Interview of Peter Polovsky

Interviewed by --?--
Agriculture Field Day, April 24, 2004
Transcribed by Lauren Bohn, May 17, 2004
Ed. B. McCay April 24, 2006

Q : You were a communications major?

Peter Polovsky (PP) : Yes.

Q: How was majoring in communications at Cook College ?

PP: It was very interesting, mainly because I spent a lot of time on the Rutgers College campus, but I also spent a lot of time on Cook so I was able to get some experience from both environments.

Q: Did you have a Cook minor?

PP: No, actually I started off from Cook as a journalism major. I originally came to Rutgers and Rutgers College didn't have a journalism major but Cook College did. The more I got involved in it and the more I was on Cook, the more I liked the environmental courses. But I figured I preferred to go into a communications major because I though it would help me more when I graduated.

Q: What have you been doing since then?

PP: Since then? Right now I work for Axis[?] Financial and I work with a [unintelligible] program. I do communicate quite often with clients. I work on certain marketing projects so I do work from my experiences here.

Q: How has Ag Field Day changed since '91, since you graduated?

PP: I did go to Ag Field Days after I graduated like '92, 93' and then I stopped for a while. I'm not sure why. I think it was just I happened to be out of the area whenever Ag Field Day was here, on a business trip. There seems to be a lot more activities. There're a lot more kids here, I think it's wonderful.

Q: What is your favorite or most interesting Ag Field Day moment?

PP: Most interesting moment…

Q: Nothing sticks out in your head?

PP: It's a little bit different now coming here now with a family as opposed to coming here with college friends. With college friends we kind of skipped over a lot of the family events. So it was a lot more parties in the dorm and then we came out and walked around as opposed to now where I'm walking and going to…. What stuck out for me today was taking my daughter to bouncing in the balloons, the balloon ride.

Q: Did they have the bands playing in the Newells and Starkeys when you were here?

PP: Bands. Local stuff. People just coming out and setting up on the stoop. That was pretty much it.

Q: Anything you want to say?

PP: I'm just really glad to be here. I think this is a wonderful event.

Q: Anything you hope to see in the future?

PP: Maybe some more rides, some activities for the kids to do. I did get the brochure but didn't get a chance to take a look at it. Maybe some before the event, maybe some activities to be communicated by e-mail. I know you guys didn't have my e-mail so that wouldn't have happened but now you have my e-mail. Before the next Ag field Day if there're any activities, I'd love to sign up and have my daughters participate.

Q: How old are your daughters?

PP: This one here is five and a half and eating a lot of Oreo cookies and my little one is one and a half.

Q: Did you meet your wife here?

PP: No, it's funny I went to Rutgers , I went to Cook. She did go to some of the same places on College Ave. that I went to but I never met her. I met her years later waiting on line years later at the Port Authority waiting for a bus. It's kind of a weird thing. She was going to a convention in New York . She only does that like twice a year and I happened to be on the same line. We were talking about it. I said I went to Rutgers College ; I went to Cook, Rutgers University . I described some of the things. She said, “Oh, I've been here. I had some friends here at Rutgers and I experienced the same things.” That's it. Now we've been married for quite along time. Eight years.

Thank you for interviewing me. I've enjoyed this, this whole day. It's beautiful weather today.