ALUMNI
SCHOOL SPIRITS By Eliott Grover ’06
“I cook with wine,” the vaudevillian comic W.C. Fields once said. “Sometimes I even add it to the food.” The food issue of Tabor Today would not be complete without something to drink. In this article, we profile several alumni at different stages of their careers who are immersed in the world of beer, wine, and spirits. During his senior year at Tabor, Chris Hampson ’84 took an Eng-
This includes starting an artisanal mezcal company in 2013.
lish class that changed his worldview. “Macho Hero in American
Hampson previously worked for Bacardi. Over the course of a
Literature” was an elective taught by Sean O’Neill. “What in-
20-year career, he oversaw sales and marketing for the bever-
spired me about it was the way it promoted a life of adventure,
age giant’s West Coast operations. While his passion for the
of just going for it,” Hampson says. “That idea has guided many
industry never wavered, he found himself craving a more
of the things I’ve done throughout my life.”
entrepreneurial existence.
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