{"id":372,"date":"2020-10-05T02:49:59","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T02:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/50th-anniversary\/?p=372"},"modified":"2020-10-05T03:37:17","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T03:37:17","slug":"what-i-learned-from-fellow-hampshire-alum-rosemary-quinn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/50th-anniversary\/2020\/10\/05\/what-i-learned-from-fellow-hampshire-alum-rosemary-quinn\/","title":{"rendered":"Davis Bates, 73F: What I learned from Rosemary Quinn"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>What I learned from fellow Hampshire Alum Rosemary Quinn<\/p>\n<p>I first met Rosemary Quinn when I was taking Jim Koplin\u2019s Intellectuals &amp; Social Change class in<br \/>\nthe spring of 1974. She was one of two Div III students co-teaching the class. She was also an<br \/>\nactor, and we talked about political theater quite a bit during that semester.<br \/>\nAfter she graduated from Hampshire ,Rosemary lived in the area and worked on different<br \/>\ntheater projects and waited tables at among other places, Miss Flo\u2019s Diner in Florence. She<br \/>\neven filled in on short notice for an actor who came down with a 48-hour stomach bug, an actor<br \/>\nin the cast of a play I was in at Hampshire, Caucasian Chalk Circle, directed by Andy Shea. With<br \/>\na day\u2019s notice, she studied the script, had one blocking rehearsal, and saved our bacon by doing<br \/>\nthe play that night with script in hand. Amazing.<\/p>\n<p>Lucky for me, Rosemary agreed to be on my Div II committee. I learned a lot from her during<br \/>\nthat time, and after. She introduced me to the singing of Ewan MacColl &amp; Peggy Seeger, shared<br \/>\nsome physical and vocal exercises, and more. However, the most important thing I learned<br \/>\nfrom Rosemary had nothing to do with theater. Early during my Div II process I met her for<br \/>\nbreakfast in Northampton. I told her that since she was doing me the favor of being on my<br \/>\ncommittee I would pay for breakfast. When it came time to pay the bill, Rosemary asked me<br \/>\nhow much I was leaving for a tip. My dad, who was fairly conservative, had taught me to leave<br \/>\n10 %, so that\u2019s what I said.<\/p>\n<p>Rosemary explained to me very clearly, but quite kindly given the circumstances, why I should<br \/>\nnever leave less than 20%. How little the wait staff made per hour without tips, how the tip<br \/>\nwas often shared with the dishwashers and other kitchen staff (I later became a dishwasher<br \/>\nmyself and learned this was true.) How important it was to understand that restaurants can<br \/>\nhave bad days, and to not punish the staff if I was dissatisfied with the result. She taught me<br \/>\nthat day to never to leave less than a 20% tip. And I never have.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, Rosemary. For that, and so much more.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What I learned from fellow Hampshire Alum Rosemary Quinn I first met Rosemary Quinn when I was taking Jim Koplin\u2019s Intellectuals &amp; Social Change class in the spring of 1974. She was one of two Div III students co-teaching the class. She was also an actor, and we talked about political theater quite a bit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1496,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/50th-anniversary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/50th-anniversary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/50th-anniversary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/50th-anniversary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1496"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/50th-anniversary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/50th-anniversary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":387,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/50th-anniversary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions\/387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/50th-anniversary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/50th-anniversary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/50th-anniversary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}