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    Tuesday, April 30, 2024

    Sea of seating

    Custodian Angelo Urena works to align folding chairs Thursday, May 16, 2019, on Connecticut College's Tempel Green in preparation for Sunday's commencement exercises. The school rents 4,500 chairs for the event, and the custodians must take them down, fold them and have them on pallets to be picked up two hours after the ceremony concludes. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)
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    New London — Custodians at Connecticut College were aligning folding chairs Thursday on the college's Tempel Green in preparation for Sunday's commencement exercises.

    The school rents 4,500 chairs for the event, and the custodians must take them down, fold them and have them on pallets to be picked up two hours after the ceremony concludes.

    Custodians at Connecticut College, from left, Arthur Perry, Vladimir Vangjeli and Nelson Donastorg, align folding chairs Thursday, May 16, 2019, on the college's Tempel Green in preparation for Sunday's commencement exercises. The school rents 4,500 chairs for the event, and the custodians must take them down, fold them and have them on pallets to be picked up two hours after the ceremony concludes. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)
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    Custodians at Connecticut College, from left, Alex McQueen, Angelo Urena, Vladimir Vangjeli, Arthur Perry and Nelson Donastorg align folding chairs Thursday, May 16, 2019, on the college's Tempel Green in preparation for Sunday's commencement exercises. The school rents 4,500 chairs for the event, and the custodians must take them down, fold them and have them on pallets to be picked up two hours after the ceremony concludes. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)
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