Alumni Recall Camp Mystic Ideals

Alumni Recall Camp Mystic Ideals

By Kirk Dooley

Over the past 99 years, Camp Mystic, the Christian girls summer camp on the banks of the Guadalupe River near Kerrville, has hosted thousands of girls from 7 to 17 years old.

Hundreds of them are from the Park Cities.

Many of this year’s 750 campers have mothers and grandmothers who spent their summers at the camp. Like several other Texas Hill County summer camps, Camp Mystic has deep traditions that run through several generations of girls becoming young women.

Most campers, counselors, and alums of Camp Mystic are quick to point out that the greatest tradition of the camp has been Dick and Tweety Eastland and their sons.

Dick’s grandmother, Agnes Stacy, was the first camp director after she bought the camp in 1939. The camp had been