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Celebrating the 50th: How the campus runs

Celebrating the 50th: How the campus runs

UTSA employee E.M. Mahon shows off the huge stock of office supplies and equipment housed in the university’s warehouse in the 1980s.

Editor's note: This article was originally published in UTSA newsletter The Roadrunner on October 7, 1985.

(Sept. 20, 2019) -- From pens and paper clips to desks and file cabinets, Alan Norton makes sure faculty and staff have the tools they need to do their jobs efficiently. As director of Central Services, Norton oversees four employees working in Central Receiving, General Stores, Lab Stores, and the warehouse—areas concerned with the acquisition, distribution, and storage of the equipment and supplies that are the “nuts and bolts” of UTSA operations.

General Stores stocks approximately 650 different kinds of office supplies, buying them in quantity to save money and then delivering staples, paper, folders, and other items as ordered by university departments. Lab Stores performs the same service for the university’s science laboratories, filling requisitions for such basics as test tubes and chemicals.

>> Read the rest of this story and relive other memories from UTSA’s history as we celebrate UTSA’s 50th Anniversary.


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