For the past week, six UC Riverside costume- and scene- shop employees have been sitting behind sewing machines, stitching together face masks for their colleagues.

过去一周，加州大学河滨分校(UC Riverside)服装及布景部门的6名员工一直坐在缝纫机后面，为同事们缝制口罩。

These dedication stems from their desire to offer another layer of protection for essential personnel who continue to work on campus in service of students.

这些奉献源于他们希望为那些继续在校为学生服务的重要人员提供另一层保护。

These six employees are part of UC Riverside’s Department of Theatre, Film, and Digital Production. Their years of experience building sets and creating new wardrobes, came in handy when an Environmental Health and Safety engineer reached out to see if anyone in the department could help.

这六名员工隶属于加州大学河滨分校的戏剧、电影和数字制作系。当一位环境健康与安全工程师向他们咨询部门是否有人可以帮忙时，他们有多年制作服装和衣柜的经验派上了用场。

（Alan Call, technical director.）

Within hours, Alan A. Call, Alif Emil Marchi, Joshua Stephenson, Kerry Jones, Landis M. York, and Maria Hong had a plan in place.

几小时后, Alan A. Call, Alif Emil Marchi, Joshua Stephenson, Kerry Jones, Landis M. York, 和Maria Hong有了主意。

They took over two floors of the Arts Building, rearranging sewing machines to create enough physical space between them in order to safely adhere to social distancing policies, wearing face masks as they operated the machines. In a few hours, they had completed 32 masks completed. By day four, they had sewn 284. One of the first teams to receive these masks were UC Riverside’s Police Department officers and their support staff, said Tracy Stark, safety engineer with EH&S.

他们占据了艺术大楼的两层，重新布置缝纫机，为它们创造足够大的空间，以便安全地遵守社交距离政策，并且他们在操作时戴好口罩。几个小时内，他们完成了32只口罩。到第四天，他们缝制了284只。EH&S的安全工程师Tracy Stark说，最先收到这些口罩的队伍是加州大学河滨分校的警务处人员及其支援人员。

“The theater community is extremely close knit, and the folks on our campus are a true embodiment of that,” Stark said. “Their work is a really big boost to the campus community. we want to let people know we are going to get through it together.”

Stark说:“剧院社区的关系非常密切，这是我们校园关系的真实体现。他们的工作对校园社区是一个巨大的推动。我们想让人们知道：我们会一起度过难关。

The goal is to sew at least 750 washable, three-ply face masks with existing material found in the costume shop. The masks, made out of colorful and fun patterns, are supplemental to other face coverings UC Riverside already offers its workers, but are not intended to be medical grade, Stark said. These are free for all essential employees.

目标是用服装部门现有的材料缝制至少750只可洗的三层口罩。Stark说，这些口罩由五颜六色的有趣图案制成，是UC河滨分校为员工提供的其他口罩的补充，但达不到医疗级别。所有基本员工都可以免费使用。

Joshua Stephenson, ’17, a scene shop foreman who started working in the unit as a student in 2014, said volunteering to make the masks was simply his way of thanking “some of the people that are out there every day” making sure “our corner of the world keeps on spinning.”

17岁的布景部门负责人Joshua Stephenson从2014年还是一名学生时就开始在这个部门工作了。他说，志愿制作这些口罩只是为了感谢那些每天都在确保我们这个世界的角落继续运转的人们。

（Joshua Stephenson, scene shop foreman, sews masks for his fellow employees.）

Alan Call, technical director, said the motivation to help had been there since the beginning.

技术指导Alan Call表示，支持的动机从一开始就存在。

“We had the knowledge and the means to do this. Our equipment was sitting idle, so we geared up and made it happen,” said Call, who has been at UC Riverside for 35 years. “我们有这样做的知识和设备。我们的设备闲置着，所以我们加快速度，让它变成了现实，”在加州大学河滨分校工作了35年的Call说。

Kerry Jones ’84, scenic artist and properties designer, said she too was glad to help.

84岁的Kerry Jones是一位美工师和道具设计师，她说她也很乐意帮忙。

“I was happy to be asked to make masks, as I had been trying to think of some way to safely help out or volunteer in the community,” said Jones, who has been working at UC Riverside since 1995.

“我很高兴被邀请制作口罩，因为我一直在努力想办法安全地帮助他人或在社区做志愿者，”Jones说，他从1995年起就在加州大学河滨分校工作。

That same commitment to help is shared by her colleague, Maria Hong, a costume shop assistant. She has been working at UC Riverside for six months and has seen the campus grow over the last two decades she’s lived in Riverside.

她的同事、服装部门助理(Maria Hong也有同样的承诺。她已经在加州大学河滨分校工作了6个月，在过去的20年里，她生活在河滨见证了河滨分校的发展。

（Maria Hong, costume shop assistant.）

Controlling the pandemic might be out of her control, she acknowledged, but sewing is something she has total control over.

她承认，控制流行病可能超出了她的能力范围，但缝纫是她完全可以控制的事情。

“If I can help, even in this small way, I am happy to do it. I am hopeful the masks will help keep someone safe,” Hong said. “I hope they know that it was made for them, because they matter, even if I don’t personally know who they are.”

“如果我能帮上忙，哪怕是很小的忙，我都很乐意去做。我希望这些口罩能帮助人们保持安全。我希望他们知道这是为他们准备的，因为他们很重要，即使我不知道他们是谁。”

For Landis York, costume shop manager and costume designer, volunteering to sew helped her feel less helpless and less frustrated about not being able to help those affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

对于服装部门经理兼服装设计师(Landis York来说，志愿缝补帮助她感觉没那么无助，也没那么沮丧，因为她无法帮助那些受到COVID-19 流行病影响的人。

（Landis York, costume shop manager and costume designer.）

“Working on the project has given me something positive to focus on,” said York, who joined UC Riverside in 2018. “Making masks has allowed me to feel that, yes, even as the world grinds to a halt, l can contribute to the UC Riverside community in some small way.”

“参与这个项目能让我去关注一些积极的东西，”2018年加入UC Riverside的York说。“制作口罩让我觉得，即使世界停滞不前，我也可以为加州大学河滨分校的社区做点贡献。”