Word: ginn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...choking on a hair ball, and then David Ginn came out to speak on using props in your...
...Ginn was selling props -- magic wands that turn into rubber snakes, and whatnot -- and he punctuated his pitch Henny Youngman-style: "Talk about a cheap gag. This'll make you gag, Charlie." Then Bill Anderson came out to talk about using ventriloquism in church work. He had written a pamphlet of 111 different ways to use it, one paragraph devoted to each method, and he mentioned all 111. A sample: "Use your dummy for free advertising. Take your dummy to a clothing store to get a new suit, or a barber shop to get his hair cut, and call...
...text is create horrors like Modern Curriculum Press's "Tap, tap, tap . . ." story for first-graders, an adaptation of the classic fairy tale The Shoemaker and the Elves, in which the words elves, shoemaker and shoes do not appear. In the same way, the frogfish, from Ginn & Co.'s Across the Fence, is a creature of formula writing, whose intent may be simplification but whose consequence is too often mystification. That mystification is compounded by ethnic, religious, political and other groups that have lobbied their attitudes and taboos into texts. In Maryland, Tom Sawyer no longer says "honest...
...harassment policy is that the grievance procedures are decentralized. Not only do students and faculty follow different grievance procedures than staff, but, true to the "each tub on its own bottom" philosophy, each part of Harvard has its own mechanism for dealing with employee harassment. According to Robert J. Ginn, a personnel officer for the College who deals with harassment complaints, the College tries to keep open as many doorways as possible to an employee with a concern. But what Ginn and others should realize is that sometimes there are too many doorways...
...Harvard an employee can talk with a supervisor, or with Ginn. or with a neutral officer in Central Personnel, or with the General Counsel's office (Ann Taylor's domain). If a worker is dissatisfied with the results she gets at these levels, she can appeal either to a formal hearing, held under the General Counsel's auspices, or to formal arbitration. A formal arbitration beard is composed of three judges--one chosen by the employee, one by the Dean of the Faculty, and one chosen from among experienced arbitrators in the graduate schools. If all else fails, as with...