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Commencement at Juniata College, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania


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Graduating after many detours to Haverford, a huge detour to Athens, Meteora, Santorini, plus Paris and London.....and post graduation, a big trip to the American West with Elise, all in his legendary Subaru (not the Europe detour, silly! Though, come to think of it, with all the stuff he's done to that car, maybe it DID find a way to float to Europe.......)

I was lucky enough to also be close to Stephen Alexander whom Sacha has known since he was 11, they went to high school together and then to college. Stephen is shown toward the beginning of the series. You want to see captions? Click on the pic!!

g1/84/11484/3/114039847.Fz4wvcQC.jpg OK...so they come in from the back of the gym..... .....profs first, of course
utterly regaled, as it should be ...followed by the grads (Stephen) as his name is Alexander, he is second in line
....and waiting for the rest to congregate aha...Sacha appears at the back of the gym and makes HIS way to the seating
done! a colorful faculty rise for the anthem ditto for the students
(and everyone else...... things get underway...... tassels to the left and paying attention
this guy was smart, funny, an alum..... the best address I've ever heard at a commencement ...but onward!
Stephen, the second to ascend... and get hooded g3/84/11484/3/114040019.1M6i2wGA.jpg
returning in style happy..... g1/84/11484/3/114040031.VyoeK1Kl.jpg
60 minutes later Sacha is in line..... ...on stage..... .....saluting
and racing across to the hood ...this sequence rocks! g1/84/11484/3/114040332.EMPRaWdU.jpg
g1/84/11484/3/114040335.ILappvoN.jpg g1/84/11484/3/114040336.Fxs6sGGg.jpg walking back
and back to his place ...now this oh so complicated ritual of....
moving tassels from their right to their left ...the symbolic graduation gesture.. ...I guess...
...the end.  Getting ready to run... ...and they're off! ...and heading outside
g1/84/11484/3/114040756.z44WBtJu.jpg g1/84/11484/3/114041367.B1YagmoO.jpg to the gracious applause
of their teachers..... Wow! not the phone...
bye...... let's get this straight..... Are you serious?
...things get quiet for an instant. ..another consult Group #1
g1/84/11484/3/114041413.0aqqMnWG.jpg I cloned out a fire hydrant, lower right That's a pretty happy Dad!
...this is a big hug time..... see? That group again...
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Ann, Sacha and Elise..... Maid in the shade... g1/84/11484/3/114043308.laddt9f7.jpg
g1/84/11484/3/114043309.3dhopIH6.jpg g1/84/11484/3/114043300.3sekFCtc.jpg g1/84/11484/3/114043311.BxqtpJiN.jpg
g1/84/11484/3/114041397.i5QEgyPp.jpg ...a touch of Hogwarts (?) ...and a very cool hug!!!!!!!!!!
friends disrobed, redressed and reunited at... their collective barbecue.  'Twas good stuff! poised to leave for Grand Canyon
5,600 miles later......back!