The bulk of the pictures below are from Mr. George Juris Zommers, to whom we are grateful for sharing these Camp Meacham pictures with Northern Kentucky Views.  Mr. Zommers' family worked  at the camp in the early to mid fifties.  More on the family is here, and some of his recollections about Camp Meacham are here.

   

Canoeing, 1952

 

Ferrell House and Camp Entrance	Camp Meacham	Camp Meacham

 

YMCA Camp Meacham, Mentor

 

Camp Meacham Staff
1955	1956

 

Cabins & Infirmary on left; River to the right; Pool straight ahead	Camp Directors Home	Caretaker's Home  (Zommers Home)

 

Camp water tower, 1952	Dining on the porch, 1953

            

College teams used the camp for training on weekends after summer camps

 

Director's House at the left; tennis at the right, 1953	View from Woodcraft  Hill, 1954	Cabins where the older campers stayed, 1955	Campers at cabin #15, arranging bedding

 

Thanks to R. David Pogge for sending us these two pictures, and this remembrance.

  And thanks to David Luther for sending us a copy of The Torch, the Camp Meacham newsletter.  Read it here. (pdf)

 

c. 1954	Camp's location
From a Facebook post by Tom Cherie Buttendorf Wilhelm

Recovering from the 1937 flood.

High water on the Ohio	Floods make it easier  to get around camp	“Egypt,” (showers and toilets)

 

Goldfish Pond, 1954	Baseball field. 1952	Caretaker's Home (Zommers' House)

 

Camp neighbor Nelson Thomas frees a stuck bus.	Mess Hall, 1952	“Dad kept bees. And cows. And pigs. And chickens. And rabbits.”1953

 

The Zommers Family
front, George Juris Zommers; Andy Andris Zommers; Ves Viesturs Zommers
back, Hermanis Zommers; Milda Zommers; John Janis Zommers

 

Mess Hall

 

Camp Sunshne Cabins

 

 

Pool	Campfire

 

Girl's Cabins 1-5	Headless Hattie's House

 

Papoose Camper Award
The above Camp Sunshine images are all from
Facebook posts by Bob Adams. We assume
he bought the Camper Award off of eBay

 

Dedication of Camp Sunshine
Kentucky Post, September 8, 1939

You can find Camp Sunshine stories like this one just about every year, in every local newspaper.