Obama’s 1979 prom photo, yearbook note to ‘foxy’ friend unearthed
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The havoc time wreaks on fashion spares no one, not even the president of the United States.
In a newly unearthed photo published Thursday in TIME magazine, a 17-year-old Barack Obama is seen wearing a white dinner jacket as he poses with friends on the night of their senior prom in Hawaii.
The 1979 photo was snapped inside the home of former classmate, Kelli Allman, who was the prom date of the president’s close high schoolfriend, Greg Orme. The fourth person in the picture is Obama’s date, Megan Hughes.
Allman said the two couples sipped champagne before going to the dance, and then an after-party.
“It was a really fun, happy time. We were all cracking up and everyone was smiling,” she told the magazine.
Allman also gave TIME a snapshot of Obama’s yearbook entry to her.
“You are extremely sweet and foxy,” he wrote. “I don’t know why Greg would want to spend anytime with me at all! You really deserve better than clowns like us; you even laugh at my jokes!”
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