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CHAPTER 3

CONNECTIONS:

A LIFETIME OF

FELLOWSHIP

The White House Fellows program has a truly remarkable network
around the country. When I need anything—from a doctor to a car
repair person in some other area of the United States, I immediately con-
sult my White House Fellows Directory and receive the best advice in
town. Yet another benefit is the sheer personal reward of having friends
around the country and the globe with very diverse professional callings,
backgrounds, and interest areas. All of them have enriched my life, and
whenever I get together with former Fellows, I am challenged, enter-
tained, and educated.
—Judge Deanell Tacha, U.S. Court of Appeals for the
Tenth Circuit (WHF 71–72)

THEY’LL NEVER ROAM ALONE
When Michelle Peluso and Jeff Glueck met during their White House
Fellowships in 1998–1999, they hit it off from the start. Both came from
business consulting backgrounds, both had won scholarships to Oxford,
and each wanted to do something entrepreneurial someday. When their
Fellows class had trouble making arrangements for a last-minute trip to
New Orleans for the Jazz Fest, Glueck and Peluso started brainstorming.
“We were organizing this trip at the last minute, and we wondered why

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