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...They should get more credit,” he says. “It’s something that the University really exploits. I can’t think of any group as praiseworthy as our students are.” Griffin works for both PBH (the building and department of the Faculty of Arts and Science) and PBHA (the non-profit umbrella service organization that includes the Progressive Student Labor Movement). “I’m a janitor for PBH but I identify with PBHA only,” he says. “I even identify...
...which way to turn when it is unclear. She is often ignored in favor of comments on the relative merits of the Revolutionary War (“boring”) versus the Civil War (“I’m interested in the Civil War,” Griffin says. “I mean, who isn’t?”). But he does watch the road and sporadically cautions Tierney to “follow the yellow line.” Approaching an intersection, Griffin warns that the “left lane must turn left...
...brash, but also somewhat reticent. At first Griffin wants only to gush about the upstanding young van drivers he teaches at PBHA but eventually opens up about his other interests. He is a book collector and former engineer who has taught at Al-Hikma University in Baghdad. Griffin collects Celtic-language books and books on the Irish in America. Two years ago he donated 3,800 volumes on the Irish in America to the National Library in Ireland and was honored at a ceremony in Dublin...
...Griffin volunteers his own time as well. Wednesdays he spends at the Children’s Hospital in Boston. “We work as an escort service. Not escorting nurses,” he says, almost automatically, without pausing in his narrative to see if anyone will give him an appreciative chuckle. Griffin’s job actually entails escorting patients from ultrasound rooms to hospital rooms and anywhere else they need to be. With the floppy white hair and stream of self-deprecating and ridiculous humor, Steve Griffin seems like he would be a comforting person...
...Tierney nervously edges out of the parking lot, Griffin decides it is an opportune time to talk about a driver who got a van stuck in the ramp of a parking garage. Body work was required. Griffin turns the tables on Tierney and asks what she would do in a similar situation. The correct answer is she would never get herself into a similar situation...