So I'm especially grateful to all of you for sharing your daughters with us. They're teachers and tour guides and touchstones for all of us in the older generations. Although it's a clich , it is also true that they are our hope for the future. These daughters of yours have been wonderfully warm and welcoming to me in the first two years of my presidency, and I'm grateful for that. Great students beget more great students, great students attract great faculty, great students make supportive and successful alumnae, good parents of prospective students, good recruiters of additional students, even good trustees.
Great students are where excellence in education begins and ends.
You can be very proud of them and proud of yourselves for the roles you've played in their evolution. Wellesley College is powerfully positioned right now. We are strong, and clear, and justly proud. We're strong because we're an institution that has always been restless and tough minded, never content to rest on our laurels. That's why we've done so well.