Word: writes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Almost immediately Georges set about finding experienced authors for the write-ups. "We took three years of freshman face books and made a list of who went where, which ended up as 20 pages of printout, and just called down the list" in quest of someone to write up the schools, he says. "By the end of that school year we had 75 entries, which wasn't enough, but was a good base," Georges says...
However, during this time, the Crimson decided not to go through with the plan, and some of his friends who had been helping him moved on to other things, so Georges stopped working on it. "I was stuck with the lists of people, the interested publishers, and 75 write-ups of schools, but I did nothing with it that summer," Georges says...
Last June Georges and Messina began the project in earnest and Georges and his sister Gigi spent the entire summer working on it. The two updated the entries Georges already had, found volunteers to write others, and interviewed alumni for entries on the remaining schools...
...trio worked out of a summer house on Long Island and then in Brooklyn, where the Georges reside. They spent up to 14 hours a day, six days a week working on the book on two Macintosh computers. "With 150 write-ups done by different people, all with different writing styles, the publishers wanted lots of style revisions. We also edited to make them accurate, interesting, entertaining, and non-libelous," Georges says...