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Methodist university. Its about an hour. [applause] thank you very much for that opening and welcome to all of you. We are looking forward to spending the next hour with you here. I thought i would start by expanding just a little bit on the introductions of our two distinguished panelists here. And then we will move the conversation through some areas of specific topics and then we will open it up to questions. I think you are given little blue cards as you came into the room. As you think of questions please write them down pass them to abandon the end and some folks will come by and pick them up and bring them up here and we will reserve the last portion of the meeting for some questions. So, let me start by telling just a little bit more about Alfredo Corchado. There aresome things you are do you know about him that he was born in mexico where his umbilical cord is still buried. He is the oldest of nine and moved as a young child to the United States with his family, first to calif
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Them it was simple. My mom went here. My mom went to usc. She started here in 1957. Mom knows best. Congratulations to the parents of the class of. 14. Congratulations to my mother. I loved it here. I was loved being here. I was loved being here on this beautiful campus and i loved the incredible student body and going out to the athletic games. I loved the fraternity lifestyle. I love my Marshall School of business and my entrepreneur program. I loved all the great musical programs and dance programs and all the great things we have it usc that make us a special and unique. I will tell you i love the student body here. I love the diversity of it. I love the meritocracy of it. I love the spirituality of it. Moree that it usc we have catholics than that notre dame. Which i think is a college in the midwest. Is that right . Jews here then brandeis. More hindus here and theres a lot of people like me who are grateful to god for this glorious day. I will tell you i was sitting out here not
Live in this moment, graduates. Live in this moment, good parents. Live in this moment deans, provost and president turner. Today you can say you have done well. For tomorrow, you ride. You ride on a journey into your future. This journey, like the season of life, is long at least we all hope it is. Life, is long at least we all hope it is. Its not just for one moment, not one game, not one play but a series of great moments. We must know when its time to kick yourself and when its time to pat yourself. Today is one of those back pat moments. I understand your anxiety. You must be asking what your journey holds. I remember leaving boston after i graduated from college, driving west on i90 to texas. For me, singer james taylor said it best in his song sweet baby james, when he sang now the first of december was covered with snow and so was the turnpike from stockbridge to boston though the berkshires seemed dreamlike on account of that frosting with 10 miles behind me and 10,000 more to