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| TwoC-A students ready their cameras as they wait for President Obama to take the stage at HVCC. Photo contributed |
C-A students see President Obama at HVCC
By Liam Griffin
For Hudson-Catskill Newspapers
TROY — I was midway through a trip to Michigan when I was surprised with an invitation of monumental significance.
By the way Mrs. Kearney described it, I could have easily sold the opportunity to any one of the faculty members for a hefty sum.
But in the car, eight hours into the trip, it was promptly settled that my family would end the trip earlier than expected in order to be in Coxsackie on that day — Monday, Sept. 21.
The opportunity to meet the president is undoubtedly rare, to say the least. However, there we were, the Coxsackie-Athens Circuit, among the media elite in the press box at the tech center at HVCC.
We got the chance to talk to one of the reporters seated next to us. He was in all likelihood just as ecstatic as we were.
“I’ve spent 28 years as a reporter for a paper in Washington, but never once have I had the good fortune to cover the President like this,” the reporter said. It was talk like that that bustled among some of the other local reporters in the press box. It was a bit like being invited as a VIP to a party you weren’t supposed to attend in the first place.
My fellow reporters, the college students that were invited, and the surging crowd of politicians and dignitaries all failed to stifle their excitement and anxiety. When word of President Obama’s arrival via Air Force One reached the auditorium, conversation intensified.
We all prepared for a hard-hitting speech that would address the livelihood of the Capital Region, and its community colleges’ role in the future of America.
Liam Griffin is a student at Coxsackie-Athens High School.
By the way Mrs. Kearney described it, I could have easily sold the opportunity to any one of the faculty members for a hefty sum.
But in the car, eight hours into the trip, it was promptly settled that my family would end the trip earlier than expected in order to be in Coxsackie on that day — Monday, Sept. 21.
The opportunity to meet the president is undoubtedly rare, to say the least. However, there we were, the Coxsackie-Athens Circuit, among the media elite in the press box at the tech center at HVCC.
We got the chance to talk to one of the reporters seated next to us. He was in all likelihood just as ecstatic as we were.
“I’ve spent 28 years as a reporter for a paper in Washington, but never once have I had the good fortune to cover the President like this,” the reporter said. It was talk like that that bustled among some of the other local reporters in the press box. It was a bit like being invited as a VIP to a party you weren’t supposed to attend in the first place.
My fellow reporters, the college students that were invited, and the surging crowd of politicians and dignitaries all failed to stifle their excitement and anxiety. When word of President Obama’s arrival via Air Force One reached the auditorium, conversation intensified.
We all prepared for a hard-hitting speech that would address the livelihood of the Capital Region, and its community colleges’ role in the future of America.
Liam Griffin is a student at Coxsackie-Athens High School.
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