By Destiny Shaffer
Lead Dining Hall Supervisor, Tina Landis, is known by many across campus and has spent more than half of her life here at Susquehanna University. She will celebrate 50 years of working in our food industry next October.
Multiple generations of the Landis family have also worked on campus, and some continue to: Tina, her son, Tony Landis, as well as her brother and niece. Tony Landis even branched out to represent our information technology center as a supervisor. Additionally, Landis’s mother, multiple aunts, her grandmother, as well as her niece’s mother have all spent time within the walls of Susquehanna University. She stated that she loves it just as much as they did.
Landis stated that she enjoys working on campus and bringing light to people’s days when they enter Evert Dining Hall. Despite the many decades Landis has committed to the University, she said she is still not quite ready to retire yet. Landis said that it was a long process working her way up to the position she has now; she mentioned that she started in the dish room before she took on the job as a line cook and has now proved her way to the spot of a supervisor.
Landis has been with us through all the changes made within the food service. From before Benny’s Pub to now, and when there was a deli in Evert Dining Hall, to now without, Landis has stuck by through it all. Even with the option to retire, Landis said the thing that keeps her here is the students: “There were times I would let the students in because their practice ran late, and I couldn’t see students going away hungry. So, the door was closed, but I let them in.”
Landis expressed that she loves it here; leading others in the kitchen, meeting with new people, and seeing familiar faces is where she feels her best. Susquehanna alumni and many other known people who associate with Susquehanna University still remember Landis and the service she provides.
