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You mean today's day? What day? Let's wait a minute, I'll get you. All right. All right, Russell Squire. And you see July 31st, 1987 and the memorial service for the George Pepper Diane. I'm here with Derek. I taught here for first years. For how long you,

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how long did you take around 38 years if I remember correctly? How did you get the job? Well, I've told this story. So you, you won't listen. But in 1925 when I was in high school, I gave an invitation to a young man to come to

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church. He became a member of the Church of Christ. Later, he came to California persuaded brother Pepperdine to start college. And since I was a Spanish teacher, he sent for me to teach Spanish. What was his name? First year? What was his name? An invitation to

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church? Help start school. That's my story. What was his name was? What town was this in, in Texas? San Antonio, Texas 25. Was you going to church anywhere? Later he baptized his whole family come to Denver High Church Christ in San Antonio. How old would Hugh?

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Have been when you started persuading him to come to church. Well, we were both about 17. I think that's a fascinating story. Which congregation in San Antonio Denver Heights Church of Christ, brother uh old brother Wallace, we used to call it boy senior was a mixture

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there. Um ok, let's go around. My name is Lee director, otherwise known as Leland and Pine. I've known this text. I came out to visit you and to have an impress for two years. Savior. I was on the first class. Uh, the junior, first year of

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the school was on the first basketball team. I remember it well, but we beat Chapman and the first, the only team we beat on that the night they opened the gym, first game in the gym. We played at a little gym down at the Methodist church

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down on uh, no, it was Normandy. I know Norman every day the basket was on the wall. Every time you, you made a basket there and you run and you run into the wall the way a lot of fun. The first athletic team and uh somewhere

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around here is my leather sweater, which was the first athletic sweater ever awarded at Shephard. I take 39 off on the first class. I've seen it around then. Did you later serve on the board? Yes. Later on, I, I had the privilege of serving on the

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board. Ip I were you the first alumnus ever to serve on the board. That's quite enough to get. Well, a lot of, a lot of good people too. I tell you too that let's move clockwise. Move over here. My name is Dod O Les. And Andrew

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Pepper died in 1945 and I got tired of it in 1948. And, uh, it kicked me out. I almost, when I came to register at Pepperdine, I almost didn't get in if it had been for, I think it was Doctor Poer. It was after the deadline,

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I just got out of the service and I came to register and whoever was says, no, no, you can't register. It's too late. The doctor was standing close by. Well, now let's, let's talk this over. So he and I went into the office and when I

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came out I had, and you did graduate in the class 48. I believe you. I'm out to dare. Let me see. And I married Derek. I didn't fit in the Pepper only two years because he was out and we got married and we have two lovely

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daughters. When did you get married? What year was that? So you went two years. He had already been two years at Avalon. So he graduated and married in four. Yeah. Ok. I'm Tommy Derek Bows. I belong to this family. I graduated in 945. And at that

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time, um, Doctor Tyner always said that with a diploma with a husband And since I've been here during World War Two, there weren't too many available men around. So, in 47 I came back to do my student teaching and that's when I met. So I did

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get the husband a little late. Oh, I talked to Los Angeles for 37 years. I retired a couple of years ago. And, uh, the highlight though was for about two summers. I taught at Pepperdine on summer workshop in the Home Ec department. And that was a

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lot of fun. Now, since you're a Derek, you came from San Antonio, Texas. But then we came out here because of being out here when I was ready to go to college in 41. Good. OK. I'm also de it was twice and I was here with

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the first in school, went to school off and on for about 13 years in paradigm. Finally got my 54 taught for 24 years in L A system. Support him. Now, if you were, you were in the first class, are we the only faculty members the first

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year? And you were already married when you came out, we had a couple of Children, came out. Had you attended college back in Texas anywhere? No, no, I had just finished high with you. I finally finished up after 13 years. Did they give faculty wives a

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nice tuition scholarship or anything in those days? Did you get a tuition scholarship for being a faculty? Spouse. Yes. And when I finished my son was already ready to be in college. I, like, finish. Ok. Let's go next to Moselle. I have a Squire the other

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half of the Squire team here. And, uh, since I was a student of, uh, Russell's back in 1932 I think that makes me eligible to be a member of it. Sure does. Did you go to Pepperdine? No. No. Oh, yeah, because Russell's from Ohio. Right. We're

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Buckeyes. Yeah. Well, you, you've been here long enough to qualify to be a member of the Pepperdine family. Ok. Next to you. Hi, my name was Kelly. Anna. Kelly. And I was in the first four year class at Pepperdine starting in 37 and graduating in, oh,

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you in all four years? 37 to 41. And I taught in the Los Angeles City system for 30 years, retired five years ago. Now, where did you meet Walter at Pepperdine? My junior year, Pepperdine's produced a lot of marriages, hasn't it? He came from lips. Most

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of them seem to be pretty happy, I think. 47 years. And what year did you meet in Pepperdine? My junior year you met in 4039. 40. Ok. We'll go to Walter. How much time do we have? I came to, uh, I'm Walter King. I came to

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Pepperdine as a junior from, uh, David Lipstone. And the only reason I was able to come is that JP was coming and I made a deal with my mother and father if they let me go to California that uh if they paid the tuition, I would

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work the uh for room and board. So JP came as the new minister at uh well teacher and also at Vermont Avenue. And we were having a meeting with Clay Fliers came out real early in September, early second year in 39. And the Vermont Church had

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asked that uh the students would uh circulate throughout the community. And there were several very attractive young ladies that day came to pass out, knock on doors and pass out the literature. And I, I saw one particular one and I happened to go down the other

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block and that she made a block. I can make a block and we, we have to come back to the church at the same time to turn our things. And I introduced myself and I invited her. Uh I, I first heard they got to JP and

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as usual, I used J P's car. We had shared the cars in those days and I JP was getting ready to preach. And I says, can I borrow the car to go out to the ocean? Well, I just uh so I ran out, we ran out

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to the ocean. I took her out just for the ride and we sat there for a minute and I said, you are the girl that I want to marry. Yeah, that was the very first day, the very first time. And it took me 3.5 years to

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convince her she had other, well, first she was gonna finish. Ok, that's enough about it. But I think the most unusual thing, as I've told several times is when I came to California with three fellas, we drove out, we arrived, uh, in August of 39 one

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of the boys family. And, um, my sister had been here the year before and it was very close Mrs Pepper. And so the sister had arranged for us to go over to, uh, the Pepperdine home on 3320 west is the first day. And of course, the

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school hadn't opened and the dormitory wasn't open and we went over and there was the first time I met brother and Pepperdine. And as we were leaving, there was a banana stop there and I couldn't get over there. It was a real right banana. Mrs Pepperdine

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picked up and I said ever since then, they've been top bananas with us ever since. And we've had some wonderful times that, that's enough. Thank you a lot. It took me three years. Uh, in other words, I actually didn't graduate. 42 the army also helped them

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too. They, they delayed it six months. We live in the old William William. We'll go to Gloria. I was one of the first students at Pepper, I think. Number 37 to talk to you. And let's see, in 39 JP Sanders came to be head of the

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Bible department and I was a Bible major and three days after I graduated, I married him and a year later we went to Lipscomb. Was that considered a good catch? I think that was, that was a very good, I came back later to Pepperdine and took

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a, a degree in psychology. I have an MFCC license and I'm a school psychologist. We have three sons and six grandchildren. Where A P wants to tell you, where did you come from? To go to Pepperdine? Where was home? I lived in Hollywood. Oh, did you?

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You didn't go very far, very far. I didn't realize that. You remember the church Christ? Oh, so we pepper and I reached out and got a lot of students that just lived in the community. That's interesting. So I became a member of the church soon after

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I started who bad times you, um, I had been baptized in a Baptist church. This is getting kind of personal. And later on JP said he didn't accept that you wanted to be. And you were you in the very first class in 37? Uh I didn't

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graduate in 37. I was in a four year class. I had gone to Los Angeles City College and Pepper Guy did not accept my credits like Bill Steer. He was in the same situation. So we graduated in 41 years. I, I came in 1939 first of

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all to hold a meeting at uh Vermont Avenue Church. They had just moved that building onto the campus or onto the lot where it is now, it was an old Catholic building up on Manchester and they saw it too in the middle and hauled it down

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and set it up and built those Sunday school rooms on behind it. And I held the first meeting, although the congregation had been meeting all that year before across the street, the building is still there, the building is still there. And while I was here, they

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invited me to come back the next year uh to chair the religion. And so in September of the next year, I arrived along with several other people from Lipscomb. Lipscomb was a junior college then including Walter King and Nan Ray and Margaret Alexander and who Allen

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Williams and perhaps some others. And uh I stayed for three years and then went back to lips as the dean and I stayed there for 15 years. Tell us when you first became aware of Gloria Millet. Well, I met her during that meeting, oh, during that

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gospel meeting at that gospel meeting. And then the next fall when I came, uh we started going together and so we knew one another for two years and as soon as school was out, we got married and you were married where married in the rose garden

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of the president's home over on the other campus. Hugh Tyner said the ceremony and it was his house and it was his house. He was living there. Al dear gave her away. Oh, I hadn't heard that and Russ was the best man. I hadn't heard that

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either. And, uh, I was sick of Walter King was a part of it. What did Walter do? Uh, it was, I drove him protecting the country and uh Leighton Randolph was in it and Herman Camel and WB West one, they, they were groomsmen and so forth

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and uh I forgot Elizabeth was in it and then Ray was in it. And who were the other girl was Mario in it? And Patsy Morrison, they were well good. Thank you all for sharing. We're gonna film some others that are coming in here. I'll never

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forget you letting me plant those roses roses in there. Right. We took a chance at one. Well, I wish to see you still hold you still here. You really like it. It's probably better than you are and you are. I was a over 100. I put

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up that. What happened that car because that's the, I think you pour in your decision. Oh my God, how are you? Thank you. Well, we are here. I, we're in this but the, and see what she doing that and she here. Yes.

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Right. Fish in I National. Yeah, you do tomorrow. It won't be. I just always at least have that hope, name. I start here. I, you tell me oh one that hi sir. On the right side, he,

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that's all right. Not a question of, well, we heard that. Yeah, I do. We're going to take a moment now to have a prayer of Thanksgiving for the lunch. And JP Sanders is one of the leaders, our gracious father. We thank thee for memory and by

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the privilege of re Levy. So many practice moments in the past and for the joy of fellowship. For those with whom we have associated through the years. We thank the on this occasion, they thank me for Pepperdine University or rather insist to Pepperdine Fall. They have

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contributed so much to helping it become a great institution that it is. We give thee thanks for all of this and especially now for the food. But we have been, we're grateful for your providence which reaches down into our lives and provides for all of our

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needs and we express our thanks to the who need praise our Lord. Amen. We're going to go ahead and begin, but please keep eating. We know that some of you came in late, you're just getting to the dessert, but several have to get back really quick

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after lunch. And so again, last year on June 20th, 1986 we met in this room to celebrate the centennial of George Pepperdine Bird. We had no plans or attention to meet again. It was meant to be a one time thing. 63 of us came together in

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this room. We videotaped the whole thing, which is now a very precious videotape. We have precious footage of Dean Polls who came back for the first time in 30 years and was here on the campus, his first visit to Malibu and his health does not permit

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him to come today. So we're really glad that we got him out last year. We had Kenny Ha here and robust spirit and full of jokes and his health does not permit to permit him to come today. And so the footage that we shot a year

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ago is already becoming very precious and will be more so as the years go by, we had such a good time last year celebrating the centennial. But on the spur of the moment I came to this mic and said, you know, next year is another anniversary,

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the 25th anniversary of the day George died. He died, July 31 1962. How many would like to come together on the silver anniversary? And we'll, we'll have lunch together again and virtually every hand went up. And so that's why we decided to do it again for

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a second straight summer. I don't know if any uh anniversary coming next summer. So I don't think we'll do it again. We'll just have these two. Once again, we've been video uh video taping today so that we can put it in the archives. We'll have last

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year's luncheon and this year's luncheon, they may not seem like that, that, that much right now. But I think 25 years from now, someone may pull those films out and show them and they'll be very, very meaningful. At that time. Last year, we went around the

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room and we asked a variety of people to bring a woman memory of George Pepperdine. One person that I didn't have she last year, we just ran out of time and I want to begin with today is Lola Tyr who perhaps of all the people in

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the room, with the exception of Helen was the one who knows George the longest because she had, you first met him back in the early thirties. Lola was First Lady of Pepperdine for 18 years while he was president from 1939 to 1957. So you welcome up

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here to the microphone, Lola Time and OK, it's a jo you see all of our Children that were just our first students on the campus at camp car. I just might like to uh tell you how you came to know Mr that we were

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teaching school in men. And I said uh we had uh was preaching on, so I was preaching on Sunday somewhere at the Citrus Street Church and we had a, a radio cover God. It take time to be uh let me go down. Same thing. And I

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think that's how Mr got clean from. I called him in one day and he said, uh, I just like to know more about you. Where did you come from? How did you, you're so active, uh, in the church work? And he said, well, uh, I went

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to a Christian college and, uh, we just, that was real into us, whatever we did, we still lived, they go to the door and you can work. So, uh, I would just like to, uh, uh, it look better, please. And so we went to do that

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with you several. And then he said, uh, uh, we went to a question. I used to. Well, uh, I think that's the amount that I supposed to do. I'm sure that you can help us. And so you got be seeing it's gonna affect, you put it

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together. I just go down about the uh acreage there. Um, and uh, we have, have more graduates here. Then it just began to grow. Girl. He was just so delighted to see the progress that has been made here in this campus and all of the over

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there t see you. Thanks. Thank you, Lola, 25 years ago today on July 31st, 1962 George Pepperdine passed away at 10 o'clock in the morning and one of those who was with him was Walter King. Walter, I'd like you to come and just take

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a moment now and describe to us for the last few days and, uh, your business with George having spent three hours writing yesterday and devising it several times. It will be hard, but real fast on that day. I need a little build up. There's some people

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in this room who and I want to share some credits. Ken Ross. Ken Davidson, come in. Ken Ross. Ken Davidson. Ken Ha Earl Stalker. And, uh, it'll come to me anyway, there were seven Water Bill Steer. It was Bill's idea. In the last days, the brother

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Pepperdine, the money and financial problems closed in not have money for someone to take care of it. And the doctor had said, Doctor Pepper, I would either live three years or three months depending upon how the co coverage was. So Bill came up with the idea.

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Ok, we must relieve Helen Pepperdine. So we decided one night a week we would take turns. My night was what I'm gonna have trouble here. I tried to write it but you'll have to bear with me. Uh, we took turns Monday night, not gonna jump, forget

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all the other credits. Monday night, Mrs Pepperdine called me the day before he died and says Walter. There's no need of coming tonight. Window. Is it short? He'll be here. Maryland is with me. Don't come to that. But knowing that woman and the type of strong

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character she is, I got a call in the morning. I don't know, 530 or six o'clock, 25 years ago. It was very unusual from Helen. And she said, Walter, will you come by and help me? Now? She's never done that before. So I said, yes, I'll

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be by at seven o'clock I arrived at the house for the Pepperdine. W not that stayed, it didn't look like it would be long. So I called the office and when eight o'clock came, told him, but then he wrote, he, I walk and wait and what

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he did, he says, I, I would like some breakfast and Helen went down and fixed the fine breakfast, brought it up and he had breakfast. And by this time now I'm beginning to think this is gonna go on, I'm gonna have to go to work and

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we're getting up after 839 and in the bedroom, Marilyn was on one side and I was on the other and there's so many things that he knew several days. Almost his prognosis. There was no secret and it made the beauty of his death so beautiful in

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that he knew it was coming. And so mere was rubbing one leg. He said, rub his ear. And here though, this is already gone, he knew he was, had gone that far. And so we were talking, he finished his breakfast. So Mrs Pepper, I had heard

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it telling them by Marilyn and myself talking. She was in the other room dressing for a big dance. So she opened the door and said, hey George, are they bothering you? And George said all and we were not talking and that was the last we were

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rubbing on one side. And I have never seen a more beautiful thing in my life that has meant so much to me. Not a jerk, not a strain, not a pain. He was asleep. That about that time, we were so involved in our conversation that we

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have known you gone, we could actually talking. So we call Mrs Pepperdine. She came at the room as only some of kazoo to fault and called in what we called it the very soon then. But now here comes a very important thing. This has been coming

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for so long and she knew I had a plan with Wendell, as I mentioned in Europe, not here. She wanted Wendell. That's my impression. Just say, yes, she wanted Wendell to see his father instead rather than a mortuary. So he was to remain there. Now, remember

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this is 10 o'clock on a Tuesday full day ahead. She has a board meeting scheduled in her house at one o'clock after his passing. He says, Walter, will you help me? I don't want anybody upstairs. Nobody came upstairs. We had trouble with some board. One board

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member said, well, if you can say, why can't I? But they, they've always wanted to go visit George. But anyway, I said, if you've ever done anything to help the pine. Just don't go upstairs and don't ask about George today. I'm gonna have to cut it

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short. So then nothing the board meeting went on. It was some time during the 14. Now what had happened when she called the mortuary? They called and put a press release out George Paradise. Did Kenny Ha hearing that on his radio on his car home, calls

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on his car radio to Mrs Pepper who's in a board meeting and says one more. Is it true? You went out of the board meeting. So she's shaking her head. You can't see that happening. She, she went out of the board meeting and told and until

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that moment about five or six o'clock, nobody knew that George Pepperdine was in and from then on we had the services we came and everything put in the place just like she had planned beautiful memories, but that was 45 years ago. Thank you all. Another one

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who ministered to George and taking communion and things like that. In the last day, Ken Ross. Ken was telling me some of that this week on the phone, you can come here what you share with us. Thank you. I really didn't uh minister that much to

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Mr P and give him more credit. And in that respect, I would deny what Jerry said, but I did have the pleasure of taking communion to him. I think maybe it was about two weeks before he died. And uh it's always just stuck in my mind

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my claim so much. Uh I took commuting to him. It was just the two of us out there and we got through. He said, you know, Ken, I don't have much more time. I know I'm gonna go very soon. But he said, I'm just the happiest

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old man in the whole world. He said, I, I just am so happy and I'm ready to go. He said, and one of the things that makes me happy is all my Children here ever done. He said, oh, I'm here with my Children and I really,

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I'm having a little voice trouble more than emotional, but, but there's a little emotion too, but he says just nobody can be happier or, or more ready to go. And I, I thought so often about that. I just hope that when I get there, I could

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have some feeling like that too because it must be a wonderful feeling, Mr Pepper. It's certainly nice to share this occasion with you and a little timer I couldn't help. But remember 47 years ago when you shared your home with me as a young incident, betting

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and I were married in your home. And that's a nice memory. Today, we're going to see the film in 21 years. We saw the film last year in its truncated version 20 minutes. Today we're going to see the full 35 minute Uncut uncensored version as it

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was seen at the Pepperdine premiere in the fall of 1958. The three people who put the film together, Joe Orlando Dick Melt and Kim Ross have been reunited here at the same table today for this lunch, nearly 30 years later. And uh they spent the summer

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of 1958 filming this in a moment when the camera rolls. The first person you'll see coming down the Pacific Coast Highway is John Ketch, who is with us today in a convertible. And uh, you'll notice that he stops at a gas station and ask the question,

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where is Pepperdine or how far is Pepperdine? The gas station he stopped at is today the 76 station at Lago. Less than three miles away. The Pepperdine 76 station. This was in 1958 where nobody could dream. We'd be sitting on this mountain top all these years

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later. But he pulls up here less than three miles from this campus and says, how far is it to Pepperdine? And the answer he gets there of course is about 40 miles away sitting in the car with him is Neil Warren. We did everything we could.

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He lured Neil back today. He just couldn't come. Neil is a professor at uh Fuller Seminary. He just couldn't get away today. But John, I'll give you one minute. I wanna know, I want you to come and tell how you got selected to where you came

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up with that key. I think. Yes, you should. It won't even take a bet. I'm happy to respond to that. Uh I think once you see the quality of acting, you'll, you'll know it. Uh it wasn't an Academy Award performance. Uh I think it probably was

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for the car. You know, the truth. You know that uh I was uh in my, uh just finishing my first year. Uh Neil and I were both uh had got to know each other and he was three or four years ahead of me. I think he

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had graduated and a student body president. Uh We were in the same, uh same fraternity that was at that time causing problems on campus. I could say this campus and build Sub D and so we were uh both just asked if we would participate and I

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happen to have that she had, you just happened to be around too. So, so we, we were asked if anybody had ever won that car, I'd like to win that. And so it was your car. So that's the truth. We always do with 1/5 and seven

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Chevy convertible. Uh We're just about ready to roll it, Dick Velvet. We'll hear from Joe a little later and can again. But Dick, if you'll come and set this up, now tell us a little bit about how you filmed this and uh and maybe I'll preface

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it by saying that last year when we saw the 20 minute version, I, I understand that I was gonna try to find out where that original was. And, uh, Joe Orlando, who was responsible for the film and has guarded it carefully. These years had watched over

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it. The original 16 millimeter was in a vault in a movie studio in Hollywood for about 25 years and it had to be moved a few years ago and Joe is lovingly watched after it since then addicted this week at his own expense, about $1000 worth

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when it took that original 16 millimeter film had a print made from it. A master. It's a very expensive process. And then from that master, he has now made a cassette and now we can make several cassettes off that master. We really need a copy of

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admissions, we need a copy of University Fair. We need several of these around. But what we're going to see is the 35 minute original version that premiered at the old auditorium on the Pepperdine campus in October 1958. And uh I really think some of this footage

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ought to be included in this new film. We're getting ready for Bob. Really always to make a new film and this one is so good. We might want to include some of this in it. So Dick Bel and tell us about Bob, really just asked you

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why did you make this picture here? And I don't know, looking around the room, I can see that most of you here back in the late 19 fifties. And at that time, if you know, the state was putting a junior college or a state college that

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seemed like on every corner and it was beautiful campuses and it was, it was free tuition and of course, it was like pine found themselves in a real financial place. Uh, cars were going up, the tuition was rising and the enrollment was dropping. So we made

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this, this is the environment in which we made this film. We made it uh primarily to as a a recruitment film to attract new students. And there again, it was directed mainly at students back east and Midwest and the south, even the far uh far, far

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north there. Uh And of course, the second reason we made the film was none of us were getting any younger. And Mr Pre I, we wanted him to be on film and tell your story. Now, this was May of uh 1958. Uh graduation was just uh

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a short ways away. We knew that once that happened, all the students would be gone. And so we had to hurry up and get visit. We're gonna do something. So I first thing I did was buy some film but I thought be the coach Chrome commercial

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film negative. We bought that, we had the film but we had nothing else. No camera, no lighting up. We started on it and we, we got, we got a camera, uh, several cameras from, uh, through her Shattuck, uh, her Shattuck, uh, introduced to Mark Armstead up

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in Hollywood. They turn my studios and we got some cameras and so we started shooting, Cameron, started writing and we shot everything we could think of, uh, up until graduation. Now, I don't know if some of you seen the film, let me just say that it's

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broken up into different segments. Uh The first segment we wanted to show was uh we want to show California nice, beautiful scene of the ocean that we just mentioned, uh the sun and the beach and everything else. And we, so that's what we gave John Per

00:40:43.889 - 00:41:00.020

big chance in the movie. Yeah, it wasn't the card yet. I agree to your account that. But anyway, and we wanted to show that first and then we went into our heavyweights. We started right off with Mr Pepperdine. He told us his story and then Norway

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Young and Dean Sanders told us about the academic uh qualities of Pepperdine, what degrees you can expect and so on. And then we went through each of the 15 departments. Now again, we were trying to uh pitch this film as students back east. So that if

00:41:15.260 - 00:41:28.139

somebody in Minneapolis, Minnesota saw this film, a young high school student and he saw something that had to do with science if he was interested in science or religion or music or whatever it was. We gave, we tried to give him a little thumbnail sketch on

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each of the departments. After that, we went into the athletic program that covered on the walker, which was football, basketball, baseball, track tennis. And again, we brought in some big sluggers there. We brought in, uh, ducked out who gave us his speech. If you hit the

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hoop, you could play ball for me. And Ron just came along with almost the same line, you can play ball for me. So we got, we got my ale and athletics. We went into, where are you gonna stay at? Pine if you a cup of pine.

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So we showed the two dorms and then that the Oasis, the Juke Box, we got a, we got a record from Capitol Records to show. We, we had a uh uh I think it was a song on there. It wasn't even released yet. We had that

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in the film before it even came out. But at any rate after that, then we went into the little light. So we went into the boy girl NFL. And actually at this particular time, this was summer time. Now there was no students around and no disrespect

00:42:28.830 - 00:42:42.360

for the ones that were there because they did a good job. But we were trying to get as many students as we could. And this Boy meets Girl see, and actually wanted to show pepper dining that setting in southern California. So we showed the beaches and

00:42:42.370 - 00:42:58.500

the ocean and the sailing and the water skiing. And that was principally what we're trying to do there though. We didn't have any students then after, uh that was over with, we uh went into graduation and there again, we, we built this outdoor scene of graduation.

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I'm from back east. So there's not many graduations out outside. So we thought this would be attractive after graduation. Uh Maybe the student was wondering uh if you go back to pumping gas or is there some, is there life after graduation? And there we showed uh

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he, I guess he's not here today, Gordon. I it was city councilman. Then we showed that doctor uh uh I forgot the doctor's name at the moment, but he was in the film and then yes, uh wait, wait him out. And then we showed uh of

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course, uh less Baxter. Uh Our next bachelor wasn't a graduate at that time, but uh we, he was in the alumni family. So we had him in there then of course, after the, after the alumni section was over with, uh we went into Mr Pine again.

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So I become full cycle. We started with Mr Pep Dine. We end with Mr Pepperdine and we see Mr Mr Pepperdine and coming out of the administration building around Dolores down the promenade. And then we have, it was Bob Wilson who did the narration and uh

00:44:04.320 - 00:44:20.100

that he brought in Mr Pine's words again. Uh The college is all I hoped it to be and my dream is not true and then we fade them off into a sunset. I know this sounds kind of corny, but I talked to him, I talked, I

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talked about that with Mr Pepper. I said he thought it was ok. And so I have no reason to believe otherwise. Anyway, the film, uh it was September when we decided at that point, we're going to show the film on campus in October. I got Mr

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L to print up some tickets, which he did and we gave him the sororities and fraternities and we gave him 25 cents to keep that. It was a lot of money to a quarter. So they, they started selling these tickets and sold the auditorium out and

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then a giant headache came upon Joe. And I, especially because we had at that time, we had two music tracks and one thing sound track and one special effects track. So we had four tracks running about a mile a piece and then about seven or 8000

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ft of film. And it was just an absolute nightmare to get this thing ready for this premiere. And the fact is that I was telling Jerry yesterday that if it wasn't for that premiere coming, that the stuff is still popping in the can because if we,

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we, we sort of found that if we didn't show up with this thing. We could never show our faces again around. But anyway, we persevered and we got it out and we showed the film and gave it to the prep time. Um, let me say a

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couple of things. There's, there, there are some mistakes in the film and, uh, there's a light street very, there's some things that aren't so very obvious I'm gonna tell you about. But, uh, at any rate, uh we apologize for that. At that particular stage, we're putting

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this in together, we had absolutely no time to go back and try to reshoot anything or do anything differently. So we just went with what we had and uh that's it. Uh We did make the film into uh a video cassette now. So we've got that

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master and that'll be good, you know, forever. Thanks Jerry. And they want to get that what they, the ma he didn't tell you that the best scene of the boy beach girl, which was filmed down on the beach got cut and is not in this, uh

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this 35 minimum. Uh uh I've always wished that I could uh somehow find that footage and resurrect that and see what was considered exciting and racy in 1958. I think that was the only one that was cut out. You might want to move your chairs. We're

00:46:38.310 - 00:47:10.239

going to show it up here at this monitor. And so, uh let's get a picture of these three of them. This is, I heard that he had a dead Joe come over and give us half of this picture. So let's get one more picture. We may

00:47:10.250 - 00:47:33.550

not get you through together. I'm busy that my, have you any idea what the size of the cameras were in those days? The camera, I like that and we wheel that thing at six car. All of the California is an age. We use a balloon or

00:47:33.669 - 00:47:49.969

like something compact, you sync it with the sound. You have a little sound equipment. Uh They going to do but several notes I made uh that when I watched the picture, it's good news. I've seen it and really Dick. Thank you. We started about a week

00:47:49.979 - 00:48:07.540

and a half ago. I close together picture. I crazy to get the final print this morning after I handed it on your hand the last Thursday a couple of days ago. Very good less Magda Dick and Island was home in Beverly Hills saying, hey, an alumni

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let's have less access and score the music score. The picture we went in thinking he, he, he was, he was the top man of the day like Mancini of the day and a few others. He says, fine, I have, he takes out his silver class platter

00:48:26.129 - 00:48:41.399

and he presents this. He sends it to Dick and I, he said here do what you want with it. You have releases and everything. No problem. Like I achieve this. By the way, I thought he was gonna get his orchestra watch the film as you usually

00:48:41.409 - 00:48:59.840

do that story. You've seen my work. Now, if we would have shown the jacket cover of this particular album that he gave us, it was a one clatter of two. I think we would turn down and he had a new picture and it was called A

00:48:59.850 - 00:49:18.290

F on the jacket cover. My stomach will throw the jacket cover away, pick up the tapes and transfer 35 microscopes which we did. And from there like this said, you're ready for that opening. We're there 23 o'clock in the morning at the Ford B's A Enterprises

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first time, way back and Dick and I made my point there just setting the track on the movie over just matching scene by scene with the, with the picture that finally came on. And it's a beautiful piece of music that we have in there and it

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really adapts itself. That's the last we seen the West back. I mean, that was it. But we uh have, it was nice, you know, we appreciate him at least giving us the right to the album, Louis Robins heard from me about the two nights before I

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says, lo we need the yacht. We have to take some pictures of you got a love interest on campus and we have a couple of things we make good. He said, you come right down, we used to do a little sailing together. They had a nice

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yacht down at the, uh, the marina in Newport. So there's no problem there. But looking at that BNC, that Mitchell camera on the yacht horse back up in the mountains. I mean, just in a row. I mean, all these I tell you that, I think somebody

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said the uncensored version. You wanna hear the uh, scene that was left out? Well, let me back up a little, I walk, I parked my car up here. I walked past the swimming pool as a guy. I don't wanna come up with this, uh, this swing

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up here. There's a couple of galls in bikinis down there. It's better to watch down there. I'm a sentencing here, Dick and I went down to the, uh, uh, play Dough Re or not. We have, which was to film the one scene where the volleyball, uh,

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uh, two seconds. You been a volleyball scenes in her and we just had Susie and Marvin running up from the beach and in those days the one piece suit was the thing nobody can. And we have the big Pepperdine plank down there with a p Pepperdine

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and the, uh, sports and they were up and it looks like there's nobody on the beach but there's a few scattered around. But I zoom right in on the close up until I said that's a nice shot. Well, I didn't realize that it was such a

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scene that was maybe questionable in those days because the bikini came up bikini, the one piece suit was right in here and in those days that was a no, no. Wow, no, will have to screen that one time. And he says, I think that has to

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go. I kind of agree. You know what I wanna do for my own print. And I've lost the footage where I could have just inserted it and made another print for myself in my own diaper. And I can't find that footage. That's the one thing I

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want back in that film. Like to see it myself if they show up and get, I started to, to, to the A man one man decision. Thank you. Next time around. I don't know how much more I can say. I think I've covered just about everything

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uh, on the volleyball scene when I found out that we couldn't use the beach scene with Marvin and Susie. I ran down on that Sunday morning for going to church because we had a deadline for me to get that little strip into the lab to get

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it cut. So we get it ready and put the music to it. It had to be precisely the exact same amount of footage to insert, cut out the old thing, put it in the master. And, uh I went down to Will Rogers State Beach and there

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was a volleyball clear day. And that's the volleyball scene that you see on the beach that took the place of the sexy C department and which in, by today's standard, you know, I walked down to the pool there and I love that. I even forgot to

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notify you 30 years ago. Who would believe was back in here discussing this film that Dick and I produced in the Restaurant Can, by the way, at our own expense, like about $5000 out of pocket, we were screaming and that's, I just been married about 56

00:53:26.479 - 00:53:42.459

years struggling. But then a lot of times, but it was love. It was a labor of love really. And now we're here and they said, hey, Joe, we've got to do something for the college and uh June and I had scholarships at Pepperdine College and said,

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what can we do in the way of saying thank you. And this film is just the approach to them. And we hope that and we're pleased that it's lasted this long. So many, many people in the future can enjoy. And thank you very much. We gonna

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close in just a moment and I'd like to have Frank path lead us gonna close the prayers. But I want to point out that Pete Weldon has been working for the university 25 years and one month he started on July 4th 1962. Today is his last

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day of work. He gets off in three hours and 20 minutes. He'd stand up and let us say hello to. Very glad to have you. I hope all of you are coming back on our 50th anniversary in September 1920 21 on Sunday the 20th. We're going

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to have a special church service in Firestone Field House next door here, our quiet is going to preach the message on that occasion. There's a full day of activities. We're going to have a time capsule and we want all of you to come and sign your

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name in it. Every name of every person who comes on that weekend, that name is going to be entered into the time chaps which will be opened at the centennial, the 1/100 anniversary of the school. So if you want to have your name remembered 50 years

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from now be with us on that weekend, September 19th is the associates dinner on Saturday night and Sunday is the church service activities all afternoon. And Monday the 21st is our actual birthday. 100th birthday, a special convocation at 10 o'clock in the morning. Here at the

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fieldhouse, Hubert Derek was uh thir uh 30 years old the day before the school started, September 2019 37. He'll be celebrating his 80th birthday in Shortland 81st. Is that 88? And uh Russell Squire's birthday was actually the day the school started. Uh He was 29 years

00:55:45.270 - 00:56:03.524

old on September 21 1937. So he's got number 779 coming along. He was wondering if any of you can help him find the old flag, the winning flag, the entry of uh of this flag in 1954. Nobody knows what happened to the old Pepperdine flag. So

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I'll hold it up if anyone can offer suggestions later on on what happened in that. Uh So that would be appreciated. Uh We have uh so many stories we don't have time for and if you don't have to leave, we're gonna close because several have to

00:56:17.399 - 00:56:32.010

get back to work. Walter King is full of stories. George Hill and Huber Derek, you don't have to leave. We'll stay up here around this table and swap stories. Hubert's gonna say a last word and then Frank Pa will lead us uh close. We should close

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without a word of appreciation for these uh people who have put this on everybody and Jerry, the young people who served us so well. Uh Jerry works awfully hard for this and we appreciate it so much. You know, uh when you get as old as we

00:56:48.310 - 00:57:09.659

know are some of us. Uh you could the story about that warning that if you're past 70 you wake up in the morning without pain, you know, you're dead. I mean about people. I I can't uh sit down though without one more thing what I regard

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as the greatest Christian quality. And I think most of us agree with his ability as Jesus put in his invitation to give up yourself. And the that I sat up with him one night during the last week or two of his life. And I, I mentioned

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the things he had done that were so good for us and how much we appreciated him. He just sort of was notable about it and I got through, he says, Hubert, I was tennis coach. He says, are your boys going out and picking up those bottles

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and knocking on the fence? He says, you know, we need that money for your school. And the beautiful thing was that he never stopped to think of the fact that he was selfless. Thank you. I hope you will buy a copy of our pictorial history. It's

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done now it's at the printers. It'll be available September 19. It's $35. It's 320 pages of Memories. 600 photographs, 32 pages of color. I written an introduction to it called a man at his dream and I dated it today. July 31 1987 on the 25th anniversary

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of his death. We hope you'll look forward to that book in September and buy a copy. Let's have Dr Pack Lee in a closing prayer and then we hope you can stay and visit father. Our hearts have been stirred, our emotions have been deeply moved as

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we have relived and thought about those wonderful years at the beginning of the school, we thank thee for the wonderful blessings of enlightenment, encouragement and instruction that have gone forth from Pepperdine University. We thank you for the thousands of lives that have been touched and moved

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and, and we're so grateful for this occasion for sharing and the dream of George Pepperdine and of his lovely wife and for the sacrifices that were made by faculty and friends and students and by them for all of these things to be a reality, help us

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to realize dear Lord that as we give, as we give of ourselves, and we give them what th give us that we bless. Not only those who receive the gifts, but also we bless our own selves because we exhibit the spirit of our master who gave

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himself for us. But we ask it through his name.