In your institutions, why that is so important. He was a great mentor, and i couldnt have imagined or thought of anyone better to sit next to in my first years in public office. He taught me how to be a Public Servant and human being and most importantly how to be a good father and always there for his kids, always, and thats the milton marks i will remember. Thank you. [applause] thank you steve. Now really a pleasure and honor to welcome abbey marks. Abbey levinson marks and i can say that my mom for those that dont know introduced abbey and million dollarson to each other. She didnt do that often but she had that feeling. Abbey thanks for having us here and were happy to bring us to a concluding thought and memory of your own about milton. [applause] thank you all so much for being here today. I would like to think wherever he is milton is getting to take this all in. All of you remembering him, your stories about him, this tribute to him. He would have loved it and he would have lo
Said let me find out what this guy is about. Lets talk and that was very fitting because thats exactly how i knew him to operate as a Public Servant and a person. He wanted to talk about the china town campus and talk about my background. He asked if we should build a campus, and i said its something that we should do and there was certainly overwhelming support for the campus, but characteristic of his style and his principles he was never afraid to question power, or to question the popular way, and he had many good points, and that was very typical of what i have known him to be as a servant at city college. It was very difficult in his position, often being the one vote out of seven, often finding rubber stamping of a decision, fighting the way we were spending our money for ten years. Ten years he was in a position most of the time alone trying to speak up and say why are we doing this . Were running the college into the ground. This shouldnt be the way things should be, and when
Afraid to question power, or to question the popular way, and he had many good points, and that was very typical of what i have known him to be as a servant at city college. It was very difficult in his position, often being the one vote out of seven, often finding rubber stamping of a decision, fighting the way we were spending our money for ten years. Ten years he was in a position most of the time alone trying to speak up and say why are we doing this . Were running the college into the ground. This shouldnt be the way things should be, and when i got into the board and i concluded the same thing and i said milton god bless you. I couldnt have been here for ten years and put up with this stuff. And he just laughed and smiled and thank god he had been there for the people of San Francisco for city college and more importantly the students of that institutionifieding that fight when no one really cared about what was happening over there. It was very easy not to care. I think that tel
A person we should admire and he is someone we should celebrate. Thank you. [applause] and before we hear from abbey i would like to welcome steve noe from the city College Board. Thank you abbey for giving me an opportunity to speak about milton today. Some of you may have heard that city college is facing some troubles; that we are at risk of losing our license to operate a college, and some of you may have heard that there is a as there should be a cause to Save City College, to keep it from going under. What some of you may not know is that milton marks for over a decade on the board was trying to Save City College before it became a popular cause, long before it was attention of Media Attention or the focus of some of the leaders in San Francisco. The model of city college of San Francisco is the truth may make you free, and for 20 years or so the college lost its way. It stopped abiding by its own motto. Fortunately milton often alone fought to have the college stay true to its m
Institutional effectiveness and how things were getting done and he would hold me accountable for the plans we were working on to challenge the status quo and if we were not succeeding he would tell me there was a problem, and that was great incentive when milton told you quietly you have to continue. So im grateful for all this, all this that he has taught me. I am very grateful. You know milton marks is someone that we should honor here and everywhere. Hes also a person we should admire and he is someone we should celebrate. Thank you. [applause] and before we hear from abbey i would like to welcome steve noe from the city College Board. Thank you abbey for giving me an opportunity to speak about milton today. Some of you may have heard that city college is facing some troubles; that we are at risk of losing our license to operate a college, and some of you may have heard that there is a as there should be a cause to Save City College, to keep it from going under. What some of you ma