Cheron Kincaid has seen 20 different graduating classes, years of renovations and many long days of serving students.

She is now working as the supervisor at TerraVe, located inside Clemens Hall. Kincaid started working at Saint Louis University on Aug. 28, 1988, at Marguerite Hall, which used to have a cafeteria, as a food server and has just celebrated her 20th anniversary of employment at SLU. Her daughter, Chanel Kincaid, works in Griesedieck Cafeteria and was born only a month before Cheron started working on campus.

Kincaid said she has witnessed a lot of change on the SLU campus and can recall when West Pine Mall was a road that ran right through campus. She witnessed the front of Griesedieck Tower being added and was here when Fusz Hall was a home for the retired priests, before they were moved to another location and Fusz became a residence hall for students.

According to Kincaid, when she started working on campus the students dressed much more conservatively. She says that between the fashion of the students and collection of nude statues around the Frost Campus, the University has become unrecognizable.

Kincaid said that she has enjoyed meeting all of the interesting students that she has come in contact with during her many years at SLU.

During her tenure, one of the interesting people that she met was a former female student studying to be a nurse.

“This girl would dress in a gothic way, and she was always really friendly to me. One day I went over to her apartment with her, and her room was all black, which was kind of scary,” Kincaid said.

She said that the students at SLU have always been very diverse.

Kincaid said that she tries to be personable and to help all of the students, especially freshman, feel more at home.

“I have grown to have a lot of patience, which usually happens to anyone when dealing with the public everyday,” Kincaid said.

“It’s like some people have bad days in class and decide to come in and take it out on me because they forgot their meal card or their money. Yeah, I’ve been called a few names in the time I’ve been working for SLU.”

Although at times it may be rough, Kincaid said that she really loves her job and works hard to provide the best for students.

Rosie Wade, a fellow employee, described Kincaid as very demanding and independent.

Along with supervising TerraVe, she also has four children who keep her active and busy outside of work.

“It’s like I don’t stop! But they definitely keep me young,” Kincaid said about her family.

She is a self-described “team mom,” due to the fact that she has a son who plays baseball and basketball and a daughter that dances and sings in a choir. She said outside of work she is kept on her feet throughout the day, attending sporting or choir events, taking care of her kids and supporting them in any way that she can.

“My family comes first, then the restaurant,” said Kincaid.