Word: reunion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...largest and most lucrative contracts related to Commencement and reunion activities is held by Interstate Rental Service Inc. of Boston, a special event services company...
This contract, like others relating to reunion activities, has been held by only a handful of companies over the last quarter of a century. According to one Interstate worker, who spoke on condition of anonymity, Harvard has been hiring Interstate for more than 20 consecutive years...
...Robert L. Dwyer, a buyer in Harvard's purchasing office, says the University "realistically renegotiates" its contracts with its reunion companies each year and that new contracts are considered annually. "We keep an eye on the market," Dwyer says...
Many local caterers serve the same reunion functions each year. In these cases, competition appears to be stiffer, at least in part because alumni, and not the University, hire caterers and often are not as locked in to the same contractors...
...pretty well in getting good companies because they want our business because of our volume," says Briefer, who organizes the 25th reunion. "Caterers, for example, want to be exposed to people like Harvard alumni...