One of the less great things about being president -- all those old photos that surface publicly.
President Obama, who has had
to deal with public comments from past girlfriends, now has to endure pictures
from his high school prom night in 1979, back when the future president was 17
years old.
Time magazine also published
a high school yearbook salutation to classmate Kelli Allman, the girlfriend of
a pal: "You are extremely sweet and foxy, I don't know why Greg would want
to spend any time with me at all! You really deserve better than clowns like
us; you even laugh at my jokes!"
Also from Time magazine:
"Tucked away in someone
else's shoe box of adolescent artifacts, there might be a picture of you in
garish clothes and with an outdated 'do, your arm around a high school squeeze.
Another photo after the cut...........
"The President of the
United States is no different. These previously unpublished photos, obtained
exclusively by TIME from Obama's schoolmate Kelli Allman (née McCormack), show
a 17-year-old Barack Obama on the night of his senior prom.
"Barry spent in his
days at the Punahou School in Hawaii studying, shooting hoops and goofing off
with his friends. Greg Orme, a fellow varsity basketball player, was Obama's
constant companion. 'They were like brothers,' says Allman.
"On prom night, the
pair double-dated. Obama and his date Megan Hughes, a student at the Hawaii
School for Girls at La Pietra, joined Orme at Allman's house, where the two
couples sipped champagne before going to the dance and then an after-party. 'It
was a really fun, happy time. We were all cracking up, and everyone was
smiling,' says Allman. 'It was pretty typical from there out as far as what
happens at prom: the dinner and the dancing and the photos.'
"Millions of American
teenagers will go to proms this year. Their photos are more likely to be stored
on Facebook than in a shoe box. But it's fun to imagine that in one of those
pictures, there's a girl in a pastel dress or a lanky guy in a white sport coat
who will end up becoming the leader of the free world."
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