St. Louis area Kiwanians speak fondly of their experiences at Camp Wyman, which is located at 600 Kiwanis Drive, near Eureka, MO. Information here comes from Wyman staff and archives, interviews of Kiwanis members, and newspaper files available online. The latter included the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis County Library) and the Pacific (MO) Transcript (State Historical Society in Columbia, MO).
Founded as the Children’s Industrial Farm in 1897, the original concept was to be an orphanage for the homeless children of St. Louis aged 4 to 12. “Industrial Farm” refers to the Boy’s Town style institution where children learn agricultural skills and raise some of their own food. Incorporated as The Children’s Industrial Farm Benevolent Association of St Louis, the enterprise was modeled on the “Fresh Air” movements in New York, Michigan, New Jersey, and other states.
The farm was funded by subscriptions from 500 St. Louis families. The advisory board included well known names such as Adolphus Busch, William J. Lemp, and R.M. Scruggs. As was typical of the fresh air movement, many early benefactors were leaders in the region’s wholesale food and beverage industry (thus the ties to agriculture). Albert Russell Verdier was the man behind the idea. In the news, he is listed as secretary. A committee was formed to find a location for the farm.
Frank Wyman served as president of the Children’s Industrial Farm from at least 1902 until his death on April 24, 1924. He and his wife are buried in Bellfontaine Cemetery in St. Louis. (His obituary and photo are posted on Findagrave.) Known for his fund-raising, Wyman was a prominent businessman who was appointed Postmaster of the St. Louis Post Office during the administration of Theodore Roosevelt. He served from 1903 to 1909, including through the St. Louis World’s Fair.
Some reports indicate the “farm” was first located near Sullivan, MO, but in 1900 was moved to a rented farm near Eureka (purchased in 1910). A full page article in the 1902 Post-Dispatch shows photos of early buildings. The orphanage concept, which was never implemented, transitioned to providing summer “outings” for children. For 10 weeks each summer, groups of 100 children were brought to the camp, usually by rail, for two-week visits. Included were boys and girls from ages 6 through 12 from low-income areas, sent on referral by churches and social welfare organizations. The “farm” raised most of its vegetables; milk cows were rented from local farmers.
Lodging for children and staff was in canvas tents until 1910. Then sixteen cabins were built with scrap lumber from the 1904 World’s Fair (thanks to Frank Wyman’s connections). These lasted until the late 20’s when they were replaced by larger, better ventilated dorms. Built of pine clapboard and painted white they stood all in a row like a city block.
The organization’s name has evolved over time. It became the Eureka Outing Farm in 1921, then Frank Wyman’s Outing Farm for Children, Camp Wyman in 1942, and Kiwanis Camp Wyman in 1975. The final name change to Wyman Center, dba WYMAN, in the 1990’s, occurred with the expansion of the organization’s mission to include both the camp and community programming. Concurrently, a board resolution was approved to honor the historic relationship with Kiwanis, perpetually naming the campsite near Eureka as Kiwanis Camp Wyman.
It is not clear how original subscription funding worked, but by 1922, Frank Wyman’s Outing Farm was one of the charities funded by the St. Louis Community Fund. The funding organization later became the St. Louis War Chest Fund, the Community Chest, then the United Fund, and currently, the United Way. A fire destroyed three buildings at the camp in 1939. The loss was estimated at $20,000.
In 1947, George W. Kirk of Sikeston Kiwanis was Governor. That year, Marq Braun, Chairman of the National Vinegar Co. and a member of the Southside Kiwanis Club, along with Harold Duffy, Executive Vice President to the S.G. Adams Printing and Stationary Co., and member of the Downtown Kiwanis Club (also chair of the local Kiwanis Interclub Relations Council), led the effort to enroll the Kiwanis Clubs of the St. Louis Region as sponsors of Camp Wyman. Some 1,200 Kiwanians agreed to pay $1/yr to the camp association. The MO-ARK History indicated that between 30 and 40 clubs in Greater St Louis (Divisions 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10) sponsored Kiwanis Camp Wyman. By 1990, Kiwanis Camp Wyman was completing a $5MM capital campaign and operated with a budget of about $1.5MM per year.
In this era, Kiwanis clubs participated in numerous fundraisers for Camp Wyman. In 1959, a swimming pool was built with $35,000 from Downtown Kiwanis earned by selling fruitcakes. There was always a swimming pool. The first, made of tin caulked with tar was kept filled by a spring running in and out of it. This was replaced in the late 30’s, by a concrete pool that also straddled a creek. Neither early pool had chlorination or filter systems; they were man-made swimming holes. Emerging public health requirements necessitated the “modern” Downtown Kiwanis pool that opened in 1959.
A lake was built in the 1980’s with funds raised by Bridgeton Kiwanis during the heady days of bingo fundraisers. (Bingo could earn a Kiwanis club $60,000 per year.) In 1986, the Inter-Club Council donated $30,000 for sewer improvements at Camp Wyman. In 1990, West St. Louis County Kiwanis donated $25,000 to Camp Wyman. Chesterfield Kiwanis has donated $40,500 since 2011. The list of club donations is long–
1. Bridgeton: Shop, Lake, Small Dining Room, Health Lodge, Education Room, swingsets and multiple, passenger vans 2. Hampton/Midtown/Tower Grove: Council Ring, Main Dining Hall and Great Hall 3. Kirkwood: Chapel 4. West County and founding Kiwanian of same, Joe Linneman and his wife Georgana: four North Ridge Cabins 5. Spanish Lake: Laundry 6. O’Fallon and Kiwanian Frank Forst: Staff Apartments 7. Southside: Cabin and Recreation Hall 8. Gravois: Lower Pavilion and Library, later converted to Accessible Dorm 1 9. University City/Clayton: Cabin and Nature Lodge, later converted to Accessible Dorm 2 10. Downtown: Pool 11. Maplewood: Health Lodge 12. St Charles: Director’s Lodge 13. St Clair, Union, Washington: Morning Star Village (primitive adventure campsite) 14. Midtown: High Adventure Course 15. Ray and Ginny Scholin (Hampton Club): Aquatic Study Pond and Entry Monument 16. Frank Bick (Southside): Purchase of adjacent land, Office 17. Bill & Debbi Voss (Chesterfield): Headquarters Building 18. Isaac and Marilyn Young (Maplewood): Nature Lodge, purchase of adjacent land and vegetable gardens
Many recall work days to maintain cabins used by the children. Each cabin sported the name of a Kiwanis club that agreed to sponsor and maintain it. Dave Hilliard recalls that clubs from Arnold, Brentwood, Chesterfield, Clayton, Collinsville, IL, Creve Coeur, Crestwood Sunset Hills, Ferguson, Festus-Crystal City, Flo-Valley, Glen Carbon, IL, Harvester, Jennings, Maryland Heights, Normandy, Northwest, Ritenour, St Peters, South County, Southside, Tower Grove, Troy, West End, and West St Charles County had cabins or sponsored camperships.
When Adj and Eddie Dillon were executive directors (from 1942 to 1975), it was not rare to see 300-400 Kiwanians and their families spread across the camp, paint brushes in hand on work day. As club members aged, participation diminished to a few dozen members who still faithfully come out each year. Annual work days were and remain a ritual.
Over the period from 1972 to 2000 all the old cabins were torn down replaced with modern facilities designed for year round use. Many of these were also funded by Kiwanis Clubs.
Wyman held outdoor education camps beginning in 1948 for public schools from St. Louis and Webster Groves as well as Lutheran parochial schools. Next year will mark 70 consecutive years the Webster Groves district will have been served at Kiwanis Camp Wyman. In 1953, Ed Kurmann of South (St. Louis) County Kiwanis went to camp for a week during Spring of the school year at Camp Wyman with his sixth grade class at Mallinckrodt School in St. Louis.
Judy Burnette also of the South County club worked at Camp Wyman as a counselor. In 1958 and 59, she volunteered while a student at Harris Teacher College and later worked summers at Camp Wyman until 1973. During girls camp, she noticed visitors known as Sinawiks (Kiwanis spelled backwards), the Kiwanis Women’s Auxiliary. An end-of-the-season barbeque given by Kiwanis Club members was a tradition. It was a festive occasion enjoyed by all.
By the late 1980’s, Wyman’s data made it clear that a deeper engagement with young people was required to create true and lasting changes in their lives. Concurrently, local data showed that teenagers were most at risk and underserved. National research also reinforced Wyman’s belief that longer term engagement was needed to realize sustained improvement in the lives of young people.
Wyman pivoted to focus only on serving teens. Wyman adopted a new approach that also aligned with the Kiwanis core principles. The organization designed a multi-year, year-round program that integrated camp and community-based elements to cultivate leadership, service, positive peer relationships and civic engagement while fostering educational success and positive youth development.
In 1998, Wyman celebrated its 100th Anniversary. An article in the Post-Dispatch recognized Kiwanis efforts for its Kiwanis Camp Wyman. The camp and Wyman Center were headed by Dave Hilliard, who began as a camp counselor in 1965. He became President and CEO in 1975 and retired in 2016. Claire Wyneken, Wyman’s new President and CEO, began working at Wyman in 1987 and has been an instrumental leader in Wyman’s evolution.
In 2000, Wyman was asked by The Camp Coca-Cola Foundation (TCCCF) to assist in launching a camp-based national charity to be called Camp Coca-Cola Leadership Camps. Under an operating agreement, Wyman licensed its camp and community approach to TCCCF, agreed to operate the St Louis program as Camp Coca-Cola St Louis and became the start-up manager for development of new camps across the nation. Wyman helped open and operate camps in Boston, Austin, Atlanta and Los Angeles until TCCCF discontinued its relationships with the camps. TCCCF also relinquished it rights under the program license back to Wyman. During this time, TCCCF contributed operating grants, paid fees and left an endowment to Wyman all of which totaled more than $10MM.
Wyman has leveraged that experience in several ways.
The program continues as Wyman’s Teen Leadership Program (TLP) and is offered to more than 350 teens annually from disadvantaged circumstances. TLP boosts teens’ tenacity through a six-year course of leadership experiences, and college access and persistence programming, which begin the summer after eighth grade. Wyman coaches help teens identify their values, talents and interests, and explore aligned career paths. Teens participate in college tours, more than 40 hours of community service annually, and work with coaches to apply for college or other post-secondary options, and succeed in their paths after high school. Annually, 100 percent of TLP teens graduate high school on time, and enter post-secondary opportunities at rates higher than their national peers.
Wyman offers other programs, including
The Teen Outreach Program® (TOP®), which serves more than 22,200 youth each year through a National Network of partners. TOP empowers teens from sixth through twelfth grade with the tools and opportunities needed to build a foundation of healthy behaviors, life skills and a sense of purpose, and avoid risky behaviors that derail success.
InspireSTL, which provides more than 130 high-potential scholars from the City of St. Louis with rigorous academic preparation to help them graduate from four-year universities, and emerge as next-generation leaders.
Wyman’s annual budget is supported by a robust fund-raising program. Wyman consistently receives high marks from nonprofit and youth development governing bodies, and is included on numerous national evidence-based best practice lists.
Kiwanis clubs in the area continue to support Camp Wyman. Members participate in work days and serve on the Wyman advisory board. To this day, Kiwanians’ obituaries often request donations to Camp Wyman and Wyman’s endowed funds include a dozen or more testamentary estate gifts from Kiwanians or their families.
Clubs that established deceased member memorial funds:
Creve Coeur Kiwanis Chesterfield Kiwanis Crestwood-Sunset Hills Kirkwood Kiwanis Maryland Heights Kiwanis South Side Kiwanis Webster Groves Kiwanis
Named Memorial Funds
Martin Bailey – Midtown, Hampton/Midtown Al Bryant – South Side W. Donald Dubail – West End/Clayton/University City Larry Embrey – Creve Coeur Elmer & Beulah Kolkmeier – St Charles L.W. Matheny – Hampton Red Reininga – South Side Erv Roesel – South Side Bob Springmeier – Florissant Valley John Warren – St Charles Charlie Zeigler – South Side
General or Special Endowments
James Scholin (Ray and Ginny Scholin) Julie Ramsey (Jim Ramsey) Paul and Vicki Jungerman Jack and Pat Wichmann
Sources:
Camp Wyman Website (WymanCenter.org) and staff, Ancestry.com, Findagrave.
Interviews and email exchanges with: Dave Hilliard; Elmer Austermann, St. Charles Kiwanis; Judy Burnette, South County Kiwanis; Jeff Johnson, Maplewood Kiwanis; Ed Kurmann, South County Kiwanis; and Barb Thompson, Florissant Valley Kiwanis.
Post-Dispatch articles June 5, 1897 August 3, 1902, p 19B August 15, 1918 May 27, 1923, p 81 August 9, 1942, p 17c October 23, 1945, p3 May 23, 1947, p24 November 18, 1998 March 5, 2005
Pacific Transcript articles July 29, 1904 September 9, 1904 July 14, 1911 June 10, 1921
Macon Chronicle-Herald, July 3, 1939
Prepared by Paul Eckler, Kiwanis Club of Meramec Valley Community, Aug 23, 201
Camp Wyman History
Kiwanis and Kiwanis Camp Wyman
is located at 600 Kiwanis Drive, near Eureka, MO. Information here comes from
Wyman staff and archives, interviews of Kiwanis members, and newspaper files
available online. The latter included the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis County
Library) and the Pacific (MO) Transcript (State Historical Society in Columbia, MO).
Founded as the Children’s Industrial Farm in 1897, the original concept was to be
an orphanage for the homeless children of St. Louis aged 4 to 12. “Industrial Farm”
refers to the Boy’s Town style institution where children learn agricultural skills and
raise some of their own food. Incorporated as The Children’s Industrial Farm
Benevolent Association of St Louis, the enterprise was modeled on the “Fresh Air”
movements in New York, Michigan, New Jersey, and other states.
The farm was funded by subscriptions from 500 St. Louis families. The advisory
board included well known names such as Adolphus Busch, William J. Lemp, and
R.M. Scruggs. As was typical of the fresh air movement, many early benefactors
were leaders in the region’s wholesale food and beverage industry (thus the ties to
agriculture). Albert Russell Verdier was the man behind the idea. In the news, he
is listed as secretary. A committee was formed to find a location for the farm.
Frank Wyman served as president of the Children’s Industrial Farm from at least
1902 until his death on April 24, 1924. He and his wife are buried in Bellfontaine
Cemetery in St. Louis. (His obituary and photo are posted on Findagrave.) Known
for his fund-raising, Wyman was a prominent businessman who was appointed
Roosevelt. He served from 1903 to 1909, including through the St. Louis World’s
Fair.
Some reports indicate the “farm” was first located near Sullivan, MO, but in 1900
was moved to a rented farm near Eureka (purchased in 1910). A full page article
in the 1902 Post-Dispatch shows photos of early buildings. The orphanage concept,
which was never implemented, transitioned to providing summer “outings” for
children. For 10 weeks each summer, groups of 100 children were brought to the
camp, usually by rail, for two-week visits. Included were boys and girls from ages 6
through 12 from low-income areas, sent on referral by churches and social welfare
organizations. The “farm” raised most of its vegetables; milk cows were rented
from local farmers.
were built with scrap lumber from the 1904 World’s Fair (thanks to Frank Wyman’s
connections). These lasted until the late 20’s when they were replaced by larger,
better ventilated dorms. Built of pine clapboard and painted white they stood all in
a row like a city block.
The organization’s name has evolved over time. It became the Eureka Outing Farm
in 1921, then Frank Wyman’s Outing Farm for Children, Camp Wyman in 1942, and
Kiwanis Camp Wyman in 1975. The final name change to Wyman Center, dba
WYMAN, in the 1990’s, occurred with the expansion of the organization’s mission to
include both the camp and community programming. Concurrently, a board
resolution was approved to honor the historic relationship with Kiwanis, perpetually
naming the campsite near Eureka as Kiwanis Camp Wyman.
It is not clear how original subscription funding worked, but by 1922, Frank
Wyman’s Outing Farm was one of the charities funded by the St. Louis Community
Fund. The funding organization later became the St. Louis War Chest Fund, the
Community Chest, then the United Fund, and currently, the United Way. A fire
destroyed three buildings at the camp in 1939. The loss was estimated at $20,000.
Chairman of the National Vinegar Co. and a member of the Southside Kiwanis Club,
along with Harold Duffy, Executive Vice President to the S.G. Adams Printing and
Stationary Co., and member of the Downtown Kiwanis Club (also chair of the local
Kiwanis Interclub Relations Council), led the effort to enroll the Kiwanis Clubs of the
St. Louis Region as sponsors of Camp Wyman. Some 1,200 Kiwanians agreed to
pay $1/yr to the camp association. The MO-ARK History indicated that between 30
and 40 clubs in Greater St Louis (Divisions 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10) sponsored Kiwanis
Camp Wyman. By 1990, Kiwanis Camp Wyman was completing a $5MM capital
campaign and operated with a budget of about $1.5MM per year.
In this era, Kiwanis clubs participated in numerous fundraisers for Camp Wyman.
In 1959, a swimming pool was built with $35,000 from Downtown Kiwanis earned
by selling fruitcakes. There was always a swimming pool. The first, made of tin
caulked with tar was kept filled by a spring running in and out of it. This was
replaced in the late 30’s, by a concrete pool that also straddled a creek. Neither
early pool had chlorination or filter systems; they were man-made swimming holes.
Emerging public health requirements necessitated the “modern” Downtown Kiwanis
pool that opened in 1959.
A lake was built in the 1980’s with funds raised by Bridgeton Kiwanis during the
heady days of bingo fundraisers. (Bingo could earn a Kiwanis club $60,000 per
year.) In 1986, the Inter-Club Council donated $30,000 for sewer improvements at
Camp Wyman. In 1990, West St. Louis County Kiwanis donated $25,000 to Camp
Wyman. Chesterfield Kiwanis has donated $40,500 since 2011. The list of club donations is long–
swingsets and multiple, passenger vans
2. Hampton/Midtown/Tower Grove: Council Ring, Main Dining Hall and Great Hall
3. Kirkwood: Chapel
4. West County and founding Kiwanian of same, Joe Linneman and his wife
Georgana: four North Ridge Cabins
5. Spanish Lake: Laundry
6. O’Fallon and Kiwanian Frank Forst: Staff Apartments
7. Southside: Cabin and Recreation Hall
8. Gravois: Lower Pavilion and Library, later converted to Accessible Dorm 1
9. University City/Clayton: Cabin and Nature Lodge, later converted to Accessible
Dorm 2
10. Downtown: Pool
11. Maplewood: Health Lodge
12. St Charles: Director’s Lodge
13. St Clair, Union, Washington: Morning Star Village (primitive adventure
campsite)
14. Midtown: High Adventure Course
15. Ray and Ginny Scholin (Hampton Club): Aquatic Study Pond and Entry
Monument
16. Frank Bick (Southside): Purchase of adjacent land, Office
17. Bill & Debbi Voss (Chesterfield): Headquarters Building
18. Isaac and Marilyn Young (Maplewood): Nature Lodge, purchase of adjacent
land and vegetable gardens
Many recall work days to maintain cabins used by the children. Each cabin sported
the name of a Kiwanis club that agreed to sponsor and maintain it. Dave Hilliard
recalls that clubs from Arnold, Brentwood, Chesterfield, Clayton, Collinsville, IL,
Creve Coeur, Crestwood Sunset Hills, Ferguson, Festus-Crystal City, Flo-Valley,
Glen Carbon, IL, Harvester, Jennings, Maryland Heights, Normandy, Northwest,
Ritenour, St Peters, South County, Southside, Tower Grove, Troy, West End, and
West St Charles County had cabins or sponsored camperships.
When Adj and Eddie Dillon were executive directors (from 1942 to 1975), it was not
rare to see 300-400 Kiwanians and their families spread across the camp, paint
brushes in hand on work day. As club members aged, participation diminished to a
few dozen members who still faithfully come out each year. Annual work days were
and remain a ritual.
Over the period from 1972 to 2000 all the old cabins were torn down replaced with
modern facilities designed for year round use. Many of these were also funded by
Kiwanis Clubs.
Wyman held outdoor education camps beginning in 1948 for public schools from St.
Louis and Webster Groves as well as Lutheran parochial schools. Next year will
mark 70 consecutive years the Webster Groves district will have been served at
Kiwanis Camp Wyman. In 1953, Ed Kurmann of South (St. Louis) County Kiwanis
went to camp for a week during Spring of the school year at Camp Wyman with his
sixth grade class at Mallinckrodt School in St. Louis.
Judy Burnette also of the South County club worked at Camp Wyman as a
counselor. In 1958 and 59, she volunteered while a student at Harris Teacher
College and later worked summers at Camp Wyman until 1973. During girls camp,
she noticed visitors known as Sinawiks (Kiwanis spelled backwards), the Kiwanis
Women’s Auxiliary. An end-of-the-season barbeque given by Kiwanis Club
members was a tradition. It was a festive occasion enjoyed by all.
By the late 1980’s, Wyman’s data made it clear that a deeper engagement with
young people was required to create true and lasting changes in their lives.
Concurrently, local data showed that teenagers were most at risk and underserved.
National research also reinforced Wyman’s belief that longer term engagement was
needed to realize sustained improvement in the lives of young people.
Wyman pivoted to focus only on serving teens. Wyman adopted a new approach
that also aligned with the Kiwanis core principles. The organization designed a
multi-year, year-round program that integrated camp and community-based
elements to cultivate leadership, service, positive peer relationships and civic
engagement while fostering educational success and positive youth development.
In 1998, Wyman celebrated its 100th Anniversary. An article in the Post-Dispatch
recognized Kiwanis efforts for its Kiwanis Camp Wyman. The camp and Wyman
Center were headed by Dave Hilliard, who began as a camp counselor in 1965. He
became President and CEO in 1975 and retired in 2016. Claire Wyneken, Wyman’s
new President and CEO, began working at Wyman in 1987 and has been an
instrumental leader in Wyman’s evolution.
In 2000, Wyman was asked by The Camp Coca-Cola Foundation (TCCCF) to assist
in launching a camp-based national charity to be called Camp Coca-Cola Leadership
Camps. Under an operating agreement, Wyman licensed its camp and community
approach to TCCCF, agreed to operate the St Louis program as Camp Coca-Cola St
Louis and became the start-up manager for development of new camps across the
nation. Wyman helped open and operate camps in Boston, Austin, Atlanta and Los
Angeles until TCCCF discontinued its relationships with the camps. TCCCF also
relinquished it rights under the program license back to Wyman. During this time,
TCCCF contributed operating grants, paid fees and left an endowment to Wyman all
of which totaled more than $10MM.
Wyman has leveraged that experience in several ways.
The program continues as Wyman’s Teen Leadership Program (TLP) and is offered
to more than 350 teens annually from disadvantaged circumstances. TLP boosts
teens’ tenacity through a six-year course of leadership experiences, and college
access and persistence programming, which begin the summer after eighth grade.
Wyman coaches help teens identify their values, talents and interests, and explore
aligned career paths. Teens participate in college tours, more than 40 hours of
community service annually, and work with coaches to apply for college or other
post-secondary options, and succeed in their paths after high school. Annually, 100
percent of TLP teens graduate high school on time, and enter post-secondary
opportunities at rates higher than their national peers.
Wyman offers other programs, including
The Teen Outreach Program® (TOP®), which serves more than 22,200 youth each
year through a National Network of partners. TOP empowers teens from sixth
through twelfth grade with the tools and opportunities needed to build a foundation
of healthy behaviors, life skills and a sense of purpose, and avoid risky behaviors
that derail success.
InspireSTL, which provides more than 130 high-potential scholars from the City of
St. Louis with rigorous academic preparation to help them graduate from four-year
universities, and emerge as next-generation leaders.
Wyman’s annual budget is supported by a robust fund-raising program. Wyman
consistently receives high marks from nonprofit and youth development governing
bodies, and is included on numerous national evidence-based best practice lists.
Kiwanis clubs in the area continue to support Camp Wyman. Members participate
in work days and serve on the Wyman advisory board. To this day, Kiwanians’
obituaries often request donations to Camp Wyman and Wyman’s endowed funds
include a dozen or more testamentary estate gifts from Kiwanians or their families.
Clubs that established deceased member memorial funds:
Creve Coeur Kiwanis
Chesterfield Kiwanis
Crestwood-Sunset Hills
Kirkwood Kiwanis
Maryland Heights Kiwanis
South Side Kiwanis
Webster Groves Kiwanis
Named Memorial Funds
Martin Bailey – Midtown, Hampton/Midtown
Al Bryant – South Side
W. Donald Dubail – West End/Clayton/University City
Larry Embrey – Creve Coeur
Elmer & Beulah Kolkmeier – St Charles
L.W. Matheny – Hampton
Red Reininga – South Side
Erv Roesel – South Side
Bob Springmeier – Florissant Valley
John Warren – St Charles
Charlie Zeigler – South Side
General or Special Endowments
James Scholin (Ray and Ginny Scholin)
Julie Ramsey (Jim Ramsey)
Paul and Vicki Jungerman
Jack and Pat Wichmann
Sources:
Camp Wyman Website (WymanCenter.org) and staff, Ancestry.com, Findagrave.
Interviews and email exchanges with: Dave Hilliard; Elmer Austermann, St.
Charles Kiwanis; Judy Burnette, South County Kiwanis; Jeff Johnson, Maplewood
Kiwanis; Ed Kurmann, South County Kiwanis; and Barb Thompson, Florissant Valley
Kiwanis.
Post-Dispatch articles
June 5, 1897
August 3, 1902, p 19B
August 15, 1918
May 27, 1923, p 81
August 9, 1942, p 17c
October 23, 1945, p3
May 23, 1947, p24
November 18, 1998
March 5, 2005
Pacific Transcript articles
July 29, 1904
September 9, 1904
July 14, 1911
June 10, 1921
Macon Chronicle-Herald, July 3, 1939
Prepared by Paul Eckler, Kiwanis Club of Meramec Valley Community, Aug 23, 201
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