 My name is Chris Emerson, hometown Addison, Maine. My aunt and uncle live in Birmingham. My uncle is from Southern Alabama. And during high school, they would invite me up here every summer to work for them. And I started school at the University of Maine. That summer of my first year, I came back down to work for my aunt and uncle. And my uncle said, you know, I've never taken you to Tuscaloosa. We should hop in the truck and drive over and take a look at the campus. He came over and I was floored. I had never seen a campus as beautiful as this. You know, the huge trees, the president's mansion. At that moment, I said, you know, can we just go to the administration office? I did not leave the building until I was enrolled. I actually did not go back home until Thanksgiving. Shocked my parents, packed up my suitcase as it came back and finished off here in Alabama. I'm proud of graduating from Alabama. It has done so much for me personally and also in my career. My career started with Mercedes-Benz here in Vance. And in 1996, the finance organization thought that they should hire some local talent. So they went to the career office of all places and I had left my resume at the career office. So my advice to all graduating kids, leave your resume at the career office. It does work. And they went through a stack of resumes and found mine and they called me. I was living in Portland, Oregon at the time and they called me and said, Chris, we want to meet with you. So they flew me down and that launched my career into a business of moving people around either with cars, with big airplanes, moving the military forces around or even now helicopters. People are so friendly here. I'm not from this area. I didn't go to school or grew up with everybody here but I made lifelong friends here and that happened at day one and it was amazing if be it going to where I went to work out or in the various classes that I had, I felt like I was part of a family of a great school and wouldn't trade it in for anything. We just do what we do every day and we really don't stand back and take perspective. And I think that was a time for me to take a perspective and say, wow, what all happened since I left Alabama was quite an amazing revelation.