Dick Thayer's 50th Anniversary of Ministry

Frank Bush attended, in the Indianapolis area. If anyone else has similar "life event" photos that would be of interest to the campers past and present, send them to Deb and Paula at bondcamp54@gmail.com. In fact we are now very much in need of photos to keep up the regular posts you all enjoy so much. Frank has let us know that his scanner had to be sent in for repair and he won't be able to supply us for an undetermined amount of time.

Which means it is time for everyone else to step up. If you don't have a scanner, drop us a note regarding your photos and we'll figure out how to get them scanned for all of us to share.

Junior Girls Week, 1961

1:4 Carla Underwood, 1:7 Marilyn Carter, 1:16 Debbie May, 1:18 Susan Hentz, 2:17 Paula Bush, 4:1 Deb Fritz 5:8 Stella Kinney. Not sure of many of these. Rows 3 and 4 include another layer in places.

Another copy of this photo w/ a different exposure can be found on March27, 2007.

Group Photo, Jr. Hi 1961

1961 Class with Bill Griffin as teacher

Far side of table, starting with girl in flowered dress and going left:Dolly Black, Donna Tackett, Kay Fries, Steele twin,Diana Rafferty, Janet Van Horn, ?, Johnny King, ?Front row, right to left: Mike Jackson, Gerald Mann, ?, ?

1961 On the Lake Bank

Stella Kinney is the second on the left, sitting. Girl standing to Stella's right is Cheryl Lamb, next to her is Janis Bishop. One of the Williams twins (Kay or Gay) is seated next to her. The other is leaning against the tree.

1961 Assembly

1:3 Sandy Schrumpf, 1:4 Judy Ellsworth2:3 Charlene Hazlett, 2:4 Jeanette Bolla, 2:6 Madelyn Franklin, 2:7 Cy Burris3:2 Larry Wisely, 3:3 Woody Fisher5:4 Fred McKean

1961 Christian Workers Week

(Row 1 beginning with little girls) 1:1 Theresa Schmidt 1:2 Christine Schmidt 1:3 Gwen Schmidt 1:10 Pat Heston 1:11 John Heston (Row 2 beginning with two young men crouching) 2:1 Johnny King 2:4 Joy Schmidt holding Joe Schmidt 2:8 Harriet Griffin 2:9 Mrs. Dan Diamond 3:2 Joe Fehr 3:3 Seth Wilson 3:4 Bob Kinney 3:6 Melvin Newland (son of Vernon Newland–one of the founders of St. Louis Chr College; at the time, Melvin was minister of the church in St Ann, MO–now lives in Texas) 3:7 Lenord Wymore (long-time Convention Secretary of the North American Christian Convention) 3:8 Janet Elam and in front of her Mrs. Diamond, 3:9Loreen Heston 4:1 Mike Heston 4:3 Don Ray (arbitrary decision that he is in back row since he's kindof in between) 4:4 Leroy Schmidt 4:8 Dan Diamond

High School Week, 1966, Group Shot

There is Deb Fritz on the far left, row 3:1 -- but she doesn't show up in the team shots. Hmm.

1966 - High School Week, by teams

Deb Fritz, where were you hiding when the team pics were taken? You are in the group shot but not in these.

1:1 Elaine Seigel 1:2 Janet Murphy 1:6 Carolyn Stever, 1:7 Janet Gum, on end between 1 and 2 Art Leitze, 2:1 Cindy Long 2:4 Rick Walston 2:5 Larry Bolla 2:6 Bruce Nolin 2:7 Margaret Iberg 2:8 Gwen Schmidt 2:9 Nolin 3:4 Carla Jordan

1:1 Jeannette Leitze 1:6 Marilyn Carter 1:7 Jane Whited 1:9 Jack Albee 2:1 Holly Harden 2:3 Debbie Vogan 2:4 Judy Grafford , (Treat all the people in 3/4 as one row.) 3:2 Evan Mac Lockwood 3:5 Mark Thomas 3:9 Debbie May

2:1 Gwen Heavner, 2:2 Vicky Kleinik 2:11 Carla Underwood, 3:2 John Beck 3:4 Bill Barton 3:6 Greg Heavner

1:1 Pat Heston 1:2 Nancy Peebles 2:4 Marsha Reavis 2:5 Carla Patton 2:9 Pricilla Leitze 3:1 Kathy Boudouris 3:3 Charlotte Redmon 3:4 Janet Thornburg 3:7 Paula Bush 4:1 David Jackson 4:2 John Heston 4:4 Gary Thornburg 4:6 Scott Cain

A Tribute to Danny Williams, who passed away April 22

Danny Wiliams passed away at noon today. He had been in the hospital a couple weeks with first appendicitis and then kidney failure. He passed away today. He was (I think) 70 years old. He is survived by his wife Juia and two daughters/sons-in-law and I think one grandchild. It is is the end of an era and he will be missed. He was a uniqe individual, to say the least. And a BCSC Icon! And we had a wonderful time with him at the 1999 Camp Reunion. I look forward to seeing him again at the "glorious reunion" in the presence of our Lord. For those who want to send a note/card the address is: Julia Williams 605 E. Matthews P.O. Box 901 Sesser,IL 62884 (from Sandi Heston Rinderer)

From Mike Heston: I first met Dan at Bond Camp in 1960 and he has remained my best friend ever since. We did many outrageous, incredible, and mischievous things, some of which are difficult to believe. We were once almost thrown in Jail in Birmingham, Alabama. Later, deploying pseudo titles of Dr. Dan Williams and Dr. J. Michael Heston at the Milligan College booth at the North American Christian Convention, we subsequently found ourselves invited to the dedication of their new library—which we attended. In 1964 we were asked to be the judges for the annual talent rally in Lincoln, Illinois. We finagled it to insure that Gilbert Schreiber’s Fortville, Indiana float (which consisted of a pick-up truck with kids in the back and poster board taped to the door panels with the name of the church scribbled on it) to receive fourth place. Schreiber had not intended to have a float, but on the way to Lincoln the kids decided that they wanted one. Gilbert was humiliated at the thought of having such a sorry entry—a fact he made the error of sharing with Dan and Me. He was dumfounded when he got fourth place. Over the years Dan and I were thrown out of two Bible Colleges, one church camp, the St. Louis Planetarium, and the Fox theater. The summer before Virginia and I were married, we were driving around on the Illinois side of the river, when I mentioned to her that my best friend lived just a few miles from where we were. I asked if she would like to meet him. She said she certainly would. As fate would have it, there was a tent revival going on in a lot next to Danny’s place. We attended and made, I should think, quite a nuisance of ourselves—Dan and I, that is. Comments were made about us by the evangelists and soon four “bouncers” gathered behind us (we were on the back row). Virginia later commented: “I really had to wonder what I was getting myself into after that night.” Above all, Dan was a wonderful friend and very devoted believer. We talked by phone almost every week and I will miss not getting those calls. My secretary would frequently buzz me and say that a Mr: Mark Weaver; Clarence Bazzell; Byron E. Smith; Robert H. Kinney; Fred Bennyhoff; or the chief of police of Birmingham, Alabama, et. al., would like to speak to you. Needless to say, I knew who was on the other end of the line. I’ll miss those calls, and so will my secretary—even though she never met Dan.

Please add your memories of Danny Williams to the comments as a tribute to the fine and fun influence he had on all of us during those earliest camp years.

Jr. High 1964 (1 of 2 weeks)

This photo is courtesy of Gwen Heavner Tokatz ... Let's name them all if we can. (note the rows in this picture are less defined than in some .. try to be as specific about location as you can ... there appear to be 4 rows kneeling on the ground ... do the best you can ... reference some known ids if needed)

1:1 James Kelly, 1:2 Rebecca Kelly 1:4 Robert Kelly 1:5 Paula Harden 1:10&11 those twins from Herrick whose names are just out of reach 1:14 David Jackson 1:26 Larry Bolla 2:1 Cindy Huffman 2:2 Susan Hentz 2:3 Linda Hill 2:7 Debbie May 2:13 Janet Gum 2:14 Charlotte Redmon 2:15 Linda Thomas 2:16 Gwen Schmidt 2:17 Debbie Vogan 2:24 Evan Mac Lockwood. Now the rows get messy, but still kneeling at 3:4 is John Beck, at 3:9 Paula Bush, I think Carla Underwood is kneeling 3:13 directly above the "64" and at 3:17 Jane Whited, 3:19 Bill Barton, 3:20 Roger Lamar. In the row above that merges in and out, 4:6 Judy Grafford 4:10 is Deb Fritz, 4:14 Vickie Nowlin, 4:18 Scott Cain, 4:19 Carolyn Stever, and 4:20 Carla Patton. Debbie and Paula are "together" again in this photo! Yeah! 5:1 Bob Kelly 5:2 Shirley Kelly 5:3 Harriet Albee 5:4 Jack Albee. Row 5 splits into three with Micheal Jackson above, Cheryl Lamb in the center and Bruce Nowlin below. Then continuing after Cherl is John Heston, Gary Thornburg and over three is Greg Heavner. Linda Gehrig is behind Carolyn Stever and Jim Taylor is behind Greg in the very back. Gwen Heavner is above the space between the p in Camp and the J -- not quite all the way back.

Where is Debbie Vogan? Found her! (Thanks, Holly!)And I don't see Russell Boatman either.