At Dormont High, Paul 'best all-around'

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We know this and even have Ron's high school pictures on here, but it is nice they remind people just before the election...


Although Dormont High School's graduating class of 1953 named Ron Paul "best all-around" student, Marlene Holmes-Dunn and other classmates never thought he would run for president.

"I doubt very much that Ron thought he would run for the office either," said Holmes-Dunn, 76, who still lives in Dormont. Paul, she said, was someone who got involved in academic and extracurricular pursuits, but "I don't think at that time any of us would have ever thought that."

The Texas congressman who grew up in Green Tree brings his long-shot campaign home today. He will meet with supporters for a private luncheon at the Holiday Inn in Oakland and then hold a town hall-style meeting at 7 p.m. at Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall & Museum. Paul will hold a Sunday afternoon campaign rally on the lawn at the Independence Mall visitors center in Philadelphia.



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Then they undo all that good work by saying Ron won only TWENTY THREE DELEGATES :eek:

pictures from the high school year book thread:

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/easel/images/galleries/065425_Paul_track_team.jpg

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/easel/images/galleries/065618_Paul_best_all_around.jpg

[hb6102]

"Paul, 76, won a few caucus states early in the race. "

Did they slip there????

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and '23' delegates.

Not too up on how elections work....

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I hadn't finished it, it is really nice except for the inexplicable delegate math, but it includes this which kind of alarms me:


Muse plans to attend Paul's town hall to show support and reconnect with the couple if given the chance. Holmes-Dunn cannot be there but hopes other alumni attend.

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I think they are thinking of other kinds of town halls......

although, maybe in his home town he will handle it a little differently....

[Lafayette]

Lets not forget "The Texas congressman who grew up in Green Tree brings his long-shot campaign home today." no article would be complete without it or one of its variations

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It is a really nice article, I'm not going to get overly picky.


That does not diminish Paul's success for some of his high school friends.

As a junior at Dormont, Paul was a state track champion. He attended Gettysburg College and obtained a medical degree at Duke University. He was a resident at Magee-Womens Hospital in Oakland and a flight surgeon with the Air Force and the Air National Guard before moving to Texas to practice obstetrics and gynecology.

Paul's wife, the former Carol Wells, graduated from Dormont a year after he did. They have five children, including U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky.

Eileen Muse coordinates reunions for Dormont's 99-member Class of 1953. She recalls Paul as "a gentleman and a gentle man."

Muse said the Pauls try to attend reunions despite his busy schedule.

"The last one he attended was probably 2003. He enjoyed the heck out of it," Muse said. "We knew he was a congressman, and he never was a bragger or an egotist. He was always the guy we went to school with."

Jim Cromie, spokesman for Keystone Oaks School District, which now includes Dormont, said other graduates often mention Paul's character.

"I just got a sense that he was one of those people that was charismatic, dynamic, intelligent and a very driven guy," Cromie said, noting that classmates who might not have foreseen his rise in politics "could clearly see that this was a man who had a lot of qualities going for him."



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[Crystallas]

Eileen Lardo sure knows how to please the witty boys.