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  • Camp Chanco Alumni Association   4 days 14 hours ago

    Just wanted you to know that I am in the triangle!  Please let me know if there are any local Chanco Alum gatherings planned!

  • Camp Chanco Alumni Association   4 days 14 hours ago

    Just wanted you to know that I am in the triangle!  Please let me know if there are any local Chanco Alum gatherings planned!

  • Camp Chanco Alumni Association   4 days 14 hours ago

    Just wanted you to know that I am in the triangle!  Please let me know if there are any local Chanco Alum gatherings planned!

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  • "I miss Chanco..."   1 week 2 days ago

    Chanco loves you too Jenny! Hope that next summer we won't miss each other.

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  • 2010 CCAA Reunion Registration   3 weeks 3 days ago

    I am coming. That should double expected attendance. ;) I am bringing my wife and son for part of Saturday (I will attend the whole weekend) and we are going to have my son baptized on Saturday afternoon at 1:00. All are welcome to attend and my family will be in attendance, too, so you may tell my mom and dad what a good job they did raising me. ;)

  • 1989 - Staff   4 weeks 14 hours ago
    CIT

    I was there all summer as a CIT that summer.

  • Please help by making a donation in our store toward supplies for Indian night plaques!! Work weekend project!   4 weeks 15 hours ago

    Sept 24-26th. Hope you can make it!

     

  • Camp Chanco Alumni Association   4 weeks 3 days ago

    Can't wait to get back for a camp visit or work weekend - any CCAA events planned for this coming 2010-2011 (sorry, working at a university forces me to live by the academic calendar) year?

    Also, any old chanco kids in the NC Triangle area and want to get together?

  • Please help by making a donation in our store toward supplies for Indian night plaques!! Work weekend project!   4 weeks 4 days ago

    What are the dates for the reunion?


    Thanks


    Susan

  • Jef Lambdin   8 weeks 2 hours ago

    Jef Lambdin was my first co-counselor when I was hired by Charlie in 1973.  Jef got me hooked on the dulcimer and still have the one I made when I was in college.  Thanks Jef for helping a shy 16 year old boy become someone I am proud to be!  Bill Taylor

  • SAVE THE DATES   18 weeks 5 days ago

    It's a good plan to have an organize schedule.It will always pave its way for a good time.Well,I just remember the football game wherein every thing is indeed ok for  the team and for those who want to watch them. Footballs already back! The NFL Draft 2010 starts this Thursday night and continues through Saturday as all the rounds for the draft are conducted! People are already setting the DVR's to record just what they'll be sitting in front of and watching anyway.Football fans across the country will come together in front of living room TV's. Hey, if our families and friends will discover time to reunite over something, why not football? Right!





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  • Sarah Etheridge Cargill   31 weeks 2 days ago

    Hey Sarah,

    Just started using this sight.  Hope you are doing well.  I moved back to the area and I am still attending Trinity.  As they say, the more things change the more they stay the same.

    Deborah Hunt Matheny

  • Susan Bowman   32 weeks 2 days ago
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    Hi Susan, 

    I have always wondered where you went after you entered seminary.  I hope you are staying warm in upstate New York.  Just finished reading your bio.  I still live in the Tidewater area and still attend Trinity portsmouth. The more things change the more they stay the same.  I got married in October 1988.  My husband was in the navy and we moved to St. Marys GA. for 5 years.  They say you can't go home again once you leave.  but i did.  As soon as Lee got out of the navy, i said we are going back to Portsmouth, and that is where we have been for the last 16 years.  

  • A Great Loss for the Chanco Family   40 weeks 23 hours ago

    Hi Sarah,

    I too was confirmed by Bishop Vache at age 12. When he would come to Halifax he stayed with us in the rectory. Believe it or not with 9 children in our house and only 6 bedrooms, one was always reserved as a guest room. It was called the bishop's room. Mom remembers sipping wine and having great talks with him by the fire in his bedroom. I've attached my confirmation picture and one from an earlier visit. Charles will be remembered by many.  Heather Martin Swift

    Confirmation 1980 - Heather Martin

    At the rectory in Halifax, VA: Dad (Fred Martin), me and Charles Vache

    Bishop Vache @ St John's Halifax with Heather Martin

    The Rt Rev Charles Vache after church with Heather Martin at St John's Episcopal in Halifax, VA in the late 1970s.

  • A Great Loss for the Chanco Family   43 weeks 4 days ago

    Bishop Vache's funeral will be held at 11:00AM on Friday November 6th at Trinity Episcopal Church in Portsmouth, VA.  (Corner of Court and High Streets--downtown)  He will be interred immediatedly following in the Trinity Churchyard.  A reception will follow in the Parish Hall. 

  • Tiffany Litz-Clifton   50 weeks 4 days ago

    Hi Tiffany! Great to meet another North Carolinian at Chanco this time! Can't wait to tell the Emmerts!

  • Camp Chanco Alumni Association   50 weeks 4 days ago

    2nd Annual 40th Alumni reunion weekend
    Submitted by katyebersole on September 14, 2009 - 2:09pm.

     


    I just returned from a Chanco alumni weekend and what a beautiful weekend it was (those who didn't make it need to put it on your calendar for next year NOW!) I wanted to go last year but there was a conflict (oh, how real life can get in the way of what's really important!) This year, Diane Buchanan from All Saints encouraged me to come and be her roommate (btw, we have gotten spoiled rotten being in conference center rooms - I don't know how we braved tent camping before!)



    I couldn't get away from work on Friday night so I drove up from North Carolina on Saturday, which I later regreted after finding out that David Carter had performed the first night!! Driving in, I wasn't sure where I should meet up with the group but I got out of my car and started wandering towards the dining hall, hoping to find a friend..the first person i saw was a mother with two children on their way back to the conference center. I wasn't sure who the family was, but the young girl, who looked to be about 2-3 years old, walked straight towards me without hesitation and opened her arms....it was a total unexpected gift! I opened my arms and we embraced - I was so shocked, I nearly cried - a hug from a "new person" was exactly the kind of chanco spirit that I adored and remembered as tradition at arrival to Chanco and here was someone that didn't know who I was or why I was there but made me feel right at home. What a WELCOME!  I later found out that this beautiful gesture was from Caroline Sale, Chuck's daughter and Talley's neice. What a SWEET CAROLINE and insightful ambassador for Chanco's growing new generation. Thank you, Caroline, for making the trip very special! Alumni and board, keep up the good work encouraging old friends to come back "home"!!

  • Katy Barnes Ebersole   50 weeks 4 days ago

    I just returned from a Chanco alumni weekend and what a beautiful weekend it was (those who didn't make it need to put it on your calendar for next year NOW!) I wanted to go last year but there was a conflict (oh, how real life can get in the way of what's really important!) This year, Diane Buchanan from All Saints encouraged me to come and be her roommate (btw, we have gotten spoiled rotten being in conference center rooms - I don't know how we braved tent camping before!)


    I couldn't get away from work on Friday night so I drove up from North Carolina on Saturday, which I later regreted after finding out that David Carter had performed the first night!! Driving in, I wasn't sure where I should meet up with the group but I got out of my car and started wandering towards the dining hall, hoping to find a friend..the first person i saw was a mother with two children on their way back to the conference center. I wasn't sure who the family was, but the young girl, who looked to be about 2-3 years old, walked straight towards me without hesitation and opened her arms....it was a total unexpected gift! I opened my arms and we embraced - I was so shocked, I nearly cried - a hug from a "new person" was exactly the kind of chanco spirit that I adored and remembered as tradition at arrival to Chanco and here was someone that didn't know who I was or why I was there but made me feel right at home. What a WELCOME!  I later found out that this beautiful gesture was from Caroline Sale, Chuck's daughter and Talley's neice. What a SWEET CAROLINE and insightful ambassador for Chanco's growing new generation. Thank you, Caroline, for making the trip very special! Alumni, keep up the good work encouraging old friends to come back home!!