This Blogger has an emotional and familial connection to Columbia University, in New York City. As Readers of this Blog know; this Blogger is a very late child. When he was born, he had two brothers, a generation older than he. One fought  the Nazis in Italy and Southern France; one fought the Imperial Japanese on Saipan. In fact the inside family joke was that this Blogger was conceived; in case one of his brothers did not come back from the  war. Very Sparta. The Saipan brother came home, and used his G.I. Bill to obtain his Bachelors and Masters from Columbia University. One of his proudest memorabilia was his diplomas, signed by the then President of the university, General Dwight David Eisenhower. In was through my brother’s good graces, that this Blogger got to meet Kerensky, the  revolutionary head of the democratic Provisional government of pre-Bolshevik  Russia; who had Lenin in his power and yet did not execute him, dooming millions to horrific fates. Kerensky was very Joe