I am stunned...

[PCIntern]

so I'm surfing the Intertubes just now, and somehow started looking for alumni and faculty from high school, back in the 60's and all, when I see that my calculus teacher - I was the only member of the class, a very small school near New Hope, PA - wound up being George Mitchell's chief of staff, working in the White House for President Clinton, and then president of NASDAQ International. He and I, (I as a HS senior), used to sneak Stegmeier Beer in his office and study derivatives and integrals for the AP Exam (of course he'd be the lead story on CNN if that happened today) . He was the NICEST guy, BRILLIANT and progressive, and FUNNY as all hell, a Princeton grad, I always wondered what he was doing teaching math at a dopey school like mine. He was just biding his time before he went back to school. what an honor.

you can read a tee-riffic interview of him here:

http://digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu/mitchelloralhistory/126/

It's the George Mitchell oral history project at Bowdoin College, BTW.


Of course, no one at my school is probably aware of this: he only stayed for a couple years and the entire faculty and administraton has changed of course. You just never know...

[unblock]

1. funny when that sort of thing happens, knowing someone before they're famous

check out my babysitter when i was a kid: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000350/

of course, she was just another high school student at the time.

[PCIntern]

2. WHOA!

[roguevalley]

3. a kid I knew, his brother is the editor of the National Geographic. go figure. ;)

[PCIntern]

4. A great scene in Roth's 'Portnoy's Complaint'

Protagonist runs into a guy he knew from high school and asks about another guy. the friend replies that the other guy's a professor of romance languages at Princeton. the protagonist says (parapharased): What? He used to cheat off me on Spanish tests....a professor...at Princeton?!?"