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YOUI" Excellencies, l.adlos & Gentlornen r f-.1embcrs of tha Graduating Class: It Is with very groZltest pleasuro that I Join YOtJ hero ton Igh'!", as a teacher at Co I Uf;1~ r I'.l Un Ivers' ty, as a ~1rrter end historian, as a former diplomat, most of all as n friend of Egypt. Just about forty years 'ugo t arrived In AlexandrI a as a very young vico consul to his first diplomat ic post. foIl In lovo at once \\11th your country and Its people anJ have he I d to that affect r on ever sInce. I t was the beg I nn' na of a Ilfolon~ lovo affair. am no except I on In th I s respect. Evcry Ar.1cr' can v!ha has spent [lny cons!deorabla time In this country hes hrJd 'l'ho St)nlO cxpod ence. Th I s great un I VOI-S I ty In wh I ch ~'O s it Is a living tes"rlmony to the vision of tho mc""n, Amorlc[)ns and Egypt I un::: I "Iho .f I fty years ago crced Bd I t a" hi1ven tv t'wr0 , despite 011 tho ups and downs of pulltlcs), our tVIO cu!1"urt~ :; could live peacefully to geth~r and could l earn rroln each oth~r. Or,) sure that, I'lmong many oi-hors , thi s UfllV0r'~lty . ./