David Sommers

 

Dining, Custodial Services

 

21 years

 

Food Service: Tower Court, Munger, Stone-Davis Custodian: Chapel, Botanic Gardens / Greenhouses

 

Dog sitter, camp counselor, paper route, Print Shop, Custodian-Health Club, Clock Factory, restaurants, babysitting.

 

First three years in Louisville, Kentucky.
Now Needham, MA.

 

The first time I came to Wellesley was when I was four. My father brought me to the Hunnewell Italian garden to bird-watch. I remembered the strange trees, blue lake, and giant lion statues. For years, I believed it was a dream. Later in life when I found my way back, the lions had shrunk, the rest was real.

 

I hadn't planned on working at Wellesley College; I really didn't even try. This guy, Mike, was a member of the health club where I worked. He was always at me to get a job here - I think he worked in the Science Center. I had just gone to California to ride my bicycle down the coast. I was only gone two and a half months, but when I returned I no longer had a job.

I frequented Green Beach as it was a hopping place in the 1980s. I showed up one day and there was Mike! He knew I didn't have a job. The first thing he said was, "Now you can get a job here!" I resisted and told him he could show me which building to go to if I decided to get a job at Wellesley in the future. He walked me over into a building, then into an office and said to a woman sitting there, "This guy wants a job!" I've been here since that day. I don't know what happened to Mike; I never saw him again.