Lesley University

Marjorie Servis Truesdell, '29

Elementary School teacher Marjorie Servis Truesdell, '29 talks with Lesley Historian and Associate Professor Cynthia F. Brown about how the Lesley school was located in Founder Edith Lesley Wolfard's home at 29 Everett Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Marjorie Servis Truesdell (MST): It was a very small school at that time.
Cynthia Brown (CB): Sure. Yeah.
MST: Really small. In fact, it…it was just that one building [29 Everett Street]. That was it.
CB: Yeah.
MST: And…and…and…and her [Edith Lesley Wolfard's] home. You could go from right in through as you can now…from her home into the classroom…
CB: Into the…right…that doorway is the same doorway I think…pretty much.
MST: Yup, it goes right through from the house to the [classroom]. That was all there was of the school. It was very tiny.