Another high school friend speaks out, portraying Hillary as a "force of nature."

[pnwmom]

There have been a number of interviews with students who knew Hillary in high school. This is another very positive interview to add to the list.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/aurora-beacon-news/news/ct-abn-hillary-clinton-hal-masoncup-st-0729-20160728-story.html

Thursday afternoon, Masoncup, now 70 and living in Geneva, recalled that summer decades ago and his memories of attending junior high and high school with Clinton, who was born in Chicago and grew up in Park Ridge. He described her as a "force of nature," someone who seemed to be more mature and more focused than an average high school student.

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Masoncup and Clinton first met in junior high, though they went to different schools. They then spent three years at Maine East High School before Maine South opened in 1964, in time for their senior year. Masoncup and Clinton weren't in the same inner circle, but their social groups overlapped.

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"She easily expressed herself as far as issues having to do with the school and the student body, and she was very friendly," Masoncup remembered. "She was a great kid to be around. She was funny, enjoyed herself. But also, she was serious."

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Now, he said, he is shocked that one of his classmates could be subjected to such a level of vitriol as Clinton, he said. He admires the way she sticks it out.
"I think it's amazing in that she takes such a verbal beating," he said. "And I watch it and go, 'that's not who I know.' The way they've portrayed her is nothing like what I know."

[mucifer]

1. Someone called into WCPT Chicago's Progressive talk

and said she was a classmate of Hillary's a long time ago. She was very positive in her views of Hillary. We never know for sure that the caller didn't make things up. But, it was a nice call.

[Hortensis]

2. "She was a park supervisor, working with kids in summer programs,"

Thanks, PNW. I always enjoy these insights into who are people are, the more so with Hillary.

I was imagining her somehow learning at that age that she would one day be the first woman running for president and also that she'd passionately, irrationally hated by millions of people. I feel pretty sure she'd have been more shocked that it'd take another half century before we elected our first woman president.