Romney started his education at the Roosevelt Elementary School
in Detroit, Michigan. Starting from the seventh grade, he
attended the Cranbrook Academy, a prestigious boys-only private
school in Bloomfield Hills. Romney would later claim that
Cranbrook provided one of the most educative experiences in his
young life, developing his social and critical-thinking skills.
While he did not excel in any particular subject or activity both
on the track and in the classroom, Mitt was, nevertheless, a
popular all-rounder in the school. He was also the manager for
the school hockey team, as well as a member of the cross-country
team and the pep squad.
Mitt, along with future wife Ann Lois Davies and several other
friends, were briefly arrested for their part in an elaborate
prank that involved blocks of ice, towels and the golf course.
Details are sketchy, and the records have long been sealed, but
the consensus was they were sliding down a slope, riding the
towel covered blocks of ice.
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Romney
graduated high school in 1965 and promptly enrolled in Stanford
University. However, his stay there was cut short, and he
traveled to France to begin missionary work on behalf of the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a popular activity
among the Mormon youths at the time. He spent the next two and a
half years there cycling around the countryside dressed in formal
black attire, attempting to convert the mainly Catholic residents
to his faith. Disaster struck six months before he left for home
when he was involved in an automobile accident. A Catholic
priest, believed to be under the influence, smashed into the car
Romney was driving. He was thrown right out of the vehicle, but
did not suffer serious injuries. However, one of the passengers
died in the accident. The experience proved to be a sobering one
for Romney, as he would later recount.
Upon his return, he married his high school sweetheart, Ann, and
soon after, enrolled in Brigham Young University. He graduated in
1971 with a Degree in English, with a 3.97GPA. His young family
then moved to Boston, and Mitt enrolled in both Harvard Law (HLS)
and Harvard Business School (HBS). He obtained his MBA from HBS
in 1975 and graduated cum laude from HLS with his Juris Doctor
the same year, finishing in the top 5% of his class.
• Mike Huckabee attended Hope High School, in Hope, Arkansas
• In 1973, Huckabee attended Ouachita Baptist University in
Arkadelphia, Arkansas and graduated magna cum laude, completing
his four-year bachelor's degree in Religion in just
two-and-a-half years.
• Following his graduation, he enrolled at the Southwestern
Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas for one
academic year after which he had to drop out of seminary in order
to take up a job in Christian broadcasting.
• He worked for several years for televangelist James Robinson
and later served as a minister at Baptist churches in Pine Bluff
and Texarkana, Arkansas, and as President of two Christian TV
operations.
• Huckabee has two honorary doctoral degrees: the Doctor of
Humane Letters received from John Brown University in 1991 and
the Doctor of Laws from Ouachita Baptist University in 1992.
• This Pastor-turned-Politician is also an Honorary Member of
Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity.
• While in college, Huckabee worked during the week as a rock
'n roll DJ at the local Radio station in Hope and then spent the
weekends preaching at a Baptist Church.
• As a young man, Huckabee dreamed of a career in media or
public service. It was by accident that he became a pastor for 12
years. Huckabee remembers, "In 1980, a church in Arkansas asked
me to come and speak for them, and I did. Then they asked me to
come back and speak again, and I did. And after about four
months, they said, why don't you just stay? And that's how I
became a pastor"
Romney
graduated high school in 1965 and promptly enrolled in Stanford
University. However, his stay there was cut short, and he
traveled to France to begin missionary work on behalf of the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a popular activity
among the Mormon youths at the time. He spent the next two and a
half years there cycling around the countryside dressed in formal
black attire, attempting to convert the mainly Catholic residents
to his faith. Disaster struck six months before he left for home
when he was involved in an automobile accident. A Catholic
priest, believed to be under the influence, smashed into the car
Romney was driving. He was thrown right out of the vehicle, but
did not suffer serious injuries. However, one of the passengers
died in the accident. The experience proved to be a sobering one
for Romney, as he would later recount.