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What's In A Name?

What’s In A Name?

Sometimes changing a corporate or event name can be distressing to some people who are inexplicably wed to the past. Such is the case with the parade held every year in Grosse Pointe during the Thanksgiving Day weekend.  A mere suggestion of tweaking the name to The Hometown Parade brought out a cadre of doomsayers who objected to the name change.  Time and print space will not allow the recitation of all the companies and events that have changed names over the years and have somehow survived the event.  Heck, the Parisian Department store is now Carsons.  J.L. Hudson’s is now Macys. And in so far as parades, the Philadelphia Thanksgiving parade started as Gimbels Thanksgiving Day Parade and after several iterations is now called the 6abc Dunkin Donuts Thanksgiving Day Parade! And who can forget the Poulan/Weedeater Football Bowl?  Wow!  So name changing is really a way of life.  Sure there are people who are still living in the past with their feet solidly encased in cement so as not to make any movements, but for the majority of us we welcome change.  So let’s all take a deep breath and embrace change in events, corporations and even baby names unless the baby’s name is the latest Kardashian - North West!  See you at the Grosse Pointe Parade - whatever it’s called!

Bill Kalmar

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