The big advantage to the work we do here with MACE (Mid-Atlantic Christian Endeavor) is the experience of the team that is together this week. Last year Nancy Reynolds was a rookie. This year she is a veteran working right along with Millie Williams. They serve breakfast from 7 to 7:30 and then change hats to set up and distribute the lunch materials. Together they prepare the sandwiches offered everyday, over a hundred and fifty meat and cheese sandwiches. Nancy Carpenter, who once worked in a school cafeteria, does the peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Spreading that much peanut butter is a real knack, and no body does it better. Nancy also handles the baking of cakes and cinnamon rolls etc.
The biggest problem for all of us is always adapting to the hours we keep. This week because we have an attendance of hundred and ten we don’t start breakfast until 7am. In the past it was 6:30. But we still are up at five every morning and are finished most of our morning work around 8:30. The time we usually are just getting up at home.
In the mornings Nancy Carpenter is baking items for breakfast but also cakes for tonight’s desert or 160 drop biscuits for strawberry shortcake.
The schedule of the evening meal is salad bar at 5:00 and dinner at 5:15. Nancy Reynolds and Millie Williams maintain and set up an extensive salad bar and serve the soup that Pat Lotz prepares. 110 teenagers can and do strip the salad bar, and Millie and Nancy are kept busy restocking.
Nancy Carpenter prepares most of the dinner items and she and Pat Lotz then serve.
And it all goes amazingly smoothly.
Outside under a canopy Carl Lotz works the griddle (described previously) for most of the breakfast items.
The menu is a refinement of what CAMT has discovered over the years to offer a balance of good meals that teenagers like and their leaders expect.
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