WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.570 align:middle line:90% 00:00:04.570 --> 00:00:06.070 align:middle line:90% How do I get over that? 00:00:06.070 --> 00:00:09.310 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:00:09.310 --> 00:00:10.850 align:middle line:90% Can you all hear me? 00:00:10.850 --> 00:00:11.710 align:middle line:90% Yes. 00:00:11.710 --> 00:00:14.500 align:middle line:84% If you don't like what I read, it's probably 00:00:14.500 --> 00:00:15.730 align:middle line:90% the microphone's fault. 00:00:15.730 --> 00:00:18.814 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:00:18.814 --> 00:00:20.206 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:00:20.206 --> 00:00:23.260 align:middle line:84% There's something wrong with the PA system, I suppose. 00:00:23.260 --> 00:00:26.466 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:00:26.466 --> 00:00:28.290 align:middle line:90% 00:00:28.290 --> 00:00:34.620 align:middle line:84% During my 45 or so years at the university, 00:00:34.620 --> 00:00:38.820 align:middle line:84% I had the great privilege to work very closely 00:00:38.820 --> 00:00:42.210 align:middle line:90% with four remarkable women. 00:00:42.210 --> 00:00:45.840 align:middle line:84% One of them is Susan Aiken, one of them 00:00:45.840 --> 00:00:55.290 align:middle line:84% is Alison Hawthorne Deming, one of them is Gail Browne, 00:00:55.290 --> 00:00:59.050 align:middle line:90% and one of them is Lois Shelton. 00:00:59.050 --> 00:01:00.300 align:middle line:90% They were all incredible. 00:01:00.300 --> 00:01:03.684 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:01:03.684 --> 00:01:06.130 align:middle line:90% 00:01:06.130 --> 00:01:09.100 align:middle line:84% I'm sure my tenure at the University 00:01:09.100 --> 00:01:11.110 align:middle line:84% would have been quite different without them 00:01:11.110 --> 00:01:14.790 align:middle line:84% and probably much less successful.