2024 Bartels Awards honor custodians' 'call to duty'
December 12, 2024
December 12, 2024
ITHACA, New York, Dec. 12 -- Cornell University issued the following news:
A student's bad week had just gotten worse: Her phone, she realized in a panic, had ended up in the washing machine. And folded in its case was a treasured letter from her father.
The student raced to Tina Fritts, a custodian in the university's Building Care Department, who was already a steady source of encouragement. Fritts pulled the machine's plug, prompting the water to drain. After being t . . .
A student's bad week had just gotten worse: Her phone, she realized in a panic, had ended up in the washing machine. And folded in its case was a treasured letter from her father.
The student raced to Tina Fritts, a custodian in the university's Building Care Department, who was already a steady source of encouragement. Fritts pulled the machine's plug, prompting the water to drain. After being t . . .