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After two months, Stephanie
company were treated. It was a
good-old-boys club, and I was knew the names and faces of
working 18 hours a day, seven each of the island's 28 resident
lemurs. For six to eight hours
days a week."
Ms. Jaffee attributes her Hol- a day she would watch them,
collecting data which
lywood success to knowing
will eventually be pub-
someone in the industry,
Stephanie
a good resume and impec- Jaffee works lished as part of a larger
with a ring-
project. Her weekends
cable timing. At Michigan
State University, she pro- tailed lemur. were spent in the civi-
duced, directed and edit- lization of nearby Sa-
ed an award-winning cable varmah.
Ms. Jaffee remained in the
travel show. She also had a
friend in the film industry and South. In September, she began
happened to apply to Industrial working toward a Ph.D. in an-
Light and Management, a divi- thropology at Duke University.
sion of George Lucas Films, She was one of four selected for
when a position was available. the program out of 100 appli-
Working in the film industry cants.
Ms. Jaffee's longtime friend,
of course has its perks. Ms. Jaf-
fee attended movie premieres, Karen Gula — they've known
got to see her name in the cred- each other since they were 5 —
its and even got autographs from called her "enlightened and very
some of Hollywood's stars for her imaginative." Despite the fact
father. that Ms. Jaffee hasn't lived in
After suffering from Tinsel Michigan in years, they rely on
Town burnout, Ms. Jaffee de- e-mail to keep in touch.
cided it was time to go back to
"Whatever she does, she is al-
school. The looming question ways throwing herself into it,"
was what to study. She went said Ms. Gula, an Oak Park res-
through a course guide from the ident. "Places and things I nev-
University of Southern Califor- er knew were out there, she
nia and never made it past the tries. She has done more than
anyone I know, and she doesn't
A's.
"When I got to anthropology, switch because she isn't suc-
it hit me — that's what I want cessful. She has basically been
to do," she said. successful at everything she
Ms. Jaffee spent her last year does."
of school in Edinburgh, Scotland,
This summer, Ms. Jaffee
studying in the best anthropol- hopes to add Costa Rica to her
ogy program in Great Britain.
list of travel destinations. If all
Field work was a requirement goes according to plan, she will
for her degree, so Ms. Jaffee got secure an internship there.
"This is the first time I'm con-
a coveted job studying the be-
haviors of the ring-tailed lemur. fident that I am doing what I
For 10 months, she lived and want," she said. "It never gets
worked on St. Catherians Is- old, and I have huge concerns
land, a 10-mile by two-mile pri- about conservation that can be
vate island 10 miles off the coast addressed.
of Georgia.
"When I was in film, I never
She was one of less than a felt like I was contributing.
dozen people living there. Oth- Yeah, it was prestigious and
ers who worked there commut- fun, but there were no contribu-
ed to the island, which is closed lions." El
to the

