Word: brussel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Senior Joe Brussel, with his purple Burton backpack slung over his right shoulder, cell phone clipped to his tan cargo shorts, strolls into Frank Mandernach's advanced auto-mechanics class--late but relaxed. The rest of the class is already in the lab room, watching a student take apart a 1987 truck engine. Joe makes eye contact with Mandernach, settles into a chair out of sight of most of his classmates and pulls out a notebook. "Sometimes Mandernach just lets us get organized," he says. For the rest of the period, Joe stays to himself, his mind far away from...
...first day of school last year, Miss Voss came on the p.a. with shocking news. Three Webster teens had died during the summer. Incoming junior Katy Orf, her classmates later learned, had perished in a head-on collision in Pennsylvania. A week later, Erica Brussel, whose brother was a junior, died similarly on route 55. And then on Aug. 3, junior Joe Grosberg was found in the Mississippi River. Joe had been well known as his class's biggest flirt...
...lasts for only a short time. Even the real-life deaths in the past two years of four students--one of whom, Erica Brussel, was killed by a drunk driver--haven't stopped students from putting themselves at risk. "Sometimes it makes more sense when you're really drunk to get into a car with someone who isn't as drunk," says a sophomore. After a party last Saturday night, that's exactly what she did. "I think a lot of times people are more concerned with having fun than their safety," she says...
...cooperative, as well as shareholder dividends from a nearby farm. Casimira F. Walker '98 handles the food ordering each week and estimates that weekly supplies cost $800 or so. The only problem, it appears, is that the farm dividends allow no preferences for type of produce. Residents admitted that brussel sprouts have indeed been sent in bulk (uggh.) But there are compensations. "There's a communal Simpson thing," according to co-president Rosslyn Wuchinich '98. And they have Munro for entertainment, a self-proclaimed "mascot for those who don't want to do work, except during reading period...
Michael Kornick, Four Seasons Hotel, Boston. Soup of cepes (mushrooms) Roast Wild Duck served with fresh huckleberry stuffing with chestnuts, local apples, sage Beets Shallots Salad with marinated brussel sprouts and endive Small apple and pear turnovers...