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Hello, my name is Scott Litin. I graduated in 1973. My residential college was Wiess and I wanna just mention a couple of things about Wiess. And my first days here at Rice in those days, Wiess kind of looked like an older motel. The doors opened right

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to the outside. We weren't coed in those days. And therefore, I think probably with the new configuration of the new w it's a lot safer for members of both gender. But in the day that we came to Rice, I drove in, in a 1968 Impala from

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Minnesota and my sister had gone here a number of years before. So I was a little familiar with the campus. But again, in those days, there were no co ed dorms. I had stayed with a couple of her friends in one of the other male dorms

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of the time I was in room 102. When you opened the door, it looked out right on the tennis courts and it faced the gym, uh, where I spent a lot of happy hours in 1969. When I arrived, we had suites in the colleges. So it

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was a bit overcrowded. So we had three people in my room and then we shared a suite with the other room. 101 in 101. My suitemates were the 22 of the first African American athletes that were admitted to Rice. Rodrigo Barnes and Mike Tyler. They

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were wonderful, sweet mates. We learned a lot from each other. Unfortunately, both of them have passed on, but I'll never forget some of the lessons they taught us. Rodrigo especially was from Waco Carver and uh had a fairly, very indigent background, but he had a personality

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that was as big as he was. He actually went on to play a little pro football. But I think his proudest achievement was being a principal at a middle school and high school for uh kids that had lost their way and he could help influence them

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and turn them around. So many, many wonderful memories. But the memory of first driving on campus in the 68 Impala walking into a room with two other roommates and two very interesting and historically relevant suite mates is the anecdote that I wanted to share with you

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today. Thank you.