This Fraternity's main objective is the recognition and promotion of scholarship and character. Your election to membership challenges you to become leaders and benefactors of our profession. We believe you will add honor to our chapter. They possess the attributes of mind and heart which entitle them to admission. My friends, I bid you welcome.
Ceramic products are obviously of great benefit and importance to mankind.
Thus my friends, you will see the important challenge of our profession. It is my privilege to charge you to follow your chosen path of Ceramic Engineering and to challenge you to rise to the heights of our profession. My friends, you see on your left a piece of crude, low grade ceramic material and on your right a refined, high-grade ceramic material. These materials symbolize not only the extremes of our profession, but the extremes of honor and scholarship. Always keep this symbolism fresh in mind and let it remind you that your life can become as perfect and useful as these products which were made from the most refined materials.