APPOINTMENT TO THE SOUTHFIELD TOTAL LIVING COMMISSION
Monday, 16 June 2003
Standing in front of the Southfield Civic Center, on Evergreen Road. Power is only an hour away.
Waiting to be sworn in. To my left: Board of Review member June Kohler, and soon-to-be Total Living Commissioner Anzley Morrell. To my right: soon-to-be Board of Canvassers member Linnie Mae Taylor.
Being sworn in by City Clerk Nancy L. M. Banks.
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Shaking hands with Mayor Brenda Lawrence. Far left: Councilman Jonathan Brateman.
Shaking hands with Councilman Kenson Siver, who first recommended me. Behind me: Council President Nida Samona, Council President Pro Tem Myron Frasier.
Those red eyes -- they aren't from the camera flash.
With (from left) my sister, Julia Waldman; my mother, Pris Hill; my cousin, Katie Orloff; and my aunt, Cindy Hill.
In front of the Southfield skyline, and next to the new Southfield Public Library, which had opened the same day.
In front of the Civic Center.
Reading the Constitution with Mark Twain in the atrium of the Library.
"I do understand power, whatever else may be said about me. I know where to look for it, and how to use it."
Lyndon Baines Johnson