April 23, 2006

Nathan Johnson '99 on catering

In an “Urban Diary” column in today’s Boston Sunday Globe, Nathan Johnson ‘99 writes of his second job, working for a caterer in the Boston area.

From $10,000 bar mitzvahs in the backyards of Brookline to beach parties complete with a lobster bake and pig roast for Boston-area advertising agencies, I get to glide through worlds that are not my own.

I mimic Nick Carraway’s passive observer role in Fitzgerald’s ”The Great Gatsby.” While I graduated from Amherst College in 1999, and possess the equivalent of Nick’s Ivy League education, I am more like Gatsby in his constant outsider status; however, unlike Gatsby, I enjoy being the outsider.

Brian Meacham '97 | April 23, 2006 10:52 AM | Alumni

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