From pbhouk at gmail.com  Thu Aug  1 09:30:19 2019
From: pbhouk at gmail.com (Peter Houk)
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2019 09:30:19 -0400
Subject: [Glass-mit] pop-up cleanup this Sunday
Message-ID: <CAH1FpkprSrS_NN=1mPXxW--waFqGNBmP0KiGbkS-3V+KJqFc2A@mail.gmail.com>

Hello labbers,
It's short notice, I know, but given that the Sunday crew has been
cancelled I'd like to organize a lab cleanup for Sunday. The focus of this
cleanup will be cleaning surfaces and general tidying up. We'll save stuff
like cleaning out glory holes and pipe warmers/chillers for a more
comprehensive cleanup in the fall.
My thought was to start at 10AM and aim to be done by 12:30 so people could
do other things with their day. Please let me know if you can make it. If
later afternoon/evening works better, please let me know that also because
I may decide to shift the time if that works better for more people.
Thanks,
Peter


-- 
Peter Houk
Artistic Director, MIT Glass Lab
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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From pbhouk at gmail.com  Fri Aug 16 16:37:31 2019
From: pbhouk at gmail.com (Peter Houk)
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2019 16:37:31 -0400
Subject: [Glass-mit] This is the MIT Pumpkin Patch email
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You knew it was coming. Here it is: the getting-toward-end-of-summer call
for volunteers for the 19th annual *MIT Great Glass Pumpkin Patch*!

The sale this year will be in Kresge Oval the last Saturday in
September, *Saturday,
September 28th from 10AM to 3PM. *As always, the preview opening will be on
Friday, September 27th from 5-8PM, and the rain date (!please, no!) Sunday,
September 29th.
If you are a returning volunteer, we'd love to have you back. If you know
you're coming, please let me know what job preference you have and I will
pre-assign you. If you don't care what job you get handed, great, let me
know that too. If you have never volunteered but would like to and have
questions about what sorts of jobs we need filled on Friday and Saturday,
please don't hesitate to ask me.
Basically, we can use help Friday morning starting around 7:30AM
transporting pumpkins from closets to Kresge Oval, then unwrapping them and
putting them on tables. This always takes a few hours and we try to do it
as fast as possible so the pricers have time to do their thing.
Then we need overnight help guarding the pumpkins. There's a Friday 8PM-1AM
shift and the early Saturday 1AM-6AM shift. I will arrive at 6AM on
Saturday, hand you a gold medal, and relieve you as we start getting the
tent ready.
Starting at 6AM Saturday, we will get all the pumpkins out from under the
tent and onto the grass (more likely, straw) of the Oval, and configure the
tent for selling. We can use lots of early AM volunteers.
The big push is the sale itself. We need lots of volunteers to wrap, pack,
sell pumpkins, etc. until at least 12:00 noon. Things typically begin to
slow down a bit after noon.
The next and final push is cleanup, starting at 3. It's great when we have
a lot of volunteers for this part, because we're all exhausted by then.
Remember: if you are a volunteer and plan to shop at the sale also, you
MUST arrive by 8AM (so there is time to shop and also help) at the latest,
and you MUST stay until at least 12:00 noon.

That's it in a nutshell. I'll send out more info in a couple more weeks.
Please let me know if you will volunteer, as this is the time I will start
filling out my volunteer roster.
And thanks ever so much for being a part of keeping the MIT Glass Lab
running strong!

Peter

-- 
Peter Houk
Artistic Director, MIT Glass Lab
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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