Moving

The movie below documents the move out of Harris Hall by the Department of History, International Program Development and the Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences IT group in early December, 2008. Moving out may seem like a minor aspect of a renovation project, but in fact a move of an entire, functioning educational unit takes an incredible amount of planning and preparation. Paula Blaskovitz, History's department assistant, and her colleagues get the credit for planning a virtually seamless move. Of course, we have to recognize Bill Owens and his team of skilled movers for providing boxes, moving tags, coordination assistance, and for the physical work of hauling all the contents out of the building, into trucks and to everyone's temporary offices. Everything (nearly 3,000 boxes and about 150 filled file cabients) had to be carried down the stairs from the upper floors or up the stairs from the lower level. There is no elevator in Harris Hall . . . yet.

There are two options for you to view the movie. You can watch the Vimeo hosted version below (low resolution) or download a higher resolution copy HERE (click "save file") and watch it on your computer (preferably in full screen mode). In any case, turn up the sound on your computer before starting the movie.



Moving from John Brzezinski on Vimeo.