Hood County News from Granbury, Texas • Page 12

11 i 1" Sim. 2B, HOOD COUNTY NEWS. GRANBURY, TEXAS, SUNDAY, JANUARY 27, 1985 k. a. jJNIT' Savage Radiator Service Hwy.377 (Behind Big Tex Liquor Store) Gronbury, Tx.

573-5211 Radiators Heaters-Cleaned, Repaired, Rebuilt Recored Gas Tanks-Repaired AIR CONDITIONING SERVICE H.L. SAVAGE, 27 Years Experience CM. hi f5.W?( Ssti JrN J. W. Red, caretaker of TCU birthplace 1.

a Fever, but will anfxxly remember its birth? siding which once was the residence of college president A.R. Holton; A small limestone building next to the Clark House which served as a smokehouse for the Clark family; The granite cornerstone from Perrin Hall that now lays plunked down on the porch of Rutherford Hall, a single reminder of the circa-1919 boys lorm v. Viich was razed only last year after serving as a Church of Christ church building and fin Jy deemed unsafe for occupancy by the on gregation. Red hopes the illustrious past of the campus will perpetuate into the future. HEAL ESTATE From P.

IB school's founder, Randolph Clark, chose to remain in Thorp Spring, as did his father, who clung to his conservative beliefs until his death in 1901. Joseph Addison 'lark is buried in the Thorp Spring Cemetery, down the road from and behind the Add-Ran campus. In 1902. Add-Ran changed its name to Texas Christian University. A fire at the Waco school in 1910 prompted the college to move again, this time to Fort Worth.

TCU had found a permanent, new home. Over the next 75 years, many would forget its first: Thorp Spring. And Add-Ran. But the original campus did not lay idle. Randolph Clark and R.F.

Hol-loway leased the Thorp Spring property evith backing from J.J. Jarvis aifii operated the Jarvis Institute there from 18 to 1898. Clark left for a couple of years after that to open a school in Ijincaster. In 1905, the Clark brothers tried again, reopening the campus as Add-Ran-Jarvis College. J.J.

Jarvis again was their uith Members of the Church of Christ (the anti-organ conservatives) organized the Thorp Spring Christian College on the property in 1910. Regents included Dr. T.H. Dabney of Granbury and Dr. T.A.

Miller of Corsicana. The church bought the facilities for a songa mere $6,000, the indebtedness against the school. Camp closed TSCC operated until 1928. One of its beloved teachers, and dean, Jewell Watson, acquired the property and immediately opened it as a Church of Christ camp called Camp Clebit. At the time of hereath in 1966, the camp's name changed to Thorp Spring Christian Camp the name still used.

In 1971, the Christian Education Foundation took over operation of the camp. Two years laten, a new swimming pool with two slides and two diving boards was built, along with a fully-equipped industrial kitchen and cafeteria. Red supervised the construction of four new dorms in 1980. Last September, the camp was passed on to the Dallas Christian Schools. "They decided to close GIUDYIhiPslELb the camp because they had campers registered, but no counselors," explains Red.

That prompted the decision to sell. If crumbling limestone foundations. Miss Jewell's yellowed gradebooks and faded school sports photographs could talk, history buffs would find a treasure-trove of information just by visiting the campus. Instead, the wide arms of the live oaks, which knew the Clarks and all who followed them, embrace only silence. Hut as long as Red is nearby, the story will be told.

Much of what he describes still exists, architecture and documents to be seen and touched. Despite its ghostly serenity, the old campus somehow pulsates with life. Historic points of interests worth viewing include: A tiny rock cabin which served as a hospital, according to Red, during the Civil War; Two pairs of peeling, white pillars that now bear the camp's name, but which originally graced the Add-Ran administration building; Two-story Rutherford Hall, a faculty building constructed in 1880 and the repository for Red's impressive collection of college papers, photographs and original furnishings; A clump of stones adja. nt to Rutherford Hall which majk the site of the original girls' dotm that was destroyed by fire; The ramshackle cottage now covered in slate-colored metal Prospects REAL ESTATE IS A SOLID INVESTMENT Investing in well-selected real estate provides a needed hedge (protection) against inflation. Inflation shrinks the buying power of each dollar you hold, either in cash, savings accounts, bonds or promises of future payment, such as endowments and the "guaranteed cash value" of life insurance policies.

Each time the cost of living inches upward, the dollar shrinks and so does that savings account, lxnd and endowment (in terms of what they will buy). Appreciating values of real estate on the other hand, tend to keep pace with rising costs. If there is anything we can to help you in the field of real estate, please phone or drop in at CENTURY 21- GRADY DANIELS. 127 Hwy. 377 Bypass, The Shores.

Granbury. Phone 573-9292 or Metro 443-3766. We re here to help. "We're ready to open as a camp tomorrow if someone is willing to buy. We had ope man who was interested who said he'd have to keep me as part of the deal, though.

He said I'm the only one who knows this place. And I really do every water and septic line, every inch." Staving would be all right by Red. "Oh, I've grown attached to this place. I'm just miserable when I have to leave it even for a day." Should Red leave, one wonders who will remain to tell the story (4 -Add-Ran. Frog Fever is the old school's legacy, but will anyone remember? Granbury Racquethause tournament winners You've read the rest, now read the HOOD COUNTY NEWS Racquetball champs Women's class winners pic- McGill, first; and Janie Stanfield, hired are left to right Betty second.

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