Here's to you Dordt Maintenance!

Today the lock on my office door broke. A gust of wind slammed my open door shut and 3 of 4 screws holding on my lock came out. Fortunately, a maintenance man was able to come with new screws and put my lock back on. Unfortunately, an internal piece was positioned incorrectly when he secured the lock into place. Even more unfortunately, I didn't discover this until I left my office and locked the door. When I returned at 5pm I discovered that I could only lock my door from the outside but not unlock it. By this time the maintenance workers had all gone home and would not come until the morning. Not a problem except my wallet and apartment keys were inside, and I had students coming Friday morning for thier midterm conversation tests.

So what did I do? I did exactly what the son of a dordt maintenance man should do; I grabbed 2 screwdrivers, hunted down a ladder, broke into my second floor office through the window, and reassembled the lock correctly.

What's my point? I'm simply trying to highlight the fact that the Dordt maintenance crew could possibly be one of the top crews in the entire world. Dordt maintenance would have been there at 10pm to help a professor get into thier office (but they also would've assembled the lock correctly the first time).

Here's to you Dad, Arnie, Paul, Phil, Vern, Lyle, Stan x2, Doug x2, Lee, Cindy, Kevin, Duane, Brian x2, Carol, Jeanne, Judy, Eldon, and Wilma! Keep up the amazing work!