Lee, ready for the upcoming horse well! Caroline is busy getting show season while also working Madeline Edwards, and Mallie 2 Camp Merrie-Woode, Fall 2012 Davis, who is working hard on 112th out of almost 1,200 teams! her major, graphic design, at Congrats, Rachel! Catie Samford University. In her spare Hancock is doing well as a time, she sees plenty of the second grade teacher in Birmingham Merrie-Woode Greenville, SC while also taking community! Sarah Davis is graduate classes at Furman currently doubling up on her University. She loves teaching chemistry courses for her major and is excited to be officially at Wake Forest before she goes certified in South Carolina this abroad to London next semester. December! At Vanderbilt, Mary Sarah is also getting to test her Mary Nobles Hancock and Elliott Nobles Hancock is settling into camp-learned skills as the college life and is having a great Hornsby enjoy an evening at Captain costume designer for the student- Rainbow this summer first semester. In mid-September, directed production of Steel Emily Hardy, Margaret Page, Salerno on a daily basis! Tee is Magnolias that will open in Ingrid Weatherby, and Adele November. Since the end of the planning a trip to camp with his Irwin paddled with JP summer, Stuart Drew is back at sisters, Campbell and Stuart, Bevilaqua on the Gauley River Auburn and is busy with her during their fall break in October. and had a blast! The Gauley is sorority and her new classes. She He reports that Sarah Wynn located near the town of came to visit the Charleston loves running into Ivory Sparks, Summersville, WV. All five of crowd this September, and she Clare Sessums, Annie O’Shea, them paddled the Lower Gauley was also recently spotted in and Caroline Nevin on campus! on Saturday, which is a Class IV Athens, GA with some Merrie- We are glad to hear that stretch with some classic WV Woode staff members. Swynn, Elizabeth Etherton is enjoying rapids. Ingrid and JP then come see us while you are her new law job in Atlanta as a paddled the Upper Gauley on traveling around! Campbell Public Health Advisor in the Sunday, which is a world famous Bowers is loving life in College Division of Global HIV/AIDS. section of Class IV-V rapids. of Charleston’s graduate program Amanda Fairchild is busy Kelli Hewitt is living the life in in Early Childhood Education! teaching at Ardrey Kell High Australia. She loves her job, and After a busy summer at camp, School, just outside of Charlotte. she has the Great Barrier Reef Ellie Boydston visited Cate She had a busy summer with a and Whitsunday Islands on her Hargrove at her beach house in house purchase, a new dog, and a doorstep! How much better can it Rhode Island. Ellie also had a trip to see Miriam Chaudhuri in get? Elliott Hornsby started her chance to see Elizabeth England before spending August freshman year at Northwestern Etherton, Bolling Winborne, Session at camp. Amanda is this semester and loves it! and Juan Acosta at Music looking forward to completing Although the Northwestern Midtown in Atlanta during her Master’s Degree at UNC- academic calendar makes September. After a busy summer Charlotte this fall. During the last working the June Session away from camp, Sarah Chatel weekend of August, Rachel difficult, Elliott is planning to be reports that this year she is the Garrett ran in the world’s largest at camp in 2013 for as many Captain of Converse College’s relay race from Mt. Hood to the sessions as possible. While Equestrian Team! She is also coast of Oregon! The race is vacationing in Washington, DC, serving as a Bonner Leader and called Hood to Coast, and Lindsay Hostetler had dinner has completed 300 hours of Rachel’s team consisted of 12 with Adele and Kendall Gibson, community service through the Carolina students. Each team as well as Elly Straske, who is Boys and Girls Club of member ran three legs of varying enjoying her first semester at Spartanburg. Sarah is particularly length and terrain, and Rachel’s Georgetown University.