A quarter-century, and still going strong
After 25 years on the job as a mailroom staff assistant, Roger Joujoute has become a guardian angel of the Harvard Kennedy School — and he has just the story to prove it. Back in the ’90s, when he worked on the second floor of the Littauer Building, Joujoute developed a system for signaling to busy mail carriers standing on the ground level. If the mailroom needed a package to be picked up, Joujoute would hold up a large sign reading “Yes.” If not, he’d hold up “No.” One day, however, a student came in and asked if he could have Joujoute’s “Yes” sign. At the start of the school year, the young man explained, he had been standing in the Littauer atrium, asking God for a sign that he’d made the right choice in coming to Harvard. “Sure enough, he was chatting with people, and he looked up,” Joujoute recalled. “That day,...