<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Hello volunteers and Glass Lab staff,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Greetings! I hope you are all enjoying the last moments of summer.
We’re starting to see returning students at school, so I know it’s only going
to be a few days before the flood gates open.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Here is the promised, more detailed bulletin about the
upcoming MIT Great Glass Pumpkin Patch. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Like last year, we are going to have two simultaneous pumpkin sales
this fall, one online and the other in-person on Kresge Oval. The day of both
sales will be <b>Saturday, September 23<sup>rd</sup> from 10AM to 3PM.</b>
As in the past, the in-person pumpkin patch will have a preview
opening on <b>Friday, September 22<sup>nd</sup>, from 5-8PM. There are no
sales at the preview,</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Returning volunteers, you will all have a sense of
what jobs are available. It’s helpful to me to sign up as many people
as possible in advance of the sale, so if you know there’s a job you wold like
to do, please let me know and I’ll add you to the roster.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">New volunteers</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">: here is a short description of the
main and most critical jobs:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Wrappers – </span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">work in teams<b> </b></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">wrapping
pumpkins in tissue and bubble wrap and pack in bags/boxes (there will be
an on-the-job training demo). We need MANY wrappers!</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Callers/Receipt Writers - </span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">2
people per team work together, one calling out prices and the other writing
receipts and generating invoice/receipts. We usually need at least 8 each of
these.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Runners - </span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Take
wrapped orders to the pick-up table.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Matchers
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">– Compare customer paid invoice with invoice on order and
make sure that pumpkins are going home with the correct customer. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Line monitors - </span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">make
sure people are standing in the correct line, gather contact info for customers
who would like to be added to the mailing list.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Friday
Overnight Pumpkin Protection Patrol</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> – guard pumpkins under tent and
answer questions posed by random visitors. Two shifts: 8PM-1AM and 1AM-6AM. This
is an important job!</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">IMPORTANT: be prepared to stay
through the major sale push</span></i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> - until at least 11:30AM. It's
very difficult to have volunteers - especially those working under
the tent - leave in the middle of the rush.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">If you have not volunteered at the sale before, don't worry,
we'll give you a job that suits your desires/abilities on site. You will have
fun.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">A note about volunteer shopping: </span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">ALL volunteers should
be prepared to show up well before 8:00AM if you want to pre-shop and pick out
any pumpkins to buy at the end of the sale. <b>We will stop
allowing volunteers to set aside pumpkins at 8:30AM. After that time
no pre-shopping will be allowed. </b>We do this because customers waiting
in line become agitated when they witness pumpkins being taken out of the sale
before the sale starts.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">I will send out one more informational message before the
sale to confirmed volunteers.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Thanks again for volunteering to help us with this
fundraiser for the Glass Lab. It keeps us alive!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Looking forward to seeing you all soon.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Please don't hesitate to ask me any questions, and thanks
very much for volunteering to help the MIT Glass Lab.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt"><font color="#888888" face="Times New Roman, serif">Peter</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(136,136,136)"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Aug 23, 2023 at 9:41 AM Peter Houk <<a href="mailto:pbhouk@gmail.com">pbhouk@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br clear="all"><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Peter Houk<br>Artistic Director, MIT Glass Lab<br>Department of Materials Science and Engineering<br>Massachusetts Institute of Technology</div></div></div></div>
</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Peter Houk<br>Artistic Director, MIT Glass Lab<br>Department of Materials Science and Engineering<br>Massachusetts Institute of Technology</div></div></div>