Sloan Hall

Camp Kamaji’s “dining hall” was renamed SLOAN HALL during the summer of 2010 to honor Kamaji’s head cook, Marjena Sloan, for her 30 years of WOWing Kamaji’s campers and staff with her culinary delights. Marjena began working at Kamaji during the summer of 1981(!)as Head Cook and will be back for her 31st consecutive summer as Head Cook in 2011!!

At mealtimes, campers sit with their cabin groups and counselors — much like you would do with your family — around a large dining table.  We eat “family style” with platters and bowls of food on the table rather than lining up cafeteria-style.  Twice a week we have outdoor barbecues — Kamaji’s rainbow burgers and blueberry muffins are infamous!!

Before we forget, we should mention that Kamaji’s food is GREAT!!  So GREAT that many of our campers, their parents and Kamaji staff ask for our  recipes!  So GREAT that you can find a link to Kamaji’s infamous cookbook Just Add Water in the upper right hand corner of www.kamaji.com ‘s HOME page. So GREAT that our own two (now grown) kids would beg us to bring the Kamaji cook home with us when summer was over.

One last thing worth mentioning about Kamaji’s Sloan Hall experience:  While we begin mealtimes with grace, we end with song — quieter melodious songs after dinner and loud foot-stomping ones after breakfast and lunch.  “Loud songs” is definitely a tradition that needs to be experienced in person to be fully appreciated.  Kamaji-campers-in-song literally shake the rafters in synch with the sound and spirit of Kamaji!