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By Stephen Collins '74 Alex Chin '96 cut his teeth in the rock concert promotion business during his senior year when, as social chair of the Student Government Association, he helped bring Dave Matthews to Wadsworth Gymnasium. Since then the assistant director of student activities has had a hand in putting Jewel, the Indigo Girls, the Squirrel Nut Zippers and the Black Crows onstage at Colby. So what does he do on vacation? For the Y2K holiday break he took a busman's holiday-in a Winnebago actually-with half a dozen Colby students who helped him run the information booth at the huge Phish New Year's show in the Florida Everglades. Best known as the heirs apparent of the Grateful Dead, Phish attracted more than 100,000 fans to the Big Cypress Swamp over New Year's. Chin rounded up seniors Jake Conklin and Matt Todesca, juniors Rob Henzi, Tony Frangie and Mead Rust and sophomore Mike Sesko for the 39-hour ride to Florida. They took shifts manning the booth so that each got to see plenty of the seven-plus hours of concert. In the process they helped a penniless woman whose husband kicked her out of their tent, displayed up to 50 lost sets of keys at a time and visited the backstage compound, which featured a swimming pool and volleyball court for band members and their inner circle. Despite being back from a semester in London for only a week, Henzi jumped at the opportunity to jump on the RV. "I couldn't have asked for a better way to spend my New Year's," said the veteran Phish fan. "I got a paycheck [for his work in the information booth] in the mail last week," he said in February, "and I laughed out loud"-stunned again by his good fortune. |
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