Word: dorms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other letter was from a friend who plays basketball at a small Baptist college in West Virginia. The writing was real hard to read; he was writing left-handed. It seems they have parietal rules at this college, and he was in a woman's dorm around 2 in the morning. This night watchman threw a light on him, but my friend easily outraced him to the door he'd come in through. The only thing was, the night watchman had just locked it, and when my friend hit the door full-blast, he broke his wrist...
...Bonny Landers '77 in the distance. She waves. He remembers how she told him that she was one of the first women ever to clean toilets in the Yard. She did not find her gender to be a disadvantage. Freshman year, she was assigned to Holworthy, an all-male dorm at that time...
...congratulate him with hearty handshakes and returning smiles, the student porter is filled with a feeling of good will. He remembers how he arrived weeks ahead of most of his fellow classmates in the fall of freshman year, how he came to know Harvard with other members of the dorm crew in those first uncertain days, how the camaraderie of their labors had made them all fast friends. He is flooded with nostalgia as he hangs up his "Johnny brush" and rinses...
...students who showed up Tuesday morning to apply for almost 250 temporary dorm crew jobs, the long wait in the morning cold was a worthwhile proposition. Lured by the prospect of a quick $150 for a week's work following exams, many showed up late Monday night armed with sleeping bags and blankets. By the time the Student Employment Office opened its doors to receive the flood of applicants, Radcliffe Yard looked like a public campground...
Dennis J. Rinehart '77 had been recruited in a similar way in the fall of 1974, through a friend he worked with on the dorm crew. Rinehart also left his Southwestern job in Phoenix--after four weeks--and went home after writing Southwestern a check for $120 to pay for the books he sold. Later, they sent him a check for $150. There was no $30 profit, however. Rinehart paid his own transportation from Boston to Nashville, where he went through a week of training, and from Nashville to Phoenix, along with his hotel and meal costs...