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Our Staff
Wheaton Griffin
Matt Haynes
Sabrina McClain
Tyler Gault
Gwen Tenney
Wanda McClain
Kimberly Sharp
 Wheaton Griffin
Executive Director
wgriffin@campcosby.org
Wheaton has been the executive director at Camp Cosby since
the summer of 1999. Wheaton has a Ph.D. in psychology, which
he claims helps him understand the spontaneous daily bouts
of zaniness at Camp Cosby. Before joining Cosby, he was the
director of Camp Dudley YMCA in the Adirondack Mountains,
near where he was born and raised. Before that, he spent ten
years consulting with schools around the nation on
developmentally appropriate education. He most appreciates
Camp Cosby’s unsurpassed friendliness and loves being
immersed in what Cosby boys and girls have long called ”the
Cosby spirit.”
Wheaton shares a house near camp with his wife, Eileen,
son Amos, daughter-in-law Stephanie, three cats, one dog, an
organic garden, fruit trees, and two ponds with bass, brim,
and catfish waiting to be caught by his grandson. He also
has a daughter, T Griffin, who lives with her two children,
Levi and Sophia, and her husband Marnin in Arcata,
California.
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 Matt Haynes
Summer Camp & Adventure Education Group Camping Director
mhaynes@campcosby.org
Matt was born and raised in a small town in Kentucky before
moving to Alabama to attend college and graduate
school. Matt began working in YMCA camping 10 years ago and
has done so ever since. Summer 2007 was his first summer at
Camp Cosby as the Director of Summer camping, and he
recently added Adventure Education and Group Camping to his
title as well.
Matt was married in April of 2007 to his wonderful wife
LeAnne who teaches kindergarten in the Mountain Brook school
system near Birmingham. They live in Vestavia with their dog
Gizmo during the off-season and at Camp during the summer.
Matt loves working at camp because he believes there is no
greater gift than making a difference in the life of a
child.
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 Sabrina McClain
Assistant Summer Camp & Adventure Education Group Camping
Director
smcclain@campcosby.org
Sabrina was raised in Lincoln, Alabama and moved to
Starkville, Mississippi to attend Mississippi State
University, where she received a degree in Animal & Dairy
Sciences in 2007. Sabrina has attended Camp Cosby since
1996. She has held many positions at Camp Cosby, beginning
in the summer of 2001 when she was a summer camp counselor.
Sabrina has also been an Assistant Equestrian Director, a
Blazer Village Head Counselor, and, for two summers, the
Staff and Cabin-Life Director. She loves riding horses,
playing with her puppy, reading, camping and being an
advisor for MSU Zeta Tau Alpha. She wants to learn how to
whitewater kayak in the near future. Sabrina loves working
at camp because it allows her to make a difference in
people’s lives.
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 Tyler Gault
Program Director for The Outdoor Classroom
tgault@campcosby.org
Tyler is originally from Beaufort, South Carolina. He moved
to Camp Cosby in Alabama in 2003. He earned his Bachelor’s
Degree from College of Charleston and his Master's Degree in
Environmental Leadership from the Naropa Institute in
Boulder, Colorado. Tyler has been working in the field of
Environmental Education since 1997. He has written and
developed environmental education curriculum for the states
of South Carolina and Florida, managed the natural resources
of a barrier island in Georgia, conducted Loggerhead Sea
Turtle research in both South Carolina and Georgia, and
conducted Shorebird surveys for the state of Georgia.
Tyler and his wife Ashley (whose family still lives nearby
in the house she grew up in, a beautiful six-generation farm
house in Clay County) live in Talladega with their son Eric,
and their dog, Dew Baby.
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 Gwen Tenney
Program Coordinator for The Outdoor Classroom
gtenney@campcosby.org
Gwen Tenney, our new Program Coordinator for the Outdoor
Classroom, is the newest member of the Camp Cosby staff. She
was born in Toledo, Ohio. She earned a Bachelor’s degree in
Environmental Studies at Lake Forest College in Illinois and
a Master’s degree in Biology from the University of Toledo.
Gwen has taught third-graders about photosynthesis, junior
high school students about rock climbing, high school
students about Global Positioning System technology, land
managers about carbon recycling, and has presented her own
original research at professional conferences as far abroad
as Beijing, China. This is a dream job for Gwen because it
combines her passion for environmental issues with the fun
challenges of teaching youth. In her free time she loves to
rock climb, hike, play traditional Celtic music on her
flute, and explore the world!
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 Wanda McClain
Summer Camp Registrar/Administrative Assistant
wmcclain@campcosby.org
Wanda was born in Anniston, Alabama but was raised in
Southern California. Later in life she returned to Alabama
to live the “ways of the South.” For the past 19 years she
has lived in Lincoln, Alabama. Wanda lives on a 1,600 acre
farm with lots of cattle and numerous pets. At one time, her
family was the proud owner of approximately 37 to 40 dogs and cats.
This number varies greatly as her two children bring and
take animals home. Wanda has a daughter, Sabrina, who has
recently graduated from Mississippi State University and a
son, Eric, who attends Alabama Southern and is a member of
the Eagles baseball team.
She has been with Camp Cosby for 11 years and has hopes of
staying until she retires. As the Summer Camp Registrar,
Wanda enjoys making sure each and every parent feels secure
and comfortable with the decision to leave their most
treasured possession at Camp Cosby for a week.
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 Kimberly Sharp
Office Manager
ksharp@ymcabham.org
Kim was born in Mobile, Alabama and was raised in Bay Minette, Alabama. She graduated from the University of
Alabama School of Commerce and Business Administration in
1992, and has lived in Cropwell, Alabama with her husband
Nelson and daughter Madison for the past 10 years. When Kim
is not at Camp Cosby, she and her family will often be
sailing and water skiing on Lake Logan Martin. She and
Nelson often compete in sailing races in Alabama, on the
Gulf, and, this past year, the Caribbean. Kim has been with
Camp Cosby since September of 2005, and loves the excitement
and attention to family values that is central to working at
Camp Cosby.
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