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class of XX! first i’d like you to stand up, and wave and cheer your supportive family and friends! i’m sure you can find them out there. show your love! a long time ago, in this cold september of 1962, there was a steven’s coop at this very university. that coop had a kitchen with a ceiling that had been cleaned by student volunteers probably every decade or so. picture a college girl named gloria, climbing up high on a ladder, struggling to clean that filthy ceiling. standing on the floor, a young boarder named carl was admiring the view. and that’s how they met. they were my parents, so i suppose you could say i’m a direct result of that kitchen chemistry experiment, right here at michigan. everyone in my family went here to michigan: my brother, my mom, my dad—all of us. my father’s father worked in the chevy plant in f