1.   An honor student, class president.

2.   Among them was George Loomis, former honor roll student and class president at Golden West High in Visalia, who embodies the need for gay-straight alliances.

3.   As a senior, he was elected class president.

4.   At his New York boarding school, Torricelli was president of his class, and at Rutgers College he was class president each year.

5.   At Cathedral High School in Springfield, he won all-state honors in football, baseball and hockey and was senior class president.

6.   At Southwest High School in Jacksonville, N.C., he was class president.

7.   At the predominantly white Yeadon High School, the young African American was elected class president for three of his four years.

8.   At the University of Alabama, he was freshman class president and two-time state bantamweight boxing champion.

9.   At times, their encounters sounded more like a debate to be high school class president than to be the next mayor of New York.

10.   A few years ago, Lorri Crossno Nevil, a Web designer, bumped into her class president, Bucky Eacret, at Six Flags Over Texas.