It’s 1986 and I’m graduating from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. \u00a0After 8.5 years of Architecture school, 2 degrees and one minor, I finally have my professional education under my belt. \u00a0The GSD was very good to me, although it didn’t feel that way at the beginning. Our first Architectural History class Professor Edward Sekler says to us students, “if you’re undergraduate taking this class the grade scale is A through E. If you’re a graduate student, A is pass, and B is fail.” \u00a0There was an audible moan from the audience, mostly undergraduate students. \u00a0This set the tone, I was off and running\u2026 and running with some very intelligent and gifted classmates.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n Above, graduation in Harvard Yard. Every year they plant new grass in the spring and put up fences to no one walks on it. \u00a0Really looks beautiful when it grows in, then there’s graduation and the whole place turns to mud, until next spring when they repeat the process.<\/p>\n All around great guy J. Barnes (in center) who, moving from Columbus, Ohio like me to Boston offered to help carry my stuff in a truck he rented, for a small fee to help cover costs, and did so delivering my stuff to my new apartment without complaint. \u00a0Thanks JB who now has a very successful firm in Columbus (names abbreviated to avoid unwanted google tracks).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Good friend and classmate on the right, M. Davis, who help guide me to a nice neighborhood in Brooklyn. \u00a0Owner of a very cool firm in NYC and also has an antique shop.<\/p>\n![\"1986-harvard-5\"](\"http:\/\/www.simpletwig.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/1986-harvard-5.jpg\")
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