The Sunday School Leadership Training Class of 1917, as a parting present , gave the camp "THE SPOONHOLDER". The giving of a gift was the tradition of the time where as a class completed their training at CPC a gift was given in appreciation for the training received for their future service to GOD. THE SPOONHOLDER rests half way up the steep hill right at THE POINT. It is a concrete structure in a semicircle and is noted for being a rest area.

Now this story actually originates a little before that . There was a GRAIL SEAT that appears to be just west of that long flight of steps up from lake side to the Nichols Chapel. A photo of the GRAIL SEAT will be placed in the PHOTO ALBUMS for our REUNION of 2008. This GRAIL SEAT appears to be located right above the old Administration Building when it was right at THE POINT. The time frame had to be some time before VESPER HILL got it's name. One of our CAMP FAMILY MEMBERS had the thought that he (TOM ALLEN ) and Palmer DeLap placed the first cross on the hill about 1937.

At TIPI WAKAN there is that famous fire place where we had the corn roast last year. Many of us found the name "THE GRAILERS" carved into the stone. Now could it be that the class of 1917 as a more permanent memory had THE SPOONHOLDER made and removed THE GRAIL SEAT because of it's risky position on Vesper Hill ?

The GRAIL SEAT appears to have had a capacity to seat 12 or more.