{"id":39,"date":"2016-08-10T18:00:43","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T18:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/profiles\/?p=39"},"modified":"2016-08-10T18:00:43","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T18:00:43","slug":"phyllis-lockwood-geiger-65","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/profiles\/2016\/08\/10\/phyllis-lockwood-geiger-65\/","title":{"rendered":"Phyllis Lockwood Geiger \u201965"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For this prankster, taking risks paid off with a sweet career. Photo courtesy of Chattman Photography.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At NSFG, Phyllis Geiger found a home away from home, and a new sisterhood. She adored her social life and was a spirited prankster around campus. Under her photo in her senior yearbook was a prophetic line about her life: \u201cEverything is sweet\u00adened by risk.\u201d In 1983, she started Peterbrooke Chocolatier, which now has many franchises in Florida and beyond, and ships all over the coun\u00adtry. Though Geiger is now retired, she still has a sweet tooth.<\/p>\n

Which teacher had the most impact on you?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mrs. Cantarella. She was the senior English teacher. She was very fore\u00adbidding. Everybody really feared that they would get her, and of course they got her. When you were in her English class, you did pay atten\u00adtion and you did listen. The ground rumbled when she walked into the room. She would call on people. One day she pointed at me and she said, \u2018Lockwood.\u2019 The question was about Moby Dick <\/em>or something. And I didn\u2019t have the right answer. And she yelled at me, I\u2019ll never forget, \u2018Lockwood, you are withering on the branch of knowledge.\u2019 That stuck with me for the rest of my life.<\/p>\n

What activities did you join?<\/strong><\/p>\n

In order to have a social life, you wanted to do stuff with Williston. I joined Mask and Wig and the Glee Club. I helped make costumes and I loved the performances. The per\u00adformance I remember the most was \u201cThe Mikado.\u201d I did some costumes for that. The whole performance was cool because there were some great voices involved.<\/p>\n

What did you enjoy studying?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I enjoyed Latin the most, of all weird things. I\u2019m not particu\u00adlarly good at languages. Somehow I clicked into the language. Latin has been a wonderful thing throughout my life as far as helping my vocabu\u00adlary. I would recommend taking Latin to anybody. I hope that schools still carry it. I can\u2019t really translate much, but still when something comes up, I try to translate it. It\u2019s a good part of our education.<\/p>\n

Who were you as a student and teenager?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I liked to play pranks with anyone that would have a prank with me.<\/p>\n

One time we undid all the screws on the doorknobs in the house, so when the housemother came in to any room, the doorknobs fell off in her hands. Under my senior picture in my yearbook, it says, \u2018Everything in life is sweetened by risk.\u2019 And that\u2019s so prophetic of my life. I went into the confectionary business. I risked everything I had and started a chocolate business, and now it\u2019s all over the place. That\u2019s why it\u2019s prophetic. Isn\u2019t that amazing?<\/p>\n

What were some of the rules at NSFG?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lights out at 10. And of course we hid in the closets and talked to each other. But after a while we realized we couldn\u2019t hear each other very well through the walls. So we made a little hole there so we could talk. We\u2019d talk about everything and anything.<\/p>\n

What inspired you to start a chocolate company?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Peterbrooke Chocolatier is named after my children, Peter and Brooke. I always wanted to have my own business. When I apprenticed to a chocolatier, the lights went on for me. I was trained in the European method. And I thought, \u2018Wow, we don\u2019t have an American translation for this.\u2019 So that\u2019s what I did. I trans\u00adlated the European way of making chocolate into an American thing.<\/p>\n

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At NSFG, Phyllis Geiger found a home away from home, and a new sisterhood. She adored her social life and was a spirited prankster around campus. Under her photo in her senior yearbook was a prophetic line about her life: \u201cEverything is sweet\u00adened by risk.\u201d In 1983, she started Peterbrooke Chocolatier, which now has many … Continue reading Phyllis Lockwood Geiger \u201965<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-phyllis-lockwood-geiger-65"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/89"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}