[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 173 (Thursday, October 26, 2017)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1442]
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HONORING THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL SPORTS 
                                  CAMP

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                      HON. THOMAS A. GARRETT, JR.

                              of virginia

                    in the house of representatives

                       Thursday, October 26, 2017

  Mr. GARRETT. Mr. Speaker, invested in developing young men of 
sterling character who played by the rules and exhibited good 
sportsmanship, the Woodberry Forest School's Head Football Coach and 
Athletics Director Red Caughron and his wife Cathy founded the 
Woodberry Forest School Sports Camp, in 1967, on the philosophy, ``that 
a man must build himself mentally, physically, and socially each day to 
be well-rounded . . . by one philosophy, the conviction that the 
primary value of sports is their contribution to a boy's moral and 
physical growth.''
  Under the direction of Mr. and Mrs. Caughron and eight counselors, 
the first session of the Woodberry Forest School Sports Camp had forty-
two campers who practiced and competed in a wide range of team sports.
  In the twenty-five years successive years, Mr. and Mrs. Caughron and 
the camp's staff developed a series of programs that instilled the 
value of teamwork in young men age eleven to fourteen, and provided 
specialized instruction in the sports in which each camper excelled at 
individually.
  Following Mr. and Mrs. Caughron's retirement from the day-to-day 
operations of the Woodberry Forest School Sports Camp, each of the 
succeeding camp directors; Richard ``Dick'' Glover; Bill and Debbie 
Davis; Richard Wright; Clint and Elaine Alexander; Amy Blundin, Matt 
Blundin, and Frazier Stowers; have worked with hundreds of camp 
counselors; nearly all of whom have been students, alumni, or faculty 
members of Woodberry Forest School to grow the program while 
maintaining the camp's core values.
  During the Woodberry Forest School Sports Camp's fifty-year history, 
hundreds of campers have gone on to become students and then graduates 
of the Woodberry Forest School, and today, I would like to pay tribute 
to, and show my gratitude for Red and Cathy Caughron, the Woodberry 
Forest School Sports Camp's directors, counselors and the thousands of 
campers whose lives have been enriched by the selfless dedication that 
Mr. and Mrs. Caughron exhibited by founding Woodberry Forest School 
Sports Camp, fifty years ago, this year.

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