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There is saccharine adoration and generosity all around. Clancy says Griffin sometimes leaves books he thinks she will like in her mailbox at PBH. According to Griffin (who calls all the volunteers “kids”), “They are all kids I could be happy to have as children.” This is why Griffin has stuck around for so long: “I like the kids so much. Virtually everyone is really wonderful. I don’t know about the rest of the Harvard community, but PBH kids are great. I suppose...
Griffin began working for PBH as a custodian about 10 years ago, left briefly and then was asked to come back seven years ago after the public service overhaul at the College—when a more rigorous driver-training program was implemented. “I was supposed to work four hours a week giving the kids a driving test,” he says. “But they need to know so much more than you can teach them in a five-minute intro before the test.” The Harvard insurance office, which sees that...
...odds of meeting Mr. Right, or even Mr. Right Now, seemed pretty slim at my summer jobs; I planned to edit a “self-help” book for a Harvard medical school psychiatrist and to teach music to kids with HARMONY, a PBH summer program. Since I’m a closet workaholic and could always use more money, and since my plans to do “thesis research” were all lies anyway, I added another job to my schedule. I got one working at the Harvard Events and Information Office in the Holyoke...
...perspective: in my time here, the rampant issues have been randomization, the withering away of Radcliffe, the anti-sweatshop campaign and now the living wage. The year before I arrived, a rally to save the Phillips Brooks House Association drew many hundreds—the majestic photograph sits in PBH now, where, just as those people feared, the administration’s Assistant Dean for Public Service now has her office. The House Masters of the pre-randomization era have left; only a handful of people on the entire campus lived in the Houses in the time of reputation...
...TECH will eventually be the hub for technology and entrepreneurship, an umbrella organization like PBH," he said. "We want people to know what we're about...