Where are they now?

New School Alumni 1988-1990

Greg

I am at currently at Syracuse University, halfway through my third year in the Industrial Design program here. And, although 21 straight years in the same city is becoming wearisome, I absolutely love my major and all the people that I've met, and am content here for now.

A favorite memory from the New School? Well, I must say I have a bunch. I will narrow it down to two. I remember once with my friend Mike - can't remember the last name but he was two years older and, as I remember it, we were inseparable and I believe he lived in Baldwinsville and had an earring - we found a discarded tire down by the road at the bottom of the hill. And we decided to take action. So we rolled it up to the huge tree near the school (well it was huge back when I was so little, and I don't know if it's still there) and we wanted to make a tire-swing. So we proceeded to illegally grab an enormous mound of yarn from inside (we got in trouble because we were afraid we wouldn't be allowed to make a swing, so we lied and said we were going in to use the bathroom). Nevertheless, we were successful enough to take one swing on it before it broke and plummeted to the ground.

A second memory is when there was a loft installed in the room (after my first year). Underneath we used to pretend we were on a boat (inspired, I believe, by a field trip to the Erie Canal museum). We had it all set up like a ship and we could play for hours (me, Mike, Gabe, Xander, and Danielle). Oh, and one more bonus memory! I remember we went on a crazy field trip once to a farm and stayed overnight. At the time it seemed really random and I don't remember exactly how it went or where it was, but I believe that there was a mother and a boy that lived there, and we explored every last square inch of that place. And it had an outhouse, which thoroughly intrigued us.