Excellent and go sanitize about Lessons Learned in the classroom. Hopefully learned lessons today you can take back to the office and try and help the young people who work for you. Thank you all for being here. Thank you to our panel and enjoy bea. [applause] thank you for your questions. [applause] [inaudible conversations] now, more from our set at the expo america. Jeff hobbs, when did you first meet rob koreans . First aid freshman year at college. We randomly assigned to live in the same room. He was there when i arrived. He was a quiet, black man. He said what he said. It was a frantic day. His mother was there and slowly, very slowly our friendship developed. Wordage out of college . We went to yale. Rob and i thought at first over the irony i suppose that i was a white guy from the country or ran sprints for the track team and he was a black guy from the third who played water polo. He was the captain of the team. It was remarkable to watch and play initiation for that team found him wearing a toga in the dining hall he gave it his all. How did your friendship evolve . Again, slowly and through, you know, just through proximity. But in the same place we talked about girls. We talked about school. He was a giants fan. I was an eagles fan. We talked a lot about that. You know, youre laughing, gathering with people. But you know, you really become friends once you start observing someone at their weaker moments on both sides, you know, times when he was upset, times when he got off the phone with his mother is that the words you are my heart. You know, that is how you truly develop a friendship. How and where . Rob grew up in a neighborhood called orange, a township in fact about three miles from downtown newark. At the time, the neighborhood was nicknamed hilltown. It is the second highest concentration of africanamerican People Living below the poverty line in america behind east st. Louis. The police did not make regular patrols because they were answering 911 calls all the time. His father was a very good father. He adored his father. His father was arrested and later convicted for a double homicide when he was seven years old. His mother sacrificed everything to nurture his very rare intellect to keep him from being swallowed by the neighborhood he was born into. She sent him to a Catholic School that taught pacifism and patience, principles that did not mesh very well with the blocks that he grew up on. He attended a very prestigious Benedictine Prep School for young man, mostly young men from the inners vikki and there he flourished in the spirit of discipline and brotherhood he became leader of the school. He earned admission to heal. An alum of the school who is a very wealthy banking what nice wrote him a blank check for college. So he got a full ride to yale . Did he graduate . Yes, he graduated from yale. Did you graduate . I did. We graduated on the same day. Was their Culture Shock in any way from mr. P. s going from new haven to yale . Fairways. He was churning inside. He would never let anybody see that. He carried himself, you know, with order and strength pretty much at all times. There was one night i came home to wirerimmed and he was sitting alone in the dark. He looked like sort of a clenched fist the size of a man. I had seen him annoyed about this and that, but id never seen him like this with the fury cooking inside a pen. He was working in the dining hall at the time, washing the dishes. A group of kids left their traces in a big mass on the tables. He asked them to clean it out. I doubt that they realized he was a classmate of tears. They mustve thought he just worked in the dining hall and they walked away. He cleaned up their plates on their trays and then he put his fist in the wall. So the answer is who is stressful for him from a very young age in order to nurture his own intellect and drive and a neighborhood where those trades could literally get you hurt from a young age he learned how to can tame any stress or conflict he was feeling as he passed through all these different environments. Jeff hobbs, what was your parents reaction to having an africanamerican roommate after earning your way into yale . Thats a good question. I was ranked runner. I ran the hurdles, so you know, i ran for the junior Olympic Track Team in my area. I spent my summers riding and sharing motile, six rooms with mostly black teammate. I felt very comfortable with some of the lingo. They called me an honorary black man. I tried to show this to rob when i first met him. He think whether out of amusement or to preserve my dignity did not clue man on the fact that we came from very different worlds and if you track me did not make us any more alike in that respect. You know, i think a mom whos very hard by the fact my room would include some diversity. We are two other roommates. One was a teammate on the track team who is black and the other was a suburban guy like me. It was interesting when we all arrived to the rue, there were two rooms off the common room with bunk beds in each room and we were deciding who is going to be in which room. Without discussing it, we all understood that the right thing to do would be to mix our races in the bunk bed. You now, so there were subtle racial dynamic site with day. We were all in a new place for the first time. Why did she write this book . It now, rob was my best friend for four years when i watched him receive his zeal diploma in 2002, he seemed not just destined, but chosen to fulfill all of his dreams, on the expectations people had for him. Obviously he didnt. He was murdered by men in ski masks. And i was at his funeral just wondering what happened in the nine years, what happened during the first 18 years of his life, what happened during the four years that i knew had that would precipitate, i dont know if you call it fate, but it ends such as various. You know, rob was the one who is without a doubt going to succeed spectacularly. He was