(Transcribed By Danielle Crawford)

>> Allen Lanum:
Hi I'm Allen Lanum. 

I'm Dean of library services here at Eastern and its and its a pleasure to welcome you to Booth Library. 

This is our more than our second home many of us live here and were happy that you all are with us. 

We're here to open the exhibit for which you have the program in hand, 'A Futuristic Look through Ancient Lenses'.

This year is the symposium on Ancient Greece, following last year’s symposium on Ancient Egypt, which I recognize many faces here in the crowd that were with us during that series as well. 

As you know part of the mission of certainly Eastern Illinois University and also Booth Library and Library Services is to promote education in the community, and certainly within the students and faculty, staff, administration here at the University. 

And we try to provide a wide spectrum of activities that will stimulate thinking and discussion, give opportunities, creative expression and discussion, presentations, panels, films on a particular topic at the same time. 

Because we find many of us that many of us don't everyday have time to sit down and look at something new that we've wanted to do over and over. 

And series such as this symposium, because they're programmed to last several weeks, allow, the programming allows you to come as you may, to various program or choose those that you are most interested in, or do the whole series. 

Because even last year we had some people in our audience from the community who were with us most every event, which was, I felt we should give them credit after its all over. 

You know, three credits and whatever let them chose what they've learned. 

What meant most to you about this series. 

But as we have come to the beginning of our symposium on Ancient Greece, I would like to recognize several persons who are with us this evening, Dr. and Mrs. Perry are with us, Provost Lord is here. 

[Clapping] 

I think most of the dean’s council are here and will be recognizing those. 

And we also have with us Ioanna Efthymiadou, who is the general consul general of Greece in Chicago. 

She was telling us over dinner that she represents Greece in the areas for twelve states in the Midwest. 

So, she has many obligations and so we’re happy that you took time--out perhaps on your way from St. Louis back to Chicago--she’s made a stop in Charleston, just as we had hoped she would work this in her schedule. 

So certainly we will be hearing from her. 

Her remarks will follow the first part of our program here. 

But our welcome is givien by Provost Lord and I will ask him to come forward at this time. 
[Clapping]

>> Provost Lord:
Thank you Dean Lanum. 

It’s not typical like that to give the welcome while the president is sitting here in the front seat. 

I’m sure, would you like to do the welcome, President? 
[Laughter] 

Well on behalf of Eastern, I certainly want to welcome everybody here tonight. 

And I also want to express special appreciation for all the faculty and staff who are making the symposium possible through presentations, through preparation work and welcome the students and certainly invite all of you who contact students to encourage them to come up to the symposium. 

Library is both a physical and as well as sort of an intellectual center for campus so its appropriate that the library sponsor many of these symposiums as its been doing for years.  

I'm delighted to see this one yet again. 

Often we hear a lot and sort of the modern media about events in Greece, financial challenges of epic proportions, which don't seem all that, well excuse me, in Illinois we have financial challenges of epic proportions, too. 

[Laughing] 

We won't be focusing on those kinds of events in this symposium, of course. 

I also wanted to have special thanks for Professor Wahby who has, again, provided much of the energy behind organizing the symposium. 

In fact he asked me to be one of the presenters, and I sort of looked at it cross-eyed, you know, I am an economist by training, and I been to Greece twice in my life. 

And I remember getting off at the airport, getting in a cab with a taxi driver who's enthusiasm to tell us all about Athens far exceeded his English skills, but they far exceeded my Greek skills, so it was just as well. 

But we were bumping along on back roads, and through all the buildings and so forth, and I sort of knew that the Acropolis was somewhere, dropped us off at the hotel, went up several flights, got into the hotel room, opened the window, and that was the picture I saw out of the window.  

So, Professor Wahby, I have now have told everybody all I know about Greece.  

Fortunately, we have the consul general with us tonight to share a good deal of more useful information as well as the many faculty who will be participating in this symposium.  

So with that, and again, thank you very much and I look forward to our speaker tonight. 
Allen.

[Applause]

>> Allen:
Thank you Dr. Lord. 

I would ask that Dr. Izadi, Dean of the Lumpkin College of Applied Sciences and Dr. Amy Rosenstein, the chair of the Booth Library Advisory Board join me here.  

Dr. Rosenstein teaches in the college of education of professional studies.  

We would want to recognize speakers, curators, and friends of this symposium.  

And to before we start to do that, it is lovely to see so many people in this standing galleries, but we have at least 15 beautiful seats here that would be really nice if you would sit there.  

So feel free to come forward now or at any time. 
 
So, we will begin with the Dr. Lord, would you also please join us? 

We would like to recognize to begin with the speakers and the presenters for the symposium, and for those of you taking notes, you can make little check mark if I've got to go hear with what they have to say, and I want to go hear what they have to say. 

Beginning, and I think most of you people that we will call are here with us tonight, Gustavo Albear from the secondary education, I don't think he is here, 

Gary Aylesworth, from the philosophy department is here,  

Alan Baharlou, the retired Chair of Geology and Geography department, 

David Bell, from Library Services, who is also a curator, but he is leading our film series, 

Professor David Boggs from the College of Business, 

Mr. Andrew Brachear, a graduate student in Technology, 

Todd Bruns, reference and instructional impository librarian and he is also a curator.  

Jenny Chi, Professor of Art, you will notice in your program there are I think four of Jenny Chi's paintings that are reproduced in the program, we thank you very much for gracing our printed brochure.  

Michael Cornebise, the chair of Geology/Geography

Professor Steven Daniels, the chair of Physics

Craig Eckert, who is the chair of Sociology and Anthropology

I love to see the entire college of science sitting here to my left, it is funny.

David Finnigan, a student in the school of technology. 

Angelo Glaros from Anthropology. 

Thomas Hawkins from the School of Technology. 

Professor Oyindamola Idowu, graduate student in computer technology, not with us.

Pastor Adrian Lamkin from the First Baptist Church in Charleston

Dr. David Linton, Physics and Astronomy

Dr. Janet Marquardt, Art Historian and Distinguished professor.

Ryan McDaniel from communication studies

Cheryl Noll, Chair of the college of Business

Lee Patterson, History Professor, and also you will see some of his photographs reproduced in our brochure

Andrew Robinson in communication studies

Scott Ronspies from Kinesiology and Sports Studies

He will be leading the closing activities of the symposium with a group of students doing music and dance and accompanied by the EIU Marching Band, so take note.

Grant Sterling, from the philosophy department

Bill Wootten from the School of Business

Christina Yousaf from Family and Consumer Sciences

Those are our speakers, presenters. 

I would now pass along to the curators of the various exhibits from around the wide world. 

Ann Brownson who coordinates our Ballenger Teacher Center here at Booth Library

Kirsten Duffin a reference librarian and science bibliographer

Dr. Carla Honselman from nutrition from the Nutrition faculty in the Family & Consumer Sciences

Her students have prepared several windows in the Marvin Foyer, so please take a look.

Robert Hillman, the university archivist

Sarah Johnson, reference librarian (Unclear Dialogue]

Pamela Ortega, from the reference faculty & bibliographer for several departments

And Marlene Slough, the head of acquistitions here at Booth Library.

Other persons from the Booth library staff and from CATS, that would include 
Arlene Brown, from administration

one of our student assistants, Matthew Cane

Bev Cruse, University Photographer

Beth Hildebrandt, co-editor of the brochure

Stacey Knight-Davis, head of library technology services

And our thanks go to the staff at the CATS department and Wesley Smith is here on their behalf, and you are in his camera, by the way.

We are so pleased this year to have co-sponsors for the production costs of the seminar and the food.  

Bonnie Irwin, Dean of College of Arts and Humanities and she is also a presenter. 

Diane Jackman, who is Dean of the College of Education and Professional Studies

Our newest Dean, Harold Ornes, Dean of the College of Sciences

And Chair of the School of Technology, Deborah Woodley

That almost concludes our list of the certificates and thank you for your kind attention to that.  

The next person to be recognized is the co-guru of the Symposium, and that is Dr. Wafeek Wahby from the School of Technology.  

And I invite him to come forward. 

And also, last but not least, in fact, very important, our consul general of Greece in Chicago, Ioanna Efthymiadou.

And to introduce our speaker, I am going to ask Dr. Wahby to come forward. 

>> Dr. Wahby:
Well, it all Greek to me.  

Today was the future yesterday, and the yesterday of tomorrow, and the day that we are looking for and preparing for is now. 

So you are witnessing history in the making.  

And you are part of it.  

Thank you very much, each and every one of you presentors, curators, and everyone who put his effort, his talent, his time, to make this thing happen.  

This wouldn't, this is not a work of a person, one person in particular, but a wonderful example of when we come together, what we can do.  

In the words of President Perry, and I met with him for the Ancient Egyptian Symposium last year, he said that we, his recollection then, have never had an occasion where all this potential, all these gifted people, all the family to use his word, of Eastern come together, the community, and I wanted to see if there's a Mexican charm in every person,  if there's anything like that physics would tell us.  

See the charge in this room, many balance, many people who came together to do something and if you never seen a happy man, look at me.  

Now some people would tell you about me that I am an arm twister, they would tell you that I put people on the spot, don't believe them. I will go out and do that, [unclear dioalogue] President Perry to say something now on the spur of the moment.  

Don't want anything that is prepared, packaged, we want, I mean he is the man who I met him first time when he accepted the position here, and I stood on cue to say Hi Welcome, Congratulations for 2 seconds or 3 seconds, and he kind of asked everyone from the university to congratulate him.  

I said Wafeek Wahby, I said thank you, congratulations.

I leave for a year, for my sabbatical, and three months of summer, and I come back to the faculty meeting, and he goes around the table one by one shaking hands, and he comes to me, and says, How are you Wafeek?  

How was your sabbatical?  

What would you tell us? 

>> President Perry:
I am not sure about Greek Science.  

I don't know if they have the concept of spontaneous combustion, which might appear before your very eyes right now.  

I do appreciate the opportunity to just welcome everyone as well, and to mention that my background and Linda's and my background in classical liberal arts education, we learned the importance of Greek philosophy, science, mathematics, its influence on our society today, just as many societies have influenced us, I think this symposium gives us a great opportunity  to understand those influences, by sharing among the Eastern Community, all the experts that we have right here in our own backyard.  

I thank all of them for being part of it, and I thank Wafeek for his gentle arm twisting, or as we used to say in the 60's, twist and shout! 

>> Dr. Wahby:
Thank you.