Fw: [Fredslist] A Gotham Thanksgiving Story

[elizmb at tiac.net]

Heartwarming & inspirational.  Maybe Jeff will encourage the future generation by speaking with school children to: Dream & Follow your dream.
Happy Thanksgiving,
Elizabeth

Elizabeth Marner-Brooks
Training The Speaking Voice
917-374-8984
Diversity Group

-----Original Message-----
>From: michaelappell at aol.com
>Sent: Nov 25, 2009 10:48 PM
>To: GOTHAM CITY NETWORKING <fredslist at gothamnetworking.com>
>Subject: Fw: [Fredslist] A Gotham Thanksgiving Story
>
>Knowing Fred and Jim I am not the least bit surprised. This is a great Gotham story. We should all take away it's lesson on this Thanksgiving.
>
>Michael Appell
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>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: "James Periconi" <JPericoni at Periconi.com>
>Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:41:00 
>To: Freds List<fredslist at gothamnetworking.com>
>Subject: RE: [Fredslist] A Gotham Thanksgiving Story
>
>Dear Gothamites,
>
>I have a very happy Gotham Thanksgiving tale  - just happened today! -
>to share with all of you!
>
>About five years ago, Fred Klein introduced me to a fine young man,
>somewhat lost but loveable and intelligent, by the name of Jeff Nosanov.
>Jeff needed a job.  I needed an administrative assistant in my law firm,
>especially one who knew computers, as Jeff did.  We hired him.
>
>Well, Jeff (who worked for a year or so for us) just visited me today,
>in New York for a few days from his apartment in Los Angeles.  He
>gratefully told me that he was inspired by our firm not merely to go to
>law school (which I knew he had done) but to stretch and develop a
>specialty - as I had 30 years ago, in environmental law - that hardly
>existed.  In law school, Jeff developed a passion what seemed to be an
>improbably dream: to do SPACE LAW.  It was a field that didn't exist
>then in any way, shape or form.
>
>By the time he finished the conventional three-year law school program
>(at New York Law School), in the spring of 2008, another law school -
>the U. of Nebraska Law School - had in fact just developed the first
>masters program in law (LLM) in Space Law!  
>
>Jeff was the very first graduate of the program (among the seven
>matriculating), this past spring, because he got his thesis completed
>before any of the other students, later published it (Astropolitics,
>Volume 7, Issue 3 September 2009 , pages 206 - 227), and has just
>received not one but two job offers, at a time when top law school grads
>are struggling to find any legal employment. Jeff has been offered a job
>as a compliance officer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which is
>connected to NASA, is the lead US center for robotic exploration of the
>solar system, and which conducts major programs in space-based Earth
>sciences.  
>
>So, Jeff - who held out to do what he began to dream of doing as a
>result of the help he received from Gotham lo those five or so years ago
>- will be part of helping our nation's space program.   You have never
>seen such an excited and appreciative young man!   And it all started
>with Gotham!
>
>        Jim Periconi
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: fredslist-bounces at gothamnetworking.com
>[mailto:fredslist-bounces at gothamnetworking.com] On Behalf Of
>fklein at legal.org
>Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 6:28 PM
>To: Freds List
>Subject: [Fredslist] Tribal Greetings
>
>It is because of Tribes like ours that there is a Thanksgiving and I
>wish you all a most happy day!
>Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
>
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