The Old Dining Hall

Our current dining hall opened in 1990, the same summer that I started as food service manager, making 2009 my 20th year. I cooked a couple of times in the old dining hall as a volunteer, probably for camporee or OA events. It was 140 degrees in the kitchen because it wasn't ventilated well at all. Back then summer camp hosted 150-200 Scouts per week and we cooked a little more from scratch. The Scoutmasters used to cook the Wednesday night meal, and one week, Darlene (the cook at the time) made cinnamon rolls for Thursday breakfast. Well, the Scoutmasters fried chicken for Wednesday dinner and served the cinnamon rolls for dessert. Darlene freaked when she arrived on Thursday morning to find that the breakfast she prepared was gone! In the current dining hall, I have one piece of equipment from the old dining hall--that's the brazer, and it is at least 35 years old.