This is your chance to let other Old Timers know what has happened to you since your days at camp.
Please send an email to info@oldcrucis.com with a few sentences or paragraphs about you. Pictures are especially welcome. For the electronically challenged, just send it by snail mail to Joe Riddell, 2409 Ridgeview St., Austin, Tx 78704-2044.
Peggy Adcock Corrie - 1960's
I attended Crucis in the sixties along with my
brothers Bill, Bob, & Ed. My name was Peggy Adcock then. I am now
Peg Corrie after two marriages. The first marriage ended in divorce,
but I have a wonderful 30 year old son, Shane Boshart. Sadly, I lost
my second husband to cancer in 2004. Crucis was about the greatest
thing that happened during my childhood. Many, many fond memories...
Ellen Feik - 1960's-1980's
I always remember the campfires, the sports competitions. The mud fights were always fun. We always became so close, it was such a neat feeling at camp. You felt like you were in this big cloud surrounded by God and nature. The friends I gained was great too. I have been a member of All Saints my whole life. I still live in Fort
Worth, I still sing and play my guitar. I work for my church, All Saints - Fort
Worth as the receptionist for 10 years. I have a cat, named
Chako. I have such fond memories of Camp Crucis. I've sung in the adult choir
since I was a junior in high school. I'm also on parish life and pastoral care
committee. I just recently became a Stephen Minister.
Gary Hellman - camper and counselor, 1950's and 1960's
I am living in New York City (Greenwich Village) and practice as a psychotherapist at St. John's in the Village Episcopal Church.
My links of course go back into the 40's as Trinity took our annual
parish picnics there. I remember the old bridge and the building of
the new one. I in fact remember more about my summers at CC than any
others of those hot Texas summers. I'll snoop around to see if I have
other pictures. But I'd be surprised if you cannot gather a world
of interesting stories. Our [bicycle] ride [from Ft. Worth to Crucis] is one of the more memorable! Well, there were nights on the bridge too! Work weekends
building the stairs up to the chapel, etc, etc, etc.
Joe Riddell - camper and counselor, 1956-1965.
I spent years in college getting degrees in physics, math, and law. I have lived in Austin most of the time since leaving Fort Worth, but I do get back to see my family now and then. We are all still around except for my dad (informal "Camp Doctor" Murray Riddell). I believe the love of nature that was nurtured at Crucis helped draw me into a life-long vocation of working on various environmental causes. In 1986 I married Sandra Hamilton, a Louisiana native. Our daughter Rebecca is a political science major at Kenyon College in Ohio. I worked professionally as a lawyer (doing environmental protection and natural resources law) for the State of Texas for 20+ years before retiring in 2004. My favorite way to enjoy nature is kayaking or rafting and camping along a river. I also enjoy bicycling.
Joe with wife Sandra (October 2006)
Joe with daughter Rebecca (March 2007)
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Lisa Rogers - 1960s
I'm still playing guitar with the Therapy Sisters. Maurine McLean and I have been together 26 years. I'm Director of Outreach at Out Youth (www.outyouth.org). And life just gets sweeter the more of it I get to savor. I get plenty of 21st century updates from my nieces and nephews, who are enthusiastic campers and counselors.
Steve Winsett - camper, counselor, clergy 1940's - 1960's
I am now semi-retired, but still a vicar at nearby Holy Trinity, Brandenburg, KY. I first attended Camp Crucis in 1947 at Jr. Boys camp and went just about every year until I moved to the Diocese of Chicago in 1966. The last two years I was there as ordained staff, but before that as either counselor or camper. I know I have a box of photos downstairs somewhere with lots of scenes from the 50's and I'd be willing to scan and identify what I can for the sake of history if anyone is interested. My brother Walter has retired.
