The Ohio Independent Baptist, June 1963

(Concluded from page 4) year a the volleyball court. We found that by the time you put up a back– stop and put home plate 25 feet from it and extended the base lines the full 200 feet needed for a regulation softball diamond we would go ~p– proximately 90 feet beyond the line that Mr. Morse had tentatively estab– li hed. We left the island with ome fac ts recorded on the tax map that Mr . Mor e supplied u with and a plan to meet with him again to see what he thought about the problem. The plan was that Brother Green– wood could contact Mr. Mor e by phone sometime Friday afternoon or Saturday and explain to him what we had found as we tried to lay out ti1e regulation ball field on ,the new pro– perty. He would explain the problem of the large trees that could not be removed with equ~pment presently on the island. Then I was to contaot Mr. Morse late Saturday and follow through with visual illustration of just what we mean by going over the drawings. Plans studied again Mr. Morse is not an ea y man to r each , either at his office or at home. Appar ently Brother Greenwood could no t reach him because I got through to him about 10:00 p.m. Saturday and he had not talked with Brother Green– wood. I explained briefly over the phone that I h ad the diagram of a tentative ball field on the new pro– perty and h ow it over-lapped the line that h e had drawn. W e m ade a n ap– pointment to go over these things to– gether the fol lowi ng Wed ne day which was May 1. Since I wa in meeting in Sunbury that week I came home after the ervice Tue day night and met with Mr . Mor e Wedne day after– noon. We went over the plans to– gether. He was very cordial, and seemed sincerely interested. H e hared hi s problems of land development ideas as I showed him ours. We had a very good exchange of n1utual con– cerns at that meeting. Mr. Morse h as plans to pttl a road up tl1 center of the island at .. on1c future date and so it is necessary tor }1in1 to keep thi s in 111ind as he n1akcs tl1i " grar1t of the property to llS. He v.1ould n t want to force the pJanr1cd road to r11ake an unt1 uL l t\\'ist or he11d ju ,, to go a1 ou11d our can1p propert)' ... o }1e proc eded to g t otat hi aerial , 1 ie" ' of tl1e isla11d a~ ""'ell a additi 11al cale ta · 111aJ)S arid Wl: ..,_, nt o , r tl1is dditio11al r1 ed'-=ll l rea toge ther. After ome con ideration, ome ,plotting, et cetera, he decided to give us an additional 130 feet in depth , bringing the total plot of the property to be given to the camp to 3.26 acres. Dimens ions of the pro– perty are: 318 feet on the sou~h s ide, 437Y2 feet on the west side, 385 feet on the north side, 380 feet on the ea t s ide. This will very comfor– tably handle the regulation softball diamond , planned achery range and other planned improvements for Camp Patmos. Certainly we ought to prai e the Lord for this very generous gift being made to us by Mr. John F. Morse. The plot layout (shown on our front cover) is an India ink copy of the tax map drawn to scale ( 1''== 100') and photostatically reproduced. The ball diamond is laid out as Glenn Greenwood, Ken Nelson and I s taked it while on the island April 26. (The pre ent ball field has a ,tree 160' from home plate in left field , another tree 170' from home plate in center field and a fence 153' from home plate in right field. R egulation softba ll call for 200' foul lines.) Finally, the committee recom– mended the Council that we invest in a power boat with nece ary kiing equipment to be u ed only by senior campers. The Council pa ed the rec– ommendation unanimou ly. * * * " A woman that f eareth the Lord, she shall be prai ed." Proverb 31: 30. "God will not look you over for medal , degrees, or diplomas - but for scars.' ' The Ohio Independent Baptist CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP . . . 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