Word: skiing
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Albright's discipline and assiduousness, she says, came from her father. Josef Korbel was a formal man, a statesman turned professor, who learned to ski wearing his topcoat and tie. "He was a strict European parent," says John. Family routines were sacrosanct. Children were expected to be at the dinner table on time. "The most severe form of punishment was when our father wouldn't talk to us for a week." When Madeleine was invited to the prom in ninth grade, it triggered a family fight over whether she would be allowed to ride...
...worry. I haven't always been a ski bum," Kevin F. Fitzpatrick '83 said to me on the chair lift up Okemo Mountain, where my roommates and I had sallied for a day or two of our brief intersession. Kevin was charged with the 1:15 group lesson for Skill 8 last Friday at the Ludlow, Vt. ski site. I was one of two members of the group, the other being a somewhat mute 13 year-old who, like myself, was supposedly proficient in parallel turning and sought to bridge the chasm between the intermediate blue squares and the advanced...
...then with Street hiring in tatters and Harvard diploma in hand? Kevin's best option was a Connecticut financial planning company, and it was livable, but it wasn't close to what he wanted to be doing with his life. Now he's a Vermonter, ski instructing by day and acting, directing and producing by night, playing out an undergraduate passion for theater initiated in a Dunster House student production. He reveals that though he earns a fraction of what he once did, household management, his wife's income and New England pleasantries make up the difference...
...Currier House Committee was involved in another financial dispute last time, this time with Eliot House. Currier officials accused the Eliot House Committee of not paying their part of a joint intersession ski trip the two houses of organized...
...council can plan the rest of the year (until receipts from the First-Year Formal are collected in early March.) This means that representatives' attempts to serve their constituents and plan events such as Sophomore or Junior class semi-formals, December holiday shuttle buses, a comedy concert/contest, a ski trip and Springfest (an outdoor festival with live music which demands months of budgetary preparations,) will be difficult to organize due to the already constrained budget...