Chapter 17: A Brief History of Office Space Occupied
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Dr. Elting begins this funny chapter by announcing that she has “done some homework.” She goes on to explain that she has had twenty-four different offices at MD Anderson, two of them in buildings that were ultimately imploded. She notes that the fact that she was asked to relocate before the implosion, and jokingly adds that she sees this as proof that the institution values her work.
Identifier
EltingL_04_20150423_C17
Publication Date
4-23-2015
City
Houston, Texas
Interview Session
Linda S. Elting, DrPh, Oral History Interview, April 23, 2015
Topics Covered
The Interview Subject's Story - Personal Background; Personal Background; Funny Stories; MD Anderson History
Transcript
Tacey A. Rosolowski, PhD:
So you were going to say you did some homework for our meeting today.
Linda S. Elting, DrPh:
I did homework. I calculated, and it took me a while, the number of offices that I have had in almost forty years at MD Anderson. And it's twenty-four.
Tacey A. Rosolowski, PhD:
Twenty-four offices.
Linda S. Elting, DrPh:
Twenty-four offices, which means twenty-three moves. (laughter) I've been in many buildings. Two of the buildings have been imploded and no longer exist.
Tacey A. Rosolowski, PhD:
I know one was the Prudential Building or the Main Building.
Linda S. Elting, DrPh:
One was the Old Main, Prudential Building. The other one was a building that used to stand across the street here, the Center Pavilion Hospital.
Tacey A. Rosolowski, PhD:
Oh.
Linda S. Elting, DrPh:
Both of those buildings were imploded, and in both cases they notified us beforehand and we were not in the building. (laughter)
Tacey A. Rosolowski, PhD:
And you considered that a real vote of confidence in your work.
Linda S. Elting, DrPh:
I take that as a measure of the value the institution places in my work.
Tacey A. Rosolowski, PhD:
(laughter) Hey, you take it where you can find it.
Linda S. Elting, DrPh:
That's right, that's right.
Tacey A. Rosolowski, PhD:
You totally do.
Linda S. Elting, DrPh:
It's not all that available around here. So I try to view things in a positive way.
Tacey A. Rosolowski, PhD:
There we go, there we go. So what other homework did you do? Did you think of some subjects that you wanted to cover?
Linda S. Elting, DrPh:
I don't think so. My first parking place at MD Anderson was right about where we're now sitting. This was the remote parking for MD Anderson.
Tacey A. Rosolowski, PhD:
And I have to say we are in Pickens Academic Tower on the ninth floor. Now literally was the parking this high? Or was itit was a surface lot.
Linda S. Elting, DrPh:
No, no, it was surface parking, and it was actually a little closer to Holcombe than we are right now. It was closer. But this was the remote parking when I first came to MD Anderson.
Tacey A. Rosolowski, PhD:
Isn't it staggering? That's staggering how much the institution has grown, really. Wow, wow.
Linda S. Elting, DrPh:
Yes. So that's my two bits of trivia for the day.
Tacey A. Rosolowski, PhD:
OK. Those are good bits of trivia. They really are good bits of trivia. I'm actually planning on putting together a matchup game with fun facts about people and guess who, which one of our interview subjects, has that. So it could be who has had twenty-four offices, two of them in imploded buildings.
Linda S. Elting, DrPh:
Well, I suspect there are people who have had more offices than I've had. But not many. (laughter)
Tacey A. Rosolowski, PhD:
I'm amazed you got any work done with all those moves. That can be such a pain in the neck. All right.
Recommended Citation
Elting, Linda E. DPh and Rosolowski, Tacey A. PhD, "Chapter 17: A Brief History of Office Space Occupied" (2015). Interview Chapters. 721.
https://openworks.mdanderson.org/mchv_interviewchapters/721
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