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Margaret Jackson Smelley Storer student
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As I said, Storer was an integral part of our life. So, my mother at that time was working as a cook at the college. So, she had—her job was to have the three meals for all the students, and the kitchen—the dining hall and the kitchen was in the basement of Brackett Hall. That's what you saw in that picture, the back of Brackett Hall. That's where we'd be—we'd go in that way to go into the dining room and in the kitchen, through the back part.
EE: You mean, all the students went in.
MJS: Uh huh. They went in because it was down under, you know, down in the basement part of it. And not only that, my mother—I used to help my mother prepare food for the students, especially early morning, because even though I had eight o'clock classes, I would get up with her at five and help her fix breakfast. We'd do part of it the night before, like lay out the bacon and stuff and the trays and things of that nature.
But when it came down to cooking, you couldn't cook it the night before. You had to do it that morning. So, you had to time it so they'd have breakfast by six to seven o'clock because we had eight o'clock class. I had eight o'clock class.
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Oral history: Margaret Jackson Smelley helped her mother cook the meals at Storer as a girl and continued to help as a student at Storer herself from 1953 to 1955. Listen to her describe her experiences preparing the day’s meals.
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