• Loyal People—Where Can They Be Found?
    Awake!—1981 | December 8

    • Loyalty Appreciated by Others

      “I am particularly impressed by the way they work together. They get the job done. You don’t hear any yelling, screaming or hollering or orders being given. Everybody has a job to do and he does it. I wish we had more of that around here.” That is what a maintenance worker employed at the racetrack said to me concerning the conventioners he had observed. It indicated to me that loyalty as manifested by upright conduct is appreciated by others. Notice some of the other comments I received:

      “Your people are devoted and dedicated. You have left the arena cleaner than the way you received it. It is the cleanest it has ever been.”​—Executive director of the Market Square Arena in Indiana.

      “When I saw the brooms appear and the sidewalks around the stadium all clean, I said, ‘That’s it! They’re back again!’”​—A woman who lives close to Colombes Stadium near Paris, France, where conventions often have been held.

      “Impatient, shoving crowds were nowhere to be seen, neither were carelessly thrown-away papers or cigarette packages.”​—Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, July 24, 1981, reporting on the convention in Dortmund, Germany.

      “Never have I seen such cooperation and enthusiasm in keeping the Center clean, and the conduct of your people throughout the Convention was truly commendable.”​—Director, Department of Auditoriums, Honolulu, Hawaii.

      “We don’t want you to go anywhere else.”​—Building engineer, Kentucky Fair and Expo Center Coliseum, Louisville, Kentucky.

      “Outstanding discipline for such crowds prevailed, whether on convention working zones, outside in the parking lots or in the waiting lines for meals.”​—Le Dauphiné Libéré, July 24, 1981, reporting on the convention in Grenoble, France.