Hawaiian-shirt wearers last Friday were, back row from left, Shashank Surresh, Annie Temmink, Kin Lau, Alyndria Thompson, Leland Taylor and Davidson professor Malcolm Campbell. Front, from left, Landy Godbold, Kathy Gabrick, Shamita Punjabi, Olivia Ho-Shing, Davidson professor Laurie Heyer, Romina Clemente and Mark Trawick. (David Boraks photo)
It’s pretty quiet this summer on the Davidson College campus, but if you ventu
re inside the science buildings, you’ll find dozens of students in summer programs. In one laboratory in Dana Hall, summer lab assistants are working with biologist Malcolm Campbell and math professor Laurie Heyer on a project to design and build bacteria to solve math problems. They’ll take their work to an international Genetically Engineered Machines (GEM) competition this fall. The lab group has developed a weekly tradition: Wearing Hawaiian shirts on Fridays.
Very glad to see that the tradition is catching on. And even though some of us work outside town, we’re following it, too!
Unfortunately, there’s still the ‘great unwashed’ factor to deal with–last week I had someone in my office come up to me and ask “if today was ugly shirt day…”. And it wasn’t even an ugly Hawaiian shirt!!!
Aloha and Mahalo!
There are two kinds of people in the world… those who wear Hawaiian shirts on Fridays, and those who are jealous of a nice Hawaiian shirt. I suspect your workmate secretly wanted a shirt of his or her own.