A lifelong friend of milton marks and his family at least going back a generation and its really my honor today on behalf of miltons family, friends and his wife abbey and his sons and nathan and will and theo and you will be hearing from this afternoon. Its really my honor to welcome you to this commennation of the life and spirit of our irreplaceable friend miltion marks. Today we will hear tributes and memories from those that knew milton in many aspects of his life and work, and i think together these memories and tributes will begin to form a mosaic of the multidimensional man he was. I use that word because i wrote it yesterday afternoon want thinking of the mosaic of words, and the word cloud that abbey and will and you collaborated on to express the many dimensions of milton markses and you can look at those expressions of milton and likely add your own. Like i said you will be from a number of folks giving their thoughts and tributes to milton today and please stay for the rec
Me you dont cut the trees down. We have to take care of our environment. We need a rich canopy of trees in the city and this what is means to so many people, and he was one of strong voice bs our environment. He has been known for that and in the years of 2000 he took up the College Trustee on the board. Many of you know in the past years he was passionate about his work at city college. He knew, and again we had the opportunity to share what we got out of college and what so many generations of youth would want and desire in our city college. He was leading the effort in my opinion to restore and to elevate the level of integrity and transparency at our city college. He demanded that of the other trustees as well as the administration. He went through some hard times as a trustee and shared with members here of the difficult years when things werent as transparent as they should have been and integrity wasnt at the top of someones mindful priorities but this is something he stood for.
Irreplaceable friend miltion marks. Today we will hear tributes and memories from those that knew milton in many aspects of his life and work, and i think together these memories and tributes will begin to form a mosaic of the multidimensional man he was. I use that word because i wrote it yesterday afternoon want thinking of the mosaic of words, and the word cloud that abbey and will and you collaborated on to express the many dimensions of milton markses and you can look at those expressions of milton and likely add your own. Like i said you will be from a number of folks giving their thoughts and tributes to milton today and please stay for the reception afterwards. Sign the guest books which are now outside. Some of you may have come in before they were placed and together we will create our word cloud and mosaic of milton. To begin its my honor to introduce the mayor of San Francisco, the honorable edwin lee. Thank you peter. Good afternoon everyone. Welcome to city hall. Its my h
House here tonight and letting we really appreciate it we know that you ran from the game to get here and so we really appreciate your commitment to our community and we are happy that you are here to celebrate this momentous day with us. We have an Awesome Community here, we are here to celebrate the awesomeness of our community the dedication of our community and, you know we are hebe here to serve all of you so really this award should go to everybody here in our community. Thank you very much. applause . And i just want to echo jeffs words and say thank you for having us here today and thank you all for joining us and we look forward to many more arab heritage month celebrations and as well as our Bigger Community center and you know, through all of the different work that we do in different arab organization, Different Community organizationings its about strengthening our community and contributing to the amazing Cultural Land scam of our city and we are very thankful to here tod
Aspects of his life and work, and i think together these memories and tributes will begin to form a mosaic of the multidimensional man he was. I use that word because i wrote it yesterday afternoon want thinking of the mosaic of words, and the word cloud that abbey and will and you collaborated on to express the many dimensions of milton markses and you can look at those expressions of milton and likely add your own. Like i said you will be from a number of folks giving their thoughts and tributes to milton today and please stay for the reception afterwards. Sign the guest books which are now outside. Some of you may have come in before they were placed and together we will create our word cloud and mosaic of milton. To begin its my honor to introduce the mayor of San Francisco, the honorable edwin lee. Thank you peter. Good afternoon everyone. Welcome to city hall. Its my honor and pleasure to welcome all of you here on this reflection and celebration event, and just wanted to make su