The dining hall artist
Last December, when Saybrook dining hall manager John Morris was setting up for a holiday dinner, he knew immediately which of his employees could turn a simple arrangement of tables and decorations into a work of art: Pamela Dear.
Quiet and modest, Dear brings an artistic eye to her work as pantry worker and desk attendant in Saybrook dining hall, where she has been employed since 2005. Students and co-workers agree that she is a gentle woman who is always around to give a helping hand. She is, Morris said, simply a “pure, good person.”
Between arranging food and swiping...
too bad SY has the worst dining hall at yale.
Somebody's never been to Morse or Stiles.
Clearly you've never been to Morse or Stiles.
i think SY dining hall is great
THIS ARTICLE IS NOT ABOUT THE QUALITY OF THE DINING HALL. IT IS ABOUT A WOMAN AND HER ART. So quitcherbitchin' and have some semblance of respect. Can't you dissociate her from being a dining hall worker and see her as the artist she is?
Now there's a Town/Gown idea: A rotating yart show in yale's cafeterias for rtown artists employed at Yale in cvpacities other than "art---including professors. Your article is a dignified acknowledgement of the all too often invisioble "workers" at Yale. Bravo! Brava!