The all-girls Christian summer time camp in Texas — the place a frantic search is underway for survivors of a catastrophic flood — has been a vacation spot for the daughters of Texas’s political elite because it was based almost a century in the past.
Camp Mystic, located alongside the Guadalupe River within the tiny city of Hunt, has been a beloved summer time retreat for a few of the most influential younger girls within the Lone Star State — and nationwide politics, according to a 2011 Texas Monthly story The Put up found Friday.
The daughters of former Texas Govs. Dan Moody, Value Daniel and John Connally, who was shot as he sat subsequent to President John F. Kennedy when he was assassinated in Dallas in 1963, all attended the camp, in line with the outlet.
The daughters, granddaughters and great-granddaughters of Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson — JFK’s successor and one among Texas’ most formidable politicians — additionally summered at Camp Mystic, per Texas Month-to-month.
James Baker, who served as chief of workers to Republican Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, despatched his daughter and a granddaughter to Camp Mystic, the outlet added.
Whereas attending Southern Methodist College, future first girl Laura Bush was a Camp Mystic counselor, years earlier than she married George W. Bush, who would function Texas governor he, like his father, grew to become president, in line with Texas Month-to-month.
Campers would go on to “develop into executives for Neiman Marcus, dance with London’s Royal Ballet, personal a Gymboree franchise within the former Soviet Union, or marry properly and develop into the sort of intensely targeted volunteers who would in all probability be happier as CEOs,” the outlet wrote.
“I don’t care the place my goddaughter goes to school, however I do care the place she goes to camp,” Mystic alum Catherine Jones advised a reporter.
Camp Mystic, which is able to have fun its a centesimal birthday subsequent 12 months, was based by EJ “Doc” Stewart, a former head soccer coach on the College of Texas, in 1926, according to its website.
Its mission is “to supply younger women with a healthful Christian environment through which they will develop excellent private qualities and shallowness,” its website added.
Other than when the federal authorities leased Camp Mystic as “a convalescent camp for Military Air Corps veterans of World Battle II” between 1943 and 1945, it has operated repeatedly since its founding, in line with the Texas State Historical Association.
