<div dir="ltr">Hello fellow Pumpkineers and other parties interested in the Glass Lab,<div>Here we are, not quite at the end of the summer and already we are less than five weeks away from the 8th Annual MIT Great Pumpkin Patch! </div>
<div>Last year's event was another amazingly successful one. In four hours we sold close to 1600 pumpkins, and by the end of the sale there were only about 20 items left. We even got someone to come and take away the 800 pound giant pumpkin I was afraid we might have to dismantle with a chain saw.</div>
<div>This year's event comes a bit earlier than the last couple (but later than the first one, which, you will recall, was the weekend after 9/11). This year the sale will be on Saturday, September 27th from 10 AM to 3 PM, and the opening is on Friday the 26th from 5 to 8 PM.</div>
<div>Once again, of course, I am getting in touch to round up volunteers for the event. As always, we will need people on friday to help transport pumpkins and wet up for the opening, and, especially, on saturday to help run the sale.</div>
<div>Below is a schedule of the event with volunteer needs:</div><div><br></div><div>Friday 8 AM - noon: transport pumpkins out of hiding into the light of day on Kresge Oval.</div><div>Friday noon - 5 PM: unwrap pumpkins, price pumpkins, put tape on price tags so they won't all come off in the morning dew.</div>
<div>Friday 5-8 PM: be at opening (this directed more at current students and monitors)</div><div>Friday 8 PM - Sat 6 AM: the overnight shift - guarding the pumpkins under the tent.</div><div>Saturday 6:30 - 9:30 AM: put pumpkins out on the oval, reconfigure tables into battle positions.</div>
<div>Saturday 10:00 AM- 3:00 PM: the sale (receipt writers, packers, matchers, pumpkin police squad, etc, etc)</div><div>Saturday 3:00 PM - 4 or 5 PM: cleanup.</div><div><br></div><div>I don't think I need to remind you that volunteers make this event possible, and this event makes the continued operations of the Glass Lab possible. We in the Glass Lab really, really appreciate the help of each and every volunteer who comes to help!!!</div>
<div>So please save some part of the weekend to come join (and help) us, and please, let me know by e-mail when you are available to help so that I may start to put together a list of volunteers. Thanks!</div><div>Looking forward to seeing you all again,</div>
<div>Peter</div><div>-- <br>Peter Houk<br>Director, Glass Lab<br>Department of Materials Science and Engineering<br>Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br>
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