Brookline High School - Murivian Yearbook (Brookline, MA)

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DO-ERS PROFILE CARMEN P. RINALDI PROFESSION: Headmaster, Brookline High School HOBBY: Playing in his greenhouse with his plants and, if time allows, watching “SOAP.” IDOL: Luciano Pavarotti. In his next life he would like to be an opera singer with the ability to sing all parts of an opera by himself. WEAKNESS: Anything edible, “as long as it’s not moving.” MOST AMUSING EXPERIENCE: Finding a VW “bug” on the B.H.S. roof above the fourth floor; second only to find- ing a trashcan on top of the flagpole. Mr. Rinaldi com- mented that our student body is very original and highly creative. MOST INSPIRING EXPERIENCE: Being hired and payed as a substitute teacher when still a high school junior. The experience was especially memorable because at the time Mr. Rinaldi had a crush on the ailing teacher. “She was elegant, chick and very french.” MOST FRUSTRATING EXPERIENCE: Causing one of the largest traffic jams in Kenmore Square by stopping his car in the middle of the intersection. Ever since then, Mr. Rinaldi has become cowardly and immobile when behind the wheel of any car. HIS GOALS FOR THE HIGH SCHOOL: 1. To put a large swimming pool in the middle of the quadrangle, covered with a glass dome so that in the winter it could be a greenhouse. 2. To have moving floors in the corridors which would spiral up to the fourth floor, eliminating the need for stairways. 3. To have a removable glass roof over the quadrangle, with a shower system built in, to be used at all graduations. 4. To have twenty-five glass elevators, like those at the Hyatt in the quadrangle thus reducing traffic in the library. GOALS FOR HIMSELF: 1. To lose fifty pounds so that peo- ple will say to him “you poor sick man.” 2. To grow four- teen inches without using elevator shoes or a pogo stick. INTERVIEWER’S FAVORITE ANECDOTE: When still a foreign language teacher at this high school, Mr. Rinaldi taught a girl not to laugh in his class. For her first offense he told her to sit in front of him, in a wastebasket. After her second offense he pushed her into it with a little too much enthusiasm, and she become stuck. Although he may have taught the girl a lesson, Mr. Rinaldi still had to apologize to her parents for embarrassing her in front of the class. FAVORITE NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE: A rootbeer float. “I freak out over rootbeer floats!” 17