Monday
Nov
03
2008

Dear Caswell Summer Staff Alumni Friends,

Hello everyone!  My name is Laurie Bass Varley and I worked on Summer Staff at the NC Baptist Assembly at Fort Caswell from 1987-1994.  Those were absolutely the best summers of my life.

I was recently at Caswell volunteering and found some wonderful nautical framed pictures that were on sale super cheap at a Southport seafood restaurant which was changing ownership.  I thought the prints would look perfect in the Staff House Lounge.  After talking with Mr. Holbrook, Director of Caswell, the follow items were obtained….seven nautical prints (framed and matted), four wooden crab pots, and six pylons.  The restaurant owner donated two large fish nets, wooden buoys, a cool sea captain wooden sign and three additional pylons.  I was bargaining big time!!!

All of the prints and decorative accents have been placed in the staff house lounge.  It looks like a totally different place!  If you’re like me, I have so many great memories of living in the Staff House, having fun making friends, sharing a room with 8 other girls, and even having Sunday School and devotions in the Staff House Lounge. Brian Hemphill, former Summer Staffer and Caswell full-time staff member, mentioned to me that the Staff House Lounge is also in need of new furniture…and boy is he right!!  Currently, there is a not-so-pretty pink loveseat and several mish-matched colored chairs.

I am mailing this letter to the Summer Staff Alumni, asking for YOUR help in updating the Staff House Lounge furnishings.  We’ve been very successful so far, but the summer staffers still need your support to address their needs.  Please mail your gift as soon as possible, but no later than July 15th so the work of Summer Staff 2008 can benefit from your support.

Thank you in advance for your consideration!!  I look forward to hearing from you.  If everyone participates (at the giving level which is right for you) our goal of providing MUCH needed Staff House Lounge furnishings can be met!!

Any amount is appreciated!!  Please send your check directly to me, I then will send everything to Caswell.  Please make your check out to “NC Baptist Assembly”.  Caswell will mail each donor a receipt for their donation.  Remember we hope to have our goal met by July 15, 2008!  Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions!

Many thanks and Caswell blessings to you,

Laurie Bass Varley
1217 Donna Drive
Shelby, NC 28152
Email: 
Home phone:  704-484-2163

PS – Please mark your calendar for Caswell’s Summer Staff Reunion to be celebrated July 17-19, 2009.  Additional info will be mailed out in the near future.  We hope YOU can come!!!  Check us out at the Fort Caswell Alumni page.