Word: leightons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harry Howe retired two weeks ago as assistant superintendent at the Graduate Center. He had served the University for 20 years, doing "janitorial work," according to his ex-boss, Superintendent George E. Leighton...
...other account, voiced by ex-boss Leighton behind his steel-gray, James Hall desk, was that Harry got just what everyone gets. "We've got no obligation, you know," he said...
Harry worked for Leighton in handling mail, keys, supervising cleaning, and "obliging all the boys," Mrs. Brown said. "You're only 65 once. They turned him out with cold feelings after 20 years. It makes us feel sad to meet him on the street. They didn't even shake his hand," she added...
...Leighton, under whose supervision Harry had worked since the Graduate Center was built, refuted Mrs. Brown's charges. "I shook hands with him and wished him good luck. What more can you do? Does she expect me to give him a fifty dollar bill?" he asked...
...late afternoon, the Committee members will split up to visit the other Houses. They will spend the evening with the Masters, Charles P. Whitlock, senior tutor of Dudley, Reynolds, Delmar Leighton '19, Dean of Students, and F. Skiddy von Stade, Jr. '38, Dean of Freshmen...