In case you have been living under a rock for the past two years, a Lab parent was just elected to the White House. For those of you not still around Hyde Park, the neighborhood is crazy with streets blocked, and people wearing Medici "Barack eats here" t-shirts.
Many Labbies are involved, forgive me for those of you I miss:
John Rogers '76 was, of course, one of the 4 co-chairs of the inauguration itself and was announced at the swearing in, just after the supreme court. He did get a chance to introduce himself to John Paul Stevens a supreme court justice and lab grad.
Arne Duncan '8? is the secretary of education. Valerie Jarrett '73 is one of Barack's confidantes and a senior adviser.
I saw Stephen Currie at the Home States Ball and we both recognized each other, despite not having seen each other in 30 years. It was fun to catch up. Stephen has a kid at UofC of all places. He was accompanied by his mom, Barbara Flynn Currie, whom as you may know just finished impeaching our Governor.
Kevann Cooke was somewhere to be found, but I did not see her. I did see Dan Hornung, Mark and Jackie's eldest taking some time off from Yale and enjoying the festivities.
The joke in Hyde Park is that when Barack was elected President, most people wanted to know, who was going to get his Senate seat. But in Hyde Park most people wanted to know who was going to get Malia and Sasha's spots at Lab!
Keep in touch and here's to a great 2009, for you, the country and the world!
Saturday, January 24, 2009
It's been too long...
Since I posted anything to the blog. I promised to keep this alive and I will with your help.
1. I went to Circuit City last weekend for their going out of business sale. What was really cool was that for all the Bose products like headphones and speakers, etc. you could push a button and it would tell you a little about the product and then play some music to try to demonstrate the awesome acoustical quality of their products (and why you should pay 2x any other brand).
Why do I tell you all of this, well because the first musical selection they pick to demonstrate Bose products is Lucy Kaplansky's cover of Ring of Fire by Johnny Cash! Very cool. So I went to all the speaker displays and kept pushing that button and put the speaker on full bore, so Lucy was resonating throughout the store. Congrats to Lucy!
BTW, I have that rendition on my iPod and highly recommend it. It is from her "Over the Hills album".
1. I went to Circuit City last weekend for their going out of business sale. What was really cool was that for all the Bose products like headphones and speakers, etc. you could push a button and it would tell you a little about the product and then play some music to try to demonstrate the awesome acoustical quality of their products (and why you should pay 2x any other brand).
Why do I tell you all of this, well because the first musical selection they pick to demonstrate Bose products is Lucy Kaplansky's cover of Ring of Fire by Johnny Cash! Very cool. So I went to all the speaker displays and kept pushing that button and put the speaker on full bore, so Lucy was resonating throughout the store. Congrats to Lucy!
BTW, I have that rendition on my iPod and highly recommend it. It is from her "Over the Hills album".
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