Flo,
Talking about camp stories I would love to here some memories from Camp Bogle. I remember a few but I don't think they are mine to tell because all of us perceive things differently. I remember that a group of us girls stayed in a tent that collapsed in the rain and have vague memories of taking showers in a bathroom without doors/windows. What year was that again...Ray, Jasper, Barry, Leroy help me here cant seem to recall. I also remember protest, crying the lights going out (very traumatic). I think everyone was unsure about their eternal destiny nailed it down that weekend. It would be good to hear the other stories. Donna T, Pam, Nola, I think you were all there what do you remember?
Love
JT
Hi Joan,
ReplyDeleteI am attaching your email to this reply as I don't think everybody in the group is linked to the yahoo carmel crew list. But I trust all the persons you asked to 'help you out' - you are showing symptoms of AAADDD - not to worry . I think the lights went out at camp Bogle while Uncle Clyde (camp speaker) was crying and lamenting that after a week-end of camp all the campers could say about the experience was that camp was 'irie'. I think that 'lights out' was staged. Does anybody out there know? Yes Joan I will agree with you that was a very unusual camp - the "ruffest" one I ever attended. We have come a looooong way since.
From Adrian McClean
ReplyDeleteDuring the camp in question,Clyde Edwards really spoke with tremendous conviction, hoping to convert a list of promising young men who lived and moved as a collective group in the secular world. It was Warren McLean from that group,who broke the heart of Clyde Edwards with his "camp Irie" response to the question of what the camp meant to those individuals in attendance. Warren was so shock by Clyde's tears and obvious disappointment that he declare it to be his last Camp, but his brothers never gave him a chance to live it down as he became known as "Camp Irie"...the man who broke the heart and resolve of the army man. This is a tough thing for a civilian to do to a soldier.
Adrian