https://padlet.com/asjames8/g3qfv3tjtg1cty0n en-us 2024-04-03 13:49:19 UTC 2024-04-08 14:58:59 UTC hello@padlet.com asjames8 https://padlet.com/asjames8/g3qfv3tjtg1cty0n/wish/2945674757 My grandfather Geoffrey Nigel James was born on October 4, 1945 in Cairo, Egypt.]]> 2024-04-07 14:49:31 UTC https://padlet.com/asjames8/g3qfv3tjtg1cty0n/wish/2945674757 asjames8 https://padlet.com/asjames8/g3qfv3tjtg1cty0n/wish/2945675499 In 1952, when Poppy was 7 years old, there was a Revolution in Egypt.]]> 2024-04-07 14:50:41 UTC https://padlet.com/asjames8/g3qfv3tjtg1cty0n/wish/2945675499 asjames8 https://padlet.com/asjames8/g3qfv3tjtg1cty0n/wish/2945676238 In 1954, Poppy with his parents and two brothers immigrated to America on the Queen Mary ship. They settled in Albany, New York with Poppy's uncle.]]> 2024-04-07 14:51:59 UTC https://padlet.com/asjames8/g3qfv3tjtg1cty0n/wish/2945676238 asjames8 https://padlet.com/asjames8/g3qfv3tjtg1cty0n/wish/2945679211 In July of 1954, Poppy and his family then moved to the Bronx, to live with a different uncle.]]> 2024-04-07 14:57:16 UTC https://padlet.com/asjames8/g3qfv3tjtg1cty0n/wish/2945679211 asjames8 https://padlet.com/asjames8/g3qfv3tjtg1cty0n/wish/2945679822 Finally, in August 1954 Poppy and his family moved to Forrest Hills, NY because they had a good school system.]]> 2024-04-07 14:58:26 UTC https://padlet.com/asjames8/g3qfv3tjtg1cty0n/wish/2945679822 asjames8 https://padlet.com/asjames8/g3qfv3tjtg1cty0n/wish/2945680521 In 1963, at the age of 18, Poppy got a job working at Kennedy Airport in the reservations department.]]> 2024-04-07 14:59:49 UTC https://padlet.com/asjames8/g3qfv3tjtg1cty0n/wish/2945680521 asjames8 https://padlet.com/asjames8/g3qfv3tjtg1cty0n/wish/2945681103 Poppy went to College at New York University from 1962 to 1966, and he majored in history.]]> 2024-04-07 15:01:01 UTC https://padlet.com/asjames8/g3qfv3tjtg1cty0n/wish/2945681103 asjames8 https://padlet.com/asjames8/g3qfv3tjtg1cty0n/wish/2945682310 Poppy went to medical school at Meharry Medical College in Tennessee from 1967 to 1971.]]> 2024-04-07 15:03:12 UTC https://padlet.com/asjames8/g3qfv3tjtg1cty0n/wish/2945682310 asjames8 https://padlet.com/asjames8/g3qfv3tjtg1cty0n/wish/2945682840 In 1967 Poppy met Linda, his future wife, on a blind date.]]> 2024-04-07 15:04:18 UTC https://padlet.com/asjames8/g3qfv3tjtg1cty0n/wish/2945682840 asjames8 https://padlet.com/asjames8/g3qfv3tjtg1cty0n/wish/2945683898 Geoff and Linda got Married in Brooklyn, NY on January 4, 1969.]]> 2024-04-07 15:05:59 UTC https://padlet.com/asjames8/g3qfv3tjtg1cty0n/wish/2945683898 asjames8 https://padlet.com/asjames8/g3qfv3tjtg1cty0n/wish/2945685120 Their first of four children, Jason (my uncle) was born in New York in 1973.]]> 2024-04-07 15:08:18 UTC https://padlet.com/asjames8/g3qfv3tjtg1cty0n/wish/2945685120 asjames8 https://padlet.com/asjames8/g3qfv3tjtg1cty0n/wish/2945686896 My father Zach, was born in 1979, in Miami, Florida. Poppy delivered my dad at the hospital.]]> 2024-04-07 15:11:38 UTC https://padlet.com/asjames8/g3qfv3tjtg1cty0n/wish/2945686896 asjames8 https://padlet.com/asjames8/g3qfv3tjtg1cty0n/wish/2945968808 In 1976 Poppy moved to Miami and started his own practice as an OBGYN delivering babies at Baptist Hospital.]]> 2024-04-08 00:55:13 UTC https://padlet.com/asjames8/g3qfv3tjtg1cty0n/wish/2945968808