Good afternoon. And welcome to todays distinguished speakers scare on series. And to open the program to lay we are delighted to open up for this very special event and in the history of Dicks Sporting Goods which i could get the book early and read its a great book and a great story if you have not gotten a chance i strongly urge you to do that we are glad to have you here today and welcome you home. Welcoming our invited guest in particular to the new Vision Business Academy students and the district of our region here today in particular if you are not familiar with University Forum its a Membership Organization to bring together people who share a commitment to the university and our Great Community to strengthen the bond between the two our mission is to enter energize and engage in in which the university as we work to establish the premier university and welcome any of you that are interested to join the membership it brings great people together for outstanding events just like
Good afternoon. And welcome to todays distinguished speakers scare on series. And to open the program to lay we are delighted to open up for this very special event and in the history of Dicks Sporting Goods which i could get the book early and read its a great book and a great story if you have not gotten a chance i strongly urge you to do that we are glad to have you here today and welcome you home. Welcoming our invited guest in particular to the new Vision Business Academy students and the district of our region here today in particular if you are not familiar with University Forum its a Membership Organization to bring together people who share a commitment to the university and our Great Community to strengthen the bond between the two our mission is to enter energize and engage in in which the university as we work to establish the premier university and welcome any of you that are interested to join the membership it brings great people together for outstanding events just like
The proud superintendent of the School District and this years chair of the forum. Today we are delighted to open our program to a number of members of Community Members outside of the forum for this very special event where we can hear from our own native, ed stack as he highlights the history of Dicks Sporting Goods in his new book, its how we play the game which i was able to get a little early and read and it is just a great book and great story and if you not got a chance i strongly encourage you to do that. We are thrilled to have you here today and welcome you home to share your story. I want to welcome our invited guest in particular i wanted to draw attention to the [inaudible] new Vision Business Academy students and students from the district of our region and we are thrilled to have them here today in particular. So for those of you who are not familiar with the forum it is a Membership Organization that brings people who share commitments for advancing universities and our