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Uh, Thomas, uh, William Acosta Junior graduation year, 1978 Residential college. Sid Richardson, um, Rice tradition. That's been the most meaningful to me, I guess is the residential college, uh, tradition, the fact that, uh, uh, everyone belonged to a college. Uh, and so, uh, you didn't have

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the, uh, um, exclusivity thing that, uh, you have at other universities with fraternities and sororities, everybody, whether you lived, uh, on campus, like I did, uh, for my first three years and off or off campus, uh, which I did for my senior year belonged to, uh,

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a residential college. And so there's a lot of fellowship and, uh, pride and tradition, uh, uh, in that. And so, uh, you got a, a group of people that you automatically associate with and then, uh, of course, all the, uh, uh, you know, the fact that

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you had, uh, uh, faculty advisors, you had a, uh, at that time, master, I think they call them magisters now who lived at the college, uh, with their, uh, with their families. And so there at meals and everything. So that was, that was, uh, that was

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the, uh, the tradition that, uh, that I most was most meaningful, uh, to me, um, in terms of, uh, traditions or advice that I would like to, uh, most share with the next generation of owls. I just, uh, uh, enjoy, uh, the fact that, uh, you're

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at a, uh, a small, uh, university that, uh, uh, as a broad range of people from all over the United States and all over the world. Uh, even though you have, you know, a great number from Texas, uh but you have people that uh um you'll

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make friendships with that. Uh Not only are from all over the United States and all over the world, but uh who will then go out to work and live in all those places. And uh so you'll have a great group of friends uh to uh um

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you know, keep in touch with and uh over the years. And so that's, that's been very uh uh important to me and, uh you know, all of the uh their traditions uh at Rice in terms of, uh um you know, uh it's not just an engineering

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school, even though I started in engineering and uh freshman um physics and calculus quickly disabused me of that notion. So I reverted to my other major, which is history. And uh then after Rice went on to law school and, and the army, I graduated here in

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Army ROTC in 1978 got commissioned. I think we were one of the last classes. Uh, I think the program was discontinued shortly after that. So, um, thank you.