Published by the MIT News Office at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.
Published by the MIT News Office at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge, Mass.
NEW OFFICE Fairfield Named First Manager Of Special Community Services Stephen A. Fairfield, founder and director of Elderserve, a Watertown service agency, has joined MIT in the new position of manager of the Office of Special Community Services (OSCS). Establishment of such an office was recommended last November by the Report on Family and Work to consolidate and develop the various service programs available in the community. The report recommended creating a coherent and evolving program of family and work activities to focus on dependent-care needs. OSCS, now part of the Personnel Department, is in two sections. The manager's office (Rm 20A-023) includes the Quarter Century Club, the MIT Activities Committee and the United Way Campaign; the Child Care Resource and Referral Office and the MIT Parenting Program are located in Rm 4-144. The OSCS also will staff a soon-to-be-appointed Family and Work Council, also recommended by the Report, and develop service programs for retirees. Mr. Fairfield is a graduate of the University of Connecticut, and received a PhD degree in biomedical sciences at the University of Tennessee at Oak Ridge. After completing a postdoctoral fellowship at Hoffman LaRoche, he worked at Millipore, before deciding to move into the human-service field. For several years he was director of community development for Catholic Charities Metro East and he has consulted for state-wide nonprofit service and professional organizations. He said he thought his scientific background would be an asset in his new position at MIT.