Not All Presidents Are Covered With Ivy

Though this year’s crop of presidential contenders may have included four Yalies -- Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.), Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.), former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean and President Bush -- we shouldn’t forget that the majority of recent White House occupants were neither Yale graduates nor Ivy Leaguers.

Among the colleges attended by the 11 presidents since World War II were Georgetown (Clinton), Eureka (Reagan), Annapolis (Carter), Michigan (Ford), Whittier (Nixon), Southwest Texas State Teachers College (Johnson), West Point (Eisenhower) and night classes at the Kansas City School of Law (Truman). Only the two Bushes (Yale) and John F. Kennedy (Harvard) received their bachelor’s degrees from an Ivy League institution.

Harold N. Bass

Northridge