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Date Posted: 16:43:10 09/05/08 Fri
Author: Sylvia
Subject: Farwell '44 to '45

Valri Philpott Sandoe had her memories of Farwell but thought the camp probably no longer existed. Then she read an article in Vermont Life and decided to visit.

Valri lives in Indianapolis now as she did when she was a camper. She remembers Lolly Kackley who was a camper from Florida but who now also lives in Indianapolis.

She remembers M.C. Schwartz as a camper and Rebecca Kern as a Director maybe, anyway Rebecca was more than a counselor, Valri says.
Rebecca, like Lolly, also moved to Indianapolis.

Valri remembers that she was in the cabin farthest from the Pari's and she was little.

In Valri's day they didn't have bunks and chests like the current furnishings in the cabin, she told us.

She didn't look for her name on the cabin wall because she
said she doesn't think she put it there.

It was a nice visit on a sunny end - of - summer day, quite warm walking around camp.

The warm temperatures may have triggered the memory of the long train ride to camp in the summer heat and soot blowing in when Valri opened the train car window.

Some things have changed more than Camp Farwell.

Hope to see you here on the alumnae board, Valri

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