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...Pertile gives intricate multi-lingual speeches at House dinners praising the House and its residents. House Master teas feature homemade English scones by House Master Anna Bensted in addition to Pertile's fascinating stories. Allston Burr Resident Dean Michael R. Canfield used the Eliot woodshop to make the cribs for his twins. Oh, and there's the ghost of Charles Eliot, who is said to help any student with p-sets if asked nicely. We're not quite sure, though, whether he knows multivariable calculus...
...will live in Mather House next year which houses its own woodshop. Oppenheimer says she is grateful that it saves her from midnight commutes from the Yard to the shop...
Walter Stanul—“Woodshop Walter” to VESers in the know—started his affair with sharp objects at a young age. “In Cub Scouts I learned how to sharpen a knife,” he says. “I’ll never forget the thrill of getting a razor sharp tool.” He used his first chisel as a child in the garage of his rural Florida home. Now the official Woodshop Coordinator for the VES department, Stanulcompares working with a table...
Although “Woodshop Walter” has only been at Harvard for seven months, he has been a Cambridge local for quite a while. “I was a street musician in 1979 in Harvard Square,” said Stanul, an accomplished, self-taught classical guitarist and luthier (one who makes stringed instruments...
Known for his eccentricity and metaphors, he compares wood-working to Japanese tea ceremonies and a good workbench to the Rock of Gibraltar. “Woodshop Walter” is, in the eyes of students Katharine A. Woodman-Maynard ’08 and Luz I. Gonzalez ’05, like a “jolly grandfather...