Comments on: Join the meal: Part I of 91¶ÌÊÓƵ’s Dining Hall Saga: 1917 to 1970s, site of fellowship, gentility and cultural skirmishes /now/news/2016/join-meal-part-emus-dining-hall-saga-1917-1970s-site-fellowship-gentility-cultural-skirmishes/ News from the 91¶ÌÊÓƵ community. Wed, 03 Aug 2016 13:44:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Dorothy Kreider /now/news/2016/join-meal-part-emus-dining-hall-saga-1917-1970s-site-fellowship-gentility-cultural-skirmishes/#comment-101511 Sun, 24 Jul 2016 20:18:41 +0000 http://emu.edu/now/news/?p=29145#comment-101511 My husband, Norman Kreider, likes to recount this scenario that happened in the dining room in 1954. He, a “short-term” student, was put on the host-hostess list. I, a senior, was assigned to his table as his hostess. He claims that I said he looked so much like his brother, and then I laughed. He says that he couldn’t understand that. Oh, well, now he laughs and has something to talk about.

]]> By: Moderator /now/news/2016/join-meal-part-emus-dining-hall-saga-1917-1970s-site-fellowship-gentility-cultural-skirmishes/#comment-101480 Fri, 22 Jul 2016 21:00:13 +0000 http://emu.edu/now/news/?p=29145#comment-101480 Joan Horst also comments: “The Spring Banquet…a big deal…was served by waitresses carrying trays of plates as in a restaurant…balancing those plates on a tray while squeezing between chairs to get to the second row of tables next to the wall was quite a feat.”

Please share other memories of special events in the dining hall/cafeteria and we’ll compile a new section to add to the chronology!

Also we must let you know there is a second definition of “porcupine balls” that differs from Jim Bishop’s: Porcupine balls were balls of ground beef and rice, etc…..the rice, peas and cheese combo was a separate dish. Maybe pouring the rice, peas and cheese over the top made it better?

]]> By: Lois B. Bowman /now/news/2016/join-meal-part-emus-dining-hall-saga-1917-1970s-site-fellowship-gentility-cultural-skirmishes/#comment-101472 Fri, 22 Jul 2016 12:27:10 +0000 http://emu.edu/now/news/?p=29145#comment-101472 When my mother, Eva Moyer Burkholder, was a student in the early 1920s, a men’s quartet sang the following song in the dining hall one day. To the tune of “‘Neath the shade of the old apple tree:”
‘Neath the crust of the old apple pie
There is something for you and for I.
It may be a pin
That the cook has put in,
Or it may be a dear little fly.
It may be an old rusty nail,
or a piece of the pussy cat’s tail.
What e’er it may be,
There is something for thee
‘Neath the crust of the old apple pie.

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