Talk:Summer Camp 1990s/@comment-26273181-20150403201529

Addison Wilson IV here. I finally went to summer camp when I was in HS on staff. I was told it was 'nearly mandatory' to be on staff. I recall playing Nuclear War, leading kids around the camp with radios, and eating LOTS...LOTS of sunflower seeds.

Dick Houge would wake us up with his crazy ryming at like 5am. He had some real zingers: "Rise and shine Frankenstein!" "What's your story morning glory?" It was kind of funny, but I remember he seemed crazy: there's nothing to do at 5 am. What the heck.

It was brutally hot at Cherokee, and putting you uniform on for dinner was the worst part. By the end of the week my scout uniform stank SO bad.

I think I actually tried to take a class and be on staff my first year. That sucked. I would be in class and then have to run around the lake because of some meaningless issue back in camp. I must have run around that lake ten times per day the first year I went. Be nice to those junior staff guys; they work really hard at summer camp.

Oh the mosquito's were crazy at night.