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Actor spent formative years in Mason, attended St. Susanna, Western Row schools.
COMMENTS: Do you have stories of Clooney as a kid in Mason?
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Most of the world doesn't know George Clooney used to Saran Wrap toilet seats and lather telephones with Vaseline.
Although the international mega star received much attention recently promoting his new movie "Leatherheads" in his old hometown of Maysville, Ky., former teachers and classmates from his "other hometown" shared stories about the former Mason resident.
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Clooney was an altar boy when he attended St. Susanna School in Mason. But his old chum Lee Czerwonka, who hung out with Clooney in grades seven and eight, said he wasn't always an angel.
"He was a prankster back then. He did all kinds of pranks, kind of like all the pranks he does now on all the other movie stars," Czerwonka said. "He did all kinds of goofy stuff. He'd do stuff like put Vaseline on telephone handles. When you'd go to pick it up, you knew he was there. He was our class clown, to some extent."
The Clooneys — Nick and Nina, son George and his sister, Ada — lived for several years in the 1970s in an old farm house across from Western Row Golf Course when George was in school at both Western Row Elementary School and St. Susanna.
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By Rodney Bales
July 11, 2009 6:20 PM | Link to this
I remember George in elementary school. He stole my first girl friend, at least that’s what I thought she was. Her name was Tammy Lichtenberg, or something like that.