The Council Room

[Tom Shirley]

We have this china at our summer cabin in northern Maine. I thought it might bring back some memories.




I have added a few other photos to my Gallery Folder under Misc.Stuff too.

http://www.wyanoke.com/gallery/Various-Items
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J-1 1970, Marc Liddle from Scotland
J-1 1971, Bob Vaughn
S-3 1972, Steve McDavitt
S-2 1973, Charlie Thomas
JA-2 1974, Dan Mannis
JA-1 1975, Dave Ayers

Proud to be Gray

[Mike Freeland]

Hey Tom,

Is that wool shirt short-sleeved? I never saw a "Blue Flannel Shirt" with short sleeves, unless that one was cut & hemmed. If you look closely at that shirt, you can almost feel how scratchy those things were.

Some great memorabilia there. I think the cups & saucers you show were the ones used by the "ladies present" for coffee on the veranda on Sundays after lunch. We used plain white heavy mugs at our tables.

I've mentioned this before here, but looking at that name tag reminds me that my mom hated sewing so much that she stapled our name tags to some of our stuff.
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'56-C-9 C. Mosher '57-C-9 Bill Feaster
'58-J-14 H. Peavy '59-J-11 G. Wood, C. Duncan
'60-S-8 R. Leavitt, D. Hemphill '61-S-1 E. Slocum
'62-JA-1 H. Dunbar '63-C-2 (JC)
'64-C-5, (JC) Councilor
'65-C-9 '66 - '72-J-8
'73-JA1 '75-J-6

[Tom Shirley]

Mike,
I don't think the sleeves were hemmed but they could have been. I can't even begin to think how itchy these shirts must have been in the middle of summer.

I don't know about the coffee cup and saucer (I was too young for that) but I thought this was the china that was used in the dining hall. I remember leaving camp and arriving at our Maine cabin and eating from the same china in both places.
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J-1 1970, Marc Liddle from Scotland
J-1 1971, Bob Vaughn
S-3 1972, Steve McDavitt
S-2 1973, Charlie Thomas
JA-2 1974, Dan Mannis
JA-1 1975, Dave Ayers

Proud to be Gray

[Chris Gill]

It's funny how we remember things. I have no recollection of the china in your picture or of any other china that we ate off of. I can clearly remember (I think) the two types of water glassed that we used; the straight sided one with the bulge at the top and the one that had three bulges on its sides.

All the salt shakers had rice in them to keep salt from clogging the holes, I still use that technique at home.

As a younger camper I was fascinated by the machine that made the toast, and the technique that they used to butter it.

Some counselors would let us make butter and sugar sandwiches on white bread.

I would love to have one or two of the dining hall chairs for my porch at home.

I just bought a new dining room table for our home, its round and seats 6. I wonder if there was some long buried memory that lead me to the purchase.

It was really cool to ring the bell before meals.

One of the scariest and intimidating times of my life was having to wait on The Bentley’s table when I was a senior. I was also surprised at how cold it could get out there on a rainy day or a cold August morning. I bet that Edna and Brad had a few laughs down at Red Roof when they discussed the aides who sat at their tables.
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1965-1975
C7,C8,J8,S4,S3

[Jim Culleton]

[Mike Freeland]

I never had to wait on the Corner Table. I don't know how I missed that.

The round tables were yellow with a blue stripe running around the outside circumference, about 6 inches in. I always wondered why they weren't Gray with a blue stripe. 90 % of their weight was paint, just like the war canoes, but I don't think the tables leaked as much.

The order at the slides was determined by that slot with tent names on little slabs of wood in them, and I think there was a death penalty for fooling with it without authorization. Also, the ringing of the bell was absolutely forbidden unless you were asked to do it. Penalty for that was worse than death.

Some of the kids yanked on that rope so hard I thought they'd pull the bell right off the roof. Some liked to get the rhythm just right so the bell went all the way around. Whatever happened to that bell anyway? Dave?

In all my years there I was never asked to ring the bell.

I think it was my cousin who, while waiting on a table for a Midget cabin, set the tray about half on the table, then put a heaping bowl of Welsh Rabbit on the outside half, sending the whole mess into the councilor's lap and all over the floor. Many people were killed in the flood.
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'56-C-9 C. Mosher '57-C-9 Bill Feaster
'58-J-14 H. Peavy '59-J-11 G. Wood, C. Duncan
'60-S-8 R. Leavitt, D. Hemphill '61-S-1 E. Slocum
'62-JA-1 H. Dunbar '63-C-2 (JC)
'64-C-5, (JC) Councilor
'65-C-9 '66 - '72-J-8
'73-JA1 '75-J-6

[Chris Gill]

Mike,

The ringing of the bell was left to those of us with a musical aptitude. Those of you with other talents excelled at different aspects of camp life.

Chris
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1965-1975
C7,C8,J8,S4,S3

[Jeff G]

I could swear that we ate off of plastic plates/bowls. I can't imagine some 8 year old lugging a tray full of "china" to the dishwash room countertop.

Those "bone" colored coffee mugs (Institution Grade) are still in use somewhere I'll bet !!!!!!.

I guess camp would be closing this week...??

It's awfully hard to look up the hill from the lake, seeing all those homes.
Hope the owners are having as much fun as we did..


Jeff G.

[Mike Freeland]

You're gonna think I'm nuts.

Back in 1980, shortly after our mother died, Pat and Vicki and I went to Wyanoke, well before the real development began. We went down to the waterfront via the Jr. path, which as you might remember, is down a steep hill from the dining hall. That slope was the recipient of LOTs of stuff thrown down there from the back deck of the dining hall by the kitchen crew. I guess it was their personal dump. Anyway, I looked up the slope and there were some fragments of some plates sticking out of the brush. I grabbed them and they've been lying on my closet floor ever since.

I KNEW they'd come in handy some day!

And so here they are. Jeff, you are right too. We did have plastic plates and stuff in the later years. I seem to remember one set being beige and another yellow. The cups were different, with the yellow ones more rounded and a bit bigger than the beige ones, I think. As you can see, the ceramic ones were about 20 pounds per plate and would break if they hit the floor filled with Welsh Rabbit.

Almost forgot the picture:



And Tom, there were some striped sets of the ceramic stuff.
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'56-C-9 C. Mosher '57-C-9 Bill Feaster
'58-J-14 H. Peavy '59-J-11 G. Wood, C. Duncan
'60-S-8 R. Leavitt, D. Hemphill '61-S-1 E. Slocum
'62-JA-1 H. Dunbar '63-C-2 (JC)
'64-C-5, (JC) Councilor
'65-C-9 '66 - '72-J-8
'73-JA1 '75-J-6

[Bob Kennington]