Here is the 1978 Adventure Staff - a photo taken toward the end of staff training that summer, just before the crew scattered to the four corners of the U.S. on their trips.At bottom, from left: Jody Davies, Kris Fisher, Mary Ann Fisher, [name forgotten]. Second row, sitting, from left: Melanie Brown, Mike Schiffer, Gary Garter, Mike Larison, Alice Selig, Doug Marsh, Debbie Trosvik.
Top, from left: [name forgotten], Danny Shelburne, Doug [last name?], Val Kay, Ray Honeywell, Shirley Kay (Director of the Adventure Program), Alexa Carter, and (the late) Natch Wedel.
tidbits & sidelights: Ray Honeywell and Val Kay met at camp, and later married. Melanie is Halbe Brown's niece, originally from Connecticut and now in the Seattle area. Mike Schiffer is a member of the Schiffer clan that has sent at least four others to the FV staff; they own a house in Claryville. Alice Selig, now Alice Selig Giarusso, is a schoolteacher in northern New England; her brother, Mark, a legendary Hemlock counselor, was killed years ago in a helicopter crash, and the Seligs have set up a perennial campership fund in Mark's memory. I'm sure I have a Danny Shelburne blog entry in me somewhere, so I'll refrain from saying much about Danny here and now, but of course his sister Carolyn was a long-time staffer and became Program Director and Girls' Camp Director. Mike Larison, who also met his wife Diana at Frost Valley, is still there, managing our forestry program.
