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Associated Press Article DURHAM--The twenty-four students who attended the M&M program at
UNH in the summer of 1996 have been spotted in various places around the
United States in the past few months. |
David Estes and Solomon Gates have been observing barnacles for the past 10 years to see how many times they eat in one minute. Gates told us that one barnacle holds the record at 227 times in one minute. "I got dizzy counting and Dave had to take me to the hospital," Gates admitted. Caileen Nutter and Rachel Kneeland have become acclaimed hair stylists and have joined to open a salon named "Braids and Curls." It goes without saying, of course, that Rachel does all of the braiding and Caileen handles any customer with ample curls, such as herself. "I've seen the very extremes of hair stayles," Nutter said, explaining that she has seen beautiful natural curls and also the 'totally frizzed out' perm that happens once in a while. Camille Bickford, Katherine Fleischman and Amanda Montogomery have successfully started up their own song-writing trio. The three own a small recording studio and are signing any prominent young "Yankee Doodle" fan. They have also persuaded three big names to sign with them: Dave Matthews Band, Hootie and the Blowfish and Blues Traveler. Bickford is slowly working her way to stardom also by deciding to run for president in the next election year. Needless to say, she already has two votes! As for the seven people who taught these youngsters during the program, most of them have succeeded in their career choices. Ernst Linder, Dave Burdick and Petr Brym are of course still involved the Statistics, Marine Biology, and Computers respectively. Sharon Meeker is now teaching all those who are temporarily at the loss of a voice how to write shorthand and get someone else's attention without having to speak. Bette Morrill has gone on to teach math to high school level students and has won the "Best Teacher Award" at the school she teaches at for the past two years. Sue Reidy is now involved in Zoology and is still smiling after all she's been through. Does she not have those fourteen muscles you need in order to frown? On a more sorrowful note, the seventh instructor, Gregg Stevens, has not seen the light of the sun for about nine years now. During the 1996-97 school year at a high school in Rhode Island where he taught, he was assigned to teach Earth Science to ninth graders. Stevens got so upset when the students knew more about Astronomy than he did that he totally lost it. And to top it all off, the day it happened was Practical Joke Day at the school. When Stevens stormed out of the classroom, he slipped on a huge pile of ascophyllum someone had placed in front of the door. He fell and hit his head on the floor and has had on-and-off amnesia ever since. Last we knew he was still serving a solitary confinement sentence and was not noticeably improving and after all these years is still constantly twitching due to his nervous breakdown. He was continuously mumbling to himself that he had to "find my way back to Rudman so I can clean off those seal bones" or something, but we think that was just a sign of his insanity. Poor guy. It's too bad to hear that kind of news. Especially since he was offered a gig as the alto sax player in the group Dave Matthews Band only days before his visit from the men in white coats. I guess it does prove the theory: ninth graders really can drive you mad. As you can see, the M&M program actually does help students find out what they want to do in life. Having this proof of how exceptional the program is, what parents wouldn't want to send their child here? |