[Leica] Nathan's PAD 14/5/2023: a proud moment

[Tina Manley]

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.
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> 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
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> 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
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> 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
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> Nathan Wajsman
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