The Rocket

Issue date: 9/28/07 Section: Focus

Media Credit: Liz Glazier After eating lunch at Weisenfluh Dining Hall, Marilee Bennett, 19, a freshman secondary education history major gets a cone of Moose Tracks ice cream from Gena "the ice cream lady" Humphrey. [Click to enlarge]

A student eating at the Weisenfluh dining hall asks for vanilla soft-serve ice cream with cookie crumbles and chocolate syrup.

With a friendly smile and excited eyes, Gena, "the ice cream lady," Humphrey nods.

Humphrey is one of the dining hall workers that students know best around campus, yet all anyone really knows about her is the fact that she can make almost any kind of ice cream sundae.

"Gena is the coolest dining hall worker ever," said Levi Bishop, 20, a junior resort and tourism major junior.

"She makes the best sundaes on this side of the Mississipi."

Claire Maginness, 19, a sophomore special education and elementary double major has similar feelings about Humphrey.

"She always gives me extra scoops," Maginness said. "She even made me a special sundae for my birthday."

People at SRU only know her because of her association with the dining halls, but there is much more to Humphrey than just her ice cream-scooping skills.

Humphrey, who grew up in Harrisville, Pa., graduated from Moniteau High School in West Sunbury, Pa.

After high school, she attended a finishing school for modeling. She went every Saturday for about nine months and said she learned different modeling techniques.

"We did runway work and learned how to properly deal with make-up and our eyebrows." Humphrey said. "We basically learned the correct way to walk and talk."

Humphrey said they even walked with books on their heads to help with posture.

Students from this finishing school could go on to be anything from models to fashion merchandisers and some even went on to work as flight attendants.

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