Vice President Dan Quayle spent nearly two hours at a Catholicinner-city school Thursday.
Then he ditched class to sneak out to the ballpark.
He blamed his truancy on former Gov. James R. Thompson. Quaylesaid Thompson told him "it would be a good idea for me to come to theopening of the White Sox because my mother and father are die-hardSox fans."
Before the game, Quayle was visiting the kids at St. ElizabethSchool at 4052 S. Wabash and talking about President Bush's "21stcentury" educational program.
"It was a great experience to meet him. . . . I was veryscared," said eighth-grader Valerie Hildebrand, 14, who gave Quayle ablue-and-gold St. …
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