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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

Life Recruit Week 1958 by team - Group 3

1:8 June Endicott Price Philips, 2:7 Charlotte Schroeder, 3:4 John Griffin, 3:5 Dick Thayer, 3:6 Ronnie Hagler

Life Recruit week 1958 by team -- Group 2

This is the second group from that same year of Life Recruit Week. 1:2 Madelyn Franklin; 1:3 Kay Cowan from Wood River 2:4 Fred McKean, 3:5 Raye Linda Rush 3:3 is Lloyd Grafford from Wood River 3:6 is the top of J.W. Jordan's head maybe.

One of 4 -- a Life Recruit Week, 1958

Must be a very early week -- the pics were in teams like this rather than the whole week together. Recognize anyone? These rows are a little hard to follow -- let's see this as three rows, the first starting with the girl in the flowered skirt, the second with the tall girl in the light dress on her left and behind, and the third mostly guys.

(Published from comments and an email from Mike Heston) 1:4 June Huck (?); 1:6 girl w/ glasses is Lois Corbus; 2:4 striped shirt, Ron Holtzhauer; 3:1 Norman Ray, 3:2 Gerald Greenlee, 3:4 Gilbert Schreiber, 3:5 Mary Kinney, 3:7 Charlie Greer

E. Porter Estes taking a break

Something is funny -- HS week maybe '65 or '66?

Who can identify these campers?

HS Week registration, maybe '64?

Nadine Crane is the lady on the bench on the end registering campers.

Seth Wilson teaching Christian Worker's week mid 60s

Bennett Roodhouse in the front, left. Max Whited front row white shirt.

Ruth Schrumpf teaching juniors

Mrs. Schrumpf had her hands full with juniors. Since there are both boys and girls, maybe First Chance week or family camp? 1964?

Work crew

There was lots of work clearing trees for the chapel, the lake, the class areas. Roger Grubb, youth minister at Greenville, is on the left. The younger helpers are Bruce Nolin, Mike Bush and Gary Hill, all from Greenville.

Trips to prisons

Frank Bush recalls, "I don't remember when the "Trip to prison" was taken. We took a Life Recruit week to visit Vandalia Prison– which is what I thought of when I saw Seth Wilson in this shot. What troubles me is that all the kids are from Greenville. We took the Greenville kids to Manard Prison. If this is that group, why is Seth with us? Mystery." I remember taking a later trip to Manard, Life Recruit week when I was 14. So that would have been 1966. This is of course much earlier.

Judy Kious, Fred McKean, Raye Linda Rush, Merlene Hagler, Ronnie Lamb, Charlotte Schroeder. All from Greenville

The Camp T-shirt

Even before we were campers my brother Mike and I were proud to be seen in the Bond t-shirt. Everyone remembers the bright red sun, right? - Paula

1964 -- Measuring shorts

Some of us remember school dress codes. And yes, at camp, too. Barb Haley is checking but I'm not sure hers would pass. Frank Bush recalls, "The directors received a lot of criticism about girls' shorts, so they made a rule of not shorter than 3 inches above the top of the knee. I remember this week was hard on the Dean of Girls."

Sandi Heston Rinderer says, "The three girls are all from Greenville. L to R they are:Rose Motzer, Barb Haley and Pam Thompson.

"Kay Wiseman and I were from the era prior to this picture, that had loosened up a little bit and first allowed "shorts" rather than just pedal pushers or long pants. But the only shorts we were allowed had to come down to the knees. Kay and I solved the problem of length with some of our shorts that didn't quite come to the knee, by having her Grandmother sew a couple rows of color coordinated ruffles to our shorts to bring them in line with the knee-length dress code! I wonder if any pictures of those things exist?And, I also remember, that the first thing we did when we got home from camp was rip the ruffles off! We weren't about to be seen wearing those ruffled shorts around Greenville!"

Junior boys in 1963? HS week in 1964 or 1965?

Another Junior Boys week. Row 1, kneeling, 1:4 Rick Walston 2:11 David Bush 2:13 Mike Bush 2:16 Chuck Northcutt 3:16 Steve Roodhouse 4:1 Tom Ewald 4:2 Janet Elam Ewald 4:7 Sheryl Brazle 4:9 Mary Kinney 4:10 Wanda Bowling 4:11 Dan Bowling 4:14 Melissa Sefton 4:5 Janet Durbin, Brownstown. Notice she and Melissa Sefton had matching outfits on, they were best friends!

Click on the photo for a closer look -- 1:1 Fred Wiseman 1:3 Don Doerr 1:4 Pat Heston 1:5 Bob Kelly1:9 Porter Estes 1:10 J.W. Jordan 1:12 Mike Heston 1:13 Paul Boatman 2:4 Kathy Peebles (end of row two -- the little blond head not quite visible)2:19 is Karen Bush with 2:20 Paula Bush 2:21 Francis Steele. 3:7 Jack Provines 3:11 Dan Clymer 3:12 Tim Callison 3:16 Deb Fritz 3:19 Mike Bush. Quite a jumble at the end of that row but I think the two younger kids with arms over shoulders are Robert and James Kelly.

Dishes, driving, missions and muscle beach

Kitchen duty -- Pat Heston in the far background. Mickey Dildine on left, then Beverly Wagoner, with Paul Camp behind her and Fred Wiseman on the far right.

How about these kids on the car -- need names! And... to where is Janet driving these kids? Did they all come from Brownstown in the same car?

There was often a visiting missionary who taught us something of Christian service and of giving as we donated to the work in chapel. The Missionary here is Don Augustine who was a missionary to Native Americans in the state of Washington.

1?, 2?, 3 K Baldwin, 4?, 5?, 6 K Baldwin

The lake was a source of swimming, fishing, the raft, boating -- 7 acres added in the first few years that turned out to be a fun asset.

BOX HOCKEY

These photos date from the 50's to the 60's and that cute little blonde is from the 90's! Box hockey is a game that has remained a constant in the 50 + years of the camp. The original games where built by Frank Bush and several others (including Evan Lockwood of Bethalto). They were patched and reworked many times over the years and completely new ones where built in 1986 by Gary Monroe (father of the blonde!)

Were you a box hockey champion? Do you have a great box hockey story? How about battle scars from swinging the "sticks"?

Also if you know any of these players let us know!

These two young men are Andy Fritz (in the blue and blue... son of Rob Fritz) and Josh Monroe (son of Deb Fritz Monroe)

Does anyone know who Pop is playing with?











Even the girls got to play!

Lynne Gurley said..Sure looks like Carol Gurley walking with her head down.

Circa 1964 from junior to high school

Shirley Gum is bowling. Joyce Elam is to her right, Linda Hill is in the center in plaid, with Kathy Roodhouse to her right.Ralpha Painter is the girl at the far right, next to Kathy Roodhouse.

Bob Kelly talks with two campers. The guy is Jerry Short from Mulberry Grove.

The one on the end (right) is a Baldwin and his brother is hiding in the pack 3 down, 2nd from right Mike Wernle.

In this photo we have Bob Boudoris, the Baldwin twins (Kent and Kurt) and the Williams twins (Kay and Gay) and Larry Bolla. The Boudoris boy, and both sets of twins are all cousins. All in picture are from Greenville

In this photo: girl in center is Terry Blankenship, to her right is one of the Baldwin twins, and to his right Carla Clover all from Greenville

Family camp pics and another HS week

Gene Talbot is the teacher in this photo.

Karen Bush is the blond in the center with Judy Roodhouse. Kathy and Steve Roodhouse are coming up behind.