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Subject: [Leica] HONORARY DOCTORATE -- UVIC... The CEREMONY. :-)
From: s.dimitrov at charter.net (slobodan dimitrov)
Date: Mon Nov 10 15:55:56 2008
References: <79p70j$noq48@pd7mo1no-svcs.prod.shaw.ca>

So, Ted, is that like being a doctor of Jazz:-)
...and congratulations for not flubbing the speech.
s.d.

On Nov 10, 2008, at 3:30 PM, Ted Grant wrote:

> The Doctorate ceremony report. :-)
>
> WOW! HOLY COW! IT ACTUALLY HAPPENED AND I DIDN'T SCREW - UP! :-)    
> I don't
> think? :-)
>
> Going on stage I was as nervous as all get out! But calmed down  
> once things
> began to happen.
>
> A major difference between giving a lecture and being the subject!!
>
> The auditorium was packed with parents and friends of graduating  
> students,
> so lots and lots of folks. Add my friends from the Victoria area  
> along with
> folks from the mainland and all this added to a nervous condition. :-)
>
>
>
> If you want to experience a weird feeling, it's being plain "Ted, a
> photojournalist one minute." And short time later everyone calling  
> you Dr.
> Grant or Dr. Ted? I think I'll be very happy to be ted!
>
> Given my grandsons have always called me "G pa." The older of the  
> two has
> changed it to "Dr. G pa."
>
>
>
> During the past several days I've read, re-read and re-re-read my  
> speech and
> for each of the re-reads I've said them from memory to the point my  
> memory
> banks are almost blown to oblivion! :-)
>
> We attended a small luncheon, were driven home and will be picked- 
> up for an
> evening reception. Those things are easy to handle anytime,  
> shooting or
> enjoying.
>
> 1/
>
> The pressure is off!!!!! :-)
>
> 2/
>
> I didn't cry, but there were a number of calming deep breathing  
> moments! :-)
>
>
> 3/
>
> An amazing life experience if ever there was one!
>
> 4/
>
> I just wished my Mom and Dad were still around to be there as  
> they'd have
> been so happy. My Ma would've said.. "My son the photographer  
> finally made
> it!"  :-)
>
> 5/
>
> Lot's of photos taken, I expect to see some shortly as Tom & Tuulikki
> Abrahamson were there along with Henning & Tanya Wulff all shooting  
> away.
> Plus the official Uvic photog. One of the grandson's and what  
> seemed like an
> almost paparazzi kind of shooting!
>
> 6/
>
> So there you go eh? :-) Now I can relax, well I'm going to have a  
> nap. ;-)
>
> ted
>
>
>
>
>
>
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Replies: Reply from images at comporium.net (Tina Manley) ([Leica] HONORARY DOCTORATE -- UVIC... The CEREMONY. :-))
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