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THE MERRY TIMES

BONNIE and JIM HOBDEN, longtime members of the Saint Charles Avenue Presbyterian Church in New Orleans, have spent much of the year preparing meals for volunteers who come to their church to help with Hurricane Katrina cleanup. When they first began feeding groups in October 2005, Bonnie remarked, “It made perfect sense to provide their meals, since grocery stores in New Orleans were either not open, or had limited hours and were not particularly well stocked. Then we just continued because the groups seemed really to appreciate that the food is there, and at the end of a rather arduous day, the meal is on the table. The groups are amazing in their enthusiasm and willingness to get the job done.” Jim is backup and helper to Bonnie for meals and has been an on-site coordinator for home-gutting and rebuilding. He drives a truck taking groups to work locations. It has been particularly rewarding for him to watch the groups develop relationships with the homeowners they are there to help.

GRAHAM WALKER BURNS writes that she and her husband are thrilled to have
CAROL and her family back on Lookout Mountain, where she is a licensed professional counselor who has her own company to help prepare couples for marriage. LUCY and her husband live in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, where she continues to work closely with the executive team of RBC Centura Bank in the areas of strategy and integration. EDY, who was married June 24 to Syd Gervin, continues her career at Korn/Ferry International, a global executive search firm in Atlanta. MAY is still in New York City working as a product specialist in the Alternative Investment Group of Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management. For the third consecutive year she ran in the New York City Marathon.

SALLY KENNEDY MARTIN has a North Carolina summer day camp, Ashton Farm, fashioned after Miss Dollie’s Big Tree in Algiers. The camp finished its 31st summer with fun and memories. “If you New Orleans Big Tree campers remember Ross the bus driver, I’m ‘Ross’ driving the bus to and from the big city of Wilmington to my farm. Many thanks to Miss Dollie for letting me do what I do and loving it—reaching thousands of kids each year—camp plus school field trips in the fall and spring.”

Several Camp alumnae enjoyed a reunion at Black Mountain, NC in May when former CCL counselor Robert Edgecombe, son of LAURA SHAW SHIELDS, was married. Camp friends who enjoyed the event were NINA SHAW ROSS, HELEN SHAW JOSEPH, PATSY and MALCOLM WILLIAMS, ELISEO and MARGE RIOS, and BETH FOUNTAIN.

The White House honored AMY JARED this year for her work at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. On January 25 she accepted the 2005 Coming Up Taller Award from Laura Bush. Amy was honored for the Latino Outreach Program in which the Museum partnered with several Latino organizations in Philadelphia to “foster the artistic and humanistic development of Latino youth.” Her program was awarded $10,000 in recognition of its achievements. Amy is now the art specialist at the Russell Byers Charter School in Philadelphia, where she continues to make an impact on young people. We are proud of you, Amy!

ALMA GSELL BENZA is part of Best Buddies, which is the world’s largest non-profit organization that provides enhanced opportunities for people with intellectual disabilities. The mission of Best Buddies is to enhance the lives of people with intellectual disabilities by providing opportunities for one-to-one friendships and integrated employment.

VICKY MANTHOU writes from Thessaloniki, Greece, that her daughter MARILENA is expecting twins this winter and has submitted work for her PhD.

REBECCA MCQUITTY spent the past year in Michigan where she did an internship in small animal medicine and surgery. She is now working in Dallas.

JOY KALER wrote that her family is doing well. CAROLYN and her family are still living in Caracas, Venezuela.

On March 9th LAURA CORBETT donated a kidney to her brother Bill. Both came through the surgery and are doing fine.

ELAINE KIRWIN writes that she is still the same. “Not much gray, thanks to the efforts of Miss Clairol. Not too many wrinkles, thanks to Mary Kay. I’m still driving everyone everywhere. Still yelling loudly at all the sporting events. I still sell Mary Kay, so give me a call if you want to look 10 years younger. Thanks to all who have asked about my family in New Orleans. Everyone is fine, even if their property is not. Mom was here for seven weeks and we didn’t want to see her go.“

TERRI CLEMENTS HELLWIG sees JANIS ASKEW ONDA from time to time in Katy, Texas, as Janis is daughter Natalie’s adaptive PE aquatics teacher. Terri and Janis were LSU students at the same time.

MEG PEARSON is now doing her residency in San Francisco after graduating from Yale Medical School.

ELIZABETH COMPTON SMITH is an artist now in Austin after living in California’s Santa Cruz Mountains for several years. Elizabeth earned a Masters degree from Harvard in the Arts in Education program in 1998. She has paintings in private collections throughout the USA and in London. She has pursued two primary subjects in her paintings: landscapes and animals. To see her web site visit www.elizabethcompton.com <http://www.elizabethcompton.com/>
Elizabeth and her husband have two sons and are happy to be near family.

Legendary performer Dolly Parton stopped by BMI in Nashville last winter to put her autograph on her inspired Gibson Guitar 10 foot sculpture created by artist KATHY FALK as part of Nashville’s Guitar Town Project. The exhibit benefited local charities and Parton’s Gibson guitar sculpture featured her favorite butterfly motif. ISLA WATERS was manager of the special projects and Guitar Town.

ANDIE WIGODSKY ROHRS and her husband are now living in Raleigh, where she had been serving as the interim Episcopal chaplain at Duke. In July she began a new job as the chaplain at Saint Mary’s School in Raleigh. “I had a wonderful camp moment the other night. John is a priest at Christ Church, and we ran into some of his parishioners in a restaurant. He introduced me and it turned out that one of them was ANN COWPERTHWAITE!”

JULIA BOWSHER and her husband live in Durham so Andie sees them often and recently became the godmother to their baby Helen. They have also had recent visits from MEG PEARSON and ALISON MACADAM.

In July a group of JAN FOUNTAIN’S Camp friends met in Nashville for a welcome home party. Photos and memories were shared and a fun canoe trip down the Duck River was also part of the weekend. Those at the gathering were GLORIA WHITE, DARRAH WITTEN, DIANA PRETZ, BETH FOUNTAIN, ALMA GSELL, GALE COURTNEY, MICHAELE WALL, and MARGE RIOS.

SUSAN MOORE SMITH has been on the road recently with her pottery. She exhibited at the TACA craft fair in Nashville in May and in Waynesville, North Carolina, in October. There she enjoyed a visit from BONNIE HOBDEN.

BRITTANY SULLIVAN WOLFE and her husband are now living in Fayetteville, North Carolina, where she has a job in an inner city school, teaching 9th grade English.

MARY SCOTT HAGLE invited several Camp friends to a fall gathering at her parents’ home in Virginia. Among those there were her daughters ELEANOR DAY and ANNA WILLIAM, NURSIE JAN and CLAYTON SMITH, PAM CARLSON, CATHY, MARY CATHERINE AND CAROLINE TREUTING, MILLIE CAIN, MIMI COSTLEY, NELL DRAKE, VIRGINIA BROYLES, and NICOLE SMITH. Everyone had a good time, according to Nursie.

CONGRATULATIONS

ALISON CRIST became the wife of Chris Pearson on July 8. The couple lives in Glenview, Illinois, not too far from Allison’s mother SUSAN BOWERS CRIST. Alison is a schoolteacher.

ELIZABETH MCQUITTY was married in early November to Arthur Lee in Houston.

ANNIE LEONARD SCHWENDINGER and husband Jon are the proud parents of a son, William, who was born October 31, 2005. Annie will be working from home now with her freelance business Smartt Art. JANE EVINS LEONARD is the grandmother of William.

STEPHANIE MOORE SYNNESTVEDT and her husband Jeff became the proud parents of Lucy on November 26, 2005.

TRACI MAXWELL, daughter of ALTA LEE BRINTON MAXWELL, gave birth to a daughter on January 19.

MARY REINBOLD SCHEPMAN and her husband Marc had their first child Parker on January 24. MAY REINBOLD is the proud grandmother.

JEANNE HANSEN MCGRADY and her husband had a baby girl, Laura Grace, on May 16.

KRISTIN CARLSON HUNZIKA and her husband Mark became the parents of Owen Daniel on November 3. Owen is the grandson of PAM CARLSON and the great-grandson of NURSIE JAN SMITH.

IN OUR PRAYERS

Please continue to keep LISBETH ANNE CHURCH DUNLAP, JUNI BOWES, and SANDY SUHREN HAMBLIN in your prayers as they have had some major medical problems this year. Lisbeth Anne is fighting breast cancer, Juni is recuperating from complications after surgery, and Sandy fell and broke her hip a year after suffering a stroke.

JAN FOUNTAIN MCRAE lost her husband Rob in January. Jan had brought Rob back to the States from Singapore via air ambulance to be with family in the final days. She and her two sons have now moved to the Chattanooga area so that the boys can attend Baylor School, where their dad went.

MILLICENT BURNS, sister of CLAIRE, passed away on January 28 in West Palm Beach, Florida, after an extended illness with cancer.

ADRIEL “SPARKY” GRAHAM ARCENEAUX, a New Orleans lawyer, died this summer in a two-vehicle accident after apparently suffering a heart attack. She was a dedicated public servant and always did things for the right reasons, according to one of her friends.

Campers from the 70’s, especially those from New Orleans, will fondly remember CHARLOTTE FIERABEND, mother of JANE, CAREY, ROBIN, and SCOTT. Charlotte, who passed away November 1, came as a senior staff member for several summers.

CAMP NEWS

To submit news contact:
Marge Rios
2912 Shipley Road
Cookeville, TN 38501
(931-528-6146)
margerios@frontiernet.net

For Camp Monterey information contact:
Keith Alford
1208 Church Street
Port Gibson, MS 39150
(601-437-4216)
CM4Keith@aol.com

The official website is www.campmonterey.com <http://www.campmonterey.com/>

Camp Country Lad’s web site is www.campcountrylad.com <http://www.campcountrylad.com/> or e-mail is cclad@usit.net

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Meet Our Staff	THE MERRY TIMES BONNIE and JIM HOBDEN, longtime members of the Saint Charles Avenue Presbyterian Church in New Orleans, have spent much of the year preparing meals for volunteers who come to their church to help with Hurricane Katrina cleanup. When they first began feeding groups in October 2005, Bonnie remarked, “It made perfect sense to provide their meals, since grocery stores in New Orleans were either not open, or had limited hours and were not particularly well stocked. Then we just continued because the groups seemed really to appreciate that the food is there, and at the end of a rather arduous day, the meal is on the table. The groups are amazing in their enthusiasm and willingness to get the job done.” Jim is backup and helper to Bonnie for meals and has been an on-site coordinator for home-gutting and rebuilding. He drives a truck taking groups to work locations. It has been particularly rewarding for him to watch the groups develop relationships with the homeowners they are there to help. GRAHAM WALKER BURNS writes that she and her husband are thrilled to have CAROL and her family back on Lookout Mountain, where she is a licensed professional counselor who has her own company to help prepare couples for marriage. LUCY and her husband live in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, where she continues to work closely with the executive team of RBC Centura Bank in the areas of strategy and integration. EDY, who was married June 24 to Syd Gervin, continues her career at Korn/Ferry International, a global executive search firm in Atlanta. MAY is still in New York City working as a product specialist in the Alternative Investment Group of Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management. For the third consecutive year she ran in the New York City Marathon. SALLY KENNEDY MARTIN has a North Carolina summer day camp, Ashton Farm, fashioned after Miss Dollie’s Big Tree in Algiers. The camp finished its 31st summer with fun and memories. “If you New Orleans Big Tree campers remember Ross the bus driver, I’m ‘Ross’ driving the bus to and from the big city of Wilmington to my farm. Many thanks to Miss Dollie for letting me do what I do and loving it—reaching thousands of kids each year—camp plus school field trips in the fall and spring.” Several Camp alumnae enjoyed a reunion at Black Mountain, NC in May when former CCL counselor Robert Edgecombe, son of LAURA SHAW SHIELDS, was married. Camp friends who enjoyed the event were NINA SHAW ROSS, HELEN SHAW JOSEPH, PATSY and MALCOLM WILLIAMS, ELISEO and MARGE RIOS, and BETH FOUNTAIN. The White House honored AMY JARED this year for her work at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. On January 25 she accepted the 2005 Coming Up Taller Award from Laura Bush. Amy was honored for the Latino Outreach Program in which the Museum partnered with several Latino organizations in Philadelphia to “foster the artistic and humanistic development of Latino youth.” Her program was awarded $10,000 in recognition of its achievements. Amy is now the art specialist at the Russell Byers Charter School in Philadelphia, where she continues to make an impact on young people. We are proud of you, Amy! ALMA GSELL BENZA is part of Best Buddies, which is the world’s largest non-profit organization that provides enhanced opportunities for people with intellectual disabilities. The mission of Best Buddies is to enhance the lives of people with intellectual disabilities by providing opportunities for one-to-one friendships and integrated employment. VICKY MANTHOU writes from Thessaloniki, Greece, that her daughter MARILENA is expecting twins this winter and has submitted work for her PhD. REBECCA MCQUITTY spent the past year in Michigan where she did an internship in small animal medicine and surgery. She is now working in Dallas. JOY KALER wrote that her family is doing well. CAROLYN and her family are still living in Caracas, Venezuela. On March 9th LAURA CORBETT donated a kidney to her brother Bill. Both came through the surgery and are doing fine. ELAINE KIRWIN writes that she is still the same. “Not much gray, thanks to the efforts of Miss Clairol. Not too many wrinkles, thanks to Mary Kay. I’m still driving everyone everywhere. Still yelling loudly at all the sporting events. I still sell Mary Kay, so give me a call if you want to look 10 years younger. Thanks to all who have asked about my family in New Orleans. Everyone is fine, even if their property is not. Mom was here for seven weeks and we didn’t want to see her go.“ TERRI CLEMENTS HELLWIG sees JANIS ASKEW ONDA from time to time in Katy, Texas, as Janis is daughter Natalie’s adaptive PE aquatics teacher. Terri and Janis were LSU students at the same time. MEG PEARSON is now doing her residency in San Francisco after graduating from Yale Medical School. ELIZABETH COMPTON SMITH is an artist now in Austin after living in California’s Santa Cruz Mountains for several years. Elizabeth earned a Masters degree from Harvard in the Arts in Education program in 1998. She has paintings in private collections throughout the USA and in London. She has pursued two primary subjects in her paintings: landscapes and animals. To see her web site visit www.elizabethcompton.com <http://www.elizabethcompton.com/> Elizabeth and her husband have two sons and are happy to be near family. Legendary performer Dolly Parton stopped by BMI in Nashville last winter to put her autograph on her inspired Gibson Guitar 10 foot sculpture created by artist KATHY FALK as part of Nashville’s Guitar Town Project. The exhibit benefited local charities and Parton’s Gibson guitar sculpture featured her favorite butterfly motif. ISLA WATERS was manager of the special projects and Guitar Town. ANDIE WIGODSKY ROHRS and her husband are now living in Raleigh, where she had been serving as the interim Episcopal chaplain at Duke. In July she began a new job as the chaplain at Saint Mary’s School in Raleigh. “I had a wonderful camp moment the other night. John is a priest at Christ Church, and we ran into some of his parishioners in a restaurant. He introduced me and it turned out that one of them was ANN COWPERTHWAITE!” JULIA BOWSHER and her husband live in Durham so Andie sees them often and recently became the godmother to their baby Helen. They have also had recent visits from MEG PEARSON and ALISON MACADAM. In July a group of JAN FOUNTAIN’S Camp friends met in Nashville for a welcome home party. Photos and memories were shared and a fun canoe trip down the Duck River was also part of the weekend. Those at the gathering were GLORIA WHITE, DARRAH WITTEN, DIANA PRETZ, BETH FOUNTAIN, ALMA GSELL, GALE COURTNEY, MICHAELE WALL, and MARGE RIOS. SUSAN MOORE SMITH has been on the road recently with her pottery. She exhibited at the TACA craft fair in Nashville in May and in Waynesville, North Carolina, in October. There she enjoyed a visit from BONNIE HOBDEN. BRITTANY SULLIVAN WOLFE and her husband are now living in Fayetteville, North Carolina, where she has a job in an inner city school, teaching 9th grade English. MARY SCOTT HAGLE invited several Camp friends to a fall gathering at her parents’ home in Virginia. Among those there were her daughters ELEANOR DAY and ANNA WILLIAM, NURSIE JAN and CLAYTON SMITH, PAM CARLSON, CATHY, MARY CATHERINE AND CAROLINE TREUTING, MILLIE CAIN, MIMI COSTLEY, NELL DRAKE, VIRGINIA BROYLES, and NICOLE SMITH. Everyone had a good time, according to Nursie. CONGRATULATIONS ALISON CRIST became the wife of Chris Pearson on July 8. The couple lives in Glenview, Illinois, not too far from Allison’s mother SUSAN BOWERS CRIST. Alison is a schoolteacher. ELIZABETH MCQUITTY was married in early November to Arthur Lee in Houston. ANNIE LEONARD SCHWENDINGER and husband Jon are the proud parents of a son, William, who was born October 31, 2005. Annie will be working from home now with her freelance business Smartt Art. JANE EVINS LEONARD is the grandmother of William. STEPHANIE MOORE SYNNESTVEDT and her husband Jeff became the proud parents of Lucy on November 26, 2005. TRACI MAXWELL, daughter of ALTA LEE BRINTON MAXWELL, gave birth to a daughter on January 19. MARY REINBOLD SCHEPMAN and her husband Marc had their first child Parker on January 24. MAY REINBOLD is the proud grandmother. JEANNE HANSEN MCGRADY and her husband had a baby girl, Laura Grace, on May 16. KRISTIN CARLSON HUNZIKA and her husband Mark became the parents of Owen Daniel on November 3. Owen is the grandson of PAM CARLSON and the great-grandson of NURSIE JAN SMITH. IN OUR PRAYERS Please continue to keep LISBETH ANNE CHURCH DUNLAP, JUNI BOWES, and SANDY SUHREN HAMBLIN in your prayers as they have had some major medical problems this year. Lisbeth Anne is fighting breast cancer, Juni is recuperating from complications after surgery, and Sandy fell and broke her hip a year after suffering a stroke. JAN FOUNTAIN MCRAE lost her husband Rob in January. Jan had brought Rob back to the States from Singapore via air ambulance to be with family in the final days. She and her two sons have now moved to the Chattanooga area so that the boys can attend Baylor School, where their dad went. MILLICENT BURNS, sister of CLAIRE, passed away on January 28 in West Palm Beach, Florida, after an extended illness with cancer. ADRIEL “SPARKY” GRAHAM ARCENEAUX, a New Orleans lawyer, died this summer in a two-vehicle accident after apparently suffering a heart attack. She was a dedicated public servant and always did things for the right reasons, according to one of her friends. Campers from the 70’s, especially those from New Orleans, will fondly remember CHARLOTTE FIERABEND, mother of JANE, CAREY, ROBIN, and SCOTT. Charlotte, who passed away November 1, came as a senior staff member for several summers. CAMP NEWS To submit news contact: Marge Rios 2912 Shipley Road Cookeville, TN 38501 (931-528-6146) margerios@frontiernet.net For Camp Monterey information contact: Keith Alford 1208 Church Street Port Gibson, MS 39150 (601-437-4216) CM4Keith@aol.com The official website is www.campmonterey.com <http://www.campmonterey.com/> Camp Country Lad’s web site is www.campcountrylad.com <http://www.campcountrylad.com/> or e-mail is cclad@usit.net
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