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"So yeah, we could get together, and not just the youths but the parents as well, when it came to school issues of course they were always focused on that. You heard the saying of course, it takes a community to raise a kid. Well, the same community…

"It was just a neighborhood of people who trusted each other, trusted and respected each other. You know, the fiber. Like you said it takes a community to raise a child and that's the kind of community it was.
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"For instance, as a kid, you belonged to everybody on your block. That was your family. I mean, they were concerned about, well, overall behavior. Not only overall behavior, but just you in general, they were concerned about you going... How well you…

"Oh, the University of Maryland played an integral part in the jobs that my family had the most of my family was on the grounds crew. And that's what kept Maryland looking as pristine as it was. And I can remember the jobs that they had. They took…

" 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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"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…

"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…

" I worked in high energy physics. And we were the next generation that came along that was not doing manual labor, like sweeping mopping, the yard crew, or whatever. And high energy physics was an area that we had to learn how to read film. And this…

"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."