NAMES IN THE NEWS : First Lady Meets Pig Named George
First Lady Barbara Bush today dedicated the first school named after her husband, then met “George Bush,” the guinea pig and “Dan Quayle,” the hermit crab, in kindergarten.
It was Mrs. Bush’s first visit since the election to the city where she and the President spent 11 years in the 1950s and 1960s. She came here to dedicate George H. W. Bush Elementary School.
After a brief ceremony, she visited the 36 children in the school’s two kindergarten classes.
“What’s his name?” Mrs. Bush asked one of the kindergarten students as she pointed at a brown and white guinea pig in a glass tank. A little boy told her the name.
“Oh!” she said, raising her eyebrows in feigned shock. “George Bush!”
Then she walked over to another tank containing a hermit crab and said, “I’m not going to ask who the crab’s named after.”
She was told that the crab’s name was “Dan Quayle.”
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