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!
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Hooray for Barack! And hooray for you, Bob(by) for keeping the faith and the blog--still going!! I'm sure there's a good line in here somewhere about presidents (of US and us--78ers--) but I'll leave that for wittier fingers. Yip Hip Hooray!
Ellen M. (it appears I am now--finally!--the only one... see comments from October '08, I think.) (I'm sure there are other classmates who share first names and last initials--the 2 David N's come to mind.But with a name like
David,you're pretty much asking for it.And of course SOME people even have the SAME last names--but most of them have been dealing with it for all of their lives,so no big whoop--though of course David and Peter Guttman hadn't,but only had to for high school,as far as I know.And I'm not trying to give you a hard time, Ellen O.--formerly M., but when you came along, in was it 5th grade? you kind of knocked me a tad out of my happy little name niche. And then Ellyn P. came along in h.s.--thank goodness you couldn't spell, Ellyn! I could go on--since my sister Sarah had a friend, Ellen Pollack ('81) and then Karen Morrison showed up (80?)with a younger sister: Sara!--the so-called 'fake Sara(h) Morrison.'I could go on, but won't.Random musing...something people like Sasanka and Giselle will just never understand.)(Nor Barack, for that matter.)
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