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It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of a long time member and friend of Camp Fire USA, Gwendolyn Campbell Trudeau M.D.

Gwen Trudeau was a camper, CIT, and counselor at Camp Wyandot.  She was a parent of Camp Fire kids and a Camp Wyandot volunteer with her grandchildren.  She will be greatly missed and in the words of her daughter Marie, ” her fading embers will continue to glow.”

TRUDEAU Gwendolyn Campbell Trudeau , MD Gwen Trudeau was born on March 6, 1923 to Clare Lowry Campbell and Avis Elder Campbell in Columbus, Ohio at the home of her grandmother. She died December 29, 2011 and was preceded in death by her husband of over 50 years Andre’ (Andy) Norbert Trudeau and their daughter Dolores Sue. She is survived by her brother, Donald Elder Campbell (Yvonne); and her eight children and their families, Michael (Linda), Gregory (Jeanne), Marie, Phillip (Denise), Martha (Hugh Donahue), James (Eugene Bible), Laura (Eric Weinbrom), Charles (Michelle); 20 grandchildren; and five great grandchildren, soon to be six. She welcomed Joan Trudeau and Sina Iranpour into her family and treated them as her own children. Her home was always open to visitors, particularly on Saturdays when she routinely had an endless pot of “Saturday Soup.” She graduated from North High School (class of ’41) in Columbus before attending the Ohio State University for her undergraduate and medical degrees. She was inducted into the Alpha Epsilon Delta pre-med fraternity in 1944, received her BA in 1946, and her MD in 1949. Dr. Trudeau completed an internship at St. Luke’s Hospital in New Bedford, MA and returned to Columbus to complete an anesthesia residency at OSU. She was Chief Resident in Anesthesia from 1951 to 1953 and was Board Certified in Anesthesiology in 1956. During her career she worked at the Ohio TB Hospital and was Chair of the Department of Anesthesia and Chair of the Medical Staff at Columbus St. Ann’s Hospital. After retiring from anesthesia, she served as an Assistant Medical Director for Nationwide Insurance. She served a term as President of the OSU Medical Alumni Association from which she later received a 50 year award. She was active in Camp Fire Girls (now known as Camp Fire USA) and in later life enjoyed visiting Camp Wyandot, the organization’s rustic residence camp in Southern Ohio. She enjoyed photography and was an avid baker, particularly at Christmas. While Andy was alive they enjoyed traveling and visited many states and foreign nations, including Iran, China, Egypt, Spain’s Canary Islands and South America. She spent her final years contentedly at Westminster-Thurber Retirement Community where the staff addressed her as “Doc” and treated her like family. The family will receive friends 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. Monday, January 2, 2012 at SCHOEDINGER NORTHWEST CHAPEL, 1740 Zollinger Road, Columbus. Funeral Services will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, January 3, 2012 at King Avenue United Methodist Church, 299 King Avenue, Columbus; Rev. John Wooden, officiating; interment St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery, Lockbourne, Ohio. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Camp Fire USA Central Ohio Council, 1890 Northwest Blvd, Suite 130, Columbus, OH 43212 (614) 481-8227 or Westminster-Thurber Community, 717 Neil Avenue , Columbus , OH 43215 (614) 228-8888.
Please visit www.schoedinger.com to share memories or extend condolences.

Lindsey Christ is our new Executive Director and she wants to hear what you think about the future of our Council! Join us at the annual meeting (information listed below) to meet her and share your thoughts.

Come and give Lindsey you best idea for Camp Fire.  Everyone will have just 30 seconds.  Do you have an idea for our camps, our clubs, fundraising?  How can we make Camp Fire in Central Ohio better?

We would like to have input from all the “generations” of Camp Fire and camp volunteers, staff, members and stakeholders.

• Thursday January 26, 2012
• 7:00 pm to 8:30pm
• Upper Arlington Library – Main Branch
• 2800 Tremont Road, Upper Arlington, Ohio 43221

It is also that time of year to pay your membership. Click here to register as a member and/or RSVP for the annual meeting.

• Adult membership (non-club leader) $25.00
• Adult membership (club leader) $15.00
• Youth membership $15.00
• Family Membership (for immediate family living in same household) $45.00

Thanks to all of you who donated during the Columbus Foundation Big Give.  Camp Fire received $14,137.  This includes donations and a 13% match from the Columbus Foundation.  The 3% credit card fee we were expecting  was  reimbursed by a grant from the Columbus Foundation.  We will not received a list of who donated to Camp Fire for several weeks, after we do, we will send acknowledgements of your donation.

If you did not participate in the Big Give and still want to make a year-end donation to Camp Fire, please do!  Click here or send a check to the office.

Many of you may not be aware that Camp Wyandot is available to rent when our council is not using it. There are many weekends during the school year that are available and many weeks during the summer that are open. Go down with your family or bring a whole group! We even have a few buildings that are winterized for cold weather camping. We can offer meals and programs for large groups so pass the word on to your Church and Civic organizations. Our prices are very reasonable so give us a call at 614-481-8227 to reserve your spot in the beautiful Hocking Hills.

Camp Fire Kids is our before and afterschool program for kids in grades K-5.  We are located in two charter schools in the west side of Columbus.  We have 27 kids that we serve at the Imagine School at Harrisburg Pike and we have 42 kids we serve at the Imagine School at Sullivant Avenue.  We provide these kids with tutoring and homework help.  We have qualified caring instructors some who were even our camp counselors during this past summer.  Camp Fire Kids has a partnership with the Children’s Hunger Alliance in which they provide our kids with a warm afternoon meal.  We have a lot of free play with the kids where they enjoy playing chess, doing arts & crafts and sports of all sorts.  Overall, we want every child and parent to have a fun and relaxing experience in our Camp Fire Kids before and afterschool program.

Would you like to help? We could use the following supplies:

• Any form of building blocks (foam if possible)
• Card Stock and any kind of contruction paper drawing paper is always helpful.

The Camp Fire Board of Directors has decided to suspend the sponsorship of Camp Atagahi at this time.  The grief camp programming will continue under new sponsorship and a new name.  We will provide contact information and post it on our website when we receive it.  We hope the grief camp might choose to rent Camp Wyandot in the future and we look forward to seeing them again!

Camp Fire USA expresses its condolences to the family and friends of Ally Morrow. She was a good friend to Camp Fire.

Ally Morrow was a Camp Fire Girl, a Camp Wyandot counselor and our Executive Director in the during the 1940s and 1950s.   She continued to support Camp Fire through out her retirement and attended our annual luncheon and other events.

Alice Marie Morrow

MORROW Alice Marie “Ally” Morrow, age 87, longtime resident of Willow Brook Christian Village in Delaware, passed away peacefully Tuesday, November 15, 2011. She was born on September 26, 1924 in Columbus to the late William and Cecile (Finn) Morrow. A graduate of North High School in 1942, she attended The Ohio State University and then began a career centered on youth services. For 34 years she worked with Camp Fire Girls, serving as the executive director for the St. Louis chapter from 1957 – 1970. Moving to Lancaster in 1970, she served as the director for the Lancaster YWCA. In 1996, she moved to the Willow Brook Christian community in Delaware. She was a member of Asbury United Methodist Church and The Ohio State Alumni Association, as well as a former member of the Pilot, Quota, and the BPW. Her positive nature and caring personality attributed to her vast number of friends. Family vacations to Northern Michigan were treasured. She will be remembered for her mentoring of youth and her warm smile. She is survived by brother, James William Morrow; nieces, Ann (Randolph) Bueche, Kathy (Michael) Martin; great-nieces and nephews, Justin and Nathan Bueche, Michelle (Alex) Kinne, Beth (Kevin) Peterson, Brian Martin; great-great-niece, Malin

Peterson; special cousin, Joyce (Ernest) Mease; and friend, Tommie Stranahan. A service celebrating the life of Alice Morrow will be held 2 p.m. Wednesday, November 23 in the Terrace Room of Willow Brook Christian Village, 100 Willow Brook Way S., Delaware, OH 43015 with Rev. William McCartney officiating. Her family will greet friends afterwords until 4 p.m. Arrangements entrusted to DeVORE-SNYDER FUNERAL HOME in Delaware. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions should be made to Heartland Hospice, 685 Delaware Ave., Marion, Ohio 43302. Condolences may be expressed at www.snyderfuneralhomes.com

Published in The Columbus Dispatch on November 17, 2011

We all wish we could purchase meaningful gifts for our        loved ones that they will use and appreciate, while receiving a good value. Well now you can!  Buy a gift certificate for one week at Camp Wyandot to give to your child, grandchild, other relative or special friend. If you buy before December 20, you will receive one week of camp at last year’s early discount price of $365 plus a $10 gift certificate to the camp store. You will also receive a certificate and a special Camp Fire gift to put under the Christmas tree. In total, you receive more than $400 of value for just $365!  To order or find out more, contact Lisa at lisa@centralohiocampfire.org or call 614-481-8772.

The 7th Annual Camp Fire Luncheon was held October 15, 2011. We celebrated our day and overnight camps and Camp Fire groups and clubs. Our long history was recalled by current and past Camp Fire members. Extensive displays of memorabilia and a silent auction were enjoyed by all. We raised $16,000 to continue to bring Camp Wyandot and all of our programs to children today. Please join us for the 8th Annual Luncheon November 10, 2012, at Villa Milano Party House, Westerville.

If you could not attend and want Camp Fire to grow and thrive, please click here to make a donation.

We thank the luncheon committee: Juleah Buttermore, Margie Dooley, Linda Flynn, Lisa Graham, Sue Lavitchka, Cindy Lytle, Susan Manecke, Sally McAlister, Judy Peterson, and Nikki Spretnak.

And all of our table hosts: Sally Dellinger, Linda Flynn, Lisa Graham, Betty Heffernan, Alice Hohl, Bette Jenks, Sue Lavitchka, Cindy Lytle, Sally McAlister, Val Mitrione, Laura Sanders, Nikki Spretnak, Lina Taylor, Nancy Wardwell, and Kathy Wilkes