Word: wendorf
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spell R-E-B-O-U-N-D. Three years ago, the company was closing stores and slashing its work force. On a single day last month, 10 new Sears stores opened, including this glistening emporium anchoring the Marley Station mall in suburban Baltimore, Maryland. Store manager Leslie Wendorf, 43, who has worked at Sears for nearly two-thirds of her life, still can't get over "how much fun I am having" at a job that once bored her. Rick Demert, who manages the appliances-and-electronics department in Glen Burnie, was leery about joining the company...
When the new 139,000-sq.-ft. store opened, shoppers wondered if they'd wandered into the wrong place. Visitors are struck by racks of sequined evening gowns, stylish suits and hip outfits for teens. "People look confused when they come in for the first time," says Wendorf. Tammy Ray, 31, wasn't confused but pleasantly surprised as she studied the huge jewelry case. "My grandmother told me it was nice," said Ray. Susan Brenton, 41, shopping for her 13-year-old daughter, said, "I'd have never thought to buy her pants at Sears. But recently she got herself...
Such consumer epiphanies have been keeping Glen Burnie managers smiling. The sales plan calls for store revenue to reach $7.2 million this month. Wendorf is confident they will exceed...
While at Harvard, Wendorf also served as a senior lecturer on the fine arts and as acting librarian of the Fine Arts Library...
...Wendorf said he hopes to oversee the completion of renovations on Houghton's reading room and the addition of Houghton's card catalog to the Hollis computer database before he leaves Harvard...