Inspection at Greystone: From Job Wheel to White Glove
If you’ve ever grabbed a broom while singing a Morning Assembly song in your head, you know Inspection is a Greystone classic: a tiny daily ritual that adds up to provide some serious team pride. For decades, the Job Wheel has kept cabins humming: everyone is assigned a task, it rotates daily, and the result is a Tentalow that feels neat, welcoming, and clean(ish). Earning a Perfect Inspection can create a huge swing in the final Odd–Even score at the end of the summer, so for many campers, receiving that Perfect Inspection is an area of great pride.
How it works (still!)
- Twice a day: Cabins complete Inspection before breakfast and before dinner.
- Rotating jobs: Campers spin (or check) the Job Wheel daily to find their new assignment, so no one is stuck with the same job.
- Team points: Inspection remains one of the key ways to earn Odd/Even points; a Perfect Inspection still adds a 25-point bonus to your team at your session’s end.
- The Inspection chart: The Inspection chart still hangs on the back of your cabin door, and campers check it after the meal to see (or seal) their fate.
- Secret inspector: It’s still a mystery who inspects (and yes, trying to guess or spy on your inspector is still half the fun).
The White Glove upgrade
On Sundays, we lean into that extra sparkle standard, which we now call White Glove, using that pre-church time to make sure cabins, porches, drawers, and bathrooms shine. While you might remember that deeper Sunday clean from your camper years, girls take it to the next level these days.
Group Leaders complete the inspection checks, often walking in with a checklist and clipboard, with one winning cabin per age group being named at lunch. And the prize for winning? It is the best kind of prize for a Greystone girl: being dismissed first to the Sunday buffet dinner (cue the miniature pizzas and leftover feast!). When cleaning, campers play hype music, have created many quick cleaning hacks, and even spray different scents into the bathrooms to add that extra polish to the overall effect before their cleaning fate is reckoned.
Why it matters
Beyond points and ribbons, Inspection teaches the everyday habits that make cabin life sweet: shared responsibility, pride in your living space, and making a difficult task fun by throwing in a few jokes while you sweep. This small tradition has a century-long heartbeat here at Greystone, proof that when everyone plays a part, camp feels like home.
Your favorite jobs
We asked alums at our recent reunion and on our Alum Facebook page which job on the Job Wheel they loved having the most, and the results are pretty much what we expected (who doesn’t love being Captain of the Day?!). Do you agree with these stats, or do you have another job you think rises above the rest? Let us know, and we will update our official Inspection records here at camp.
