"He'd arrive with a duffel bag and he'd just sort of live out of it as he wore his clothes, and they'd just sort of end up in the corner," Deeter says. "There were a lot of arrogant prepsters there and George didn't really follow along."
In his senior year, Bush was tapped to join the Skull and Bones, one of Yale's most prestigious secret societies, to which his father had belonged.
In the windowless brownstone club house, Bush and a collection of Bonesmen including a Rhodes scholar and a gold-medal swimmer, mused over their life stories and their sexual histories as part of the club's bonding ritual.
Bush, though notoriously unpretentious, became deeply involved in the club, and following the club's rules of secrecy, never mentioned his membership to his roommate.
The Yale of the father gradually seemed to be becoming the Yale of the son.
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