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
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 tells you something about a man, a son of privilege, fighting quietly for a decade for children who
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 tells you something about a man, a son of privilege, fighting quietly for a decade for children who could never imagine such privilege. I think it tells you someth
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 tells you something about a man, a