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1952
The 1952 summer session of the Cleveland Bible Camp
gets underway next week with a camp for ministers on Monday and Tuesday.
Niobrara Presbytery pastors will be guests of the camp which boasts a
new dormitory, a new chapel stage, and a Bible room, all built this
summer. Now, the camp has a chapel, girls' and boys' dormitories,
kitchen, mess tent which is rented and an infirmary. Permanent
spring curbing on the hillside, provides the camp with water. REA
has extended its lines to the camp for electricity. The church
flag and American flag fly on a cliff to the west overlooking the camp.
The newly erected Chapel stage faces to the east and its audience is
seated on benches on the hillside. Just back of the stage is a
waterproof storage room for books and materials needed for the camp.
A rustic cross and the sign, "Cleveland Bible Camp" is mounted on roof.
On Thursday, July 3, another new
feature will be inaugurated: a young peoples camp for youth of 14 and
over. Orin Graff, camp director, explained that the entire group
would participate in the 4th of July celebration at Stuart and that band
members would be present to parade and play in the concert. the
camp will have its own fireworks display in the evening, however.
The
Children's Camp, for boys and girls 9-14, will be open July 8 and close
with the picnic and services on Camp Sunday, july 13. Leaders this
year will include Bill Mulford, and Henry Warren, ministerial students,
Delbert Dick of O'Neill, Rev. Curtis Krey of Arvada, Colorado, and
Eloise Rustad. The Rev. Sam Lee, former missionary to the Eskimos of the
ARtic circle, will show pictures and curios on missionary night, July 8.
Other leadership will be supplied locally.
Now equipped with REA and facilities to
house up to 100 boys and girls, the Cleveland Bible Camp is open to
children of all faiths. No charge is made for attending, but
expenses are met by free will offerings. Already a model for
similar project, it has inspired a new study within church circles of
the value and procedure of church camps.
The Rev. Orin Graff, who organized the
Cleveland Bible Camp four years ago, will probably serve as its director
for the last time this summer. On July 21 he will move with his
family to Forreston, Illinois, where he has accepted a new charge.
July 17, 1952
A combined enrollment of 108 students
during this summer's session of the Cleveland Bible camp reached a new
record peak for its four years of existence.
Counselors for the Youth Camp, held July
3-6, were: Hank Warren, Eloise Rustad, Rev. and Mrs. Curt Krey, Delbert
Dick and Rev. Orin Graff.
Leaders for the children's Camp, held July
8-13, were Curtis Kray, Camp Pastor; Etha Hitchcock, Camp Mom; Sam Lee,
Missionary; Eloise Rustad, curtis Kray, Henry Warren, and Bill Mulford,
Instructors; Laura Mulford and Betty Anderson, Counselors; Jean Cobbs,
Song Leader; Henrietta Coats, Pianist; Fred Mulford, Carolyn Cobb, Jane
Henderson, and Kay Johnson, Squad Leaders; Elsie Sweet, Noma Hall, Etha
Hitchcock, and Charlotte Cobb, Cooks.
The camp's purpose was twofold: 1) To teach the Bible, not
from any sectarian viewpoint, but as the inspired word of God which
presents Jesus Christ to boys and girls as their only savior and Lord,
and 2) To provide a setting for a real experience in Christian
fellowship of study and play. the camp is supported by voluntary
gifts of labor, food, equipment, and money. Estimated cash cost of the
camp was $1100. Contributions of food amounted to $300 and labor $400.
Organized by Rev.. Orin Graff four years ago, Cleveland
bible Camp has been in the custody of the Cleveland Men's Council, and
has been assisted by the Atkinson Presbyterian Church and the Stuart
Community Church.
Over 450 members of the congregation attended the Camp
Sunday this weekend and participated in a basket picnic dinner.
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