"The community was set up so that everybody knew everybody. It was a village. And actually you could go into anybody's home and get fed, so you never go without food… It was an open-door policy."
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MSCollaboratory · Ellsworth And Edward Dory
" the University got a lot of help from the Lakeland Community. A lot of people live there that worked at the university, but there's just abundance of community "
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MSCollaboratory · Elwood Gross
Emma Powers Student Employee of the Year Award Poster
Poster with nomination criteria for the Emma Powers Student Employee of the Year Award.
"So many, many people worked at the University of Maryland, because that was the only place that we really, you could get a job, you know…at the University of Maryland the only jobs you could actually have would be a secretary, maybe a janitor, or you could work in the dining hall…Mr. Clay Bomb came across some article, or something, that they were hiring in the physics department at the University of Maryland. They wanted scanners. They wanted heart scanners. So he said go ahead and apply for the job. And I was like ‘Oh, dang, there are no black people doing that type of work. And he said try anyway, so I went up there and applied for it. I was the first black to work in the physics department. We were called pictorial data analysts…And you know, we were helping the grad students to get their theses. And then in order for them to be physicists, they had to pass the test, they had to finish the internship. So it was like a four year program that they had, but sadly, there weren't any blacks in the program at the time. Only blacks on the campus during that time was in the chemistry department. Well, we had no blacks in the physics department."
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MSCollaboratory · Ethel Dory Lockerman 4.36
"Well, that’s four generations that have worked at the university, my dad and his dad. Well, his dad, Charles Dory, and another one was Charles Dory Jr. And then my dad, Delarce Dory. And they all worked there. My dad worked in the dining hall as a chef for 52 years. My brothers Edward and Ellsworth worked at the University of Maryland also. And my sister Emma. And I worked in a physics department at the University. And then my offspring Curtis Lockerman worked in the university also."
Lakeland Digital Archive - Lakeland Community Heritage Project (LCHP)
MSCollaboratory · Ethel Dory Lockerman 2.56