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[ applause ] good evening. welcome to tonight s great lives presentation. i would like first to thank the program sponsor for their generous support not this year but for several years now. it s this kind of corporate support along with that from so many of you as individuals that enables the great lives series to thrive. i would like to ask our good friends to please stand so we can acknowledge them. where are you? i know you are there. [ applause ] also, special group with us tonight that i would like to acknowledge. that s the simpson circle. that is a group composed of former mary washington members. they are here tonight. we would like to have them stand so we can acknowledge them. i see you out there. [ applause ] in introducing tonight s speaker, dr. joanne freeman, would you like to mention at the outset that one of her most commendable qualifications is that she received her ph.d from the university. that s right. uva, right. in any case, not long after receiving t
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