Cedarville Magazine, Summer 2013

Cedarville Magazine | 31 In Cedarville’s first decades, before residence halls or campus food service, students who could not simply go home for lunch formed “eating clubs”and took their meals at local boarding houses. One of the more popular places to dine was Mary Murdock’s home on Xenia Avenue.“Aunt Mary”was something of a political activist, especially on temperance issues. She was described as having“a sublime faith in mankind and seldom would believe that the world was full of rascals or that some might be at her very table.” Aunt Mary Murdock’s Eating Club (Aunt Mary is seated on the end of the first row.)