Word: porter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some of this information came from the House Executive Expenditures subcommittee, headed by Virginia Democrat Porter Hardy Jr., which made an on-the-scene investigation in Morocco; other testimony came from civilian engineers and from Air Force men. All of it seemed to point a finger of blame at the Army Corps of Engineers, which commissioned private firms to build the bases...
...delighted. Connie's father, a thin, patient man, had toiled as a West Virginia coal miner for 38 years, and then, seeking opportunity, had moved the family to the noisy streets of The Bronx. All he had found were part-time jobs as a porter and sexton. In Mrs. Charlton's mind, soldiering would be a fine career. When Connie finished his freshman year in high school and enlisted in the Army, his mother kissed him goodbye as she had kissed his three brothers who served in World War II, and a fourth who enlisted after...
...there is a larger question which the Council committee ignored: should student portering be limited to the Yard? Perhaps, with the current emphasis on the Houses, it might be better to arrange the program along House and Yard lines. And what should be done if the applications for porter jobs over flow the amount of work available in the Yard? The College must consider all these problems before accepting the Council's proposal, and the fact that the Council committee failed to include them seriously lessens the worth of its recommendation...
...third specific proposal suggests more "equitable" distribution of work for student porters, and less severe duties for the porter captains. Overloading the captains was never mentioned in the report, nor did the committee define "equitably." However, this proposal was valid enough to be accepted almost immediately by Arthur D. Trottenberg, who is in charge of the porter program...
Except for the general recommendations that the porter system be continued in the University and also at Harkness Commons, the remaining conclusions are but pious hopes that urge the College to explain duties to the porters, raise efficiency, reduce the feeling of social stigma, inspire high morale, and proceed with caution...