Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
So the English tried to rebuild memories of Jerusalem in England's green and pleasant lands. But since the folks who went there had visions of castles and medieval cathedrals on the way to the Holy Land, they became obsessed with returning that feelings of heraldry and of worship to the Universities that multiplied in all the great cities after the industrial revolution. Birmingham University was the first "Red Brick University to receive a royal charter in 1900, but the Medical School goes back to 1828!
Shield from the arms of the University of Birmingham
Per Ardua Ad Alta "Through efforts to high things"
Birmingham has one of the strongest and most well regarded "such "Red Brick Universities. That's where some 120 or so eager kids of 18 years old bravely walked up the steps, were checked at the security desk, (men with white shirts, ties and jackets and black shoes and women no high heels or nail polish) ....and then we were suddenly immerse in the smell of formaldehyde and the violation of corpse! We lost out nervousness within weeks as we worked so hard to understand every bone, tendon, blood vessel and nerve in the human body!
In the main campus, 15 minutes walk away, there was the great hall in a gothic style and with heritage of a great cathedral. Before the stage was a giant emblem woven into a rich carpet and the instruction, "Per ardua ad alta"
Here is a picture I took at a revisit with my good friend from Pakistan, Ahmed. His wife was in my class too but he was an engineer in the main campus.
Asher Kelman: Ahmed at The great Hall at Birmingham University
Birmingham 2015
Overlapping frames with Ricoh GR
Stitched with Autopano Giga 4.2
We met after 50 years celebrating the Medical School class of 1965.
Shield from the arms of the University of Birmingham
Per Ardua Ad Alta "Through efforts to high things"
Birmingham has one of the strongest and most well regarded "such "Red Brick Universities. That's where some 120 or so eager kids of 18 years old bravely walked up the steps, were checked at the security desk, (men with white shirts, ties and jackets and black shoes and women no high heels or nail polish) ....and then we were suddenly immerse in the smell of formaldehyde and the violation of corpse! We lost out nervousness within weeks as we worked so hard to understand every bone, tendon, blood vessel and nerve in the human body!
In the main campus, 15 minutes walk away, there was the great hall in a gothic style and with heritage of a great cathedral. Before the stage was a giant emblem woven into a rich carpet and the instruction, "Per ardua ad alta"
Here is a picture I took at a revisit with my good friend from Pakistan, Ahmed. His wife was in my class too but he was an engineer in the main campus.
Asher Kelman: Ahmed at The great Hall at Birmingham University
Birmingham 2015
Overlapping frames with Ricoh GR
Stitched with Autopano Giga 4.2
We met after 50 years celebrating the Medical School class of 1965.