with Sankaran Sundaresan ( Cehmical Engineering), Karen Bennett (Philosophy) and Daniel Heller-Roazen (Comparative Literature) seated and Ben Ellman (East Asian Studies and History), Bonnie Bassler (Molecular Biology), Sanjeev Kulkarni (Electrical Engineering) and Alan Blinder (Economics) standing. It was set to be quite a weekend. We remember the last wedding in Baltimore that involved the same people and many previous celebrations of Ben's birthday including and 2000 with the sad observation that in 2002 my camera was broken and there was a shortage of new digital cameras. But, it was clearly time for a celebration or 2, so we got ready to roll. So we packed the trunk and so as we did in 2003 we were ready for the Race for the Cure. We even had tomatoes I recalled previous Ben birthday's including and 2000 with the sad observation that in 2002 my camera was broken and there was a shortage of new digital cameras. at which point it was time to return to the basketball game you see this image of him hard at work. Afterwards, the award ceremony began