LIVONIA, Mich. — Add another stop on Mitt Romney’s trip down memory lane in his native Michigan.
The Republican presidential contender ran into his first-grade teacher — 78-year-old Gloria Blazo — as he was shaking hands Saturday following a speech to the conservative Americans For Prosperity summit.
“He was one person you never had to reprimand about talking at all,” Blazo told reporters after Romney brought her over to his media bus. “He worked hard, and he has lots of strengths.”
Student and teacher spent the 1953-54 school year together at Vaughn Elementary School in Bloomfield Hills, where Romney grew up.
During a stop Saturday in Traverse City, he recalled vacationing at nearby Torch Lake. Later, while waiting for his bus at the Willow Run airport, Romney sat by a fireplace and told reporters how he used to fly in and out of the facility when it was the region’s main airfield.
The Associated Press
