The Kleiber Family Timeline

Category: General Day to Day

General Events

  • James Bachelor Degree 2025

    The final of three graduations took place at the Wayne State Hall. James had to get there an hour early so we dropped him off then did some exploring on our own before entering into the hall. One of these was walking over the bridge on the Lodge freeway and snapping off a couple pictures of the traffic.

    This was by far the largest of the 3 graduations and was a little more formal as they had a small orchestra or band and they did a great version of the National Anthem as well.

    After the graduation we headed out to Bubba’s for dinner, then came home for more of the graduation cake and James got the remainder of his graduation gifts. A whirlwind experience for the whole family.

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  • French Bachelor Degree Tassle 2025

  • French Language Graduation 2025

    After a beautiful graduation ceremony and graduation cake and gifts, James got up the next day and went right back to work on his second graduation. This was to certify that he is fluent in a second language (last year we sent him to France with this day in mind). This ceremony was at the Wayne State Hall which is located by the soccer/football field. This was a real nice ceremony and was a real pleasure to attend. Everything was broadcasted on the large screen TV so you could say there was not a bad seat in the house. Once this graduation ended, we only had about 2 hours till the next one.

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  • James Receives Honor Degree 2025

  • Honors Graduation 2025

    James had 3 graduations in 2 days. The first was the Honors Graduation which took place a day before the other two. The idea is that the honor students would receive their awards and banners so that they could wear them the next day at their other graduations. This graduation was done in a theater on the Wayne State Campus and was very well done and the speakers were very good and not too long winded. James and the other honor grads stuck around after the ceremony to take some group pictures, Hopefully they turn out ok, but just in case we thought that we would take some too.

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  • End of the School Year 2025

    This was the end of the school year for James as he works towards his 4 year college degree. To celebrate we told him we would take him out. We We picked James up from his Detroit campus and then we took him out for dinner at his favorite restaurant Bubba’s. James had his usual hot wings and everyone had a great time.

    The drive to Detroit is picturesque and beautiful, most people don’t appreciate just how pretty the Detroit skyline is. We are all hoping that they leave the Ren Cen alone as rumors are saying they may take down some of the smaller towers if they do not get tenants for them.
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  • First Day of School 2024

    James began his senior year of college today and we are all very proud of him and his academic achievements.

    It seemed like just yesterday we were dropping him off at kindergarten.

    James has a busy semester planned. He will be at Wayne State again but concentrating more on French Class and Math Class (Calculus 2) rather than his business classes at Mike Illitch which will resume in his second semester.

    Hopefully when the second semester begins we will be talking about a bachelors degree.

  • First Halloween Store Opens 2024

    It seems to happen earlier each year as we went to the first Spirit Halloween store to open near us today.

    This year their theme was Carnival or as they like to say, Carnevil.

    We saw a gruesome looking spider that we liked, but other than that it was mostly clowns… again.

    We didn’t buy anything because we did not have any coupons (you can usually pick up a 20 percent off coupon at their website once the stores open but in this case it was too early even for their website.

    Even though it is early August it is still nice to see the upcoming Halloween decorations.

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  • VIP Camp Party 2024

    Another season of VIP Camp has come to a successful conclusion. James and his friends had a blast this year and we look forward to seeing the participants again in the future as this season just seemed to whip on by. Plenty of activities and games including the annual bowling extravaganza!

  • Mackinaw 2024

    This was our second visit up North this year, but we didn’t have time to make it to Mackinaw when James was receiving his award. So we made a promise to get back up to Mackinaw and while we were only there for a day, we did accomplish our goals.

    Lots of shopping and many of the stores have changed. There are a couple of Psychics there not giving reading which is unique, along with the usual array of tourist traps.

    We stopped into the American Legion there (which is now open to the public, ironic since being able to get a drink at this American Legion was the reason I joined) and enjoyed drinks and chips.

    A perfect day at one of the most beautiful spots on earth.

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