Word: custodians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gannon at Winthrop House, who has been a painter and paperhanger in off-hours, has often taken students who wanted to ears extra money on jobs with him. Frank A. Coughlin at Adams House has specialized in providing noiseless study rooms for frantic pre-meds before final exams. One custodian declares that he has served "as house mother, father, confessor, and loan shop." But regardless of student friendships, all House night watchmen insist that they have never relaxed in inforcing the 8:00 p.m. pariotal rule...
Some of the material is valuable, some markedly trivial. Thomas Little, the collection's custodian, has great respect for its value to thesis researchers into history topics, but will wryly admit that "it may big too big for its own good." The library was meant primarily to be a personal moment to Roosevelt; there has been, however, a certain amount of friction between its useful and its sentimental sides." Little explained in a recent report on the collection, "As a separate library closely attended in its own quarters by a librarian, it gave excellent service. Now, as an element...
...Roosevelt's admirers, perhaps the person most closely attached to the collection was Miss Nora E. Chordingly, its custodian from 1927 until her death three years ago. Miss Cordingly revered Roosevelt's memory and was eager to help anyone interested in him. She was also quick to defend him. Once John Mason Brown, drama critic for the New York Evening Post, wrote an article which seemed to Miss Cordingly to imply she took as an insult to Roosevelt, wore a wig. Stung by what she took as an insult to Roosevelt, she wrote Brown, demanding that he name his authority...
Roosevelt's life was so varied and his interest so extensive that the associations was faced with a tremendous task in recording it with Justices. There were no precedents for Miss Cordingly, the custodian, to follow in her attempts to arrange the huge mass of material in some sort of order. As a result of the detailed minute in the library, the cataloguing system was both individualistic and complicated. Miss Cordingly's death left the library personnel confused as to the library's details, partly because the catalogue had become somewhat disorganized in its move from New York, partly because...
...There is a rule against smoking in Memorial Hall," said Lewis J. Tratnyek, custodian, "but it is relaxed for special occasions such as those. In the past, the freshmen have posted fire watches at the Smoker and been allowed to smoke. There's no reason why it shouldn't be that way this years...