Learning As I Go: Summers to remember

Twenty-four years ago. It still seems like yesterday. Newly graduated from high school—the class of 2000. My parents drove me over four hundred miles and dropped me off at Ridgecrest Conference Center, where I would work on the buffet line for the summer. Excited wasn’t an expressive enough word to describe how I felt. This would be my first-full time job, and my first summer away from home. As I drove through the Ridgecrest campus last week, memories flooded my mind. The staff center and