This page is here to help
find friends from Camp Kosciusko
and to revive old
memories and share pictures.
Of course we'll want
to share what has happened to us
and our families over
these forty some years.
If you know of
a way to contact campers via e-mail,
please send the address
to me so a master list can be stored
here for all to use.
Pictures will also be posted as they are received.
2009 Reunion Plans It
just seemed impossible to find a date for 2009. With six
different
campers not wanting to miss their 50th HS Class reunion and family
reunions,
we chose to skip the Camp Reunion for this summer.
Maybe we should consider a weekday rather a Saturday, or maybe
have it in September.
If you have specific thoughts for about the timing for the 2010
reunion, please let us know. (7-7-09) Bob
Hardin
door.man (at) kconline.com
2008 Reunion Saturday,
August 9, 2008.
We met in lovely weather on the banks of Winona Lake.
Since this is the 50th Reunion year for high school
for many of us,
we had to work around those dates but eight were able to be here
this year.
Bob Hardin, Linda McIntyre Scott, Art Gorman, Karen Steube Elvin,
Dick Elvin, Joyce Green Hodge, Sara Shuss Grande, and Pat Jewell
Fulwider.
Camper Dave Rose found his picture on here and sent an email;
he is pastor at a church near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania and hopes
to join us some time.
We talked on to the phone with Steve Crowell and Mike Murphy,
both in California.
We continue to find former campers from the past and ask that
you
let us know ways to contact any that you know we have missed.
(7-7-09) Bob
Hardin
door.man (at) kconline.com
2007
4th Reunion Saturday,
July 28, 2007.
Ten of us met in Winona Lake, just about three blocks from the
Kosci Lodge.
We visited and got reacquainted and welcomed three campers to
the reunion
for their first time as we munched on some goodies brought by
Pat Jewell and Sara Shuss. Dick Elvin led us in singing some of the old fun camp songs.
Some campers traveled many miles to join us; one came from Madison,
IN,
and two from the far east side of Ohio, and one from Columbus,
IN.
The day ended with a meal at the lovely Boat House Restaurant
on the shores of Winona Lake.
The ten who were able to attend were:
Sara Shuss, Pat Jewell, Bob Hardin, Dick Elvin, Karen Steube,
Linda McIntyre,
Chuck Saunders, Leah Leifer, Cynthia Wilson, and Joyce Leffingwell.
Karen Steube Elvin created a picture/memory quilt which she brought
to share with us.
Each camper signed the quilt with a memory for her. There
were pictures of us at camp
as well as some of the historical pictures from old postcards.
We hope to have a picture here on the site for all to see very
soon.
Our list of camper contacts continues to grow, see the Contacts
Page. Bob
Hardin
door.man (at) kconline.com
2006
3rd Reunion Saturday,
August 12, 2006 was the date of our 3rd Annual Kosci Reunion.
Joyce Green Hodges was our host as the ten campers met together
in Kokomo.
After an informal lunch with lots of visiting at MC ALISTER’S
DELI
and then was off to Joyce's house where we gathered around her
beautiful
dining room table and shared memories and pictures of years past,
as well
as photos and stories of our lives and families since those camp
days.
(8-20-07)
Those
attending were:
Joyce Green, Sara Shuss, Pat Jewell, Dick Elvin, Karen Steube,
Linda McIntyre,
Bob Hardin, Chuck Saunders, Barb Johnson, and Christina Forgey.
2005
2nd Reunion We
had a great time at Winona Lake for the 2005
Camp Kosci Reunion on July 30th. Twelve campers came
together to visit, share memories and photos and
update our lives with each other. Art Gorman
played guitar and led us in singing camp songs, too.
What fun we had...and we missed those not with us.
Those able to join in the festivities were:
Sara Shuss, Barb Johnson, Cynthia Hopping, Joyce Green, Pat Jewell,
Bob Hardin, Christina Forgey, Lynne Janz, Linda McIntyre, Art
Gorman,
Dick Elvin and Karen Steube.
Here is a group
picture
with names.
(7-31-05)
Quickie
1st Reunion 2004 Dick
Elvin had reason to be back in Indiana the last weekend in September,
2004,
so a quickie reunion was planned in Winona Lake
for any Kosci Campers who might be able to attend on Sunday, Sept.
26, 2004.
At 2:30 eight campers met at Winona Lake Park, right on Winona
Lake,
just a few blocks north of where we went to Camp. Click
to see the pictures from the 1st reunion. Those eight coming
to the first reunion:
Art Gorman, Joyce Green, Sara Shuss, Dick Elvin, Christina Forgey,
Barb Johnson, Pat Jewell, and Bob Hardin.
If you'd be interested in attending another reunion, let Bob Hardin
know
so that plans can be made for next year. (9-19-04)
If you have some specific
ideas for the page, please let me know.
Bob
Hardin door.man (at) kconline.com
I attended Camp Kosci
'54, '55, '56, '57 from Logansport Calvary Presbyterian Church.
I now live in Warsaw
(next door to Winona Lake.)
Here is a link to
view some old
pictures.
Do you remember our Song
Books? Katherine (Katie) Price often led songs, she was from Ohio,
Miami University.
She was also director of the waterfront at camp, too.
We sang from
this book in Junior High.
And this one
in Senior High.
And I wore this
around my neck as my name tag.
Also found this
reminding me that I could take a rowboat out alone...
TIDBITS
Alas, the lodge that was
Camp Kosciusko to us is gone. It has been replaced
by three lovely homes
on the east shore of Winona Lake. Many of the trees still
stand.
The building across
the street that I remember as the 'Health Center' still exists
as a private home.
Haynes Chapel is long gone, also, but the woods still are there
along with some of
the cottages where the counselors lived. Snake Island has
been developed
into a beautiful upscale
residential area. But the canal and its bridges are still
there
just as we remember
them.
The swan pond
in downtown Winona Lake is still there and has been rebuilt.
The Eskimo Inn closed
and was replaced with a new post office building.
The Winona Queen paddle
wheel boat is no longer on the lake.
The Chicago Boys'
Club complex is gone and now million dollar homes sit on the site.
A few years ago,
in 1995, I happened to see an obituary for a Walrond in the local
paper.
It happened to be
Rev. Harry Walrond's wife, Neva, so I waited a month
and then called him
offering my condolences. I explained who I was and that
I
remembered him as
being the Dean of our camp for a few years. He was pleased
to
hear from a camper
after all these years. I told him that he could never know
how important it was
to each of us as teens, and that we all thanked him from
the bottom of our
hearts. I could tell he was deeply moved.
Just eight months
later I saw that he had also died, and another part of our camp
was gone.
It's not too late
to thank God for him in your prayers.
Reverend Harry Walrond
Nov. 14, 1910
-- Jan. 3, 1996
LINKS
Camper Contact
Information
5th
Reunion Pictures - 2008
