Word: roomful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Every Tuesday morning new Harvard employees follow handwritten signs through the corridors of Mem Hall to a secluded basement orientation room. There, anywhere from a handful to more than 40 people--mostly women--spend two hours guzzling coffee, watching a slide show about working for Harvard, and listening to a spiel on employees benefits. Dennis P. Nations, a counselor in the benefits section and a moderator of the orientation session, tells the group the fat information packets they are receiving will make great bedside reading...
...Most Harvard departments don't have rows upon rows of people working in the same room. You have an entity within a department. But we've got to come up with policies to counter the feeling of just being a cog," Cantor says. One of his policies was to give a Harvard chair to employees celebrating their 25th year at Harvard. About 100 people get that chair every year, Cantor says, adding, "It's a neat ceremony...
...perception of the personnel department's effectiveness can be used to measure morale, he says. The questionnaire culminated in an effort to make the department appear more accessible, Cantor says. "We got a report card of about a B," Cantor adds, emphasizing the personnel department has lots of room for improvement...
...dinner and dancing, traded stories about Vellucci. "He gets up at five in the morning and he drives around in his brown Chevy Chevette just to see who's sleeping on the job," one woman said. "I saw him on the way over here tonight, and there was no room in that car of his--he made all the salad himself and then carted it over," another reported...
...crowd, largely elderly, with Vellucci's East Cambridge Italian neighbors heavily represented, collected around Vellucci as he moved through the room. When he wandered off to another corner of the ballroom, they would explain why they turned out for his "thing" as these affairs are known in Cambridge political circles...