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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leonard H. Tower Jr.)
Tue Sep 27 01:57:22 2005
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 01:57:09 -0400 (EDT)
From: tower@alum.mit.edu (Leonard H. Tower Jr.)
To: apo-printshop-journeyman@MIT.EDU
Reply-To: tower@alum.mit.edu
Apology for not including you all earlier:
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 00:29:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: Leonard H. Tower Jr. <tower@alum.MIT.EDU>
To: apo-mvp@MIT.EDU, apo-president@MIT.EDU, apo-printshop-manager@MIT.EDU
Subject: draft of Chapter skill: Letterpress Printing
Hi all,
Any suggestions or improvements to the following?
Liz:
Here is the email for apo-pledges about the Letterpress Shop.
I email it after people have a chance to comment.
Does press training counts as a service project against the pledge
requirements? Assuming the job is for APO, or an MIT organization.
(The Press is part of the Service Program.) If a training run is
personal, it isn't a service project. If yes, should I mention it?
There is a lot of grunt work that could be done in the Press Shop.
Service to Chapter kind of tasks. E.g. putting the type from old jobs
away. Does this meet any of the pledge requirements? If yes, should
I mention it?
thanx either way!
yiLFS -len
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Subject: Chapter skill: Letterpress Printing
Hi Pledges,
If you haven't yet, you might want to follow the yellow wall into the
depths of the back APOffice, and discover the Chapter's Letterpress
Shop. Learning to print in the Shop is a Chapter skill.
A few things about the Press Shop:
* If no one in front of the APOffice, close the door when you leave.
Even if there are brothers in the back APOffice.
Why? Both Chapter, brother's, and other's property have occasionally
been stolen out of the APOffice. If you are in the back of the
APOffice, it is almost impossible to see or hear people coming into
the front of the APOffice, especially if one is running the large
press.
* The Press is one of the Chapter's power tools, and is dangerous to
use without appropriate safety training.
* To be able to use the press by yourself, that is become a press
operator, you have to be:
* a brother of Alpha Chi
* have successfully completed both a training run and a qualifying
run, supervised by a brother qualified to train press operators.
Non-brothers, including pledges, who are judged competent to use the
press by a press trainer, can do so under the supervision of a press
operator, who takes responsibility for their being in the APOffice,
and their safe use of the press shop.
* If you are interested in learning to use the press, please email
apo-acl, or apo-printshop-manager to add you to the Athena mailing
list:
apo-printshop-wants-training
* If you like to be trained soon, please send me an e-mail. I'm one
of the brothers qualified to train others on the letterpress, and
have recently been doing most of the training runs.
We have these jobs available:
Jobs for the Chapter (Chapter pays for any of the Shop's paper used)
* Stationery for the Chapter. Both letterhead and envelopes.
* Thank You Cards for AX to use.
* Chapter Invites, e.g.
- Steak Fry
- SFF, Semi-Formal Formal
- Initiation and Installation Banquet
Jobs for the Shop (No charges. Any paper purchased charged to Press Fund)
* Labels showing contents of type cases that don't have them
* Pages for the APO Letterpress Shop Type Catalogue for faces that
don't' have them.
Jobs for yourself, or others at MIT, or non-profit groups. (There are
nominal fees charged to recover costs.)
* Stationery
* Posters
* Wedding and Anniversary Invitations
* etc.
A training run takes between 6 and 8 hours, and can be split into two
roughly equal sessions. It is possible to train two people in one
training run.
A qualifying run usually take 3 to 4 hours.
Plan to wear work clothes that you don't mind getting stained.
Printing ink is like paint - grungy and messy. Gloves and aprons are
available, but not 100% effective.
If you're interested, please reply to me with a few possible times,
and we can schedule a training session.
yiLFS -len MIT '71
PS: I was initiated into Alpha Chi in the Fall of '67. And help out
with the press as asked by the actives.
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