St. Mary's/places

Despite the fact that at the present time St. Mary's is no longer operating as a CTY site, in the efforts of preserving history, a Places page is being created for this epic site.

Dorms

?-2003

• Caroline Hall (Boy's Dorms and Office)
• Dorchester Hall
• Prince George Hall

2004-2005

• Lewis Quad (Boy's Dorms and Office)
• Waring Commons (Girl's Dorms)

Academic Buildings

• Kent Hall
• (I only had classes in Kent in my three years at St. Mary's, and I can't remember any other buildings. Help from other St. Mary's alumni would be nice.)

Campus Center

The Campus Center was the Dining Hall/Bookstore/Convenience Store area. It had a big staircase that wrapped and was fun. The staircase also featured a prayer or something written on the wall. Campus Center also featured an elevator (or 2?) which had floors made of plywood and felt like they would break under your feet.

The Dining Hall was located upstairs and was separated into two parts: the serving area and the eating area. Between them was a walkway. There were two entrances to the serving area, but almost everyone used the first because it was closest to the entrance. Inside there was a salad bar, as well as a "Grill." The main course was served near the center. Off to the left was an area full of doughnuts and cookies and toasters and the ever popular waffle irons. Some students had been known to toast their doughnuts (delicious!) but it was strongly discouraged by the staff. The eating area was a large room it featured rather large tables and then on the outer wall 2-person tables which were almost never used. The Dining Hall also had a large clock that was always wrong.

Downstairs were the Bookstore and Daily Grind. The bookstore, though it did feature a good selection of textbooks, also featured many comics and other books. It was a primary hang out spot after meals. During one year the RA's enforced a rule of no reading books in the bookstore unless you purchased them. The Bookstore also featured four "comfy" chairs. Typically occupied by an RA and three lucky campers. Other campers hanging out in the bookstore sat on the floor wherever they could.

The Daily Grind was essentially the equivlent of Carlisle's Devil's Den, but featured Starbuck's Coffee.

Dances were also held in the campus center, in a small room (which I think was the staff dining hall when college students used the campus) above the bookstore. During dances, less physically inclined campers could also participate in alternate activities in the area outside the bookstore, including games of Risk that were generally never finished and, at least during 05.2, anime videos shown by RAs.

Sparky

During the 05.2 session, Dan W's hall (LQ 20, right next to the girl's bathroom) created a new religion, Sparkyism, that was eventually followed by all members of LQ 20 and the Cryptology A class. The main focal point of this religion was that the deity Sparky basically went around spreading joy and happiness to all who believed in him. Sparky had 3 main forms; a leaf (which was ripped up and thrown from the balcony of the dining hall in a blatant act of anti-Sparkyism), a golden happy Buddha statue (from which he was kicked out by Buddha), and finally, a red piece of origami, which still resides in my room to this day. There is also a song, to be sung to the tune of Yellow Submarine, the words of which have been lost to the sands of time. (Sebastian, Samson, or anyone else who remembers the song; email me the lyrics.) It is the hope of the followers of Sparky that someday this religion may be spread to other CTY sites so that the joy of Sparky can be brought to all.
- Ben Horkley (STM 05.2, LAN 06.2), High Priest of Sparky

Famous People

• Frank Wang. RA, 05.2.