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My nephew Joe got his medical degree from Wayne State University School of Medicine on Tuesday.  Here are some videos I shot, the first one is the “hood ceremony” from Sunday, at Chene Park (and coinciding with the air show on the Detroit River); and the second one is the commencement itself, at Fox Theatre in Detroit.

From WDIV.  Supposedly, my nephew Joe is somewhere in this video…

It’s part of the benefit of a last name starting with “A”: not only do you get a front row seat for your commencement ceremony, but you might get photographed for the local paper.  Before my nephew Joe’s parents came back home Sunday, they discovered their son was on the front page of the “Local/State” section (Section B) of the Kalamazoo Gazette.

Joe made it into the news—and it wasn’t the Police Blotter

Congratulations, this time, to my nephew Joe who received his Bachelor of Arts from Kalamazoo College this morning.

The Quad, taken from K College’s “fair Arcadian hill”

Joe, in the front row, during the processional

Joe, flanked by brothers Jake on the left and John on the right

    (P.S.: This timely entry was made possible by the Sky High Speed wireless network here at the Comfort Inn, Kalamazoo MI.)

Joe is back home again.  He left Ecuador at seven this morning, with a lengthy stop at Miami.  His American Airlines flight touched down at 10:13 tonight, and I brought my camcorder with me when we picked him up at the airport…