 Folks, thanks for being here. Carl, thank you for being here. Carl has an 80-minute lecture prepared for all of us. This is his final bra, is that right? 75. Let me just say quickly before we get to Carl's remarks and kickbox and celebration that being a teacher is a very meaningful way to live a life. It's a, it's wonderful to live a life of the mind, but in my opinion, and I suspect Carl's too, to live a life of the mind where we get to train our future colleagues who then go out and actually change the road and make it a better place, that's a truly meaningful way to live a professional life. And so I think it's very important for us in all the business and all the craziness that we have with exams and everything else that once in a while we just take a moment to stop and celebrate a life in a career well-lived. And we're doing that today and we're doing that with him right here so that we can show him the love and the appreciation and respect and the gratitude that we have. And I've been here only three years but you're a powerhouse and I've really been grateful to to be a part of the faculty with you and we're going to miss you but don't be a stranger and come up here and give your 75-minute lecture. Of course I got a lower, of course I got a lower. So when I knew I was going to make a couple of remarks on the second person to do this and the first was David Logan last semester. So I called David and I said what did you say when you made some remarks and what should I say? And he said you should talk about your pedagogical philosophy. And that was a complete non-starter because if I were to talk about my pedagogical philosophy it would make you all too happy that I'm retiring. So instead I'm going to just tell you three quick vignettes that just stick in my mind because when when you retire certain things you just kind of remember certain things following and I have many fond memories but here are just three little vignettes. And the first is, the old time is when we remember this, we used to have mailboxes downstairs. We all had a mailbox and there was a czar of the mailroom and his name was Frank Silva and he was a wonderful guy and he was a lot of fun all the time. He was a lot of fun to joke around with and he would always say lawyer production, we are in the business of lawyer production. It's another day of lawyer production. And I was frankly never quite clear whether Frank thought it was a good thing that it was another day of lawyer production or a bad day. But that's what he always said, lawyer production. So one day I'm in the mailroom and I say to Frank, Frank I don't like the mail you've been giving me. It's a lot of junk. I just get junk mail mostly promotional stuff from other law schools. I want better mail. And Frank says has it escaped your notice that I don't create the mail I just distribute the mail so you get what you get and don't be upset. And I say, Frank you are in charge of the mail. This is your responsibility. Fix it. And I leave. Now Frank and I never discussed this again. But thereafter appearing in my mailbox with the regularity were victorious secret travelers. Vignette number two. I have a visual aid for this one if I can find it. But I'm not ready to show it to you yet. So I'm just taking it out and hiding it so far. Vignette number two is I'm walking down the hall kind of in front of I remember exactly where it was kind of approaching where the office of student finance and records is and coming in the opposite direction of two guys and one was Dennis Thompson who was then dean of students and you don't know him but the old timers know him wonderful dean of students and another guy who is a big bear. Big guy very curly black here very curly big beard. He looked like a bear. And we reach each other. These two guys are coming this direction. I'm coming the other direction and Dennis Thompson stops me and he says Professor Bogus. He says meet Robert Healy a distinguished member of the bar Mr. Healy. This is Carl Bogus who is a member of our faculty. And I lean forward get my face as close as I can to this big bear of a guy. And I say Bob Healy you're good for nothing. And I thought Dennis Thompson was going to go in the cardiac arrest. I can't get I practice little talk and I open my mouth but we have the mask. You can't see the expression but he looked just stricken. He's got he's giving a distinguished member of the bar a tour of the law school or wherever he's doing with him but he's a distinguished member of the bar and a member of the faculty is just insulting. And there's silence for about two or three seconds and this guy just gives me a big embrace. And we have for a moment and I go off and I hear Dennis Thompson say oh so you know Carl Bogus. And Bob Healy says truthfully and only no. So for those of you who have no idea like Dennis you know I left out the key fact. I screwed up my own story. One thing you had to know about Dennis Thompson. He was a New Hampshireite. He was a New Hampshireite. I'm sure he stayed overnight in Rhode Island many nights but he didn't pay attention to Rhode Island politics or Rhode Island culture. He was from New Hampshire. Healy for Lieutenant Governor. He's good for nothing. Bob Healy was a wonderful character of Rhode Island. He ran for Lieutenant Governor repeatedly in his own political party the Cool Moose Party and his his platform was the Lieutenant Governor does absolutely nothing has no constitutional duties no other duties. If you elect me I will accept no salary. I will close the office. I will fire the staff. I'll take over if the governor dies and he had all kinds of great tricks he would announce his campaign like from a beach in Bermuda. Like I'm out here doing nothing and if you elect me that's what I'll do for you. My third little vignette is so my office is out on this little end of the faculty suite and a couple of doors down was David Logan's office and most of you won't know this but David Logan had a habit of taking his shoes off and then walking around the faculty suite in his stocking fee and so one day I'm passing his office he's not in there his shoes are under his desk and I don't know what possessed me I ran in grabbed the shoes and couldn't. And I went back to my office and I was passed and I actually forgot about it but it got to be the end of the day I guess David Logan wanted to go home and he couldn't find his shoes. Now this sounds like it's a maybe a Carl Boga story or a David Logan story it's really a Shirley Staswood story because David Logan did what any faculty member does when the faculty member doesn't know what to do which is all the time most of the time Shirley how do I turn on my computer? Shirley how do I get my voicemail messages? So David Logan goes to Shirley and says Shirley I can't find my shoes. Now Shirley has worked for the faculty for a long time and she's got all of our numbers and she thinks about this for half a second and she says is Boga's here? And appearing in my door is a very determined Shirley with kind of have a hanging back David Logan and she says where are David Logan's shoes? And I say I can't believe I gotta watch out for David Logan's shoes and I jump up and I run faster than they can I go into David Logan's office I throw the shoes back under his desk. The shoes are right here what do you buy or me about this board? So what's the three what's what's the unifying thing of these three vignettes is this? Here's what I'm gonna miss in retirement and it is the interaction with my co-workers my students of course but my co-workers so that's the deal enjoy the refreshments. Well thank you everyone stay hanging out and whatever you do don't take off your shoes.