Camp's 60's old timers

The Diamonds were the oldest in camp this family week, along with Mrs. Sefton. Pop Smith at bat, no doubt at the faculty/student game.

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

Jr. Girls Week 1962

Row 1 - 1 Carol Roodhouse, 2 Karen Bush, 3 David Bush, 6 Judy Roodhouse, 8 Mike Bush, 13 Kathy Roodhouse, 14 Steve Roodhouse, 16 Carolyn Stever, 17 Marilyn Carter
Row 2 – 3 Shirley Gum, 5 Janet Gum, 6 Carla Underwood, 8 Laurel Glaze, 9 Charlotte Richison, 11 Debbie Vogan 13 Jan Boyle
Row 3 – 5 Priscilla Leitze, 11 Linda Hill, 16 Gwen Schmidt, 18 Susan Hentz, 19 Margaret Iberg
Row 4 – 14 Vickie Kleinik, 18 Debbie May
Row 5 – 5 Kathy Boudouris, 9 Paula Bush, 13 Robin Rewerts, 16 Janet Thornburg
Row 6 –
Row 7 – 13 Debbie Fritz
Row 8 – 1 is Florine Paine and 2 is her daughter, Judy Paine , 6 Mary Roodhouse, 8 June ? (missionary) 9 Ruth Schrumpf, 10 ? Diamond, 11 Marilyn Bush, 12 Grace Boldt

Christian Worker Week, 1967 maybe?

This Christian Worker's pic has a lot of great people in it. Back row left is Bob Scott and his wife and daughter. Of course you will recognize Dan Clymer and Art Jordan. Just in front of Jordan is Wilber Field (prof from Ozark). Beside him is S. Eward Tesh from Lincoln. In front of them is Dick and Polly Harsh. Down that row is Dan and Mary Diamond. Beside Dan is Violet Lipple. Back of them are the Kellys and Glen Bourne (Pres of St. Louis C C). Wilber Field is teaching the class.

Camp Directors, 1964

Top picture: Neal Emerson, Bill Schroeder, Dan Diamond and Oliver Stowe (Carl's brother; very active in Woburn church). Second picture: Tom Ewald, Bob Kinney, Frank Bush. Last picture: Charles Wogman, Daryl Bishop, Jack Busby, Buster Corley.

1 Jr. High 1959

1:1Paula Bush 1:2 Steve Roodhouse 1:3 Mike Bush 1:14 Gary Holtzhauer 1:28 1:16 Charlene Hazlett, 1:17 Emma Sue Seaton, 1:18 Lois Anderson, 1:end Jay Young 2:12 Janet Greenlee, next to last boy in row is Paul Sidwell, end of row is Don Ray.4th row kid with sunglasses Danny Diamond, 3:6 Sandy Johnson 3:7 Nancy Spratt, 3:8 Karen Morrow, 3:9 Linda Smith, 3:12 Stephani Lay, 3:13 Becky Huck, 3:end Tom Ewald 4:3 Sandi Heston, 4th row kid with sunglasses Danny Diamond, 4:12 Gayle Wakefield, 5:3 Mary Roodhouse
5:7 (Tall guy) Phil Stovall, 5:9 Norman Ray

1965 Christian Worker Week

Frank sent this photo today with the comment, "In 1965 the camp had a Christian Workers Week. The idea was to help the church develop leaders. This finally morphed into Family Week. This photograph is interesting because Dan and Mary Diamond are in it. They were faithful members at Worburn Church and strong backers of the camp." Danny Diamond (who is now Dan) checked in on this site recently and this came from Frank tonight with his comment so we decided to post right away. Bob Kelly is standing. Leroy Schmidt is in the white shirt with his back to us. See comment from his niece.

"In step" from Frank circa 1962

"I'm enclosing a shot I made for promotion. These seven kids are "all in step." Wouldn't it be interesting to have the same seven line up for a "then" and "now" shot? This was taken in 1962. Most of these color ones are from slides. A real "treasure cove" of pictures would be those slide shows that Bob Kinney used to take around to churches . . . before we started taking movies. I wonder if they are still around and who has them." - Frank Bush

If anyone has the answer -- we know how to turn them into posts here.

The seven kids are 1) ? 2) Bob Cargill (?) 3)Dolly Black 4) Danny Diamond (?) 5) Kay Wiseman 6) Woody Fisher 7) June Huck

Another fun pic from 1959

Help us identify these campers? See comment -- Guy to the left of key person is identified as Dan Diamond. According to Sandi Heston Rinderer, the girl with the ribbons on her head is Kay Fries from Wood River. And the guy with his back to us on the right -- is that a Holzhauer maybe?

Camp Directors in approx 1956

Here are some of the early directors of the camp. Back row L to R; Don Hargrave, Paul Morisson, Max Pope. , Dick Thayer, Bill Griffin, Pop Smith, Bill Schroder. Front row: Dan Diamond, Ralph Elsworth, ???, Frank Bush, Alvin Thompson, and Bob Kinney. Frank Bush recalls that, "My first association with Bond Christian Service Camp was the summer of 1954. At this time it was called Bond County Christian Service Camp and the only buildings on the grounds were a kitchen/dining hall, boys’ and girls’ dorms with three-hole outhouses behind, another outhouse by the kitchen, and a dean’s office building. There was another older building that later was used nurses or missionary quarters. Water was always a problem. Charles Altom and Don Paine, deacons of the Greenville Christian Church, spearheaded the effort to dig a well.

"We began a ministry in Greenville on Palm Sunday of 1955. Soon after beginning my ministry I met with the other preachers of Bond County to plan the summer camp program of 1955. It was during this and other meetings that I began to realize that this camp would never reach its potential the way it was organized. After the 1955 season the preachers met and we discussed opening up the membership of the camp so that more churches could be involved. I had two previous camp experiences – one with the Lake Springfield Christian Assembly whose camp was owned and operated by the West Side Church of Christ in Springfield and the second, Hanging Rock Christian Assembly, owned and operated by area churches. In order to have sufficient funds and campers I felt the camp organization needed to be opened up to the area churches, which in turn would provide campers, funds and workers. In the fall of 1955 we contacted all the area churches and offered them the opportunity to join the camp organization and be equal partners with the churches in Bond County. We got a positive response from many of the churches. "