https://www.kiakimamuseum.org/files/original/0a171888c11b20ec08966aed5b6872f2.pdf 11e40bf1a66e373136d69600d38d6025 PDF Text Text 2 Section F ~~tA CAA,~ ~ MIRAMICHEE Comp Miromichee includes strenuous activities and lazy ones. Both ore port of the learning experience for city children. 11/~7 ~,.Miramichee is on the waj . • become r-.u''7"1'-4l~~~i.-a dream. Memphis Young Woman's Christian Associ,tion president Elida Fri and ·a representattV'e l>f Walters Construction -Co. of Salem, Ark., will sign a contract Thursday at the YWCA at 3387 Poplar for the construction of camping facilities near Cherokee, Ark. Also present for the signing ceremony will be representatives of the Jonesboro, Ark., architectural firm, arack{!tt· Krennerich and Associates, and Mrs. James Bennett, of whom camp dirctor Bet· ty Woodard said, "She's the most excited one of us all. And she's not an old Mirami· chee camper-'- or even a Memphian." Mrs. Bennett, a member of the YWCA board of directors, has been the board's liaison to the camp committee for the past year. The camp is on the south fork of the Spring River, "next door" to Boy Scout Camp Kiakima. Phase 1 building, which will cost about $100,000, calls for a dining building, bath house and the septic system. "That probably means we'll tent camp next summer," said Mrs. Woodard. "Butif by some miracle the fund-raisers get the money together for cabins, we anticipate we could start building them as late as March and still"te ready for our summer sessions." The new camp, nine miles up river from the old location, will be an expanded version of the Miramichee that has been a household word to generations of campage Memphians. The old camp had 48 acres;. the new one has 148 acres. But the terrain of new Miramichee won't feel all that unfamiliar to the "old camp girls," whose nostalgia brings them back for visits, said Mrs. Woodard, an old camp girl herself. "It's amazing how similar the situation is; the creek that runs through the camp is almost in the same place. And the river is almost the same: White water above that is gentler widens into a good canoe-teaching situation and then slows even more to make a safe, lazy pool for swimmers. "The inner camp layout will eventually be a lot like the old camp too," said Mrs. Woodard. "There are some geographical memories that we will take pains to re· create." But everything will be better, she said. "For instance, while some of the cabins will be screened structures as before, oth· ers will be built so they can be winterized. We want to be able to use the camp all year round, instead of just a couple of two- orthree-week summer sessions." Compers toke o dip in o quiet stretch of the Spring River A lot of things, however, will have to wait until later phases because of limited building funds. Phase 2 calls for building clusters of cabins, administration and nurses' building, a cook's cabin and, hope. fully, a crafts building. "Then comes the dream," said Mrs. Woodard. "Phase 3 plans include a swimming pool, tennis courts and stables. "We've waited a long time to think about this part of enriching the YWCA camp experience. Future fund-raising is a big part of the plan, but now that we have the expanded acreage, and are making the first step, it somehow doesn't seem so far away." The first building phase is being accomplished with a contribution from the Cecil M. Gooch Trust Fund, money from two years of fund-raising projects, and funds ) set aside by the board from the sale of the former YWCA building at 200 Monroe. , · � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Camp Miramichee Description An account of the resource Contains pictures and documents relating to the YWCA camp in Hardy, Arkansas. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document . • 2 Section F ~~tA CAA,~ ~ MIRAMICHEE Comp Miromichee includes strenuous activities and lazy ones. Both ore port of the learning experience for city children. 11/~7 ~,. Miramichee is on the waj become r-.u''7"1'-4l~~~i.-a dream. Memphis Young Woman's Christian Associ, tion president Elida Fri and ·a representattV'e l>f Walters Construction -Co . of Salem, Ark., will sign a contract Thursday at the YWCA at 3387 Poplar for the construction of camping facilities near Cherokee, Ark. Also present for the signing ceremony will be representatives of the Jonesboro, Ark., architectural firm, arack{!tt· Krennerich and Associates, and Mrs. James Bennett, of whom camp dirctor Bet· ty Woodard said, "She's the most excited one of us all. And she's not an old Mirami· chee camper-'- or even a Memphian." Mrs. Bennett, a member of the YWCA board of directors, has been the board's liaison to the camp committee for the past year. The camp is on the south fork of the Spring River, "next door" to Boy Scout Camp Kiakima. Phase 1 building, which will cost about $100,000, calls for a dining building, bath house and the septic system. "That probably means we'll tent camp next summer," said Mrs. Woodard. "Butif by some miracle the fund-raisers get the money together for cabins, we anticipate we could start building them as late as March and still"te ready for our summer sessions." The new camp, nine miles up river from the old location, will be an expanded version of the Miramichee that has been a household word to generations of campage Memphians. The old camp had 48 acres;. the new one has 148 acres. But the terrain of new Miramichee won't feel all that unfamiliar to the "old camp girls," whose nostalgia brings them back for visits, said Mrs. Woodard, an old camp girl herself. "It's amazing how similar the situation is; the creek that runs through the camp is almost in the same place. And the river is almost the same: White water above that is gentler widens into a good canoe-teaching situation and then slows even more to make a safe, lazy pool for swimmers. "The inner camp layout will eventually be a lot like the old camp too," said Mrs. Woodard. "There are some geographical memories that we will take pains to recreate." · But everything will be better, she said. "For instance, while some of the cabins will be screened structures as before, oth· ers will be built so they can be winterized. We want to be able to use the camp all year round, instead of just a couple of two- orthree- week summer sessions." Compers to ke o dip in o quiet stretch of the Spring River A lot of things, however, will have to wait until later phases because of limited building funds. Phase 2 calls for building clusters of cabins, administration and nurses' building, a cook's cabin and, hopefully, a crafts building. . "Then comes the dream," said Mrs. Woodard. "Phase 3 plans include a swimming pool, tennis courts and stables. "We've waited a long time to think about this part of enriching the YWCA camp experience. Future fund-raising is a big part of the plan, but now that we have the expanded acreage, and are making the first step, it somehow doesn't seem so far away." The first building phase is being accomplished with a contribution from the Cecil M. Gooch Trust Fund, money from two years of fund-raising projects, and funds ) set aside by the board from the sale of the former YWCA building at 200 Monroe. , · Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1978 Title A name given to the resource 1978 (9/24/1978) Commercial Appeal: New Camp Miramichee is on the Way Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Press-Scimitar Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Andrew Schrack Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Press Scimitar Papers, Special Collections Department, University of Memphis Libraries Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Licensed for use by the Kia Kima Alumni Association in this historical display. https://www.memphis.edu/libraries/special-collections/ Camp Miramichee Periodical