Finally we were at graduation day and on our way to the hotel, we ran into Denise Applewhite, Ruth Stevens and John Jameson on their way to record the event. ../../../Sabbat/2009/05.27-06.02.09TheGraduationRitual//100_0446 There followed the obligatory pictures of Alice Waters with Jeff Nunokawa ../../../Sabbat/2009/05.27-06.02.09TheGraduationRitual//100_0447 Suzanne ../../../Sabbat/2009/05.27-06.02.09TheGraduationRitual//100_0448 Sanj Kulkarni ../../../Sabbat/2009/05.27-06.02.09TheGraduationRitual//100_0449 Sharad Malik ../../../Sabbat/2009/05.27-06.02.09TheGraduationRitual//100_0450 and with Varun Mehra (her assistant) and Jane ../../../Sabbat/2009/05.27-06.02.09TheGraduationRitual//100_0451 as Ruby Dee was entering the building ../../../Sabbat/2009/05.27-06.02.09TheGraduationRitual//100_0452 and Michael Cadden was coming in with Meryl Streep. ../../../Sabbat/2009/05.27-06.02.09TheGraduationRitual//100_0453 Next Meryl Streep and Irv Glassman approached ../../../Sabbat/2009/05.27-06.02.09TheGraduationRitual//100_0454 ../../../Sabbat/2009/05.27-06.02.09TheGraduationRitual//100_0455 and posed ../../../Sabbat/2009/05.27-06.02.09TheGraduationRitual//100_0456 and then Jane ../../../Sabbat/2009/05.27-06.02.09TheGraduationRitual//100_0457 and Sanj Kulkarni and Sandie Bermann posed with Meryl Streep. ../../../Sabbat/2009/05.27-06.02.09TheGraduationRitual//100_0458 I then caught Toni Turano in gown ../../../Sabbat/2009/05.27-06.02.09TheGraduationRitual//100_0459 and Lianne Sullivan-Crowley posed with Jeff Nunokawa ../../../Sabbat/2009/05.27-06.02.09TheGraduationRitual//100_0460 before I captured Jose Huizar ../../../Sabbat/2009/05.27-06.02.09TheGraduationRitual//100_0461 and posed with him ../../../Sabbat/2009/05.27-06.02.09TheGraduationRitual//100_0462 and then saw Sir Gordon Wu without ../../../Sabbat/2009/05.27-06.02.09TheGraduationRitual//100_0463 and with hat. ../../../Sabbat/2009/05.27-06.02.09TheGraduationRitual//100_0464 Frank Moss posed ../../../Sabbat/2009/05.27-06.02.09TheGraduationRitual//100_0465 as did Matt Margolin and Eric Schmidt ../../../Sabbat/2009/05.27-06.02.09TheGraduationRitual//100_0466 and then Peter Wendell and Eric Schmidt ../../../Sabbat/2009/05.27-06.02.09TheGraduationRitual//100_0467 and Matt Margolin and Meaghan Petersack ../../../Sabbat/2009/05.27-06.02.09TheGraduationRitual//100_0468 before we headed out and saw Paul Muldoon. ../../../Sabbat/2009/05.27-06.02.09TheGraduationRitual//100_0469 Steven Healy, Deborah Blanks and Donald Reichling were nice enough to pose and then the parade began. ../../../Sabbat/2009/05.27-06.02.09TheGraduationRitual//100_0470 After lunch, I captured this picture of Stu Orefice and Shana Weber ../../../Sabbat/2009/05.27-06.02.09TheGraduationRitual//100_0471 ../../../Sabbat/2009/05.27-06.02.09TheGraduationRitual//100_0472 a final picture of Varun Mehra ../../../Sabbat/2009/05.27-06.02.09TheGraduationRitual//100_0473 and this picture of Edwin before it was time to call it a year and head off to Iceland. ../../../Sabbat/2009/05.27-06.02.09TheGraduationRitual//100_0474