Catching up with . . . Carol Camp

Carol Camp lives behind No. 2 hole at Akron’s Good Park golf course, but he traveled 3,500 miles in 1994 to play golf in Scotland. And he paid a deposit on a golfing trip to Ireland

Camp with rifle

but not enough of his fellow Davidson College alumni came forward the year after the 9/11/01 attacks on America so he was refunded his $300.

Carol was a fixture on the Beacon Journal copy desk for years till his 1993 retirement.

Davidson, North Carolina is 20 miles north of Charlotte. With only 1,700 students, Davidson had no journalism school so, after his 1952 graduation, Carol climbed up the newspaper ladder to the BJ by starting at the Sanford (NC) Herald and then the Norfolk (VA) Pilot. The next and final stop was the BJ.

It was Mike Cardew’s BJ photo of Carol and two other uniformed Veterans of Foreign Wars buddies at Saturday's Kenmore Alumni reunion honoring Kenmore’s war dead that brought him to the BJ Alums attention. But Carol wasn’t from Kenmore--ever. He grew up and graduated from high school in Norfolk, Virginia, where his family lived during World War II.

What brought Carol to Kenmore on 9/11/10 was to fire his weapon to salute Kenmore’s military heroes. Carol has been local VFW commander “a couple of times,” he said. Carol served in Korea in 1953-54.

While he’s a wedge shot from Good Park, where he’s played only a time or two, Carol mostly frequents Pine Valley golf course in Wadsworth where he plays with a friend.

Although Carol has had a couple of heart attacks and angioplasty and had three stents put in three years ago, he’s “doing OK,” he said. A million people a year have angioplasty in America. A balloon is inserted in the artery, then inflated to crush fatty deposits before it is withdrawn.

If you want to contact Carol, his phone number is (330) 836-9230. He lives on Mull Avenue. Just look for No. 2 hole at Good Park golf course.

Click on the headline to see Rick Armon’s BJ article on the Kenmore Alumni reunion that honored Kenmore’s veterans and the photo of Carol with his VFW gun-toters.