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Bishop Walsh Officiates at Close — Father Dean in Charge of Upper Carolina Camp at Pickens, 8. C. Camp St. Ann’s Catholic Vacation School has finished its fifth success ful season’s activity. This year, as last, the camp was located at Rocky Bottom, sixteen miles north of Pick ens, S. C. The camp lay in a natural cove surrounded by Little Caesar's Head, Chimney ‘op and Horse Mountains, and both camp, and sur roundings combined to form a beau tiful setting for the vacation school. Indeed nature itself seemed to join with the camp in presenting the most ideal possible arrangement. The camp personnel was again un der the capable direction of the Rev. Sydney Dean, assistant of St. Mary’s Church in Greenville. He was ably assisted by a competent staff includ ing four Sisters: Sr. M. Catherine, Sr. Mary and M. Raphael and M. Raphael, and Sr. M. Concepta; six Seminarians, Mr. Richard Mad dox and Mr. Lawrence McLaughlin of the Sulpician Seminary, Washing ton, D. C., Messrs. William Doyle, John Steele, and William Goldsmith, of St. aineuse Seminary, Baltimore, Md., and Edward A. Keller, St. Bernard’s Seminary, Rochester, Y.; eight lay counsellors, the Messrs. James Staples and Emile Ericson of Charleston and George Francis of Greenville, in charge of boys; and the Misses Mary Dean of Charleston, Ruth Poechmann of Duluth, Minn., Margaret Niggel of Columbia, Te resa and Veronica Monahan of Charlotte, N. C., in charge of girls. The infirmary was directed by two registered nurses, Mrs. Eliza Clark, WN., and Miss Louise Felder, R. N., of Greenville. The kitchen staff was under the direction of an experienc ed dietician, Mr. Richard Smith, of Greenville, assisted by three negro helpers. One hundred and fifty-one boys and girls, ages from 8 to 18, representing 48 towns in South Car oline were invited for the three weeks’ encampment. The camp equipment was quite satisfactory and consisted of two large dormitories which furnished adequate sleeping quarters: one for the boys and another for the girls. In addition, there was an ample building which did duty both as re fectory and recreation hall; the chapel was in a separate building. A large baseball field and a concrete swimming pool of varying depths completed the equipment. As friends of the camp probably know, Camp St. Ann's is one of two camps, similar in purpose and gen eral execution, founded for the pur pose of giving children from the ru ral sections of South Carolina a bet ter opportunity to learn the funda mental truths of their holy religion. Camp St. Ann’s is intended for the children from the northern section of the state while children from the southern part are taken care of at Camp St. Mary’s at Bluffton. Both camps are under the patronage of the Most Reverend Emmet M. Walsh, D. D., Bishop of Charleston, and both were founded by him. To completely fulfill the purpose of the camp, many things were tak en into consideration: health, and as a consequence, food, recreation, and surroundings, healthful and pleas ant; character, and therefore, com panions and a staff calculated to further a strengthening of it, and insofar as possible, a completely sol id Catholic atmosphere, and primarily, religion. The first of these was well pro vided for by giving the children the best food possible both in regard to quantity and also in regard to nu tritive qualities; by providing whole some activities including swimming under careful supervision of coun sellors experienced , as lifeguards and by games of various sorts, by hikes, etc. Lighter entertainment was furnished nightly at a series of interesting and well planned camp fire programs, of a calibre so supe rior as to attract the presence of and prompt the congratulatory remarks of neighboring campers.
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Monroe Bulletin
Monroe, Georgia, US
Sat, Sep 19, 1936
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