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Subject: [Leica] Nathan's PAD 14/5/2023: a proud moment
From: imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry)
Date: Tue, 16 May 2023 01:34:59 +0100
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Congrats, Nathan, on your son's achievement. Your chest must have 
swelled with pride - well, delight.
Douglas


On 15/05/2023 11:04, Nathan Wajsman 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
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