AMBITIONS
To be healthy, happy and maintain a good sense of humor no matter what I do. 

TURN-ONS
Down-to-earth, happy people; summer time; flowers; sleeping in till noon; smiling faces. 

TURNOFFS
Phony, inconsiderate, self-absorbed people; cold weather; being sick; procrastination. 

FAVORITE MOVIES
Gone with the Wind, Doctor Zhivago, Romeo & Juliet, any Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly movie. 

FAVORITE FOODS
Lobster, shrimp, my mother's spaghetti and meatballs, anything chocolate! 

FAVORITE PLACE
'Cape Cod, my home. 

IDEAL EVENING
Having a picnic on a moonlit beach with the one I love. 

BIGGEST JOY
My boyfriend, family and children. 


Back to Basics

our miss december is a daughter of the computer revolution

Route Two winds along the Charles River in Boston before leaving behind the red-brick buildings of Harvard, the white sails and the flashing oars, the jogging scholars, to head northwest toward Concord. The shot-heard-round-the-world Concord. It had been years since any girl we knew lived next door to a national monument, but Terry Nihen (pronounced Ni-yen), our first Massachusetts Playmate in recent memory, does. Of course, Concord Bridge is still there, but New England is changing. The Colonial houses are still there, tucked in the dense green New England forests. But at every crossroads, there is a computer company, another building with Data or Digital in the company name. Terry Nihen grew up in this region, in Acton, and she has changed. In a part of the country where every child goes on to college, if not graduate school, she opted to enroll in a technical-trade high school in nearby Lexington.