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[APPLAUSE]

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Ladies and gentlemen,
it's a great pleasure

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to be here again.

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My wife and I were
here a year ago.

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And then I was here once, I
guess, about over 10 years ago,

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quite a long time ago.

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And in every occasion
we have enjoyed

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the beautiful areas of Arizona
and the wonderful spirit

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of friendship and democracy
that we feel around here.

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I'm glad to say that
my one brother whom

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you may have seen in the movie
has retired or semi-retired

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here.

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So that's another reason for
our delight in coming back.

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I would like to express my
appreciation to Professor Muir

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and--

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as the Head of the Department
who I believe is retiring.

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I don't know how I could express
my thanks to Dick and Lois

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Shelton.

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I think you're very lucky
here to have both of them.

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And Lois is a marvelous
woman in all ways

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and I just want to pay my
respects to the way she

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is running the center.

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Bill Rucker, I got
to know a year ago,

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liked his poetry as well
as that of Dick Shelton.

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And now this year I've had
a class with Peter Wild.

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And I think I'm going to have
one tomorrow with Steve Orlen

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so I want to express my
joy in their being beings.

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I've met some of your
students already.

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And I would like to
say hello in public

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to Ruth Doty and Mark Doty.

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Now we have the--

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we've had a few
minutes of the movie.

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It really moved me to see it.

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In a way, I want to just
go away maybe and not

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have any reading
after that but I'd

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like to read to you for a
shorter time than I would

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if you hadn't seen the movie.

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And I want to begin by
reading two new poems written

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only a month ago,
"Long Term Suffering."

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By the way I assume
that this sound system

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sounds as if it were just fine.

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If anyone can't hear well
would you raise your hands?

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