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- **Posted:** 2019-11-26T22:49:12.000+00:00

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This Thanksgiving, as you head down the busy grocery store aisles, keep an eye out for Mrs. Cubbison’s boxed dressings and stuffings. “Mrs. Cubbison” was indeed a real person–and a Cal Poly alumna. At a time when the corporate world was dominated by men, the 1912 graduate parlayed her knack for baking and her Cal Poly home economics degree into a successful company that still bears her name. 
In 1909, 19-year-old Sophie Huchting enrolled at the California Polytechnic School. The fledgling vocational school offered three-year courses of study in Agriculture, Mechanics, and Household Arts. 
At Cal Poly, Cubbison took courses in math, English, geography and chemistry. She also took classes in millinery, sewing, home management, gardening, sloyd, and cooking labs.

Enrollment totaled 139 students. Expenses for a school year ranged from $240 - $300. There were no tuition fees. Cubbison probably lived off campus in SLO,, as there was limited on-campus housing for women students.

The yearbook captured Cubbison’s participation in student government and campus clubs, including president of the junior class and editor of the campus journal. She played on the women’s basketball team. She graduated in June 1912, one of 25 graduates, 8 of which were women.

After graduating, Sophie Huchting moved home to San Diego. In 1916 she married Harry Cubbison, and the couple opened a bakery in L.A. He delivered the bread and built up sales accounts; she did the baking, in-store demonstrations and giveaways in markets and delicatessens.

Her stuffing line was launched in the 1950s, and since that time, Mrs. Cubbison’s stuffings have appeared on store shelves and in kitchens across the West.

After her death in 1982, Cubbison’s heirs created two Cal Poly endowment funds, the Sophie C. Cubbison Discretionary Endowment andthe Sophie C. Cubbison Food Science & Nutrition Endowment. The interest from these endowments continues to support Cal Poly students in the Food Science and Nutrition Department.

Read the full article here: https://lib.calpoly.edu/news/2017/11/cal-poly-alumna-sophie-huchting-cubbison-creating-a-thanksgiving-tradition

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