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Counselor Georgine Brown-Thompson remembers "empty PTA halls" before introducing HIP to Walt Whitman Middle School 246 in Brooklyn three years ago. "We've seen PTA attendance rise from five to 164," she says. The school was on the brink of financial ruin in 2001 when 127 parents opted for student transfers under the No Child Left Behind legislation. "Our school was being left behind," Brown-Thompson says. After HIP's introduction, 110 parents changed their mind, saving the school $1.3 million in funding it would have lost if the students had left...
...Thompson has first-hand experience in the volcanic field. She regales friends and acquaintances with the adventures she had while researching in Hawaii, especially the time she braved a renegade lava flow to rescue her team’s lava samples and research tools. She jokes that it is the only time that a movie has proved realistic—referencing Pierce Brosnan’s character’s girlfriend’s similar sacrifice in the notoriously awful Dante’s Peak...
When she’s not battling the elements, Thompson is dealing with similarly unpredictable artists. Extremely active in the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC), Thompson has participated in over 20 productions. Although she has experience both on- and off-stage, she mostly enjoys producing, where she is faced with the daunting task of “making sure everything happens...
...Thompson is also a writer, copy editor and designer for the Harvard Book Review, as well as the current Maps Managing Editor for Let?...
Amazingly enough, Thompson still has time to simply hang out with friends—and not just to teach them how to knit. Her friend Aoife E. Spillane-Hinks ’06 says that Thompson “has this lovely subtlety to her.” Between the knitting, theater, book reviewing, mapmaking, and volcanic studies, Thompson is busy, to say the least. “I’m doing so many things that I want to do,” Thompson says, “[but] there’s always something I wish I were...