Adventures at Wohelo Camp

This is the true story of the 1928 Wohelo camp experience offourteen-year-old Emily Sophian (1913-1994) of Kansas CityMissouri.The story is told in part through letters to her parents Dr. and Mrs.Abraham Sophian and to her schoolteachers Mère Emmanuel andMère Irene of the Roman Catholic Notre Dame de Sion School inKansas City.Luther and Charlotte Gulick founded Wohelo in 1907 as the fi rstAmerican summer camp dedicated exclusively to girls. Both founderscame from American Protestant missionary families.Clad in middy bloomers over-the-knee stockings and tennis shoesEmily chronicled with compassion and insight her struggles triumphsand observations of camp life on the shores of Sebago Lake in thebackwoods of Maine.