Meet the Summer 2015 Camp Gravatt Staff

Join us every week to learn about the current summer staff of Gravatt

Sam Estes

Counselor

Where are you from?   Columbia, SC

Where do you go to church?   St. Thomas More Catholic Church

Where do you go to school?   College of Charleston

How long have you been going to Gravatt?   Six years

What is your favorite memory at Gravatt?   Getting to host a talent show with Griffin                                                                                                                                                                                              and Alex as my favorite Disney princess                                                                                                         What is your favorite day activity at camp?   Footprints

What is your favorite camp meal?   Pizza and corn

Who is a current or past staff member that you look up to?   Sydney Beckner and Hallie Carde   

What is your favorite night activity?   The Talent Show   

Describe Gravatt and its ministry in one word.   Selflessness

What do you want to be when you grow up?   A teacher and a head of a theater program  

Evan Mikula

Counselor

Where are you from?   Columbia, SC

Where do you go to church?   St. John Neumann

Where do you go to school?   Clemson University   

How long have you been going to Gravatt?   Eight years   

What is your favorite memory at Gravatt?   Going on a swamp walk with Hughes                                                                                                                                                                                                   Mcglone my last summer as a camper                                                                                                              What is your favorite day activity at camp?   Art on Tie dye day   

What is your favorite camp meal?   Hamburger steak night   

Who is a current or past staff member that you look up to?   Hughes Mcglone and David Roth   

What is your favorite night activity?   Jurassic Classic   

Describe Gravatt and its ministry in one word.   Home   

What do you want to be when you grow up?   A geologist 

Wythe Hunnicutt 

Counselor

Where are you from?   Augusta, GA

Where do you go to church?   Church of the Good Shepherd Episcopal Church   

Where do you go to school?   Wofford College   

How long have you been going to Gravatt?   Eleven years   

What is your favorite memory at Gravatt?   Devotions with Hughes Mcglone and Pierre Sanders my CIT year                                                                                                                                                                        

What is your favorite day activity at camp?   Canoeing  

What is your favorite camp meal?   Spaghetti   

Who is a current or past staff member that you look up to?   Hallie Carde   

What is your favorite night activity?   Disney night   

Describe Gravatt and its ministry in one word.   Caring   

What do you want to be when you grow up?   Someone that does something with Marketing

Winston Collins

 Counselor/ Year round intern

Where are you from?   Forest Acres, SC

Where do you go to church?   St. John's Episcopal Church      

How long have you been going to Gravatt?   Really since I was born with my church, camp, and Diocesan Youth events   

What is your favorite memory at Gravatt?   Teaching campers about prescribed or control burns with Hughes Mcglone                                      

What is your favorite day activity at camp?   GEEP (Gravatt Environmental Education Program)   

What is your favorite camp meal?   Meatloaf   

Who is a current or past staff member that you look up to?   Scott McNeely and Thomas Coleman   

What is your favorite night activity?   Jurassic Classic   

Describe Gravatt and its ministry in one word.   Hospitality   

What do you want to be when you grow up?   A forester   

Beth Jones

Counselor

Where are you from?   Lexington, SC    

Where do you go to school?   University of South Carolina   

How long have you been going to Gravatt?   Fifteen years as camper and staffer, but really my whole life   

What is your favorite memory at Gravatt?   When I came to a staff reunion with my parents when                                                                                                                                                                    I was three years old, and I was sitting on the Beckham porch                                                                                                                                                           and Father Byrd sat and talked with me

What is your favorite day activity at camp?   Polar Bear   

What is your favorite camp meal?   Grilled Chicken Sandwiches   

Who is a current or past staff member that you look up to?   All the current and former staff members   

What is your favorite night activity?   Jurassic Classic   

Describe Gravatt and its ministry in one word.   Love  

What do you want to be when you grow up?   The camp director or be a board member

Scott McNeely

Camp Director 

Where are you from?    York, SC

Where did you go to school?   Clemson University   

How long have you been going to Gravatt?   Twenty-five years   

What is your favorite memory at Gravatt?   When I was a camper and we would have water                                                                                                                                                                                             wars on boys side during rest period                                                                                           

What is your favorite day activity at camp?   Swim period on Sharks and Minnows day   

What is your favorite camp meal?   The hamburgers and hot dogs at Luau   

Who is a current or past staff member that you look up to?   Father Byrd   

What is your favorite night activity?   The Space Jam   

Describe Gravatt and its ministry in one word.   Excellence