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Friday:
Students of Arch372/LA338 gave presentations to the neighborhood residents during
the lunch hour.The students presented a variety of alternatives of elderly housings
for the Alta Sita neighborhood and received feedback on their projects.
Friday:
Worked at BoC, scoping out the landscape work with Jennifer Savulsky, LArch,
so Jenny could supervise the site. Over lunch participated in the resident reviews
of the class schemes. Afternoon, worked with crew at BoC - cleaned up existing
landscape plantings and worked to replace existing grassed area with new plantings.
Took Dean Conlin around Alta Sita to show her Jeff Poss's summer class pavilion
in Virginia Park and the Virginia Place mini-park as well as the Arch372/LA338
project sites.
Saturday: Completed the landscape work at BoC then headed for Virginia Park. Did extensive clean-up of glass and other garbage around the picnic and playground areas. Enjoyed watching championship basketball - or at least that's what Bob Selby told me it was.
Friday: Worked with Cece Merckel, Nidhi Tomar, and Jamie at EPDC's YouthBuild computer lab. Installed (and did trouble-shooting) software requested by James Joneson 15 computers: Microsoft Word and Excel, and an Apprenticeship Training program.
Saturday: Worked with Nidhi Tomar on fixing three computers donated to the Bride of Christ Church. These computers had various problems that caused them to not work. We were successful with two, and brought the third back to campus for fixing. Nidhi, Colleen, and Elliot took the two and set them up at Bride of Christ (one donated monitor does not work).
Worked with Nidhi Tomar on expanding the NTAC network. Connected Kathy Andria's computer to the network, installed Internet access, and server-based software. Also installed a scanner on her computer.
Friday:
Photographed at BOC (Alta Sita). Brian and Dean Conlin working with students
planting trees and rose bushes. Photographed Farmers Marke, Mike and Craig with
students. Gave the Dean a tour of Don Johnson's subdivision under construction
in South End. There was lots of construction activity and the Dean seemed impressed.
Helped Brian dig holes for trees and bushes. Enjoyed dinner at Helen's. She
seemed to close the whole place down to serve us exclusively.
Saturday: Held planning meeting w/ faculty, staff, students. Distributed leaflets and conducted resident surveys in Golden Gardens for GG, Inc. Worked with GGI President Roosevelt Kincaid, his brother and one other officer in GGI. I took originals of 3 documents and got them copied at Office Max in Fairview Heights. (I also noted a Kinko's there, FYI). Returned and formed 3-2 person teams: 1) Doug Layne and Marcus Cross of NOMAS, 2) Beth Lindahl with Joe Signorelli, and 3) Grace Kim and I with Earl, one of the GGI officers. We finished at lunch time. Mr. Kincaid seemed impressed that NTAC could provide this kind of help. He felt we accomplished a lot this morning.
After lunch joined Brian, Vicki, and students (my car included Doug, Marcus, and Grace) to clean up glass from Virginia Park in Alta Sita. Doug and I joined a pick-up 3 on 3 half court basketball game-bonded with the neighbors.
Both days went well from my perspective. Good prep, clear handouts, directions, maps, contact persons and helpers in place.
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Last modified: 23 April, 2000 Nidhi Tomar.
