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the Union Carbide Summer Camps: |
End
of Another Era - Carbide's Main Office
Building 82 -- March 2009
Dave Gardner's trip to The Creek, August, 2006 -- Pictures! Remembering Carlton Gandee -- March, 2006 End of an Era -- The UCC Tech Center water tank comes down -- July 2005 Karin Vingle Fuller Gazette-Mail article - Camps Make Memories -- April 17, 2005 Dave Gardner Remembers -- 2004 Year 2002 Camps Appreciation -- Bob Lilley Bob Johnson Remembers -- 2002 Marina Hendricks Gazette-Mail article -- March, 2002 Karin Vingle Gazette-Mail column -- May, 2001 "The Carbider" article-- September, 2000 Letter
from Scott Mease to the Charleston Gazette-Mail -- 1984
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| For many years, the Union Carbide Corporation in South Charleston, West Virginia, operated summer camps for children of employees. Camp Cliffside, near the Coal River, and Camps Camelot and Carlisle in the forest near Blue Creek offered a wide variety of sports, crafts, learning and fun activities. Each summer, hundreds of "Carbide kids" spent two weeks at camp during their pre-teen and teenage years. | ||||||||||||||||
| I remember my own 1950s experiences as a camper, junior counselor, and counselor in training as significant times of life as I learned to cope with nature and with being away from home for a while, to interact with others both younger and older, to generally grow a bit, and perhaps to learn how to make fewer dumb choices later in life. | ||||||||||||||||
| When I heard that Dow Chemical Company was about to acquire Union Carbide, I was reminded that somewhere at Carbide there must be files and materials which were stored when the camps ceased operations. And those campers must now be living throughout the nation and the world. It is time to retrieve these materials from company and campers alike. | ||||||||||||||||
| I started this site in late 2000, in hopes that there are others who feel a little wistful that these camps are no longer operating, and that photos, awards, records and memorabilia deserve to be preserved. I have been moved and delighted by the response. | ||||||||||||||||
| If
you or anyone you know has access to any "scrapbook" information on the
Carbide camps, I would appreciate receiving scanned files, faxes or just
information on who has what. I bet others would agree that together we
can expand this page to be informative, fun, and yes, maybe a bit sentimental
for all of us.
Visit the site, view and sign the guestbook, and, by all means, get in touch -- with me and with your other camps alumni! This can be fun! |
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