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BROOKE SHIELDS, '87: A PRINCETON FAREWELL Credit...The New York Times ArchivesSee the article in its original context from
June 9, 1987
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The members of the Princeton class of '87 gave one last Tiger cheer at class day today and, as is tradition, broke a clay pipe on Cannon Green to symbolize something about companionship as they approached graduation Tuesday. And on some of their class jackets was a button that summarized part of the last four years for many of the students.
''Yes, I went to Princeton,'' it said. ''No, I never met her.''
Just being in the same student telephone directory with her, Brooke Shields, class of '87, seems to have marked the 1,050 students who will also get their diplomas Tuesday as members of a special group that arrived here in 1983 and quickly learned to expect the opening line: ''Princeton? Do you know Brooke Shields?'' The Public's Perception
But if many of the students became sick of the Brooke Shields questions, they also came to separate the celebrity that others saw from the fellow student and honors graduate in romance languages that she became.
In the process, some have learned to look beyond the movie star and model's face for the student who was followed by a bodyguard on campus, who was forced out of her freshman dormitory room by curious and obnoxious Brooke-seekers and who showed she could manage her courses and her career before most people her age could balance a checking account.
Maybe the center of the Brooke Shields phenomenon, some said, was not the actress but the public. And maybe Brooke Shields deserves a better one. She Was 'Just Brooke'
''To a lot of people there are two people involved,'' said Alan Kennedy, a senior from Greenwich, Conn., who got to know Miss Shields in the annual student show in which she had small roles.
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