b'C H A P T E R S E V E N. (W)ho in this ever more-crowded community worries about ephemeral quality of life. ? Perhaps we need je tanother volunteer committee to frame with both reason and style the issues of quality.Give this "Quality of Ufe Council nine months to poll a sample of residents and produce its findings in nonacademic text .9Actually, thats pretty much the way things worked out. The chief exceptions: the nine months turned out to be eleven, and the nonexistent council became Friends of Chatham Waterways, which, by dint of its independence, can pick up an idea and run with it, if directors say Go! In this case, they did, and without vacillating, they put on spiked shoes and headed for the cinder track. Frankly, they had to get out of the starting blocks fast. Otherwise, wrapping upFCW Board member Barbara the project by September \'98 could have beenStreibert, shown at her Greensleeves a disheartening misfire. potting bench, was instrumental in To start, a pair of board members,launching the 1998 Qualify of Life project, along with another FCW Barbara Streibert and John Geiger, decideddirector, John Geiger.Gordon Zellnerthat looking into the towns quality of life (QOL) was important and tailor-made for FCW The team had both the drive and the strength to move the project forward. Graduate of Vassar with an M. A. degree in teaching from Wesleyan, Mrs. Streibert taught high school literature and writing from 1963 to 1980 (with time off when each of her two daughters was born). Losing heart about educating teenagers, she responded to her instinct to be a manager, jumped ship, and signed on with cable TV in Newton,A new member of FCWs board in Massachusetts; in due course, she was98, John Geiger thought the time Continental Cablevisions director ofwas ripe to canvass the community and see what it had to say about government relations for the eastern region,issus such as the pace of developdoing franchising. When the charm wore off, ment.Gordon Zellner117'