Fun Fact.7

In the summer of 1982, Damon and Naomi each found a job in New York City for their school vacation -- Damon worked in the office of City Council Member Henry Stern, and Naomi was an apprentice in the graphic design studio of Milton Glaser. A series of encounters -- a conversation with a friend who was working in a croissant shop and was upset at the waste of food there every day; a letter that arrived in Henry Stern's office, from the director of a food bank in New Haven; talks with another friend who had been volunteering at a soup kitchen -- resulted in the hopeful launch of a new non-profit organization, to be sponsored by Henry Stern's council office, run by the food bank expert from New Haven (Helen Palit, who moved to New York to take up the challenge), and which suddenly seemed to lack only a name. Damon flipped through a thesauraus. Naomi took out her rapidographs and vellum. And they presented Helen and Henry with "City Harvest," accompanied by Naomi's drawing of a figure holding food, silhouetted against her favorite tower in the New York skyline: the Chrysler Building.

Damon & Naomi went back to school in September. Helen sent them the occasional newsletter, with a cheery note. A year or so later, they were astonished to see a truck drive by with Naomi's logo on it. Twenty-five years later, the logo has changed, but the name stuck and there are a lot more trucks: http://www.cityharvest.org.