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Young employees wearing Walkmans in the office corridors. Colleagues asking your age, salary or even sexual preference. Drugs at the company picnic. What ever happened to manners in the executive suite? How does a person handle the new situations? Amid the social and economic tumult of the past 20 years, some of the signposts of business civility have been twisted around and others uprooted entirely. It is not surprising that many business people are impolite or confused, or both...
...Derek Bok has tried to help with every project I have brought to his door. We are working together on computer education in the Cambridge schools. We host a picnic in the Harvard Yard for 2000 senior citizens every summer. Harvard students volunteer their services in Cambridge neighborhoods I cooked a spaghetti dinner for the Harvard and Cambridge high school football teams. Harvard (thanks, Jack Reardon) put on a great cook out for 300 Cambridge high school athletes in return...
...only because that would ruin the nice picnic that we hold there every summer...
...women who go to the picnic in Harvard Yard (including Mrs. Vellucci) go away talking about how classy and how handsome that Derek Bok is. I don't want him to become such an involved citizen of Cambridge that he decides to run for City Council. At least not so long as I'm still a candidate...
Allyson A Gonzalez '85, who was at yesterday's picnic, said the group may be small but could succeed with the enthusiastic, interested" people presently involved...