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...brash, but also somewhat reticent. At first Griffin wants only to gush about the upstanding young van drivers he teaches at PBHA but eventually opens up about his other interests. He is a book collector and former engineer who has taught at Al-Hikma University in Baghdad. Griffin collects Celtic-language books and books on the Irish in America. Two years ago he donated 3,800 volumes on the Irish in America to the National Library in Ireland and was honored at a ceremony in Dublin...
...they need to be. With the floppy white hair and stream of self-deprecating and ridiculous humor, Steve Griffin seems like he would be a comforting person for a sick and scared child to look up at from a wheelchair. Or, for that matter, a scared-sick first-time van driver—because in Griffin’s eyes, the PBHA volunteers can do no wrong...
...Tierney nervously edges out of the parking lot, Griffin decides it is an opportune time to talk about a driver who got a van stuck in the ramp of a parking garage. Body work was required. Griffin turns the tables on Tierney and asks what she would do in a similar situation. The correct answer is she would never get herself into a similar situation...
...feigns secrecy regarding what he did before dealing books and training van drivers but he is actually forthcoming about his past pursuits. He claims some role in the invention of the first Westinghouse continuous-reading bore hole drift probe created—specialized equipment that keeps oil drills from straying too far from their marks...
Griffin is an institution at PBHA. He knows it, but he’s a little unclear as to how it got to be so many years. “It was just supposed to be a temporary van guy. Nothing as intensive as this,” he says. But he grew into the role and now feels responsible for his students. “I view myself as the adult, so to speak. I always have this image of myself on the witness stand—the attorney saying to me, ‘Did you know...