If Dorothy Morgan were here today, she might tell you to call your mother.

If you were having a bad day, she might tell you to quit complaining, and let you play with her toy bubble gun she kept on her desk at the Center for Student Involvement.

And if you’re one of the many students and staff members who frequent Morgan’s office on Norris University Center’s third floor, she might help you play a practical joke on a co-worker.

She would almost certainly give you a hug.

That community of student leaders and Center for Student Involvement staff will go without their daily hugs from the center’s secretary today. Morgan died Thursday evening from an apparent heart attack as she was returning home from work. She was 64.

Before she left Thursday, she stopped to break up a complaining session among student leaders Becca Donaldson, Matty Fieweger and Ravi Randhava.

“We were just not feeling that great and she just stopped by and was like, ‘We cannot have this,’ ” said Randhava, a Weinberg senior and co-chair of Special Olympics.

It was typical of Dorothy Morgan, whom many students thought of as a mother or grandmother. Matt Jimenez, who worked in Morgan’s office, said her maternal instincts strengthened his relationship with his own parents.

“It’s easy when you are in college mode not to think about home that often, but she was always reminding us about home and telling us to call our mothers,” the Medill senior said. “At the same time