32 THE GAZETTE Jul| Aug 2019 PENN RELAYS AT

The country’s oldest and largest track meet continues to draw world-class athletes, big crowds, an army of loyal volunteers, 125 and a whole lot of Jamaicans. By Dave Zeitlin

JulPHOTOGRAPHY| Aug 2019 THE BYPENNSYLVANIA TOMMY LEONARDI GAZETTE C’89 33 ixty-one years ago, Kevin Quinn For much of the history of the Penn “It really is the embodiment of athletics,” skipped his high school senior Relays, Penn has been more a host than Quinn says. “It gives track a lot of atten- prom to come to on a true threat on the national stage. But tion, which it doesn’t usually get. For one S the last Saturday in April. He ran even after 125 years, thanks to four of weekend, track is important.” in the 4x800-meter relay with three the more than 12,000 competitors on St. Joseph’s Prep classmates. The old hand over the course of three days, the The Moments track crunched beneath him as he took iconic meet showed that it’s still capable couldn’t understand the baton, running his 800-meter leg in of staging historic surprises. “There are where everyone went. a swift 2 minutes, 5 seconds. It was a good breakthroughs every year,” Johnson says. Needing some time to recover after memory, a lasting memory. And for six “You just don’t know where and when completing the anchor leg in the 1979 col- decades, even as Quinn returned to the they’re going to happen.” lege 4x400 relay—the fi nal race of the famed Penn Relays year after year as The breakthrough for an Ivy League day—the University of Maryland star re- Saint Joseph University’s longtime track women’s team to win a championship treated to a Franklin Field locker room. and fi eld coach, it remained the pinnacle. took more than 40 years, since women “I thought I was actually going to have a Until this year. fi rst got their own day of racing at Penn heart attack, I was hurting so badly,” he Near the end of the fi rst day of the 125th Relays in 1978. The championship recalls. “I remember telling my coach I’m running of the country’s oldest and larg- drought lasted about as long for the never running another 400 again.” est track and fi eld competition, Quinn— Penn men before Thomas Awad C’16 led And he didn’t, instead becoming a re- now a 78-year-old volunteer assistant the Quakers to a dramatic 4xmile win in cord-setting hurdler and, for a few years, coach for Penn—told a quartet of Quakers 2016. “It was always our dream to think an NFL wide receiver. He also didn’t get about his new greatest Penn Relays mo- about winning a DMR—the same thing to enjoy much proper recognition at the ment. “After 78 years, and 61 here,” he for the women,” says Jeff Wiseman C’18, time, since when he returned to the track said softly, “I got to stand on the plat- a former Penn track standout who now from the locker room, most of the people form—and that’s because of you guys.” works in the University’s athletics de- in the stadium had already fi led out. Yet Melissa Tanaka, one of the four Penn run- partment. “To see them win, so convinc- Johnson still calls Nehemiah’s perfor- ners, fought back tears. Just moments ingly, with all of the student-athletes and mance the single greatest moment he’s earlier, she had teamed with Nia Akins, fans cheering them on, it’s hard not to ever witnessed at the Penn Relays—“and Uchechi Nwogwugwu, and Maddie Vil- get emotional.” I think that’s the case for most people my lalba to lead Penn to a fi rst-place fi nish Few were as emotional as Quinn, who age, give or take 10 or 20 years,” adds the in the women’s got to stand on the winners’ platform Penn Relays Director, who fi rst attended (DMR) Championship of America—one and take a photo with the Penn athletes the meet as a high school junior. of the meet’s marquee college events. after they accepted their “wheel”—the On a raw, drizzly day 40 years ago, Ne- On the Franklin Field infi eld after the plaque, designed in 1925, depicting Ben hemiah “did something I’ve never seen victory, Penn track and fi eld director Franklin holding a laurel sprig and another quarter-miler do,” Johnson says. Steve Dolan—just done hollering at Vil- greeting four runners. “It was very mov- “He looked like he popped a gear, like he lalba, who ran the mile anchor leg, to ing,” Quinn says. “For a was just coming out of the starting “stay in the moment” while the public kid who ran here in high school to blocks.” He made up a 20-meter defi cit address announcer exclaimed, “No Ivy stand on that platform—it was just an in the last lap to lead Maryland to its League women’s team has ever won a amazing feeling.” third win of the day, following exciting Championship of America!”—hugged the And the chance to play even a small victories in the shuttle hurdle and 4x200 four runners. Tony Tenisci, who retired part in it—“My contribution is minimal relays. It surprised even Nehemiah, who in 2016 after 30 years coaching track at at best,” he says—is why he, like so many was trailing by so much he simply tried Penn, hugged just about everybody in others, keeps coming back to Franklin to give it “a gallant try” so at least the sight. Dave Johnson, longtime director Field every April. From veteran coaches fans would be sympathetic. “But when I of the Penn Relays, cried out, “Get ’em like Quinn to volunteer offi cials to media got around the third turn and heard the around! All the way around!” Tanaka, members to competitors ranging in age crescendo of screams, it kind of pro- Akins, Nwogwugwu, and Villalba then from 10 to 100, people come to the meet pelled me,” he says. That’s a familiar enjoyed a victory lap, all the way around, for diff erent reasons. But for all of them, theme at the Penn Relays, where crowds ending near the corner of Franklin Field the Penn Relays has become a fi xture on topping 40,000 have a way of driving where classmates had chanted “U- the calendar—equal parts track meet, wild comebacks and plucky underdogs. PENN” throughout the race. carnival, and family reunion. “Of all the accomplishments I had, that

34 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Jul| Aug 2019 Clockwise from left, a USA vs. the World race; Penn star and Women’s Relays Athlete of the Meet, Nia Akins; and Dave Johnson with Renaldo Nehemiah.

seems to be the most compelling one that the fi rst time the Penn Relays went inter- people witnessed,” adds Nehemiah, who national—beginning a long and fruitful returned to this year’s 125th anniversary tradition that has made the meet what it running as an honorary carnival referee. is today. That may have been hard to pre- “People I don’t even know come up to me dict during the inaugural running in and say it was the greatest thing they’ve 1895—a year before the modern Olympics ever seen in their life … The afterglow has began—when Penn was, according to sustained itself for more than 40 years.” Johnson, simply “trying to reinvigorate its Johnson has seen plenty of other mem- track program” by inviting a few other orable performances during the 51 Penn Northeast high schools and colleges to Relays he’s attended. At his fi rst, in 1968, open Franklin Field (which is also cele- he learned to never leave early when Vil- brating its 125th birthday this year). But lanova won its fi fth relay championship 5,000 spectators showed up, and “I think with the meet’s fi rst sub-44-second quar- they knew they had a great idea,” says ter mile—just as he was walking away Johnson, noting it was the biggest crowd from the stadium. A history buff de- to ever see a track meet in Philadelphia. scribed by colleagues as a “walking ency- Initially called “Annual Relay Races” clopedia” of track and fi eld, Johnson also (words that graced the front page of this wishes he had been around for some of year’s commemorative program), it the more iconic moments of the Relays’ gradually grew from a three-hour meet fi rst three-quarters of a century. “I would to an all-day Saturday aff air. Twenty have loved to have seen the race in 1914, years after the inaugural running, a sec- in a driving rain, on a muddy track, with ond day (Friday) was added to the com- Oxford and Penn running a 4xmile relay petition—which happened shortly after at the end of the day,” he says. Oxford, the word “Carnival” fi rst appeared on a 100-year-old woman ran the 100-meter loaded with a world record holder and an the program to refl ect the atmosphere dash three years ago). The current ver- Olympic champion, won narrowly on the created by tent camps around Franklin sion of the meet lasts about 36 hours fi nal straightaway—but Penn, “by any Field. And it continued to expand from from Thursday through Saturday, with reckoning, shouldn’t have even been that there, turning into a three-day meet in almost 1,000 high schools, more than close to them,” Johnson says. the 1970s and adding more and more 200 colleges, and teams representing 28 Aside from the home team capturing the events, from the elementary school states and 11 countries. underdog spirit, that 1914 race was sig- ranks, to Olympic and professional ath- With more events came more enduring nifi cant for another reason, as it marked letes, to Masters competitors (in which moments. Jesse Owens was a multi-event

Jul| Aug 2019 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 35 Penn Relays champ in 1936 a few months with Jamaican track fans, as it always is for were competing for shoe companies. “It before famously winning four Olympic the Saturday afternoon of Penn Relays. was eerily quiet during some of those gold medals in front of Adolf Hitler. Buzz They wore yellow and green and waved races,” he says. “Nobody cared if Nike Aldrin was a Penn Relays pole vaulter 19 their country’s fl ag. They played vuvuzelas beat Adidas or Reebok.” Johnson cred- years before landing on the moon. George and blasted air horns and sprinted down its Craig Masback, the former CEO of Steinbrenner and Wilt Chamberlain com- the aisles to take videos of their favorite USA Track & Field, and Nike executive peted at the Relays. So did Bernie Sanders sprinters. When a “U-S-A” chant broke out, John Capriotti, for the idea of putting and Sean “P. Diddy” Combs. it was immediately drowned out by “JA- athletes in their national team uni- Ed Grant, a retired reporter who attend- MAI-CA,” even after an American team had forms and beginning the USA vs. the ed his 74th consecutive Penn Relays this just defeated the Jamaicans in one of the World format, which this year celebrat- year, was in the old Franklin Field press day’s six “USA vs. the World” races. They ed its 20th anniversary. box in 1948 when Boys High of Brooklyn were loud and jubilant, injecting a whole Each of those 20 had its moments, from dashed to record relay times, and again 30 lot of carnival cheer into the carnival, both American track legend Michael Johnson years later when Trenton High won the from the stands and outside the stadium. among the Olympic Gold medalists run- 4x400 and 4x800 Championship of Amer- “Jamaican track fans are very, very ning in the inaugural event, to Philly resi- ica relays just 15 minutes apart—“the great- intense,” Reid says, noting that the coun- dent anchoring USA to a est thing that’s ever happened here,” in one try’s airports are swarmed the entire win in this year’s women’s sprint medley New Jersey-based journalist’s opinion. He week of Penn Relays. Many more come relay a year after she and her teammates was also on hand when from the vast Jamaican diaspora of the set a world record in the same event. But won the Penn Relays mile in 1951 three Northeastern United States, sometimes perhaps the best came in 2010 when Bolt years before the Englishman made history waiting in a line that goes halfway down came to Franklin Field to run for . with the fi rst sub-4-minute-mile. the South Street Bridge, just to watch, Bolt had competed in the Penn Relays as Fellow journalist Joe Juliano, now at in person, sprinters from a country a high schooler, but this was his fi rst ap- the Philadelphia Inquirer, has covered where track and fi eld is the No. 1 sport. pearance since winning the fi rst three of every Penn Relays since 1976—a streak “It has become such an institution in his nine Olympic Gold medals (one of that began when he watched “some un- Jamaica,” Reid says. “We call it Penns. which has since been taken away due to a known kid named Edwin Moses” win the Even people who have never been here, teammate’s doping disqualifi cation), and 400-meter college hurdles. Three months they talk about Penns.” the record crowd of 54,310 showered the later, he was an unknown no more, win- Jamaican high schools made their fi rst superstar sprinter with love and apprecia- ning gold at the 1976 Summer Olympics. appearance at Penn Relays in 1964, begin- tion. Not surprisingly, Bolt anchored Ja- Moses is one of more than 250 Olym- ning a tradition in which the Caribbean maica to a 4x100 victory with a meet-re- pic gold medalists to have competed at sprinters could show off their speed in cord time of 37.90 seconds. Somewhat Franklin Field, making Penn Relays—lit- front of big crowds, set records, and more surprising, perhaps, was the incred- erally—the gold standard of track meets sometimes even get scouted by American ible amount of noise that followed Bolt around the world. It’s no wonder, then, college coaches. But it wasn’t until 2000 even as he walked into the stadium. “I had why —widely considered to that Jamaican fans could cheer for their never heard that before,” Reid says, shak- be the greatest sprinter of all time— country itself, rather than specifi c schools ing his head at the memory. stopped by campus in 2010, turning an or athletes. That’s when the USA vs. the Everyone has their own Bolt memories. already electric carnival on its head and World races were launched, pitting pro- “People will forever say, ‘I was there the creating perhaps the most talked-about fessionals from different countries day Usain Bolt ran,’” Johnson says. That moment in the meet’s storied history. against each other and kickstarting what includes the high school and college ath- Reid calls a “good-natured rivalry” be- letes who brushed up against Bolt before International Appeal tween Jamaica and the United States. or after his race. They then got to run in “Are you seeing this now?” A Jamaican (Those two track powerhouses usually front of a crowd maybe 100 times bigger journalist named Paul Reid was pointing take turns winning—but not always. At than what’s at their usual meets, as well from the Franklin Field turf toward the this year’s meet, Kenya surprisingly took as a national television audience. “Where stands. “Are you seeing it??” he asked fi rst in the men’s .) else do you get that?” Johnson says. again, this time with a little more em- Johnson is quick to point out that The USA vs. the World spectacle does phasis and amazement. Olympians and world record holders have detractors. According to Juliano, Yes, it was hard to miss. The entire lower raced at Penn Relays before the turn of some of the “old-timers don’t really care tier of the two-tiered stadium was packed the century—but in the late 1990s they for it” because they believe the presence

36 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Jul| Aug 2019 Usain Bolt runs at the 2010 Penn Relays, top. Nine years later, Jamaican fans show their spirit. of professionals “takes away thunder” from the amateurs. But high schoolers, college kids, Olympians, and even Mas- ters runners all competing in the same two-hour window is one reason the Penn Relays remains a one-of-a-kind event. “It’s civilized chaos,” says Nehemiah, who stood on the infi eld Saturday afternoon while one 80-year-old walked right through a Team USA warm-up and a Uni- versity of Indiana pole vaulter just inside the track ran practically in tandem with a Jamaican sprinter on the track. “It’s not a meet; it’s a carnival,” Reid says, pointing to long jump legend Bob Beamon stand- ing in a crowded infi eld, just fi ve yards from Penn athletic director M. Grace Cal- houn and football coach Ray Priore. “In the United States,” Dolan adds, “to get this many people in one place celebrating the sport is amazing.” The professionals who come to Penn Re- lays seem to enjoy the breadth of competi- tors at the carnival, too. Two members of weather since the crack of dawn, later ad- Team USA, Kendra Chambers and Chris mitting it was “a little bit stressful.” Light- Giesting, also served as high school coach- ning has delayed the Relays before, but it’s es for teams at the meet. Another, Michael been exceedingly rare. This year it fl ashed Cherry, said he planned to walk around the in the morning and again in the afternoon, “Carnival Village” outside of the stadium— but everyone still got to run their races, where people gather to listen to music or some in the rain, with Friday’s slate ending eat turkey legs and funnel cake—to hand a couple of hours later than usual. out USA Track gear, giving kids the same By now, making the Penn Relays run experience he had as a 16-year-old making might seem like old hat to Ward and sev- his fi rst Penn Relays appearance. eral other longtime athletic administra- “It really puts it into perspective what tors at the University. But the fact that we’re doing,” Giesting says. “Penn just the meet generally looks and feels like a has this mystique.” well-oiled machine—even during driving has acted as the unoffi cial Penn Relays thunderstorms, even through the chal- bouncer at one of the entrances for many Making It Run lenges of being located on a city block as years. “You gotta get by him to be able to The fi rst thunder boom and lightning opposed to a sprawling complex like get in,” Ward says. “He’s the gatekeeper.” strike hit Friday morning, sending athletes many other big stadiums—is a testament That can be a tough job, especially dur- and fans scrambling for cover in the con- to the hard work that people put into it. ing the Saturday afternoon rush—or course. “Oh, shit!” someone screamed as “The trick is not to sit down. Otherwise when someone tries to, um, sneak in a an offi cial instructed them to clear the you’re going to fall asleep,” says Ward, carton of eggs, as happened during the paddock (where athletes await their races, noting that he generally works from fi rst day of this year’s meet. some vomiting from the nerves). It was a about 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. during Relays Some years are more diffi cult than oth- sentiment that Scott Ward, Penn’s senior week. Some event coordinators crash on ers. Extra security was needed when Joe associate athletic director/chief operations air mattresses in their offi ces each night. Biden attended in 2015 to watch his offi cer, might have shared in that moment. The team eff ort extends beyond the nephew run, and also when the Penn Re- Ward, who runs point for operations at operations and facilities people. Penn lays took place just 10 days after the Bos- Penn Relays, had been monitoring the assistant football coach Steven Downs ton Marathon bombing in 2013. “We

Jul| Aug 2019 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 37 weren’t sure if it was an athletically tar- They are doctors, fashion designers, law Overbrook High, and then came back for geted thing, or a track and fi eld targeted professors, neurologists, school admin- more as an offi cial who trains other offi - thing,” says Chas Dorman, an associate istrators, former track stars, CPAs, and cials. “This is my last one, probably,” the director in athletic communications, re- NASA scientists—and those are just the 85-year-old says with a knowing smile. calling the nerve-wracking week prepar- Penn alums. They all have diff erent jobs “But I’ve been saying that for 20 years.” ing for that year’s meet. The late addition once they arrive, from organizing the The 2019 meet almost certainly won’t be of Bolt in 2010 also presented challenges, chaotic paddock area to fi ring off the the last one for Max Tucker, a with Penn getting twice as many media starters’ gun. But they all do it because offi cial, who says, “They’re never getting requests after the credential deadline had they love the meet—and being around rid of me, man—until I can no longer already passed. “We had to adjust every- each other for a few days every spring. walk.” That’s a sentiment Joel Westman thing, but that’s a great problem to have,” “That’s the coolest thing,” Shah says. agrees with—“as long as they don’t hit me says Dorman, who teams with the rest of “It’s really not a track meet; it’s a once-a- with a spear,” he adds. Penn’s athletic communications staff to year gathering of people who come to- Steve Dolan was at his 27th consecutive run a media room of upwards of 300 jour- gether and put this show on for everyone. Penn Relays this year, but the Penn track nalists. “When you come to work here, I think that’s the magic of the event.” coach knows that’s “not a big number” you’re told what this means. To really see compared to some of the offi cials who it in living color that day was inspiring.” The Legacies have been coming for as many as 60 Dipen Shah C’00 was working as a stu- For the last 25 years, Joel Westman has straight years. Ed Grant might hold the dent intern in the athletic communica- had one of the more interesting—and current record at 74 straight meets, but tions offi ce in the late 1990s when he was frightening—jobs at Penn Relays. “I stand the 92-year-old wouldn’t have been able asked to help out with the Penn Relays’ out on the fi eld and have them throw to accomplish it without his son, who website and alleviate the “ridiculously eight-foot spears at me,” the javelin offi - drives from Washington DC to northern large” stacks of results that were printed cial says. “It revs up the adrenaline.” New Jersey to bring him to Franklin Field out and passed around every year. “If you His gold watch—a prize given to both every year (and who competed in the got a strong gust of wind, it was like, ‘Oh Penn Relays champions and offi cials meet himself, for Georgetown, in the mid- jeez,’” recalls Juliano. Shah was up to the with 25 years of service under their 1970s). So many others have passed their task, “and kind of got hooked,” he says. belt—should have felt well-earned then. love for the Relays down, from generation He now runs his own digital technology But just after the ceremony recognizing to generation. That includes Cameron consulting company specializing in track 25-year offi cials at this year’s meet, the Burrell, who anchored one of the USA and fi eld technology and has spent the presence of a couple of people on the teams this year, almost 30 years after his last 20 years building a centralized online infi eld humbled him. “I’m very proud to father, Leroy, set world records on the system to record schedules, registrations, fi nally join my two sons,” Westman says, same track. It also includes fans, who are results, event history, and more for Penn pointing to their watches. “They earned known to have family reunions in the Relays. According to Shah, Johnson— theirs. I just spent time here.” stands, meeting each other in the same who’s made a push to digitize the meet One son, Ryan Westman, won his Penn section of the stadium year after year. “It’s and build a “historic database that is ac- Relays watch on a championship 4x400 just kind of magical, really, when you cessible”—encouraged him to be creative team at Rutgers 15 years ago. The other, think about it,” Juliano says. “People and try new things. “Just don’t break the Max Westman C’09, captured the decath- come here as much for the camaraderie meet,” Shah recalls Johnson telling him. lon title for the Quakers 10 years ago—be- as they do the competition.” He didn’t. In fact, “over the years, we kind fore posing for photos with the Franklin As someone who inputs a lot of names of developed the gold standard of results Field statue of former Penn football coach into the system, Dipen Shah has a good for meets like ours,” Shah says. George Munger Ed’33, who had been the vantage point on the “tradition passed Shah is one of a select few people hired last Penn student to win the Penn Relays down for generations of athletes who as a freelance contractor to work the decathlon, all the way back in 1932. have run here.” He also can feel it miles meet. The vast majority of the 700 or so The Westman family’s Penn Relays suc- away from Franklin Field, noting that if offi cials who pick up their red Penn Re- cess is certainly quite an achievement, he’s wearing a Penn Relays shirt walking lays cap and descend upon Franklin but plenty of others share their devotion around Philly, “there’s a good chance Field are volunteers. Some, it’s been told, to the meet. Jonas Harding started com- someone stops me and says, ‘The Penn have it written into their employment ing to Relays as a student at Philadel- Relays! I ran in that!’” On campus, how- contracts that they need to be off work phia’s Central High School in the early ever, he believes students often don’t pay the last Thursday and Friday of April. 1950s, then kept coming as a coach at as much attention to the meet as they

38 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Jul| Aug 2019 A (shoeless) Masters runner is urged on by the crowd.

should. A healthy majority of the atten- dance—which, over the course of the three days, surpassed 110,000 this year for the 11th time—is made up of people from outside the Penn community. “I’ve always thought it’s one of the least rec- ognized events on campus, especially for undergraduates, which is kind of a shame,” he says. “I think a lot of the stu- dent body misses out on seeing the magic of Franklin Field, the way it was.” Johnson doesn’t push back on the claim of sparse student attendance but says it’s a “tough time” of year at the end of the semester and that, as exciting as the Penn Relays can be, track and fi eld is still a niche sport in the US. “There aren’t a lot of track fans running around campus,” he says. “But I think if people come out, they see and feel the excitement, the en- ergy. If you get them there once, you might have them for a long time.” Taking the long view, he also knows how the de- mographics of Penn Relays fandom has evolved over the years and may change again in the future. (For instance, before the Jamaicans made Franklin Field their new photo exhibit at Hutchinson Gymna- When he fi rst began the job, the over- home, African Americans fl ocked to sup- sium, to a Wall of Fame celebratory recep- whelming responsibility gnawed at John- port HBCU schools in the 1950s.) And tion featuring USA Track legends Carl son. The night before a meet would be met regardless, the total numbers of tickets Lewis, Justin Gatlin, and Sanya Richards- with a feeling of dread. What if he forgot sold, combined with entry fees and spon- Ross, among other Penn Relays stalwarts. something? What if the 51 weeks preparing sorship deals, is a revenue driver for the Looking ahead, Johnson is confi dent for one weekend turned out to be for naught? University. That wasn’t always the case, the Penn Relays will remain a signifi cant Quickly, though, he learned it “would be but Johnson says his Penn Relays director part of the fabric of Philadelphia and very diffi cult to screw this up, because no- predecessor, Tim Baker, made a push to Penn. So are many others. According to body’s going to let you.” As the aging direc- boost attendance while moving toward Dorman, “the University and the city tor contemplates both his own future and corporate sponsorships. have rekindled their aff ection for the the future of what he believes to be the Johnson—who succeeded Baker in 1996 meet” over the past decade. And for the world’s largest annually contested meet, and is the fi rst holder of the position since people like him tasked with making it that same idea is a great source of comfort. it was endowed as the Frank Dolson Direc- run, it’s an honor to sustain something “All the volunteers, all the offi cials that tor of Penn Relays (after the late sports that began in the 19th century—almost come in, they’re not going to let it die,” writer and former Gazette contributor like they’re stepping back in time for a Johnson says. “It’s also the coaches. It’s the made a $1.2 million donation to the few days, hearing what it was like when athletes who have been brought up with meet)—has continued to grow the event’s Franklin Field was just opening or regu- this mystique: you’ve gotta run at Penn. It’s reach. The USA vs. the World format has larly full. “How could you have known all the spectators who come back year after ensured that the Saturday afternoon when you’re having a couple of relay year after year. As much as we at Penn are schedule has been aired on national televi- races between Harvard and Penn that the owners of the meet, the fact is, ultimate- sion for the last 20 years. And this year he 125 years later there’d be 50,000 people ly, we only succeed if we view ourselves as proudly orchestrated the 125th anniver- watching the elite of all time?” Dorman the conservators of a public trust.” sary festivities, from a resolution at Phila- says. “Carrying this on is important to Put another way: “It belongs to everyone.” delphia City Council, to the opening of a Dave—and everybody.”

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