Wow, what a great day. All the speakers have been wonderful and I’m especially proud of our students, Roland, Jacqueline, Mina. What a great job. Thank you so much. That is our future. So it is my privilege to formally welcome you to Gainesville, land of bad hair days, the University of Florida, and our college. I don’t have the clicker. Thank you. Thank you very much. Give her back some time. We’re very proud of our building and this is the home of the Carel Chair in Public Interest Communications. This meeting is yours. This is your community and we are so proud and it’s such a pleasure to host you. And it’s made possible, our ability to facilitate this meeting was made possible by Frank Carel because he loved this university so much. And we recognize that our role is to be a part of a larger conversation with so many practitioners in the field and academics who are studying this field. And it is our fondest wish that over time we’ll be one of several institutions of higher learning that are dealing with this field, that are working with you hand in glove to elevate this field. I first became aware of the Carel Chair in Public Interest Communications when I decided to throw my hat in the ring for the position of Dean. I had chosen journalism because of its service mission so naturally something called Public Interest Communications had a great deal of appeal for me. And I could not wait to talk with Ann Cristiano. When we finally got together she talked so much about what an amazing mentor Frank Carel had been to her. And as we traveled around the country together I met other acolytes of Frank who told similar stories of the influence that he’d had over their lives and careers and over the lives and careers of people they knew. I wanted so much to be a part of this community and I’m not proud of this but I began to experience the little Frank envy. That was until Ann gave me a copy of this. This is Frank’s autobiography Tales of a Cracker Boyhood. It turns out that both Frank and I grew up in Central Florida and so many of the places and events he wrote about were very familiar to me. And then there it was on page 46. Frank wrote about his Aunt Bonnie who played a very influential role in his life. And it turns out that Aunt Bonnie lived in an enclave, very exclusive enclave of mansions in my hometown of Lake Wells, Florida. And there was a barber shop at the entrance to Mountain Lake Estates, just the name of this enclave. And that barber shop was owned by my grandfather who was a barber and an occasional preacher. So I imagined that Frank certainly stopped at least once on his many visits to Aunt Bonnie to get his hair cut. And that my grandfather imparted his home’s fun wisdom and played some small role in influencing the man that Frank Carell would become. Either that or Frank got a really bad haircut and vowed never to go back. So this is Bach Tower. It was built in the 1920s by Edward Bach who coincidentally made his fortune in journalism. Now, oh sorry. So that was, I should have said that earlier. That’s Bach Tower. And Mountain Lake Estates was right at the foot of Bach Tower and it was developed by Edward Bach. So it was Bessie and Frank’s gift, Bessie and Frank Carell’s gift of an endowed chair that gave us our tank full of gas. And it was Frank’s detailed plan about what he wanted to be accomplished with that chair that gave us our roadmap. And we have been launched on an amazing journey of discovery, knowing all along that we have a mandate to live up to Frank’s legacy. And all of you are fellow travelers on this journey. What struck me when I first met with Ann was how the goals of the Carell chair were in alignment with the goals of our college. We want to be instinctive about convening communities. Sorry, we have an old set of slides here. That’s why I’m fumbling around. They’re not quite in order. We want to be a mecca for scholars and thought leaders in this field. We want to provide compass setting at a time when the change is greater than ever. Change is accelerating by the rapid evolution of technology and cultural adaption. And most certainly we want to make the world a better place. Students are drawn to us because, not because of the ability to make money, but because they want to make a difference in the world. They either want to help inform the public and thereby empower them, or they want to play a role in improving the condition of mankind. Our desire is to develop a center for public interest communications. Center with a capital city because that signifies importance and soulfulness. We want it to be a place where more relevant research is produced, where we can answer your questions. We want it to be a place that sets more students on this career path. And we want to provide more opportunities for experiential learning, which is a hallmark of our college. So UF would be the home to this center. It would be much larger than our university. It would be about all of you and people who aren’t even here today. People who are currently involved in this profession or who will be involved in the future if we do our jobs well. So I want to end with a little more about Edward Bach, who created this settlement that attracted Frank Carell’s Aunt Bonnie. Edward and his family immigrated to America from the Netherlands. Like a lot of newcomers, they struggled mightily. It was through extraordinary talent and perseverance that Frank made a fortune. He built a media empire that included the Ladies Home Journal, which was wildly successful in his day. In fact, he accrued so much wealth that he was able to acquire all of the property around Mountain Lake, which was called that because it was, in fact, the highest point in peninsular Florida. When he built Mountain Lake and the singing tower, he did it with conservation in mind. This was his passion, and he did so much more for conservation around the country. The dedication of Bach Tower was attended by Calvin Coolidge. This was in the 20s. And Bach spoke that day of the influence his grandmother had on him. She had told him, make you the world a bit better and more beautiful because you have lived in it. And this desire to make the world a better place is what connects Edward Bach and Frank Carell and all of you. Thank you.