“Whenever I get the chance, I tell people I was a faculty member here.”
Staudinger discusses the first days Moraine Valley opened in buildings on 115th Street, including the open concept floor plan that created classrooms with no walls, crossing the street to the cemetery for old flowers for the biology lab and spending hours moving fruit flies into tubes for students. She fondly recounts tales of lab animals’ hysterics and the closeness of the 30 faculty hired in the first year, many of whom are still her close friends.