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David ( cont .): possible to borrow some of my images . I actually ended up donating them to the museum . That experience was one of the best parts of going to Mount Anthony Union High School – being able to apply my interest in photography and capture the Southern Vermont community .
Sherman : Did you do any set design for any of Mount Anthony Union High School ’ s productions while you were going to school there ?
David : My dad was actually the set design teacher , so he did the sets , but I played a part in helping to build them . I was able to look over his shoulder and watch what he was doing . We did a lot of standard-fare sets for productions like West Side Story , but they were on a pretty grand scale . We had the Albany Symphony Orchestra join the orchestra at the high school , and we used the Broadway production costumes from My Fair Lady .
Sherman : Where did you go after high school ?
David : When I graduated from high school , I wanted to follow in the footsteps of my father and attend Cooper Union . I took the hard entrance exam , and I actually didn ’ t pass the first test . I pursued jobs that were art-related , and I put going to Cooper Union on the backburner . I worked for a company called , Design Research , which was based out of Cambridge , Massachusetts , and was actually founded by the same person who designed Mount Anthony Union High School , Benjamin Thompson . Design Research was really the first company to bring modernism to the American public . Benjamin Thompson decided to start a small boutique chain of retail stores , in which architects and designers could go and buy things ( Herman Miller furniture or Marimekko fabric , for example ) to fill out architecturally-significant buildings . I became the display director for this chain of stores , and I moved around the country as a result of my work . I started in San Francisco , where I trained to become the display director , then moved to Los Angeles . Eventually , I moved to Cambridge , Massachusetts , where I ended up meeting my wife , who was working for the same retail store .
Sherman : I ’ d love to hear Sandy ’ s side of the story of how you met . What is your recollection of the first time you saw David ?
Sandy : I first saw him when he was working at Design Research in Cambridge . The building that we worked at was three or four stories tall , and it looked like a big glass box . From the exterior , you could see every department in the store . The displays in all of the departments played an integral part in luring passerby ’ s to come in and enjoy the interior . I would see
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