Reply #64: Kobe story, sort of [View All]

[lolly]

Kobe was exactly 1 year after Northridge--I remember b/c I was in the audience at Cal State Northridge when Clinton came to speak for the ceremony re-opening their library. Kept my 2 girls out of school to see him. There were 1000's of people there--and the crowd got within feet of him. I was in the wrong place at the wrong time to get a handshake, but I did get some pix!

Anyway, the Kobe quake overshadowed the ceremony a bit--we had a moment of silence for the victims. It was much worse than Northridge's--several hundred people died, if I remember correctly.

Also, one of my students was from Kobe--she took a week off to go home to be with her family.