Say "Cheese!" to the Mayor

I'll post more pics after I sort through them. But for starters, an amusing anecdote from last night's BoE Organization Meeting, which began with a swearing-in ceremony for new Board members.

It was a packed house. Among those in attendance was Mayor Dawn Zimmer, who puzzled the audience by getting up to photograph the first member sworn in, Jean Marie Mitchell. Why was the mayor snapping away at the front of the room for Ms. Mitchell's swearing in? And why photograph only her and not the other new Board members?

Jean Marie Mitchell is sworn in with her son Andrew and proud mother at her side... but why is the Mayor taking their picture?

I asked Jean Marie later what that was all about.

Apparantly JM's mother had no idea that the young woman sitting beside her on the left was Hoboken's mayor; her mom lives out-of-town, in Old Bridge, NJ. So when her daughter's name was called for the swearing-in, Mom handed Mayor Zimmer her personal camera and asked her to snap some pics! JM told me that she'd whispered "That's the Mayor!", but obviously her mom missed "the Mayor" part.

And Jean Marie speculated that her mother, on her way back to Old Bridge, still didn't know she'd asked Hoboken's mayor to memorialize her special moment on film.

Mayor Zimmer was a great sport, by the way.