BROOKLINE BIO

Brookline is a jewel of a suburb.  Cheek to jowl with Boston - it has     
managed to maintain its own identity - a unique mixture of busy streets and
rolling countryside, upscale shops and village pubs, gracious apartment   
buildings and large estates, and home for legions of academic and         
scientific professionals, who work at the nearby medical centers in Boston.
Brookline has staunchly refused to be absorbed by Boston, which surrounds 
it like a horseshoe.  A community of 6.6 square miles and almost 55,000   
people.  Brookline has kept its town meeting form of government since 1705,
when this "Muddy River" farmland of Boston became incorporated and named  
for the brooks that formed its boundaries.                                
Among its many unusual resources, Brookline has its own working farm (with
farm stand), the oldest country club in the nation, a town golf course, the
home in which John F. Kennedy was born, a magnificent park on a hillside  
overlooking Boston with a wonderful open air skating rink and marvelous   
transportation museum, and numerous neighborhood parks and playgrounds    
scattered throughout the Town.  Its major retail centers, like Coolidge   
Corner and Brookline Village, are bustling pedestrian-oriented shopping   
areas with a variety of shops - antique stores, coffee shops, bookstores, 
fresh fruit and vegetable markets, delicatessens and restaurants.         
Along with offering both a city atmosphere and a feeling of being in the  
country, there is a wonderful mix of people in Brookline: elderly,        
minorities, immigrants from many lands, young families and college        
students.  It is said that the student body at Brookline High School -- a 
nationally renowned institution -- includes students from more than 50    
different countries.                                                      
Although predominantly residential, Brookline is anxious to attract new   
commercial development, and in just the last two years, the Town has      
amended its zoning to encourage new growth along its major thoroughfares. 
With its good schools (both public and private), good transportation      
(several branches of the MBTA Green Line traverse the Town), and good     
government, Brookline is a choice spot in which to reside or establish a  
business.