I love this photo. It’s my graduation day in
2005. I had been through two ceremonies the day before for Newhouse, where I
got my photoj degree, and arts and science, for my anthropology degree. This
day was the graduation ceremony with the entire graduating class and our
speaker began by speaking in chimpanzee.
Yep, it’s the awesome Jane Goodall. When
she looked down on the sea of cap and gowns she would have seen inflatable apes
being tossed around and monkeys hanging from nearly every student’s mortarboard.
My biological anthropology professor must have been going mental since neither
or those are Chimpanzees!
After the ceremony I took my family (my
mom, sister and my niece and nephew) to our photo studio to take a family
portrait and then we headed over to the Schine Student Centre (I totally had to
Google that because I couldn’t remember the name) and we queued up to have
books signed by Goodall.
When it was our turn I asked if I could
have a photo taken with her and she agreed. You can see how thrilled she is to
have her photo taken with me! I still love this photo because it was the first
time I’d met someone famous who I actually admired and I had just spent the
last four years studying her work.
I found a video of her commencement speech
but you have to fast forward through the rest of the ceremony so it may not be
worth it unless you really have an interest in Syracuse University’s graduating
class of 2005.
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