Greer - Hope Farm Alumni Association Archives
Album 1

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Cover page - Hope Farm founding year Map of the Hope Farm/Greer property including the cottages built after 1960.

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Legend for the map. Main House at night. Note cross.

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Main House corridor - Brothers of Nazareth - pre 1906. West wing Main House - Brothers of Nazareth - pre 1906.

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Paine Cottage later to become Bittersweet - pre 1906. Laundry that would become Plum Cottage - pre 1906.

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Shantee ?? This may be a shot of early Plum Cottage St. Paul's Training School.

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St. Paul's Training School - this building later burned down. Farm buildings - 1906.

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Classic stone carving at the entry gates. Few still survive. Starting out for Greer at New York City House. Date unknown.

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Arrival at Hope Farm. Date unknown. Gate House purchased in 1908.

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Gate House - late spring or early summer. Date unkown. More Gate House.

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Not sure of this wintry location grouped with Gate House photos. Date unknown. And who are these chicken tenders? Date unknown.

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The Royal Order of Egg Gatherers. Date unknown Here chick, chick, chick. Date unkown.

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Gate House during the Morrison Era. J.R. and Bobby Ewing lookin' fer oil.

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Gate House still during the Morrison Era. Woik, woik, woik! Is dat all dey know around here? Date unknown.

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Still woiking. When do we eat? George Groh supervising the construction of the new re-creation building. Circa 1960.

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The house that George built. The house that Ian built..

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The co-ed swim-ming pool behind the house George built. Early 60's. View of the pool area with Marcy in the background. Early 60's.

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Marcy Lester Cottage known to those of us that lived there as just "Marcy". Peter Cruz, Peter Leland, Robert Weaver, Stephen Perkins during the Cold War.

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With Perkins outta the picture it's one down, two to go. Where is that slacker rabbit?.

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Wood Carving 101. Date and child unknown. Boning up for the SATS. May '61. Students unknown.

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Looks like "Mom" Morton and the unknown Cubs are preparing for Chinese New Year. Date unknown. Stickball game next to Marcy in April '66. Players unknown.

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Unknown base-ballers at Von Lackum Field. Coupe in photo says mid-to-late 40's. Watermelon cut-ting. Unknown location in May '66.

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Unknown football team(s). Leather helmets say 30's-40's. He's out at home in May 61. Unknown junior baseballers.

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1936 football squad(s). Mr. Behrends, Coach Heifner and Mr. Fink recognizable in the center. Unknown, un-dated eleven man football squad sweeping right.

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Top: Von Lackum Field House. Btm: J. Stolting worried about B. Ildefonso's "Lucy" move. Daisy Cottage. The VW Beetle dates it to the late 50's.

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More Daisy at the west driveway. Unidentified boys enjoying the fire in the front hallway of Daisy. Date unknown.

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More unidentified boys at the fire place. Date unknown. The aforemen-tioned library at Daisy served from 1926 to 1932.

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More unidentified boys at the fire place. Date unknown. Unknown future "Chopped" cham-pion, undated. What is that?? Stewed rhubarb? Yummy!

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Rapallo Cottage was built in 1929-1930. Circa mid-to-late 50's. Person unknown. Slightly different view, same day.

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Rapallo Pond, complete with ice house. Unknown, undated swim-mers. Unidentified, undated Ladies Day swimmers.

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Looks like it's still Ladies Day at Rap Pond. Those DAMN Rap boys!

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Undated ice hockey team. Sometime be-tween 1939 and 1941.Names. The Blacksmith Shop in more recent times, however undated

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The original barn built in 1915 Same view as previous.

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Herbie Van Anden (l.) and Vernon Ladeau preparing milk for pastuerization, undated. Herbie sanitizing milk bottles, undated.

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Unidentified farm worker loading bottled milk for delivery, undated. Mr. Fink & Vern Ladeau supervis-ing Jack Rolston (l.) and Harry McCandless building the new farm boiler room.

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Jim Anderson and unidentified class-mates sampling fresh milk at the farm. Jim is the second from right. Tenant houses at the farm built in 1919.

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Camp Barbey built in 1929. Photo undated, campers unknown. Camp Barbey on July 24, 1968. Campers unknown.

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Boys "hour" at the camp pool with one female guest. Individuals un-known, August 1949. Girls "hour" at the camp pool with Mrs. McKinley and one male guest. Girls unknown, June 1951.

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Okay, guys! Da goil is gone. Strip down! Da guys unknown in August '49. Mrs. McKinley leading a Pot Holders 101 class with unidentified boys. Undated.

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Bruce Murray & the guys working on leather crafts during the summer of '51. "Alex" (he now prefers) still uses that wallet. Girl Scouts earn-ing their campfire merit badge, Unidentified and undated.

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Chapel of the Child in the snow, built in 1914. Photo undated. Chapel of the Child in spring or fall, you choose. Probably late 50's or early 60's.

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Unidentified children at the Chapel in June 1966. Chapel of the Child, looking west, taken in late 30's or early 40's.

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This scene exists today as it has for 98 years. These ladies pos-ing at the Chapel appear to be liv-ing in the 30's or 40's. Unidentified and undated.

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Coming to church on May 2, 1954. Photo by Al Mathewson. Unknown boy waiting for a miracle? Undated.

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Karin Townsend, Sydney Nesbitt, Maureen Meyer, Nina Devendorf, and Gary Wood. Circa winter/spring 1959. Young boys going to church with an older escort. Unidentified and undated.

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Same scene as Page 85. Just a little closer. The early bird gets the worm. First one in. Unidentified and undated.

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All's quiet. No one's home. Undated. Gosh! I didn't think my sermons were that bad. Unidentified and undated.

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Full House. One member of the choir dates this photo to no later than 1958. Guess who? Same sunday, but you can't see Gayle Houser's face in this shot. She left in 1958.

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A choir from a different era, unidentified, but possibly April 1951. Ditto except undated.

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This choir served no later than 1958 as Suzie Murray and the King sisters graduated that year. Dated 1/19/58. All quiet again. The end? Or just the beginning?.