I am proud that my granddaughter's school recently displayed the mementoes of both these men.
"They come with me when I accompany my granddaughter to school and when I go to the hospital, bank or shops," he wrote.
Sarah commutes to London each week to look after twins and a toddler; Lyn travelled to Bristol to see her eldest granddaughter into school.
Over the next several months, he went to work part time, attended his granddaughter's school play, enjoyed a Father's Day cake and celebrated his 44th wedding anniversary, mugging for the camera while my cousin snapped away.
She also volunteers at her granddaughter's school, P.S. 85.
Then she checked with the tailor to see if her 11-year-old granddaughter's school uniform had been mended before making her way back to the family's one-room mud brick home to prepare the evening meal.
Several times this term, the 78-year-old Chief Justice of the United States left work early to pick up his granddaughters from school.
Several times during the term the Hibbs case was argued Rehnquist left the chambers early to fetch his granddaughters from school.
What Rehnquist didn't mention in his opinion was that his daughter was a single working mother with childcare problems, and the chief justice was often recruited into picking up his granddaughters from school.
Today, all his granddaughters attend school.
According to Frank Salviolo, a retired engineer whose 7-year-old granddaughter attends the school, as did his children, the recent closings have shaken even the school's most fervent supporters.
