Camp Zoe Memories
Mail Call & Rest Hour
Rest hour lasted from 1pm to 2pm each weekday. All campers were required to sit on their bunks with their shoes off. I relaxed and read the mail. There was a post office at Round Spring, Missouri until 1980. The zip code was 65467. After it closed, camp mail arrived via the Gladden Star route from Salem, Missouri. Counselors made sure we wrote our parents at least once during a two week session. Getting a care package was the best. The booty included magazines, baseball cards, cookies and candy. Getting a care package was not without its price:
Parents and friends are strongly advised not to send boxes of candy, cake, etc. If such boxes are sent, they will be distributed to the cabin group, since no one is allowed to keep a private supply of sweets in his cabin. The amount of sweets the campers may have is regulated.
Camp Zoe promotional literature, 1984
By the tone of that passage you'd think we were bartering Hershey Bars and Nylons for bread and water in Communist occupied Berlin in 1946.