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Seniors et al: pay your debts OPPS! Distribute your type!!!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leonard H Tower Jr.)
Fri May 27 15:57:37 2011
Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 15:57:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Leonard H Tower Jr." <tower@alum.mit.edu>
To: apo-printshop@mit.edu
cc: apo-president@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <201101311803.p0VI3HAI001181@geskekelud.mit.edu>
Hi Press-ops who have completed their degree requirements
(worth the read, by everyone on the list)
First, congratulations on your impending graduation!!!!!
Second, please check the galleys, by the window in the Press Shop, and
if any of the typeset blocks there were set by you, please either:
* distribute the type, leads, etc. back to the cases.
* if you feel the block will be used again in the future,
put away an equivalent (or greater) amount of type - the same
number of characters.
The blocks that need distribution have blue tags inserted,
with something like "Please distribute - Len" scribbled on the tag.
Ideally, this would always be done each time a job is done.
This is particularly important if you will be leaving town.
Third, if all the type you set has been distributed, and you have some
time on your hands before commencement next Friday, please distribute
some of the needs-to-be-distributed type.
Fourth, the Treasurer would also appreciate you paying your debts. ; - }
Fifth, ...
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 13:03:17 -0500
From: Kate Mahoney <kate_mahoney@alum.MIT.EDU>
To: tower@alum.MIT.EDU
Cc: oremanj@mit.edu, kkuhn@mit.edu, apo-printshop@mit.edu, wings@mit.edu,
apo-president@mit.edu
Subject: Re: idea to help journeymen with training
Is there any help a regular (non-journeyman) press op who lives off
campus and doesn't get there a lot because she has a 1 year old can be?
Kate
... this email, and several others from me this term, were inspired by
this email's of Kate.
So far, they have been of the nature of:
Please do what responsible use of the press requires (Second Law
stuff for those of you trained by me in the last 7+ years).
E.g. Check the floor after a job, and leave it clean.
Sixth, though putting away set type of others, including brothers who
have left town, is the most important extra effort you can make for
the shop, there are other shop improvements that might be done. If
you're interested talk with me.
Seventh, since I took over from Alan as lead journeyman, in Jan 2004,
I have put away a dozen galleys of type. A 100+ blocks of type. NOT
ONE SET BY ME. It's saved a lot of you the extra time to search the
galleys. Or if you didn't remember to do that, spend extra time
resetting the job.
In that time, about another three+ galleys of needs-to-be-distributed
set type has accumulated.
I really prefer to put my time for the shop into improving it, and
training and qualifying people, NOT DISTRIBUTING other press op's
jobs.
Eighth, This, attributed to William Penn and others, is worth the
read, by anyone who does service, not just press ops.
I expect to pass this way but once.
Any good thing, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show
to any fellow human being let me do it now.
Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way
again.
Thanks.
yiLFS -len
