Knowing that Cowgirl Creamery's Sue Conley and Peggy Smith spend their days traveling the pastoral roads of West Marin dairy country, it's easy to imagine them as undergrads tooling around the country in the early 1970s.
It's a little harder, perhaps, to picture these stewards of the state's artisan cheese movement flipping burgers at a greasy college dive.
"We shared a bad job at this bar," remembers Smith, 60, chuckling as her light gray ponytail bobs gently behind her. For a measly $2.35 an hour, she said, they stuck around mostly for the free grub.
"She'd go to class while I worked," Smith said of Conley, 59. "And then she'd come back and I could go."
Four decades later, those collaborative skills have proven quite beneficial.
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