1968-Voice Of The Tennessee Walking Horse 1968 August Voice RS | Page 116

A GREAT TWO WEEKS AT JOE WEBB ' S RIDING CAMP
by Cheri Spencer
My first year at Joe Webb ' s Riding Camp was lots of fun . I am nine years old and this was my first camp away from home and Clarksville , Arkansas is a long way from Chattanooga . Tennessee . My mother , father , brother and I went to the Germantown Horse Show on the way to camp . Wesley , my brother , went
■ ibis camp last year . We were leaving Memphis Monday morning , June 6 , to go to Clarksville . Wes
• e up with a stomach ache . We took him to the doctor and that afternoon at 3:30 PM he had his apcondix removed at the Methodist Hospital in Memphis . He wa- more upset about missing camp than he
was abou . e operation . Daddy took me to camp that night .
When I got to camp , the girls in my cabin were waiting up for me . Kay , my counselor , and all the girls in the cabin made me feel at home before we ) went to bed that first night . It ’ s hard to sleep the v first night , but by the second you are so tired you go right to sleep .
We had different groups for riding and all our activities . These are some of the things that my group did : We got up at 8:00 AM and ate breakfast . Next we went to sports , then we went to the barn for an hour of riding . Crafts came next for an hour , then lunch at $ 12:30 . Rest period for one hour in our cabin after j lunch , during which Coach comes around to each cabin and asks if we want free time , swimming , or to go >; to the recreation hall or Old House or go trail riding . ;] After that we eat at 6:00 PM , then we kinda goof off
jj for an hour . At 9:00 or 9:30 we have devotionals by the lake or in the Old House before we go to bed .
The day before camp wras over the girls serenaded f : the boys with real pretty songs . That same night the boys sang to the girls " Jingle Bells ,” " Mary Had A : Little Lamb ,” songs like that . It was real funny .
* 5 The horse show I liked best of all . I rode D DIA-
; MONO LIL . She is a real Walking Horse . All the kids showed a horse , six classes for the kids and one for the counselors . About six kids had never ridden before but they were real good riders when they left camp . Joe Webb teaches us our riding lessons . Joe rode THE ENTERTAINER in the show . He was a whooper-dinger . I really liked him . One day a girl
wanted to go trail riding bareback , and that same day the saddle came off her horse .
On Tuesday the second week , we went to town to see a movie called " Wherever Angels Go — Trouble Follows .” On Thursday , we went to see " Blackbeard ’ s Ghost .” That was neat !
We had a Talent Show one night . My group got first place and we had a watermelon feast . Ah-ha . The show was fun , there were a lot of crazy acts . The boys had a beauty contest ; they wore dresses and shoes that belonged to the girls . The counselors had a Newly-Wed Game and Mrs . Webb and Joe and two others played a Dating Game . The winners of the Newly-Wed Game got to go on a cruise on the lake . It ’ s not a very big lake .
I really want to go back next year and I hope Wes can go again next year , even without his appendix .
( EDITOR ' S NOTE : This year we obtained a list of the campers from both sessions . Space will not permi giving cities where they are from , but we are listini the names and states . Hope we did not omit anyone We tried to get all the names right !)
The counselors were Howard Hamilton and Debbh ■ Diehl from Tennessee ; Joe Sexon , Robert Dacus , Dennis Martin and Carol Byrd from Arkansas ; Emily Gambreel from Texas and Kay Bridger from Missouri . The cooks were Mrs . Nellie Young and Mrs . Mozelle Stafford . Coach and Betty Lynn Mote did just about everything , and of course Joe and Nell Webb .
Campers : Arkansas — Chris Franke , Kevin Webb , Mike Rice , John Parrish , Dana Hickman , Denise Pruett , Kim Webb , Reba Linduall , Lisa Cone , Lisa Thaxton , Joanna Webb , Julia Henry , Ruth Ann Reynolds , Diane Deitz , Melinda Fair , Vanessa Cranston , Ruth Ellen Harvey , Pattie Helsten , Sharon Webb , Terry Horner , Susan Quile , Steve Morris , Clark Secoy , Elmer Horner , Mike Morris , Grayson Sloan , Sally Sloan , Ann Blakely , Vicki Goble , Dana Sloan , Sommers Adkisson , Mary Grace Denton , Mimi Mitchell , Mary Richardson , Leigh Minor , Mary Sloan , Marge Rogers , Kim
Blakely , Jane Dillingham , Susan Nelson , Cathy Compton , Melissa Curtner , Bessie Means , Beth Richardson ,
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