[17524] in APO News
Re: Office clean-out
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Wadlow)
Mon Aug 5 12:50:44 2019
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2019 12:49:32 -0400
From: Stephen Wadlow <sgw@wadlow.net>
To: <yalezuss@aol.com>
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All good questions, none of which I have the answer to, but I'll toss
out another
question which could open options, if we're lucky:
Does the existing AX Chapter still have any financial assets that could
be used to
hire professional movers, or pay for storage of historical items?
-Steve
On 2019-08-05 12:15 pm, yalezuss@aol.com wrote:
> Hi Brothers,
>
> I plowed through all the correspondence on Saturday's clean-out
> activities and would like to ask whether there is a plan addressing
> various issues that came up in the correspondence a swell as others
> that have occurred to me:
>
> 1. Has AX's space in 415 been assigned to another group? If so, by
> what date do they expect to be able to occupy it? We should not
> expect
> much patience once that date arrives, and it seems possible, if not
> likely, that access to the room may be lost by canceling the access
> list, changing a combination, or even changing the key. Once that
> happens, it is likely that ASA or CAC admins will send in Physical
> Plant (or whatever it is called in 2019) to clean out AX's "stuff."
> What happens to it if they do?
>
> 2. Len appears to be under the impression that the Letter Press can
> remain where it is, along with at some subset of the tools, for
> another few months. Does AX or Len have permission for this? Is there
> a place to which the Press can be moved? Is there a plan for how to
> move it? I ask the last item because I participated in dragging the
> press into 415. At the time, there was a large number of young men to
> work on this; everyone who did so is now on Medicare and even working
> together we might not be physically able to move it.
>
> 3. What will happen to the various kinds of memorabilia? Small stuff
> may be simple, but how about the giant screw? The poster collection?
> Has anyone spoken with MIT archives about holding material of
> historical significance? I recall a query about the comic books; has
> that been addressed?
>
> 4. Will the other materials, tools, cabinets, dexion, etc. be given
> away? Do we have someone who will take/receive them? If not, what is
> the plan for storing them and for what purpose and for how long? If
> we
> don't give the stuff away or store it, is there a plan to dispose of
> it?
>
> 5. Do we have a plan for re-establishing the Chapter in a form that
> would make reclaiming any of these items both desirable and feasible?
> A return to 415 is probably not in the cards; is there, even
> potentially, another space that would permit reclaiming any of the
> various items now being inventoried?
>
> I'm sure there are other issues I haven't thought about. If there is
> a plan for addressing these issues, I suspect those who read these
> messages would like to hear it. If not, then maybe we should come up
> with one.
>
> YiLFS,
> Yale
