To the class of 2001, we look forward to a year of growth and discovery under your leadership. We are renewed by your high spirits and high expectations, moved by your curiosity, enlivened by your energy. We honor the many people out of whose courage, intelligence, and toil this unlikely college has grown into a mighty institution. We honor our past and our future. We commemorate a proud legacy of strength and resilience.
Today opens a festive year of celebration and reflection.
Our new schedule is going to be bursting with things to do, and we'll all be making choices, daily, about how to spend our time. We relish our choices and rejoice in the options we women enjoy. It was not ever so, nor is it certain always to be. That, in case you missed it, was a subtle subliminal hint to vote in the presidential election. So subtle it probably escaped everyone's notice.