FIRST LADY REVISITS PAST IN BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Dodge ball dodge ball n. A game in which players on one team try to eliminate players on another by hitting them with an inflated ball. , bologna tra-la-las, chicken-wire floats, ice skating on the tennis courts. Hillary Rodham Rodham is an English surname which may refer to a number of persons or places. People Family of Hillary Rodham Clinton
depicting home life, American style. [TV: “The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet” in Terrace, I, 34–35] See : Domesticity Ozzie and Harriet series portraying the wholesome, American family. home town. From that daunting daunt tr.v. daunt·ed, daunt·ing, daunts To abate the courage of; discourage. See Synonyms at dismay. [Middle English daunten, from Old French danter, from Latin walk to kindergarten on the first day of school to the day she got kicked out of high school history class for laughing, the first lady explored her past and let America look in. Standing outside the two-story Georgian home where she grew up in this Chicago suburb, Hillary Clinton mused aloud, ``I can hear in the back of my head all the yells and screams of all of us playing here all those years ago. ``Kids still need the same things we got on the corner of Wisner and Elm.'' The birthday blitz had an almost surreal quality to it: The first lady and friends stretching back to grammar school tooled around the quiet, tree-lined streets of Park Ridge in a caravan that stretched to more than a dozen buses and cars. Before noon, Hillary Clinton had been serenaded with the birthday song four times, two cities (Chicago and Park Ridge) had proclaimed it ``Hillary Rodham Clinton Day'' and the corner of Elm and Wisner had been renamed ``Rodham Corner.'' She actually turned 50 on Sunday. The Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce The Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce is the largest association of businesses in Illinois, dedicated to the success of their 2,600 members and their 1.3 million employees. Their mission is to make Chicagoland, which they define as the six counties surrounding Chicago (Cook, DuPage, produced a slick, 20-page pamphlet on the first lady's early years titled, ``Hillary: A Chicago Celebration.'' A Chicago park was renamed in her honor. A documentary film crew taped the whole thing for a special on cable TV's A&E channel. The first lady's trip back in time began with a visit at Eugene Field School, where she and a dozen former classmates Classmates can refer to either:
intr.v. rem·i·nisced, rem·i·nisc·ing, rem·i·nisc·es To recollect and tell of past experiences or events. [Back-formation from reminiscence. , coaxed along by the questions of historian Carl Anthony. As the introductions went around the table, Hillary Clinton's second-grade teacher jokingly asked the first lady, ``And who are you?'' ``Oh, yes, this is the question we're all trying to answer,'' the former Hillary Diane Rodham said. The portrait that emerged was that of the model youngster - Girl Scout, student council activist, sports dynamo - with only a few blemishes. Hillary Clinton confessed to her driver's ed teacher, ``There are some who would argue you did well with everyone but me.'' And as for her track record in Girl Scouts, she demurred, ``I'm still working on my sewing badge.'' CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO Park Ridge, Ill., Mayor Ron Wietecha stands at ``Rodham Corner'' with first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, who waves to the crowd. Associated Press |
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