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[email protected]. ' • THE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND PEOPLE AND IDEAS FOR SPRING 2016 -_____ •— k ' riT*~T'Ji- MM. sPr'ng 2016 arches : t. ■ . mm r As our 13th president gets ready to depart on June 30 we ask a few people to tell Ron Thom stories A farewell A place called home MIKE VESETH '72 There’s a poster that you might have seen around campus. At first glance it appears to be one of those Barack Obama “Hope” posters that the artist Shepard Fairey created back in 2008. (One of the early versions of that poster is now in the National Portrait Gallery collection.) But on closer inspection this one is different. The subject is a different president—Ron Thomas— and the tagline is different, too: “Home.” The poster pays tribute to a speech President Thomas makes at the fall Convocation cere mony for first-year students and their families. The freshman orientation schedule is always packed, and the atmosphere is very intense and emotional, so you might not expect anyone to actually remember anything in particular about that speech or any other speech.