A now-former colleague of my beloved Saint Joseph’s College in Rensselaer, Indiana, John Groppe, had a Christmas-time to remember. Because of his daughter Maureen (a journalist in Washington, DC), he got to attend a White House party for journalists on December 14, 2009 (news story from the Rensselaer Republican newspaper).

(John Groppe, Michelle Obama, Barack Obama, Maureen Groppe).