Martha Stewart's Assistant

As personal assistantto Queen ot Homes and Gardens Martha Stewart, ShawnSnipes '96 spent her days getting the details right, from appointments to accessories. "Every little thing says Snipes. "In lots of fobs the big picture is important:, but here it's the,little things." Those details inchide attention to office accessories, froth matchihg cups to trash cans shaped like paint buckets, And, contrary to tabloid talk about towering temper tantrums, Snipes found Stewart very pleasant. "She really wanted to develop a one- on-one relationship," says Snipes, who even made it into Stewart's calendar Although Snipes is now executive assistant to the CFO, Stewart, the Queen of Details, still" remembered her birthday.

Snipes monitored the details for Martha.