Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2023/05/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Congratulations!! What an achievement. Enjoy your time with your son but be careful. I hope you brought your bulletproof vests for a trip to the dangerous USA and stay away from grocery stores, synagogues, schools, and malls! Tina On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 6:04?AM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote: > I am spending a bit over a week visiting my son in Weehawken, NJ. The main > purpose of the trip is what happened yesterday: he received his MBA > diploma from Columbia University, the fruit of hard work the past 16 months > (thankfully, financed by his employer). It was beautiful day in New York > yesterday, and I was moved by the thought of how our family has gone in 3 > generations from poverty in Lublin, Poland where my father was born in > 1925, through the devastation of the Holocaust which almost wiped the > family off the face of the Earth, to my son now graduating from one of the > world?s great universities. > > The ceremony was quite nice, albeit with a bit of a brutal starting time > of 8 a.m. on a Sunday?I joked with my son that this was to prepare him for > the world of breakfast meetings and other perversities of business life. I > took some photos (surprise!), and share two of them here. > > The graduates are marching into the designated seating area: > https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-3hNPVDF/A > > After the ceremony, lots of mingling and greeting (and a reception). Here, > my son chats with a fellow newly minted MBA who has her little daughter > with her. The little girl is clearly uncertain about the throng of people > including the unknown man with a camera: > https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-KPc6fJh/A > > We will also attend the general commencement at Columbia on Wednesday, and > otherwise spend the week enjoying the offerings of the city (MoMA is on the > agenda today), and perhaps driving down to the Trenton/Lawrenceville area > where we lived from 1990 to 1995. > > Cheers, > Nathan > > > Nathan Wajsman > > Alicante, Spain > http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> > http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws < > http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ < > http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> > > Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator < > http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> > > ????? ???????! ?????? ?????! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- https://tinamanley.photoshelter.com/index https://pbase.com/tinamanley