It all started on Tuesday, April 13, when I had
Mike Jennings (German), Hal Foster (Art and Archaeology), Shirley Tilghman (President),
Stan Allen (Architecture), Susan Taylor (Art Museum) and Paul Dimaggio (Sociology) in for lunch.
The next day, Wednesday,
Michael Oppenheimer (Woodrow Wilson School and Geosciences),
Peter Schaefer (Religion),
Eldar Shafir (Psychology),
Ken Steglitz (Computer Science),
Alastair Wright (Art and Archaeology),
and Yin Lu (Julie) Young (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
came.
On Thursday,
Mccauley Peterson of OIT came to help work on our secret project.
Lunch that day was a major cause for celebration,
Lorraine Post (shown with her husband)
and Nita Cherry (shown with her husband) were
being honored as outstanding employees (which they are!).
Here they're shown with their supervisor, Kris Miller
and here with their supervisor's supervisor,
(that would be me). I went into Manhattan for dinner at the Harvard Club
with Bill Kirby
who is my counterpart at Harvard.
The next morning, Linda, Sheryl and Suzanne
headed off for a road trip bringing back pistachio nuts (see below)
among other things.
Saturday morning, it was time for a Mary Kay
show and Pam and her friend
came with refreshments
and set the table
from this supply
as the guests began to arrive
with their driver
so that the party could begin
up close
and from afar
which made Ben and me know that it was time to go to the
frisbee tournament.
The first person we saw there was Noah
and then Sarah
in the distance as the other photographer
captured some pictures of the toss off
after which Sarah joined Noah
for a group photo
on the sidelines before re-entering the game
though I got distracted
by my attempts to get a picture of the Vassar girl
with the serious red hair.
Fordham
looked dejected as Princeton
got set to celebrate and Sarah
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This was the cue for Ben and me to get these groceries
at Wawa
and to bring his sandwich
and the drinks
and my sandwich
back as the team assembled
and Ben got ready
to watch.
Amv
arrived and I set her to the task of recording the action as the team
got ready
for game 2 as Sarah posed
with friends and Amv showed that she has the profile thing
down pat as she recorded us
and then the action
against Columbia and on the sidelines
as the game heated up
and I did another self portrait
while Sarah
got vicious
on defense
and Ben started to get bored
though the action
continued as he
pondered the world and the room mates
posed as he gathered our things
and made our way to watch the men
though Ben
got excited when Suzanne
arrived because he didn't realize he'd be going to the concert
and not getting home until Sarah's cake
was half eaten. Sarah put on the birthday crown
and started opening
taking a break to give us this card
which read better in the dark
and had a beautiful cover picture
so that she could open more
as Ben drank
and the chain
came out. She worked her way
to trying it on
and then moved on
to the next card
and present
which were shoes
that needed to be tried on
during which time Jane's text
and card
appeared. Jane
tried on the necklace as Sarah
showed her tan
and Jane watched
as Sarah showed her blister
and up close
then Sarah
tried on her hat
and Ben
dropped the incognito and showed his face
as Sarah
Ben
and Jane
watched Sarah
try on ear rings and get the next gift
as I did a self portrait
and a profile
and Sarah
tried on another ear ring
as the kids
watched the food
and Jane's many attempts at profile got lots of Suzanne
and a little of Jane
whose expression of horror
was undoubted derived from a bad photo
and the pistachio nuts
from Trader Joe's.
I finished the weekend in more sedate moments with my fellow deans
Peter LePage (Cornell), Sharon Long (Stanford) and Peter Salovey (Yale).