Word: garveyism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Jack M. Garvey, 47, who worked as a shuttle driver for five and a half years, said he was dismissed Friday without a formal hearing and that he was not given any severance package except for the paid vacation days he had accumulated...
...firing stems from an altercation involving Garvey and football players Danny P. Lane ’07 and James R. Velissaris ’07 on the day of the team’s annual barbeque in Currier House. While the altercation has resulted in no arrests, Harvard coach Tim Murphy suspended Lane and Velissaris for the team’s opening game next season...
...Garvey said yesterday that after the barbeque, members of the team—many of whom appeared to be inebriated—tried to board the shuttle of another driver, Gabe Pognon, with tables and grills. Garvey said that Pognon and the football players were involved in a “heated discussion,” so Garvey stepped out of his shuttle to address the situation...
...Garvey said Velissaris tried to get on his shuttle with a table, and that when Garvey told him that he could not, Velissaris cursed at him several times...
...Garvey, who has a wife and three children, one of whom is still in college, said that his job had paid him $54,000 last year, plus over $6,000 in benefits...