As some of you may know this is the year Heyn Photography has been dually dreading and looking forward to for many years: The year John Heyn retires from teaching.
We think everyone who works as hard as John has deserves to enjoy some time off but because he was our teacher it makes it a bittersweet farewell. His family and friends organized a massive surprise retirement party for him that included dozens of former-students. It was held in Asbury Park at the Parlor Gallery (which you can rent out-- very fun for anyone looking for engagement party locations!) and John was completely shocked.
Click HERE for the slideshow to see his expression when he realized what was going on.
THANK YOU to everyone who helped and everyone who attended! More pictures to follow (and check out our facebook page to see what photos other people have contributed!)
2 comments:
Moments like these are bittersweet, indeed. Still, it's very sweet to throw a guy a surprise retirement party. It does sound like a wonderful way to to start the senior life of one person. Congrats to him!
John must have been a respected figure, as so many people came to give him their best wishes on his retirement party. The pictures from the event are wonderful and everyone appears to be having a great time. My dad also retired from teaching just a few weeks ago, and his students and colleagues had organizes a small but lovely retirement party at the nearby event space Atlanta.
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