Word: mora
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although Secondine became involved with public service early during his time at Harvard, North House resident Samia Mora '92 waited until the summer after her sophomore summer before becoming actively involved...
...counselor for the Refugee Youth Summer Enrichment (RYSE) program, Mora taught English to Vietnamese refugees living in Dorchester, Chelsea and Brighton. She took students on field trips to libraries, museums and colleges. She taught them how to use a wordprocessor and required each to write their life story...
...There is a lot of work to be done," Mora says, "and public service gives you the opportunity to create something useful, not just something to appease your own conscience...
...Mora describes her experiences that summer as a volunteer and the following summer as RYSE director as "the best learning experience [she has] had at Harvard...
Corzo brought in a celebrated Italian husband-and-wife team of art restorers, Paolo and Laura Mora, who led six Italian and four Egyptian conservators in a year-long emergency campaign. They applied 10,000 strips of Japanese mulberry-bark paper to the walls and ceilings like Band-Aids, to keep plaster from crumbling and paint from flaking. Then began the painstaking work of restoration. The conservators swabbed every square inch of the tomb with distilled water, gently removing the accumulation of 3,000 years of dust and soot. In some areas, they chiseled the layers of plaster and paint...