Ron R

Bern, it’s hard to say all the things that need to be said but just very excited to be here this evening and to see this launch and to know that everything that you have spent the last half century plus thinking about preparing and teaching will continue on for generations to come.

You’ve had an incredible impact on myself, my family, my parents and generations that will come and we are extremely grateful and thankful.

I tell people all the time that there is nobody that I know that has been on purpose as you have, that somebody who has stayed focused to that purpose and you’ve been derailed and pulled off or attempted to be derailed I should say by others because they had a different agenda but you stayed true to that purpose and it’s been an inspiration to me.

It’s been an inspiration because you have truly lived up to it, you have walked it and it’s all been with an attitude and a mindset of contributing to other people’s lives.

On my way here today as I was thinking and remembering I was recalling the different people in my life that has seemed to want to make a contribution but most of them had an agenda in their mind that there was some sort of benefit and gain that they were going to receive from it and from the beginning of our relationship together it has truly been a relationship of you giving, you trying to bring the best out in me and I see that not just with myself but with everybody you interact with and the selfless love that you have expressed to all of us and we’re very thankful and very grateful and we’ll be thinking about you every day and using everything you’ve taught us on a daily basis.

Thank you very much.