Camden Military Academy - Excalibur Yearbook (Camden, SC)

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Den Knorpp, Adjutant, reads duty roster at the even- ing meal. : kts. Jeff Lewis, James Bryan replenish their trays for KP William Rogers serves cheerfully. Iarew and “Pete” Kern devour a pork chop luncheon. Battalion Commander George Pagan calls a well-nourished corps to attention after the mt 25

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GASTRONOMIC ACHIEVEMENT Mrs. Davis feeds the whole family. Greenwich Mean Time is the base for standard time in most countries and the Atomic Clock in Boulder is the authority on chronometry, but Mrs. Bessie Davis’ kitchen clock establishes CMA time. Her mess hall is CMA’s hub, and for seventeen years, she has served three meals per day, on time, to more than two hundred cadets, a seven day a week process, late August to mid-May, with breaks only at Christmas and for spring vaca- tion. In all those years, Mrs. Davis missed actually serving meals only twice, once to attend a wedding, once a funeral. An army marches on its stomach and Mrs. Davis knows CMA cadets stay in step by partaking of her culinary products. This Camden native rises at four each morning and departs the mess hall after seven in the evening, “My job’s tough,” she says, “but I couldn’t make three meals a day possible without my staff and KP’s.” They’re obviously dedicated to her and, as she is, to feeding the hungry corps, Mrs. Davis is a mother of six and a grandmother fifteen times. “I like boys,” she says. Cadets know it. A myriad of tasks awaits Luther Thompson daily. 24 Mrs. Bessie Davis, Dietician, readies for the hungry hordes of cadets. Cadets Howard Rue

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The happy Dance Committee: President George Pagan, Adviser LTC Jim Watson, and Vice-President David Owens (front), and Cliff Carter, Rusty Burgess, Pete Kern, Denis Busby, Chris Sloan, Mike (MB) Stone, Rick Faulkner, Paul Tamburrino, Brent FI owe, Steve Stotts, Richie Coulter, Scott Reynolds, Ken Neubaum, and Chris Canada. Officer-of-the-Day Jimmy Lamb, Chris Sloan, George Pagan, and Mike Stone check attendance lists at the door. Glenn Lumpkin slow dances with Molly Curry. 26 Cross Current plays the music for Rhett CruH’s step, his partner Paige Cline.