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Old Boy and family have dinner with President Obama
Michel Guite '59 recently had dinner with President Barack Obama. He wrote to us with details of the occasion, some reminisences, and some updates on his family:
Dear Veritas,
We all had a lot of fun at that dinner (with President Obama).
We all had a lot of fun at that dinner (with President Obama).
The dinner with Obama was at a neighbor’s house in Greenwich, CT, on October 14, 2014, with about 25 dinner guests, and some White House staff, and several senators. Our family supported Barack Obama when he was a young senator, long before he ran for president, and we were guests at his first inauguration, but had not met him in person before. I had met many politicians, but was almost knocked off my feet by how friendly Obama was to my three young sons, how interested, and how warm and kindly he was to them. I liked him before the dinner, but loved him after the dinner. It was a wonderful and inspiring event.
My days at Selwyn House are filled almost entirely with memories of dear friends from the Class of '59, including Harry Bloomfield, whom I still see often with his wife Nancy and sons, Timmy Coristine, Lee Watchorn, Ralph Walker, John Beament, Vincent Prager, and mathematics and science teacher Mr. Edgar Moody, who was so wonderful a man. I nonetheless did terribly poorly in academic performance, and was every two weeks, for years, ranked 17th or 18th out of 18 in our class, tied for last place with either Stephen Paquette or Keith Murfin, and I recall only somewhat fondly a 50th reunion dinner at Vincent Prager’s house in Montreal, when former teacher and Old Boy Mr. Fred Tees '44 leaned over toward me at dinner, and said repeatedly, three times, “But we thought you were so stupid”, pronouncing "stupid” very slowly, as if it had three syllables.
Ah well, those were the old days!
(My family and I) all live in Greenwich, CT, where I have six children. One who is 31, Dr. Sophie Guite, works at Morgan Stanley in New York. (Sophie has a PhD from Columbia, I have PhD from Stanford, and Sophie’s mom who is my ex-wife has PhD from Harvard, so our extended family is quite densely populated with PhD’s.) Daughter Diane Guite, 30, is attending Harvard Business School. My three sons in the photo, Jean-Paul, 14, Graham, 12, and Ware, 11, all go to Greenwich Country Day School in Greenwich, CT. Our youngest, Jean-Paul, who turned 4 a few days ago, was too young to attend the Obama dinner, but is also at Greenwich Country Day.
(My family and I) all live in Greenwich, CT, where I have six children. One who is 31, Dr. Sophie Guite, works at Morgan Stanley in New York. (Sophie has a PhD from Columbia, I have PhD from Stanford, and Sophie’s mom who is my ex-wife has PhD from Harvard, so our extended family is quite densely populated with PhD’s.) Daughter Diane Guite, 30, is attending Harvard Business School. My three sons in the photo, Jean-Paul, 14, Graham, 12, and Ware, 11, all go to Greenwich Country Day School in Greenwich, CT. Our youngest, Jean-Paul, who turned 4 a few days ago, was too young to attend the Obama dinner, but is also at Greenwich Country Day.
Best,
Michel Guite
