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Eastern Kentucky University

RICHMOND, KENTUCKY 40475 FROM THE PRESIDENT

A Message

It is a special pleasure to welcome friends of Eastern Kentucky University to our campus for today's exciting football game. I especially extend greetings to our alumni, as well as to the friends and supporters of our sister institutions with whom we engage in friendly rivalry. This is a significant year for our university for it begins a new decade of service by this administration. With the arrival of the 70's, we can pause only briefly to reflect on the past decade of unparalleled growth and development in facilities , faculty, enrollment and new programs. For as significant as that era was , it must now serve only to inspire us to new and loftier goals as the horizons of higher education present new challenges. Let the thread linking the furore with the past be the continuing development of an educational relevancy to the needs of those young Kentuckians who come here in pursuit of a higher education.

The completion of this new academic-athletic facility , which is the home of the football Colonels, reflects the total emphasis we must continue to give to our programs Like Alumni Coliseum, this building is truly a multi-purpose concept, designed to serve some 2,000 students simultaneously in classes while doubling as a 20,000-seat football stadium.

I sincerely hope that you enjoy the game and that you will take the time, while you are our guests today, to tour our beautiful campus. When you leave, it is my fondest wish that you take with you some of the great pride that we, here on campus, have in our university. Remember that our doors are always open and we invite you to visit us often.