Vespers, 1961

Charlie Greer, 3rd row left. The man in the suit is Bill Stark (Probably the speaker). There are several G'ville kids in this shot. I see Fred Wiseman, front row left, send from end. Sorry so difficult to see on this one but couldn't resist that little tree in the ailse that we all walked around for so many years.

Another reader identified the following: Left of center: Back row l -r Bob Kinney, Mike Heston, Bill Vandervoort. Right of center: Row 2 3rd girl from right end is Judy Feher Row 3 Two girls on right end are Kathy Peterson and Linda Reavis Row 5 on left hand is Alice Schroeder Back row tall guy left end Jim Correll.

Frank Bush remembers, "It is funny that you should mention that little tree. Back in 1955, we didn't have seats (the audience sat on the grass . . . higher up the hill.) We had a speaker (last name was Steadman) who preached standing next to that tree. All week long he kept stumbling over it (it was very small) and at one point threatened to yank it up. We debated as to whether we should dig it up, but the majority were like me . . . We didn't want to destroy something unless we had to."

1960 High School pics

Being dean was tough on Gil Schreiber.

I'm not sure about Charlie Greer's box hockey technique. Bill Griffin is other box hockey player.

Boys dorm. In boys dorm picture Larry Wisely is shirtless boy in front of mirror, tall guy is Larry Dickey, Fred McKean is the boy in a dark shirt in middle of picture and Joe Feher is behind looking over Fred's right shoulder.

Another memory from everybody's favorite life guard... The scene in the boys dorm: The great big guy is Larry Dickey. Larry was from either Flora or Fairfield, I don’t remember which. He was Bill Stark’s nephew and would often come to camp during the late 1950’s and early 1960’s. Fred McKean is also in that picture.

Larry, Fred, Norman Ray, and I had what was called the “Coke Bottle Quartet”. We would all wear suits. I would open the bottle of coke then hand it to Norman. Norman would hold it up to the light and examine it for color, then for aroma. Norman would then hand it to Larry who would chug it (very, very fast—faster than it could be poured out onto the ground. We timed it. He deployed some sort of sucking method). The finale was that Fred McKean would belch loudly into a microphone. It was, as I recall, a very popular performance.

Margaret Couvey (married Jack Ross).

Russell Ross fishing on the new lake.

Life Recruit week 1958 by team -- Group 4 Remember to click to get a bigger picture to look at

1:2 Claudia Price Dorris, 1:5 Cy Burris (?) 2:2 Linda Altom, 2:5 Judy Ellsworth, 2:8 Joan Treadway, 3:1 Mike Heston, 3:2 Joe Feher, 3:3 Ronnie Lamb, 3:6 Larry Wiseley, 3:8 Mick Painter from Wood River; 3:9 Bill Griffin

Junior boys week 1962

Double click on the picture to make it bigger. We had great fun with this one. Best guesses, so correct us if we are wrong. Row 1: 1 Dave Jackson from Belleville in the first spot. 1:17 Kevin Hayhurst 1:20 Rick Walston 2:8 Scott Cain 2:21 James Kelly 3:17 Gary Thornburg 3:18 John Heston 4:3 John Beck 4:4 Evan Mac Lockwood. I know a lot of the other faces but just can't put a name on them. Faculty row (kindof two rows but in order as one) 1. Merv Moberley 4. George McCarty 5. Bill Price 6. Bob Hayhurst 8. Jack Durbin 9. Bob Kelly 10. Stu Couve (sp). 12. Joe Feher 14. Woody Fisher 15. Charlie Burns 16. Wayne Black 19. Anita Steele 21. Sandy Steele 22. Lynn McFarland. Floyd Jordan, Charles Wogman, Bill Price and Gilbert & Betty Schreiber are also in faculty row.

Life Recruit Week, 1962

I'm just guessing at the year -- I am in the front second from right as a faculty kid, and I only had long hair in 3rd grade so this is approximate. Double click for a closer look. In addition to the two in the next pic below I recognize Sandi Heston, Dolly Black, Kay Wiseman. Pop Smith. - Paula

From Sandi Heston Rinderer: Definitely 1962 High School Week.Some more people, besides the ones you recognized are: In Row 1 : Carla Clover (Greenville) and Geanie Talbot (Belleville) In Row 2: Melissa Sefton (Brownstown), Janet Cothern (Ramsey), Judy Feher (O'Fallon) and Ruth Blankenship (Landsdowne), Kathy Peterson (Greenville)In Row 3: Kay Fries, Ron Lambert (Wood River)In Row 4: Linda Stovall, Karla Knichel (Landsdowne) In Row 5: Judy Ellsworth (Edwardsville), (Maybe Larry Busby next to Judy Ellsworth?) Lynn McFarland (Greenville), Linda Smith (Landsdowne), Louie Williams (Brownstown), Gayle Wakefield (Cowden), Joe Feher (O'fallon), Rob Schrieber (Wood River), Wayne Black, Paul Sidwell (Brownstown) In Row 6: George McCarty, Dan Clymer (Landsdowne), "Heavy"(Jerry) McFarland(Greenville), Rich Coget, Terry O'Dell (Brownstown)In Row 7: Betty Schrieber, Prof. John Rawls (LCC), Larry Wisely (Brownstown), Woody Fisher (Brownstown), Johnny King (Landsdowne)\ Back row: J.W. Jordan & son (Alton), Stuart Couvey (Wood River), Bob Kelly (Collinsville), Gilbert Schrieber.Some of the others look very familiar. Maybe someone else can fill in the gaps! Sandi

Thank you Sandi. As soon as you provided the names many of these came flooding back for me, too. Anyone else recognize folks?