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The Dream lives

December 21, 2009

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In 1959 Helmy El-Sherif left Alexandria, Egypt, to study engineering at Michigan State University.  On December 21 he arrived on Pier 44 in New York City.  His great love affair with America began.  He got on a bus and made a long ride through the wintry landscape, fetching up on the campus in East Lansing.  “I […]