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Grain & Chaff
Laurels for Fournier
R. Marc Fournier, former assistant
director for Grounds Management at Physical Plant, will be honored
at a reception on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 3-6 p.m. on the 11th floor
of the Lincoln Campus Center.
Fournier left UMass this summer
to become executive director of WasteCap of Massachusetts, a private
non-profit organization founded in 1993 to promote and implement
recycling, waste reduction and the use of recycled materials within
the state's business community.
As part of the salute, a pin
oak tree located between the Isenberg School of Management and
the Fine Arts Center will be dedicated in Fournier's honor.
Author, author
History professor Leonard L.
Richards reads from his book "Shays's Rebellion: The American
Revolution's Final Battle" on Sept. 13 at 7 p.m. at the Odyssey
Bookshop in South Hadley. The book was published earlier this
year by the University of Pennsylvania Press.
Department of departments
Nobody actually moved anywhere,
but effective last Sunday, the departments of Hotel, Restaurant
and Travel Administration (HRTA) and Sport Studies came formally
under the aegis of the Isenberg School of Management. The two
departments, with about 400 undergraduate and graduate students
and around 30 full-time faculty, were formerly part of the College
of Food and Natural Resources.
Faces of labor
A new exhibit, "Bread Without
Roses: Massachusetts Workers and Their Families," was displayed
last weekend at the State House. The show featured large panels
with photographs by photojournalist Paul Shoul and quotations
based on interviews with workers across the commonwealth conducted
by Labor Studies professor Tom Juravich. Focusing on the struggles
of workers and their families in today's economy, the show featured
portraits of workers in very different kinds of work and communities:
nurses at Boston Medical Center; Guatemalan immigrants in fish
processing in New Bedford; customer service representatives at
Verizon's Andover facility; and displaced workers from Dalton's
closed Jones Beloit factory.
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