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Kimsey Kares for Kids
By Jeff Dufour and Patrick Gavin
Published on 12/1/2006
The Examiner
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AOL founder Jim Kimsey played host to scores of Washington A-listers Sunday night to celebrate the Center for International Education at Washington International School.
Kimsey’s connection? His granddaughter is enrolled in the school’s French program. Kimsey even saw fit to open the original Frank Lloyd Wright-designed house, next to his larger, main house, for the school’s supporters to stroll around in.
Among those in attendance, many of whom gasped at the Potomac rolling by from Kimsey’s massive picture windows: Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va., Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, investor Joe Robert, White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten, HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson, HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt, AOL’s Steve Case, Paraguayan Ambassador James Spalding, and former Mayor Anthony Williams.
From L to R: Kaihua Zheng Minister Zheng Zeguang, The Honorable Joshua Bolten, White House
Kelsey Kemper Valentine and Carter Pate
“Didn’t he used to be someone?” Williams joked about himself when nbs he was introduced by the Institute for Education’s Kathy Kemper, whose organization is a cofounder of the Center.