Title: Secret Societies Tradition
General Information About this Item:
- Tradition, workplace folklore
- Language: English
- Country of Origin: United States
- Informant: Informant #1
- Date Collected: 3/8/2018
Informant Data:
- The informant is a Facilities, Operations, and Management Engineering Services employee who is not originally from the Upper Valley region.
Contextual Data:
- This piece of folklore describes an unwritten practice of custodial employees called upon to address issues in the facilities of Dartmouth’s secret societies. The informant did not know the origin of this particular tradition.
Item:
- Facilities, Operations and Management employees sometimes enter the facilities of Dartmouth’s secret societies for maintenance and safety reasons. For those who do these jobs there’s an unwritten rule of respect – even when asked about them by their coworkers, the employees won’t reveal what they’ve seen.
Collector Comments:
The intersection of workplace folklore (this item) with student folklore (senior societies and associated traditions) is interesting. This trend can be observed in several other items of folklore collected for this project.
Collector’s Name: Jacob Cruger
Tags/Keywords:
- Traditions
- FO+M
