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When Victoria Steele Logue (\u201984) and the Rev. Frank Logue (\u201984) stepped onto the Georgia Southern campus in the 1980s, little did they know they were starting down a lifetime path of adventure\u2014one with a number of twists and turns along the way. In 35 years, they\u2019ve traveled to exotic destinations around the globe, captured them on film, written about them in books, reinvented themselves in new careers and done their best to make a positive impact in the world.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s go back to the beginning. Foreshadowing what was to come, it was a love of foreign language that brought them together. They met in a class taught by one of their favorite professors, the late Lowell Bouma, former chair of the University\u2019s Department of Foreign Languages.<\/p>\n
\u201cProfessor Bouma would often tell me, \u2018I have someone I want you to meet,\u2019 and it was Victoria,\u201d said Frank, who studied linguistics and German under Bouma.<\/p>\n
Victoria admits that she didn\u2019t like Frank at first. \u201cHe would say things to me in German and everyone in class would stare at me,\u201d she said. \u201cI didn\u2019t want the attention because I was so shy.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cStill, it didn\u2019t take us long to become friends,\u201d Frank added. Frank, who grew up in Marietta, Georgia, was a busy college student and photographer, working for The George-Anne<\/em>, the Reflector<\/em>, the college\u2019s public relations department and the Statesboro Herald<\/em>.<\/p>\n Victoria, a Navy officer\u2019s daughter, lived in different states growing up, but she had longstanding ties to Georgia and Georgia Southern. She can trace her Georgia ancestry to before the Revolutionary War, and her mother, Laura Campbell (\u201875) is a University alumna. Victoria\u2019s grandfather, Lawrence Kelly, was a professor at Georgia Southern, and her grandmother, Hulda Kelly, volunteered in the genealogy department of the Statesboro Regional Library and edited two volumes for the Bulloch County Historical Society.<\/p>\n Victoria wanted to be a writer, but was terrified of failing at something she loved and decided to major in geology and German. \u201cApparently, I was meant to write, though. My first job after graduation was as a staff writer for the Daily Sun<\/em> in Warner Robins, Georgia,\u201d she chuckles.<\/p>\n The next step on their life journey came a few years later when Frank and Victoria decided to combine their traveling passion and profession. They became full-time freelance writer-photographers and the globetrotters published their first book, The Appalachian Trail Hiker<\/em>, based on their own experiences. Six more travel books followed, as well as countless magazine and newspaper articles by the award-winning pair.<\/p>\n In 1995, Frank decided to set out in another new direction and answer a lifelong call to the ministry. By 2000, he\u2019d earned a Master of Divinity, and set out to start the King of Peace Episcopal Church in Kingsland, Georgia, with the help of Victoria and their daughter Griffin. After 10 years, the family moved to Savannah, when the Rev. Logue was named the assistant to the Episcopal Bishop of Georgia. His official title is \u201cCanon to the Ordinary,\u201d which inspired his blog, \u201cThe Loose Canon\u201d, where his writing and photography reflect spiritual topics.<\/p>\n Victoria also set out on a changed path \u2013 writing fiction. She\u2019s currently working on her second novel. \u201cMy love of the outdoors and history are the inspiration for my nonfiction books,\u201d she said. \u201cHistory and the supernatural inspire my fiction. And spirituality usually finds its way into my blog.\u201d<\/p>\n This spring, the couple\u2019s shared spirituality brought them back together on a very different kind of writing and photography pilgrimage. In March, they traveled to Rwanda and Kenya to document the plight of refugees fleeing from violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen I look to my life and my life with Victoria,\u201d said Frank, \u201cthe through-line is that we have followed our interests and passions. While many externals have changed, both of us have spent all the years since college working to communicate through our writing and photography. We\u2019ve remained interested in seeing new things and learning more and then sharing those experiences with others.\u201d – Sandra Bennett<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Alumni Couple Follows a Divine Path<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2749,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[47],"class_list":["post-2643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","tag-spring-2015"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"SPRING15their-calling-1\"](\"http:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/SPRING15their-calling-1-315x226.jpg\")
The couple married a year after graduating and embarked on a two-month honeymoon exploring Nepal, its Hindu Temples and towering Himalayas. In 1988, they hiked the entire 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine, a six-month trek. \u201cWhat always stands out are the postcard moments, then the perseverance moments such as enduring eight days backpacking in the rain,\u201d Frank recalled.<\/p>\n