Camp Gray from Edwin and Marjorie Kamps
Archive
Collection of materials from siblings Edwin and Marjorie Kamps who attended Camp Gray with their family at least as early as 1927.
Marjorie likely worked at the Camp in 1938 or 1939.
Edwin worked at Camp in 1942 and 1943 and kept in contact with other Camp supporters until at least 2008.
Some items include yellow post-it note explanations by Edwin Kamps' son Eric Kamps.
Items include:
Morning Breeze Camp newsletters: seven issues from 1939, one issue from 1941, six issues from 1944.
Westminster Lodge staff contact information sheets from 1942, 1943 and 1944 - photocopies of typed lists of staffers names and home addresses.
Music books and song lyrics pamphlets: "Conference Song Book" published by Presbyterian Board of Christian Education 1926 (includes handwritten poem "Religus" by John Martin); "Hymnal for Youth" published by the Westminster Press 1942; "Sing Along with Bill Bailey's Banjos", undated; and "Sing Sing Sing Sing !" Compiled by R.A. Walker, undated
Black and white photos, mostly dated 1927, and with names written on the back. Images of Edwin and Marjorie as toddlers at camp; their parents, their grandparents Anna and Charles Pundt; photo postcard of Mr. and Mrs. Edna and Roderick "Rod" Walker and their daughter Rowena (Walker) Markham 1932; Mrs. Walker's aunt Mrs. {Addie} Jefferson; View from Mt. Baldhead in 1930s, Rod and Edna Walker Dec. 1963; the same social group in Lake Geneva and the Camp Gray beach in 1930; four photos from the 1930s of unknown teens.
B/W negatives in a H.C. Simonson envelope include images of the bus that transported campers, groups of campers or staffers, and the Swift Villa and Administration Building in 1942.
15 color photos of Camp and a fall craft show and cross-river tug of war (may be last Indian Summer festival) marked as happening autumn 1981
2 color photos from August 1982 Camp staff reunion with Ruth "Spook" Dodd, Ted Shaw, Neil Haynie and Dottie Shaw. "Spook lives at 3114 Aster Dr., Phoenix, Arizona, 85029, 602-866-9360" noted on back of photo.
1 color photo for Ted and Dottie Shaw and two unknown people posed at the camp, marked Summer 1992. (maybe Edwin Kamps and his spouse and Audrey?)
Letters and postcards written by Edwin Kamps when he worked at the Camp in 1942 (5 items) and 1943 (10 items). Mailed to his parents Mr. & Mrs. E. C. Kamps, at 3540 N. Paulina St., Chicago, Illinois.
Majorie Kamps' Camp memento collage, includes envelopes signed by Betty and Charlotte Doxee(?) and Camille Genova, Majorie's tab at the store, staff barn dance tree quiz, and invitation to 1938-39 staff fellowship gathering in Chicago
5-page typewritten account of visit to Saugatuck and the Presbyterian Camp by Majorie Kamp in 1973. Descriptions of Camps plus Arrowhead Motel, changes in town (more commercial, yachts, high water levels) and complaints about trees and golf-ball "water tower" on Mt. Baldhead.
Postcards: many mailed to Kamp/Pundt family at 3540 N Paulina St. address. Two postmarked 1938. Backs of cards damaged from pasting in a scrapbook.
Collection of Presbyterian Camps newsletters, mailings and schedules from circa 1996 to 2008; photocopies of Westminster Lodge map and Camp Gray dining room, map of New Richmond to Saugatuck canoe trip; photocopy of Langton's 1987 camp history with 1988 note from Ted and Dottie Shaw; photocopies of biographies of Ted and Dottie Shaw and Dixie Elder from unknown publication but likely "Sand Dunes, Rope Hikes, and Parsley: Presbyterian Camps Saugatuck, Michigan (1966-90)"
(see 2018.28.01); photocopy of July 2010 Commercial Record article about efforts to purchase and "save" camp; undated flyer to fund-raise for Rose I and II cabins; possibly script from Edwin Kamps' video (CD of video at 2009.54)
July 1989 letter to Edwin Kamps from Ted Shaw with photocopies of pages from Kit Lane's History of Western Allegan County about George Gray, William & Lynn Lankton, Rowena (Walker) Markham, Edna Walker and Roderick Walker
2022.66.01
1897 Forward Movement Park, Gray and Presbyterian Camps -2014
Winthers, Sally
061 Presbyterian Camps 1950-2014
094 Camp Gray 1899-1950
Shaw, Dottie (Miller) 1925-Shaw, Ted Jr. 1925-Kamps, Edwin 1925-2000sWalker, Roderick Adam "Rod" 1888-1966Markham, Rowena Jane (Walker) 1917-2013Walker, Edna Louise (Thielepape) 1889-1973Elder, Ruth Dixon "Dixie" 1901-1988Presbyterian Camp/Camp Gray/Forward Movement Park 1899-2014
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