The Phi Kappa Phi initiation speakers have been professors, administrators and students who did summer research with a Phi Kappa Phi award. I hope that my talk is a warm 'Susan Haugen type of talk'. I will use as a framework the lives of seven Phi Kappa Phi members and a dozen proverbs. I had taught only four years at the university and my little children were eight, nine and ten years old. Yes, since 1969 it has rained a lot - and snowed, too.
Time flies .
This day, too, will go down as another memory. You initiates are being honored for outstanding scholastic achievement - the highest academic award the university can give you. For the graduate student initiates - I will shortly tell you about one of your group. We 'pulled it off' and more than 350 people attended the banquet. Her 3.96 GPA, charming ways and beautiful face drew the attention of a young Peruvian student, Eduardo Paz.