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Camp Courage 50th Anniversary
Honeymoon Cabin
by Gail Shore
The Honeymoon cabin is a very small guest cottage
that was moved to the campgrounds in its earliest years and housed
Courage’s
founder, Wilco Schoenbohm and his wife, Virginia in the first year
of their marriage. This 11x15 cabin was dubbed the Honeymoon cabin
and kept that name until it was taken out of use about 8 years
ago. This rustic little cabin became prime, highly prized housing
for summer camp staff. It was really the only private housing unit
on the grounds for decades.
When planning started a couple of years ago for Camps 50th anniversary,
staff and volunteers got the idea to resurrect this little building
and move it to the middle of camp to serve as a museum to preserve
camp memories. Staff alumni, led by a memorial gift from the
family alumnus, George Ludcke, helped fund remodeling costs for
moving the building to its new place and restoring it to look pretty
close to its original state. Led by alum Gregg “Spike” Carlson,
a group of summer staff alumni that spanned four decades got
donated materials and volunteered their time to bring the structure
back to life. This was the first alumni-sponsored building or remodeling
project at Camp Courage.
The building will house scrapbooks, a camp timeline, and a patchwork
quilt sampling the camp logo.
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Dedication of the Honeymoon Cabin History Center (Courage Center CEO
Jan Malcolm, pictured in center)
Virginia Schoenbohm-Clymer was married to Wilko
Schoenbohm, the visionary leader of Camp Couragge and its Executive Director
for 31 years (1952-1983). Virginia is a former board member, now a
foundation member.
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