I spent the morning with my new buddy in India

Make no mistake, I love (in a work kind of way of course) my new colleagues in India. They introduce a new dimension to my job in that sometimes when I get to work in the morning, I can’t just schlep in to work and hang out in my cube for a while until I figger out what I do for a living. Nowadays, when I get there, I often wake up to email from our new colleagues over in India. I love interacting with them, especially Inderdeep. I love his name and I think that India is going to take over the world.

So, the [newly retaaarrred] GG headed off on a mission that he promised last Labor Day weekend. He went looking for a table that Henry Sherman had carved his name on back when he went to college at the University of Michigan shortly after the turn of the *last* century. 1906 to be precise. Here is the Tap Room in the Umich student union. We don’t think they serve beer here by the way.

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And then there is this table that for some reason has been included in the wall in the Umich student union.

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Sherman. Henry Sherman carved his name into this table back in 1906.

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Henry Sherman is the father of a few of my dad’s best friends and the granddaddy of my buddy Dan and his siblings and cousins. I love this and I know that Henry would be glad that Dan and I grew up knowing each other and have re-connected as adults. That is all and love is all there is.

2 Responses to “I spent the morning with my new buddy in India”

  1. jane Says:

    very cool – I don’t think I’ve seen that table top or the tap room. as for India – just got off a 7:00 am call with a couple India co-workers. I don’t always love it the way you do, but it is an interesting cultural learning experience!

  2. Margaret Says:

    Love the connections and the history in this post!