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\u201cWould you like to hear about how the first snack shop was started?\u201d<\/p>\n

That question was posed by Janet Weaver Yoder, who had read about efforts to collect dining hall history and stories<\/a> for Eastern Mennonite University\u2019s Centennial celebration in the Daily News-Record.<\/p>\n

\"Martin<\/a>
The Weaver house (foreground) with the current incarnation of Martin Store to the left. Both buildings currently house programs in the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding. In the 1930s, the Weaver family opened a small store serving the campus community in their home first, then purchased adjacent buildings and expanded store contents to include a snack shop. (Photo by Joaquin Sosa)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Janet, born in 1925, grew up in a two-story brick house on Mount Clinton Pike across the street from campus [the house now houses programs in EMU\u2019s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding].<\/p>\n

Janet is the daughter of Henry D. Weaver<\/strong>, the college\u2019s business manager for 29 years.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m going to take you on a roundabout way before I tell you about the Snack Shop,\u201d she says, \u201cand then you\u2019ll understand more about how it happened. It was a different culture and a different time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Caring for students away from home<\/h3>\n

First, there was the campus, nothing like the size it was now. Janet remembers the school as consisting mainly of the multi-purpose Administration Building, or the Crackerbox, as it was called, and some faculty housing. Surrounded by farmland and pasture, the campus was located about 1.5 miles away from Harrisonburg\u2019s downtown. Cars were \u201cfew and far between,\u201d she says. In 1936-37, 175 students attended the high school and two-year college (the school did not become a four-year college until 1947).<\/p>\n

Many students were from farm families, most all were Mennonite, and all were \u201cquite young,\u201d Janet remembered. \u201cFaculty felt they were responsible for these children who were sent down here to stay in dormitories. Faculty had an interest in their safety and comfort. There were strict rules, one being that students could not leave campus without permission. Campus in those days ended at Mount Clinton Pike.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the 1930s during the Depression, all of the faculty tried to alleviate straitened circumstances. Gardens, goats, chickens, even a cow or two were common sights. Sometimes extra money could be made from selling produce.<\/p>\n

Henry D. Weaver was an entrepreneur. He saw that students needed somewhere closer to campus to buy clothing and food. But he was also concerned that students be happy and comfortable on campus.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe only snacks the students had might be from a package someone sent from home,\u201d Janet remembers. \u201cAnd clothing and sewing needs were difficult to obtain.\u201d<\/p>\n

A campus hub<\/h3>\n

In the early 1930s, her parents decided to open a small store in their home. Customers entered through a side door into the former dining room, which had clothing: black stockings; men\u2019s collarless shirts and collars, material for prayer coverings, bonnets and dresses; and other sewing needs. (Female students had access to a sewing machine in their dormitory.)<\/p>\n

\"Henry<\/a>
Henry D. Weaver, business manager at EMC from 1922-1951, with wife Sallie Jane Wenger Weaver and their children, including Janet Weaver Yoder (standing, far left), owned and operated a store and snack shop on Mount Clinton Pike in the ’30s and ’40s. (Courtesy photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In 1937, Weaver bought the building next to the house, known as Kline\u2019s garage. He subdivided this building into two sections with dry goods and groceries. One brother learned how to butcher in order to run a small meat department.<\/p>\n

Students had special dispensation to cross Mount Clinton Pike to go to the store. Janet remembers that her family worked in the store for long hours and sometimes would bring food back with them to eat while they waited on customers. Inevitably, their customers would be interested in the home-cooked food being eaten in front of them.<\/p>\n

In the 1940s, the Weavers created a small back room \u201cwith tables and chairs and an electric grill, where we cooked hot dogs and hamburgers and made egg sandwiches. There was a milkshake machine and we also sold ice cream.\u201d The snack shop was open from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a busy place,\u201d said Janet, who managed the store after graduating from high school in 1943. \u201cEven visiting parents came to buy food there.\u201d<\/p>\n

The store struggled through the years of World War II, when the rationing and coupon system made transactions difficult. In 1944, Weaver sold the store to a family.<\/p>\n

Snack shop continues<\/h3>\n

After about a year, that family sold the store\u00a0 to Lewis Martin, who continued the “department store,” offering Mennonite clothing and employing a seamstress who made bonnets and prayer coverings, as well as plain suits.<\/p>\n

\"Snack<\/a>
A cocoa display in the Weaver’s store.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The building, which houses the main offices of the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, is still called \u201cMartin Store.\u201d<\/p>\n

EMS eventually opened a snack shop in a building next to Martin\u2019s Store, which was operated under the supervision of the Board of Trustees. (This long narrow building was where the feature photo was taken, according to longtime librarian Lois Bowman, who was a student at the time.)<\/p>\n

As business manager, Henry Weaver was surely involved in oversight of this enterprise. Later he opened a laundry that served EMS, taking care that it was his own business he could run without the trustees telling him how to do it.<\/p>\n

As for what happened to the snack shop in later years, that is a story for you, dear readers, to share with us!<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a> to offer information or memories about the snack shop, from its early days through the 1957 move to campus proper. And stay tuned for an interview with longtime Snack Shop manager Helen Ours. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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