It welcomed first-generation immigrants, people who came primarily from Philadelphia, only four miles away, and from Camden yet felt unwelcome in such upscsale towns as Haddonfield or Moorestown.
This inside-out approach was flimsy, but it worked for a time and was a welcomed first step.
I'm a professor, and every fall I welcome first-year students into my class.
We welcomed first a baby girl and then second a handsome little boy.
Until recently it had been an upper-division- only institution, but it welcomed its first class of freshmen (218) and sophomores (101) to campus in the fall.
Long before Oxford had dreaming spires it welcomed its first foreign student for whom records exist: Emo of Friesland, in 1190.
Mr. Christie, an office manager who has lived in the building since 1997 when it welcomed its first residents, said that though he welcomes the camaraderie, he is more concerned with how the noise might be affecting his health.
The ODI is due to get £10m ($16m) over the next five years from the Technology Strategy Board, a government agency, to which it expects to add some private finance: this week it welcomed its first slug, $750,000 from Omidyar Network, a philanthropic investment firm.
It has just been renovated by the Landmark Trust, which rents out dozens of properties across the UK, and it welcomed its first overnight guests last month (there are open days for visitors tomorrow and Monday).
Even before it welcomed its first paying customer the day after Thanksgiving, fashion magazines had stopped by for photos and parties, the New York Knicks had staged a celebration there and Woody Allen had given a party for his cast and crew after wrapping a production.
The work has been so influential, in fact, that staying the night in a Bauhaus bedroom, almost 90 years after it welcomed its first students, feels a bit like having a sleepover in an Ikea room set and being haunted by ancestral relics of the flatpack.
