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[Peter Houk]

Hello volunteers and Glass Lab staff,

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.

Here is the promised, more detailed bulletin about the upcoming MIT Great
Glass Pumpkin Patch.

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 *Saturday, September 23rd from 10AM to 3PM.* As in the past,
the in-person pumpkin patch will have a preview opening on *Friday,
September 22nd, from 5-8PM. There are no sales at the preview,*

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.



*New volunteers*: here is a short description of the main and most
critical jobs:



*Wrappers – *work in teams 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!



*Callers/Receipt Writers - *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.



*Runners - *Take wrapped orders to the pick-up table.



*Matchers *– Compare customer paid invoice with invoice on order and make
sure that pumpkins are going home with the correct customer.



*Line monitors - *make sure people are standing in the correct line, gather
contact info for customers who would like to be added to the mailing list.



*Friday Overnight Pumpkin Protection Patrol* – guard pumpkins under tent
and answer questions posed by random visitors. Two shifts: 8PM-1AM and
1AM-6AM. This is an important job!



*IMPORTANT: be prepared to stay through the major sale push* - 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.

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.



*A note about volunteer shopping: *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. *We will stop
allowing volunteers to set aside pumpkins at 8:30AM. After that time no
pre-shopping will be allowed. *We do this because customers waiting in line
become agitated when they witness pumpkins being taken out of the sale
before the sale starts.



I will send out one more informational message before the sale to
confirmed volunteers.

Thanks again for volunteering to help us with this fundraiser for the Glass
Lab. It keeps us alive!

Looking forward to seeing you all soon.

Please don't hesitate to ask me any questions, and thanks very much for
volunteering to help the MIT Glass Lab.

Peter





On Wed, Aug 23, 2023 at 9:41 AM Peter Houk <pbhouk at gmail.com> wrote:

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