@ Work

with Erma Abram and James “Art” Moore

Erma Abram will celebrate her 40th year as an IU employee next month. Her office is in the Physical Plant, and she works for the Purchasing Department. What’s the biggest change she’s seen during her years at the university? Technology, of course. She remembers the days before she transacted purchasing business on computer, tapping on an electric typewriter and filling large filing cabinets full of paperwork. Enter the microchip. In her spare time, she enjoys attending IU men’s basketball games and has had season tickets since Bloomington’s Assembly Hall was built. (Assembly Hall opened in 1972, and Abram is among the more than six million fans who have attended Indiana men’s basketball games since then).

Photo by Paul Martens

James “Art” Moore began working for IU when he was 15 years old, as a bell hop. Next month, he celebrates his 40th year as an employee on the Bloomington campus. As a plasterer and mason for Residential Programs and Services, Moore helps maintain the infrastructure of the campus’ residential halls with his craftsmanship. Moore is pictured working in the kitchen of McNutt Quadrangle.

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