On a recent afternoon, dressed in stylishly tight bell-bottom jeans and high-heeled black leather boots, she was at a table in the commons dining hall with Brian Stromquist, 20, and two of his friends.
Students all ate in the Commons, an elegant dining hall with high ceilings, somber portraits and dark wood paneling -- the formal atmosphere undermined by the pats of butter that the boys sent hurtling at one other or at the walls, where they stuck if catapulted with enough force.
For the elder Bush's fiftieth reunion, in 1998, his portrait was hung in Commons, the central freshman dining hall.
He did not have the requisite academic degrees, nor could he compete in the often cruel intellectual jousting common in college dining halls.
Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates designed the structure as part of a master plan, to be completed for the 2003-4 school year, that includes a new glass-enclosed link among the Packer buildings at the crook of the L-shaped campus and a dining hall and commons in the old parish house.
She was not permitted to use college facilities, including "common rooms, the computing room, the dining hall, the lodge, the library and the college's accommodation".
As part of its recently completed $21.5 million building project, the 793-student school has also added a track and other athletic fields, a great hall leading to new outdoors common areas designed for socializing, a new middle school dining hall, more music and art classrooms and enhanced computer labs, and upgraded dormitory and common spaces for its boarding students.
In addition to the "schoolroom", which was larger than the Town Public Hall, the building consisted of a dining hall (cum gymnasium), the masters common room to the east and a block of six classrooms to the west.
Dining areas: seven 12 wattage (dining hall), one 13 wattage (dining area) and one 6.4 wattage (counter).
Brittain Dining Hall is the main dining hall for East Campus.
