Trudy was teaching school in Austin and Carter was Head of Operations for a great management development firm. Using tools from those jobs, the Lesters decided to build an ideal model of what they both wanted to do the rest of their working lives. Two facts kept coming to the top: 1) they both loved children, and 2) they wanted to live on a farm.
In January 1970,
Carter resigned from his job to concentrate on finding a farm. In
March of that year, the sales contract was signed for the property
where the camp now is located. The Lesters spent the next 15 months
remodeling the old farm house and building camp facilities. Trudy
kept teaching until May, 1971. .
In looking at aerial pictures of the
farm, they noticed that two wet-weather creeks crossed the property
and emptied into a stock tank. They thought of "Two Creek"
or "Twin Creek", but those names just didn't sound right.
When they said "Doublecreek", they knew they had just
named the camp! There was a road on the east side of the property
that turned out to be an undedicated lane with no name. So, the
Lesters named it Doublecreek Drive. They are amused when campers see
the street sign and say, "Oh, that's where you got the name for
Doublecreek." 
In the summer of 1971, the Lesters opened
their first camp on the property. Today, years later, with
thousands of
ex-campers, millions of precious memories, and hundreds of
counselors and ex-counselors who have meant so much to them, the Lesters have, indeed, built the ideal day camp.