25 years of service
Genevieve “Viva” Fisher and Clif Colby hold very different jobs at opposite ends of Harvard. Fisher is the registrar at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, where she oversees acquisitions, loans, and documentation of the museum’s vast collection of artifacts. Sometimes, this Maryland native even serves as a liaison for those artifacts, escorting them to the airport, overseeing their proper handling and adherence to TSA regulations. Colby is a scientific instrument maker at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences’ Rowland Institute at Harvard, located along the Charles River. He calls himself a machinist, can work with virtually any material, and labors in a basement workshop so equipped it would make your handyman blush. Yet Fisher and Colby are more alike than not in a key way. Both have worked at Harvard for 25 years. They are but two of dozens of Harvard staff and faculty being honored at the 56th annual...