Association of Governing Boards of State Universities and Allied Institutions' 30th Annual Meeting

Because you know that you have to listen to me, and I think it's simply wonderful, that when they declared the seventh inning, and everybody could stand up, the morgue, it didn't sneak away, it was a good chance. You know, I don't think I've never introduced, that I'd say presiding off, so that doesn't say, don't you want to stand up and rest or I'll be holding on to speed. And I tell you, if I have followed by first impulse, because when I knew that I was going to speak here, I wanted to be extra scholarly, you're the best audience I know of in all the world. And I didn't want to fail, nor did I want to fail, the state board of education of Iowa. So I'm here to tell you I prepared something in my own library at home, but I think it was awfully good. I can't write anything, I have to walk and dictate always, so I did it. I thought that it sounded pretty good, I didn't know how long it was, I'd say, to attention. It came out 20 pages, I didn't know what to leave out, so I sent it out there.

The tram was crossed, and they had a nervous breakdown, the chamber of commerce, because they read it out loud, which I never had done, and it took one hour and 20 minutes. Well, don't be afraid, I'm not going to use that manuscript in any way. And if they put in a newspaper a good paragraph or two that they think is worthy of publication, and you don't remember my saying, and don't think you were asleep, because I just want to say it. Because I don't know what's in that long manuscript now, but do you know that it's so pleasant to be here, because I can just be saying to you, you who are new trustees, the old ones don't leave, that never is there a more one-fold association in all the world than a association with people who are on your governing board. I consider my 12 years on the State Board of Education of Iowa, the finest extra curricula fair that I have ever had in my life, 12 years at working with the presence of our colleges

and universities in Iowa, 12 years are working with a seven-end and one woman, where a board of nine in my state, was a happy experience of my living, and I look back on it with so much happiness that I want you who are new to make good of every single year that you have, because it's more than worthwhile, and where's it so in the friendships that are formed? It's just like a college reunion to come back here, I practically hug and kiss everybody, because I'm so glad to see you, I have no inhibitions, it's just like a college reunion only is better, because college reunions be grown so kind of far apart in our interest, but here become a one common interest, the use of America, and we're the stewards of the colleges and universities of our country, I can think of no right-here responsibility in the world today than being a region of an institution of higher learning, and our

great country that's taking leadership of all countries in the world, due to our power, due to our richness, due to our current belief in the democratic way of life and our freedom of loving nations, and of course the university is the center of our thinking, and never did our country need critical and unbiased thinking more than today. Now, because I'm so proud of our board, and because I am so deeply proud of our processor, who is here to be here today, and because I believe that we have the largest delegation of any state that's here, and I have a friend who says, if you don't keep your own horn, it won't be tough. I want the delegation from Iowa, husbands and wives respectively, father, clock, everybody to stand up from a good state of Iowa, stand up, folks. Thank you so much, now I guess the challenge any one of you to have a great-here delegation in that.

All of our boys here with the exception of two, and our president, right, writer, I want you to know him, so if he just came out and hit lines with the register, one of the most courageous statements that I've ever known, and I want you to hear about it too, what our board has done in our state. The only thing I wish you do, folks, you who use a telephone easily, is phone home to present proudly, and tell him to bring some Iowa State College blue cheese, will you please know that? He is all of you know, and I wish we had it here to give to every delegate, will you please see he bring us it? Otherwise, we'll have to be shipped, because that cheese, way beyond all you folks talking over here. You know what I look at you, I have a great deal of pride in men and women who are now on our boards of education, I don't feel at all like a father who took his little son into the Senate. You remember? And the little boy was over and saw a man in terrible God, and he said to his father, who is that?

His father says that, say, minister, the little boy says is he prayed for the senators? The father said no, he takes one look at the senators and he prays for the country. But I don't feel that way about you folks, because I know that you realize that while education must fulfill all of its old duties, and it still does, as being the center of learning and being an outpost for science, and being a training ground for leaders, it must do much more today. So how did the new responsibilities that I do mostly today, spinning over at them, and the fear of communism from within and from without, so that education cannot stay in an ivory tower anymore, it has to move down to the marketplace, and it has to go into every home, in every community, and lend a hand. It has to help in the solution of the economic and social problems of the world. All these things have come to us, and many more.

We have to see that we preserve and expand our democratic institutions. We have to see that in our institutions, we find a way to resolve peace from the different ideologies that are bothering us without going to world war to reach. All these things and more we can list that are our responsibility today with a new defect from yesterday, and every day brings a new challenge to us. I think we're at the best thing that we have to do to make a diagnosis of the Eels at the center, and to find cure for these Eels in our university. And then we must prepare a bit more as we come to mind. Those two things we must do well, to build a dynamic amalgam in every way on a home track.

And yet be so prepared that no nation will dare to track the part of the vast grain in the air of the land in the field, those of those are challenges for us today, and so now we have been studying in the last two years an organization of 11 McIperman, and I'm still here, as a result, for my friends, I've taken you a whole year to get rested out. And one friend sent me a sailor roster, and a sailor master, and he does a very comfortable band. I haven't even tried that yet, because I've had just this year of all years, is a year of the situation. And I believe he's in a dare to educate them. He's been going up to go in.