 I come here with a profound sense of gratitude. I am so grateful for being here. Thank you, Catamount Band. Thank you, Catamount Singers. Thank you to all the speakers. Caroline, your words of reflection. Dr. Burrus, your poetry, the musical piece we've just heard, I think puts us in exactly the right place in this really important ceremony. Today's a momentous day, as you all know. A day of ceremony and celebration. It may look like so much pomp and circumstances from the outside, but truly marks a new era for the university, one befitting of the solemnity and ceremony of today. Today, we officially transfer the mantle of leadership and give a warm and proper official welcome to UVM's new president. Our community has convened in this way only a number of times as you've all heard over the past 228 years of our history. President Garamalla joins a distinguished lineage of 26 leaders who've gone before him and steered the course of our great university. Each newly inaugurated president faces headwinds, headwinds of the times. Some of those headwinds are internal, some of them are external. Each president is supported by the visions and efforts toward excellence undertaken by his predecessors. This is a noteworthy moment for UVM at a time of change at our university, inside a time of change, a sea of change in the broader higher ed environment. Creative adaptability and a focus on the core mission of delivering the best education possible for all of our students are key to UVM's continued and future success. It's not hard to imagine creative adaptability as an apt descriptor for an imaginative leader and scholar who's already received 13 patents. As a member of the presidential search committee and vice chair of the board of trustees, I've had a chance to get to know Laxmi and Suresh Garamalla. What has struck me is consistently warmth, your affection, your personal touch, consistent, constant optimism. Those are wonderful attributes of a leader. They will take a good leader up a step, maybe even up several steps. Those are the kinds of steps that will bring the community together and bring us together to face the challenges that the university and the higher ed environment are facing will help us to strive for excellence now and into the future. I'm confident we have that leader with creative adaptability and Dr. Suresh Garamalla. As we close this installation ceremony and open a new chapter for UVM, I'm again reminded of the deep connection to this great university shared by all of us today. And the many who encircle outside of the walls of this wonderful chapel. As a native remonder and also a first-generation college graduate, a proud alum and vice chair of the board of trustees, I'm honored that we together can represent the entire UVM community in entrusting the future of this great institution to President Garamalla. It is a momentous new era for our beloved university and we are excited to be stepping into the future with you, President Garamalla. Thank you. Welcome and congratulations.