 look from left to right at the screen now, but you take the quiz at the computer area and you have your own computer over here for the day. You know, and I have to say about the quizzes and so forth, you know, I heard about the students who went back to his old school. They were taking an economics test. And he looked and he said to the professor, he said, you're using the same questions that you use when I was using them. And he said, yes, but he said, the answers are different. Yeah. Do you want to follow me in? You would have to spell out the names. No, no. The students made life easier for you. President Reagan, what would happen if you weren't quite so smart? The students? I don't know. The answer was that in the past, the private businesses and industries have been very good to us in helping us to acquire the computer hardware that we need. And we'll just be confident that in the future they'll continue to see that as an interval needed in education. Can you look this way, Mr. President? Yeah, let's look that way. Yeah, let's look that way. Yeah, let's look that way. There it is. What's the difference? Is it from your point of view from that perspective? I came back to see the progress that has taken place and what it was accomplishing. The theater and has taken an interest and they could possibly expand the opportunities that are available for young people. This is a most remarkable school. And we talked about it often in Washington since our visit here. Mr. President, can we? Mr. President, can you respond? I understand that probably a large part of that was due to shrinking inventory. You got to meet your other students. With the X. Well, this is Byron Davis. Thank you. How are you? Thank you. That's why I love you. Mr. Gage, Marvin Adams. Thank you. Mr. Gage. I love you. Mr. Adams of that one. Mr. President. Would everyone here again? I said I'd like to have an unsealed hat man and a big press conference that might be made here by President St. Nell. I understand that the chairman of your board, the down now, has a progressive foot. Thank you, Mr. President. We're very honored to have you. Welcome you back to the President St. Nell. When you came here eight months ago, you were an interestive visitor, become as a good friend. As you've seen this afternoon, much has happened since your last visit. With the help of individuals and corporations, we have acquired some new computers to help our students go into the world fully equipped to handle the high technology needs of today. Control Street's training in computers is just one example of President St. Mel's commitment to excellence. That commitment has been very rewarding. This year, 100% of last year's graduating class went on to college. But as you know, Mr. President, I certainly am impressed with what you're doing. And again, as you acknowledged over here when I left after that one visit a year ago, I made a phone call just seeing an experience here. God bless him. He was immediately involved. First stop here, as you know, as you mentioned, was in the computer room. Sister Janie and the students demonstrated what they're learning in that advanced computer class. You know, from time to time, I talk about the importance of training and for people that are seeking work. And something that just takes a magic wand, but nearly a fourth of our unemployed never had a job or are just entering the job market for the first time. Many are willing to work, but they lack the skills in a fast-changing economy that is geared more and more to computers. And retraining for the day of today's workforce for tomorrow's world is a great challenge and a great opportunity. Here at Providence, St. Mel, you're a lesson in leadership. I understand 44% of your recent graduates indicated that they intend to pursue a science-related career. I annoy some of the people around me by on Sundays getting a hold of metropolitan papers and everything, but I don't want to dance. And there are scabs of pages up there, but it's very significant. And I've been impressed that lately they're not just ads of employers looking for someone to come to the job, but they're literally ads that are begging and advertising for people in the fields of science and electronics and engineering and so forth. And it reveals that with all of our great unemployment that we want to sell, there are jobs out there that are going on too, because we haven't been trained to fulfill them. But you're making the meeting that needs, I should say, with this computer class of making it mandatory for graduation. And you're black and this man's black. I have more trouble with that. I have more trouble with the computer. But just as schools must meet the change for the future, so must government, business, and labor. We're candidly going to help in this effort. The Board of Governors has been established and has been mentioned, I should say, to spearhead a campaign, and I understand for six and a million, it's a six and a half million dollar campaign. My finance scholarship means operating needs and the buy needed equipment. But this will help Providence St. Mel. He's here now to put lies ahead. And I'm delighted that you've asked me to be the Honoring National Chairman of this drive, the way I feel. And I was going to say here, and you did it for me, I was going to say, I accept. But, you know, many computers are now the immediate schools, and they're made available and donated by private firms. Business knows, I think, that in their interest, who had young people who were trained for tomorrow's task. As a matter of fact, I'm asking businesses across the country to meet these challenges. I've been told that the school, and you told it here again that the school is known as a hard work high school. I heard that already back in Washington. And I've seen it proven today, it really is. Paul Tennyson said, I dipped into the future as far as the human eye could see, saw a vision of the world and all the wonder that would be. Well, Providence St. Mel has looked into the future. I haven't seen what a wonder it is. The biggest reason that you're sitting right here is you're not afraid to dream, to get involved, to be there. So let us pray that Providence St. Mel will be a shining example of schools all across this country. The future isn't something to fear. Today's problems can be tomorrow's victories. And they're working together. There isn't anything that we can do. So to all of you, and to all of those young people right now in another room here in this room, I thank you all, and God bless you all. Thank you, Mr. President. We'd like to discuss now as a group what this is. The millions of Americans, not only adults but young people, who are in this great movement of self-help since your inaugural address, that you are the government and therefore you should learn how to help yourself and share with others. Fantastic things have happened. And specifically, under the concept we call the outer motivation with PMA and something more, are sharing with them your concepts of any government that's been hacked of those citizens of these countries with whom I and others have worked. And behalf of all of us in America who are following your inspiration of self-help, I want to thank you. I understand. Los Angeles University of California. I would like to make suggestions to Mr. Jen, the United States, that here, if I may say no, we require more math. Three years of math and three years of science since this school is kind of self. So there will be any board members would like to make a comment? Yes, I'm so excited about the dynamic leadership that is exemplified in our principle, Paul Adams. And the really primary example of breaking the cycle of poverty that he has developed here at Providence St. Mel. That I wish, Mr. President, that we could find a way of taking it across the country. All the technical training in the world doesn't do any good if the other parts of well-rounded education aren't taken into account. And the discipline and drive and high moral standards that Principal Adams has set up in this school are what make the total student and what is responsible, in my opinion, for making these students such exciting examples of what our American youth can be. There's one word against vocabulary. It's never been a part of his vocabulary, and I almost want to whisper it, so he can't hear it. He never learns about permissiveness. Perhaps one of the young ladies who are students of Providence St. Mel would like to make a comment. Because of your principle here, we heard in Washington heard about this school and what had happened and almost happened, but it almost was to be closed down and then heard what one man who surrounded himself then with others who felt as strongly as he did in the teaching line and so forth. What he was doing here, literally hanging on my fingernails to keep this school open, and I wanted to see it, came here and visited and saw that everything I heard was true, met the students, had a question and answer session with them, and was even further impressed. That's when I went out of here and called Clemson and said, something like this has got to be continued. Nothing must happen until this. And back here now, you can feel it before you get in the building, obviously. The vibrancy is what's taking place. But it's, you live in Campbell. We sell it all the way in Washington. Thank you. Thanks for one more comment. Bob, would you like to be here and to help in this great cause? This is a demonstration of some things that I think are near and dear to your heart, like private initiative, private enterprise, and creativity. And it has taken a mixture of that across the Chicago community to make this success story. I had just one other thing that will strike home to you. I grew up in a small town in North Missouri by the name of Reagan, who found about two years before we found out he was doing it off of a ticker tape. I thought he was in Wrigley Field here in Chicago. Now, that's pre-attentive. Thank you very much. Nowadays, a team didn't have its own announcer. So there were six or seven of us doing the same game. And you had to kind of compete for the audience and some of our competitors were actually at the ballpark. And I was waiting to get it off, as you say, a telegram. And they didn't even do the home games of both teams. When the Cubs left town, you stayed and did the, just have the white stuff, it was a depression. And we did all of that. But it was just to, you know, I guess something that said S1C, and you can't sell a bunch of weedies if you're just excitedly yell S1C. So I would say Dean comes out of the wind up, here comes the pitch, and it's a cold strike, breaking over the outside. You want to do a batter than like you want. I have a story that I told at times, maybe I shouldn't take the time to tell it here. But one day, when it wasn't a ticker tape, it actually was, he had headphones and he could get the Morse code and tap it out. And a slick would come under a little slick in the window and I saw him start to type, so I started another ball on the way to the plate. And he was shaking his head. And the Cubs and Cubs, and I didn't know what, and when I got it, he said, the wire's gone dead. And those other six or seven fellas out there broadcasting, I knew that if I said we will pause, breathe in a little transcribed music, until they get the wire fixed, everybody just switched stations and I wouldn't have any audience in it. So I thought there's one thing that doesn't get the score book. And Billy Jurgus was at the plate and I had him follow one off. And I looked at Curly on the other side of the window there and he was just, he was helpless and so on.