Dear Colleagues,

I am writing to thank you for your enthusiastic participation in the exciting events during the last few days. It all began with the Grand Prix race track event/ reception/ dinner for the Industrial Advisory Council (IAC) on Thursday evening. We continued with the IAC meeting on Friday morning, where many faculty, staff and some students participated. Then the School’s Centennial Celebration events began at 1 pm on Friday and continued until the reception and Forney Hall/Discovery Park tours yesterday morning. All members of our School played important roles in making the occasion a memorable one for all our School’s alumni, corporate partners and friends.

I have received many complimentary comments from our guests about the high quality of our faculty, staff and students – and the imagination/classiness of our people and events. All indications are that our guests had a great time and have returned home with a high opinion of our School. I greatly appreciate your enthusiastic and cheerful organization and participation in the events.

We even arranged for superb 80+ degree weather during all the days and a great football game victory yesterday – we did everything we possibly could!

Thank you, thank you for all that you do, not only during the last few days but daily – it is helping our School reach new heights, with essentially no upper bound!

Best,

Arvind Varma