Letter to the Editor: The Great Food Fight
Issue date: 11/29/07 Section: Opinion
When I turned around at my checker stand, I saw students throwing food at each other.
It was December 1981, and we were serving Moonlight Breakfast, a breakfast that we serve at 9 p.m. on the night before the first day of final exams. My checker stand was then located near the door where most students exit today.
I had been successful in stopping food fights before, but this time I could not break away from my post, because so many students kept entering.
In a desperate attempt, I yelled out to a student manager. She did not see me; and because of the noise, she could not hear me.
And then came what some called the worst food fight in the history of Curtiss Dining Room. Some students ran for cover. Some ducked under the tables. Others got pelted.
"That's it for Moonlight Breakfast," said the director of the food service.
He kept his word.
To the best of my memory, the dining room remained pitched-dark and its front doors locked shut on the evening before the first day of final exams between 1982 and the spring of 1986.
But then in the fall of 1986 a new director took over the food service. He decided to start Moonlight Breakfast again. Since then, we have served it every year.
We will do so again on Wednesday, Dec. 5, and everyone can join us, including students not enrolled in our board program.
This will be the last Moonlight Breakfast in Curtiss Dining Room. The next one will take place in the spring at the new dining room in the beautiful Grewcock Student Union.
Hillsdale College students have taken their meals at Curtiss Dining Room since May 1959. I have worked here the last 27 of those years. I will always have many fond memories of the facility, including the food service director's decision in 1986 to resume the great tradition of Moonlight Breakfast.
I wish everyone the best of success on final exams.
Hillsdale College Collegian 2007
It was December 1981, and we were serving Moonlight Breakfast, a breakfast that we serve at 9 p.m. on the night before the first day of final exams. My checker stand was then located near the door where most students exit today.
I had been successful in stopping food fights before, but this time I could not break away from my post, because so many students kept entering.
In a desperate attempt, I yelled out to a student manager. She did not see me; and because of the noise, she could not hear me.
And then came what some called the worst food fight in the history of Curtiss Dining Room. Some students ran for cover. Some ducked under the tables. Others got pelted.
"That's it for Moonlight Breakfast," said the director of the food service.
He kept his word.
To the best of my memory, the dining room remained pitched-dark and its front doors locked shut on the evening before the first day of final exams between 1982 and the spring of 1986.
But then in the fall of 1986 a new director took over the food service. He decided to start Moonlight Breakfast again. Since then, we have served it every year.
We will do so again on Wednesday, Dec. 5, and everyone can join us, including students not enrolled in our board program.
This will be the last Moonlight Breakfast in Curtiss Dining Room. The next one will take place in the spring at the new dining room in the beautiful Grewcock Student Union.
Hillsdale College students have taken their meals at Curtiss Dining Room since May 1959. I have worked here the last 27 of those years. I will always have many fond memories of the facility, including the food service director's decision in 1986 to resume the great tradition of Moonlight Breakfast.
I wish everyone the best of success on final exams.
Hillsdale College Collegian 2007
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