After errors delayed the order of 2,000 commemorative Hey Day T-shirts and prevented hundreds of juniors from buying them earlier this week, the company responsible is working hard to make sure every member of the Class of 2006 gets a shirt.
The Shirt Guyz -- the student-owned company hired by the Class of 2006 board to print the Hey Day T-shirts -- dispatched 10 employees last night to hand-deliver about 300 T-shirts to juniors who had reserved them earlier in the day.
In years past, juniors could buy the traditional red shirts on Locust Walk from the Junior Class Board during the week preceding Hey Day.
The Shirt Guyz was supposed to deliver its complete order of almost 2,000 T-shirts on Monday morning. But a late start and a mistake in the printing process prevented the Shirt Guyz from dropping them off on time.
The Junior Class Board sold about 400 shirts on Tuesday and another 400 on Wednesday. As news of the shortage spread, juniors were forced to wait in long lines to buy the Hey Day memorabilia.
Yesterday, the Shirt Guyz promised to deliver the final 1,100 T-shirts. About 500 had arrived by 10 a.m., another 300 by 2 p.m. and the remaining 300 by 4.
Rather than ask juniors to wait until the second delivery to purchase their T-shirts, Shirt Guyz employees took the students' contact information and promised to deliver the apparel to their homes.
"That was pretty successful at alleviating the lines and the anxiety people had about getting their T-shirts," Junior Class President Pierre Gooding said.
Shirt Guyz employees dropped off about 300 pre-purchased T-shirts on foot last night.
"We always want to go the extra mile to get something done for a customer," Shirt Guyz CEO and Wharton junior Jesse Pujji said. "If anything is slightly wrong with a shirt order, we do whatever we can within our power ... to make sure that everything goes right."
Gooding said the class board was confident the Shirt Guyz would deliver every purchased T-shirt.
"They took the responsibility of delivering the T-shirts, and we're okay with that," Gooding said.
