January 11, 2009
Ellen Hume Jervey
by rbc
Here we have a photograph taken sometime in the 1960s of Ellen Hume Jervey (in the foreground), fondly remembered at camp as “Jerky.” A native of Charleston, South Carolina, she was Rockbrook Camp’s Director following Mrs. Carrier, the camp’s founder. For more than 25 years, mostly in the 1940s and 1950s, she ran Rockbrook in the summer while she taught at Ashley Hall, a private girls school in Charleston, South Carolina. One last interesting fact about her… before directing camp, she enlisted and served in the Navy!
P.S. Here’s a photo of her when she attended Rockbrook as a camper.
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[...] tradition of Rockbrook directors being from South Carolina. For example, our former director “Jerky” (Ellen Hume Jervey) was a native of Charleston, SC. Later, the Stevensons and the Whittles [...]
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