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Detail from Calvert Hall under construction, University of Maryland, circa 1916

"I used to talk about the different ladies that baked on the cake in the community and stuff, you know, Halloween, nice people used– the parents used to be out there on the corner watching kids go up and down the street, and things were just so safe.…

"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."

" 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…

"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…

"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…

" 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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"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…