2009.01.20
Parents watch their transition team player
Mary and Herman Warren of Montgomery County celebrated their personal connection to the Obama presidency by rising early Tuesday and switching on the television.
“We turned it on about 6:10 [a.m.],” Mary Warren said.
Their son, Michael Warren of Washington, D.C., served on Barack Obama's transition team.
While he and his wife, Lynn, were in Washington Tuesday, Mary and Herman Warren took care of the couple’s children, Amelia, 4, and Noah, 20 months.
“They had a lot of functions to attend,” including a dance, Mary Warren said of her son and daughter-in-law.
Mary Warren said the Obama team asked Michael Warren to serve in the administration, and he declined, preferring to continue with the D.C. consulting firm Stonebridge International.
But he did agree “to give Obama’s team three more months of help,” his mother said. Specifically, he works on lining up personnel for the U.S. Treasury Department.
Meanwhile, Mary Warren said Amelia Warren will have two new classmates at Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C.: Malia and Sasha Obama, who are attending the private school while they live at the White House.
Mary Warren said she was connecting with the excitement of Tuesday's activities. “I'm overwhelmed with everything that is going on,” she said cheerily.
-- Jeff Sturgeon
