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I appreciate this opportunity of being here today.

I feel the goodness coming from the audience and the goodness of BYU students.

I appreciate the opportunity to address you in this devotional setting and let me be among

the first to welcome you to this summer term of 2004.

I remember a summer term 29 years ago when I was interviewed and offered a job in special

collections of the library.

I remember the exhilaration of beginning my career.

I also remember looking young enough to pass for a student here for quite some time.

Yeah, there it is.

Look at the full head of brown hair that I had.

Each time I walked past the gauntlet of students passing out flyers, I ended up with a handful of notices.

They thought I was a student.

So it was with a good deal of sadness that one day I noticed that the students didn't hand me anything anymore.

To them, I was old and clearly not a student.

They really didn't want me at their party on Friday night anymore.

So it is that now, with my thinning gray hair, out of respect

for my advancing years, students now open the doors of buildings for me instead of handing

me flyers. But you know, being older has a lot of advantages. One advantage is that I have

29 years' worth of memories that are wonderful and special to me.

With this past Memorial Day in the remembering of D-Day, 1944, and the recent passing of President

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