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Yours is a great opportunity, a great challenge. I know

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that the product of your work will be respected by all.

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Thank you very much. (Standing ovation.)

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THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much Governor

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Driscoll. I know I speak the sentiments of all when I say

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that all of us wish we could speak so eloquently and so

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forcibly on such short notice.

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I would like to acknowledge the presence in the

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gallery this afternoon of several groups. The Convention

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today is being visited by a group of a dozen or more

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editors of newspapers throughout the state, they have been

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attending the various committee sessions, they are present

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at this session. I would like all of them to join the

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officers of the Convention and Governor Driscoll in the

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lounge immediately following the session for a brief

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chat.

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I also want to acknowledge the presence in the

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gallery of seventy-five members of the Fifth Grade of

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the Maryland Club of Ocean City Elementary School, In

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addition there are twenty adults, including two teachers

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with their, Mrs. Eby and Mrs. Downs.