Way back when

I have a friend whose mother was a runway model with Betty Ford in Grand Rapids, Mich. I should have her get in touch with the newspaper. It would certainly be a much better "I knew the famous person when" story than this one:

One of the first things Indianapolis attorney Earl Townsend remembered of his college days with Gerald Ford is sharing dishwashing duties with the man who eventually became the 38th president of the United States.

They were undergrads and roommates for two years at the University of Michigan in the late 1930s, Townsend recalled in a phone interview Friday.