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...Thompson confounds the group by presenting a piece of “basalt, an igneous rock” that she dreamily relates to the movie Dante’s Peak...
...Haven Thompson '07 [associate...
Katherine J. Thompson ’05 knows how to knit. Rather well, actually. Thompson took up the arcane occupation at age ten, when her family moved from California to Germany. “All the students [there] had to learn to knit and crochet…I was really bad so I sort of gave it up,” she explains. Her family returned to California one year later, where she refined her skills and “made a bunch of things that aren’t really useful in California because you don?...
This summer, Thompson took her summer vacation—she was editing Let’s Go: Germany—to Belgium, to study a regional style of lace-making with a group of nuns. Inspired by the visit, she bought a loom. Her friends have had no choice but to participate in Thompson’s crafts. “My blockmates are very, very nice about me teaching them all the things that I do,” Thompson says...
...delicate handicrafts are not her only specialty.An Earth and Planetary Sciences concentrator, Thompson is currently working on a thesis about the recent Mt. St. Helens eruption. Her thesis concerns “the method with which the seismologists and other scientists predict the eruption and…the way that information flows from them through the press and to the people...