Vanity Fair: Never-Before-Seen Photos of Young Mitt Romney, High-School Prankster

EXCLUSIVE: Never-Before-Seen Photos of Young Mitt Romney, High-School Prankster



Imagine this: as the election winds to a close, Vanity Fair uncovers a shoe box of old yearbook photos, newspaper clippings, and snapshots of a teenaged Mitt Romney. Our source is a disgruntled employee in the Romney-family stables who insisted that she be referred to only as “R.R.” before handing us the previously unseen images. In them, a very recognizable Mitt goofs off with friends and engages in the kinds of pranks for which he is well remembered from his days at the Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. His now familiar childhood grin is on full display as he mocks gay classmates, slips a teacher a Mickey, and even fires a beloved school janitor.

That Mitt! Such a goof! A handsome, wealthy goof!





Mitt has always been considerate and sensitive to the needs of our nation’s women—take this grandmother, for example, who was just cruisin’ for a bruisin’!



By the time he reached his senior year, in 1965, Mitt was legendary on campus for his harmless tricks



Less popular students knew to keep on their toes around Mitt and his buddies.



Mitt was involved in nearly a dozen school organizations, including the Blue Key Society and the football cheerleading squad. He was also an avid reader.



Mitt articulates his affection for a Kingswood School co-ed on the same device he uses for class notes



In 1968, Mitt returned home from his mission in France to marry his wife—but not before swinging by Cranbrook to mock some of his anti-war former classmates.



He even won some yearbook superlatives for Best Impersonator!



Even out of fly-fishing season, Mitt was known to hone his angling skills among Detroit’s poor.


Good parody is never far from the truth.


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