Rogat+-+Memo+-+Describing+People

Michelle Rogat

Describing People


 * I have this theory that people in my field feel they have a higher calling to help better society, that they feel they must make a difference, they must be resilient and persevering in some ways, or something alike. ** They must share a personality or character trait. **I picked looking at the environmental professionals or "champions" on projects as my version of Schendler's "Donnie's of the world". I will have to be careful not to paint someone in a box or label them so as to stereotype or describe them in a misleading way, but stay true to who they really are.
 * Joellen Lampman showed me a possible character trait that might be shared among environmental sustainability professionals and it is the ambition to help improve and make a difference in the world, almost as though it could be described as a higher calling because she chose to work at Cornell over another job option because it was where she could be most productive in making a difference that nobody else could.
 * the members of this country club - will gain more information after reading Sherwood and after conducting interviews with members
 * have a deep history in the region, one member's father was an assemblyman, another was the wife to the first and long lasting lumber company,... point is that the members not only have the club community that they are invested in, but are also invested in the region and the region's economy and people as well.
 * some of the members have children that are employed at the club, which is against policy rules, but happens to work out really well none-the-less because their children get to understand the responsibility of a job, while still be really close to the family, and it makes the club as a whole more close knit because the members do actually tend to care about the employees working there, especially when their child is working alongside them and becomes friends with them.