Well, what can I say? Today Jennifer and her friend Regine and I spent the day shopping in San Francisco and in Oakland. We also ran several errands that Jennifer needed to do prior to her departure from San Francisco for the summer. In early June she leaves for a conference in Thailand followed by a wedding of two friends and colleagues in India followed by some research time in South Africa followed by some vacation time in Ireland and France prior to starting her post-doctorate appointment at the University of Louisville Center for the Study of Asian Democracy. Of course we are very excited about this appointment since this means that Jennifer will be living closer to us starting in August than she has lived since she left for college in Chicago in 1993! And Harold's master's degree in social work is from the University of Louisville, so that's fun connection. And then there is the bourbon interest and the Kentucky Colonel association, and Harold's birth place in southeast Kentucky, and horse racing, etc.! All fun!
Harold took the BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) from San Francisco to Oakland to meet us and we went to one of Jennifer's professor's home for a party for his doctoral students. The professor is Steve Vogel, a Japanese scholar and political economist whose father is an Ohio Wesleyan graduate who served on the OWU board of trustees in the early 1980's when I was appointed to the board. Yes, it's a small world! This was another enjoyable celebration for the graduates and near graduates and their families. There were additional students whom we had not met so that was fun, too. And of course Dr. Vogel continued his praise of Jennifer and her research and her contributions to the academic life at Berkeley! More pride!
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