001hold me doreen doreen can you understand me okay what good evening welcome to the partner in excellence ceremony it's certainly a little different than the dinner we expected to have this year even though there's no way to have that kind of dinner there's no way we're going to let the opportunity to present our honorees with their incredibly well deserved awards tonight so we arranged this program it's socially distanced there are 24 of us in the 563 jm pack tonight jm pack tonight with all the proper safety precautions in place so enough about that let's get the show on the road we have a lot to celebrate we had a great year last year another huge success with our latest celebrity dance off and there's more about that when i talk about our honorees later our
002barnes and noble book fair continues to be a community favorite and our standout achievement for the year came uh very when there was a very sudden pivot to learning from home distance learning grants of 500 were offered to all teachers who needed to set up their at-home classrooms 93 grants for over thirty thousand dollars for cameras manipulatives butterflies and books to be sent home and the list list goes on i can honestly say that none of our board members could be more proud of the work we did during the pandemic for the kids working at home our student association thrived last year expanding to churchill and funding some great grants and hosting some fun fundraisers throughout the year last year we made big changes in the way we approve and fund our grants resulting in
003teachers receiving their grant materials within days of approval and i have to give a special shout out to dr volesky and dr atkins who were in who was in a community relationship at the time for really clearing the way for us to recreate these processes for the kids in our schools i'd also like to note that this was supposed to be a partner in excellence dinner but also um a dinner to induct the newest hall of fame members tony yoself from the class of 92 who's a very generous supporter of all things east brunswick and charlie wachtel and david rabinowitz from the class of 2005 oscar and baffed a winner winning screenwriters for their work on black klansmen one last thought when we were tossing around ideas for how to have tonight's event someone on
004the dinner committee suggested the jam pack knowing it's not been used for events since the pandemic hit i knew this was a big ask and i have to give a huge thanks to our first speaker tonight who made this all possible please welcome and while you're welcoming him help me thank superintendent of schools dr victor volesky [Applause] thanks jack thanks everyone and good evening gathered here tonight under these circumstances we must embrace the reality that we have spent the last seven months being told what we cannot do and that should not overshadow the meaning of tonight honoring individuals who have demonstrated success by expanding their personal boundaries in the exploration of what they are capable of doing leslie joanne and jane all represent leadership leading in the classroom leading a school building and leading in
005our community they all display what i like to call visible leadership people get to see it and a couple of the folks they get to hear it too jane i'm not talking about you leslie joanne and jane are distinctly unique but they share one commonality and anyone who tries to emulate them must understand this foundational trait success comes as a result of hard work determination and perseverance no does not exist in their primary vocabularies and because of their shared trait they are role models for new generation of leadership new leaders who will need to be equipped to strategize plan and implement in a world transformed by our recent circumstances one final thought this pandemic and our national response to it has revealed both the worst and the best but here in east brunswick i could
006not be prouder of tonight's honorees responses to supporting students and their families i also want to offer a heartfelt thank you to jack paul and the entire ebef board for expediting mini grants to support our teachers operating from home in a virtual environment after pivoting to that untested instructional delivery literally at a moment's notice that kind of flexibility and adaptability represents an organization whose mission is truly vested in support so on behalf of the entire east brunswick administrative team and the board of education congratulations to leslie joanne and jane on your tremendous honors tonight thank you dr volesky since we need to keep attendance to a minimum tonight the folks who typically offer their congratulations in person has sent them in absentia that includes so many past partners in excellence watching tonight board of ed
007chair person vicki becker and ebea president dana zimbicki who's here in spirit we are happy tonight though that mayor brad cohn brought proclamations with him to share with our with our honorees mayor cohn would you like to say a few words thank you jack actually i sent those proclamations ahead of time because i didn't plan on being here today but then i circumstances changed and i was able to be here but i don't ever really like to miss any of these events that really celebrates a legacy and legacies are important to us here in town because most of you know education has always been something that our town has been uniquely known for people that moved back into east brunswick in the 50s and 60s and 70s moved here because of our top-notch educational system
008it has never ever change it because it's still the number one reason that people move here and you're part of a tremendous legacy a history of devotion and and commitment to uh the highest ideals for for education that's something that we would never ever want to change it is the shining reason that we spend so much time considering what the future of east brunswick is going to look like through our own redevelopment plans last night at the township council meeting we actually celebrated a group of called alpha delta kappa which is a group of women who are excelling and commit back to their community of educators that's really the sign of exactly what i think we're talking about here today people who have made not only a commitment to the students but to our community
009as a whole because when you're successful the entire community successful we're counting on you for that i congratulate every one of the honorees tonight for a well-deserved award this is clay i was actually just speaking today to a group of students who are interested in politics and i said to them this is a year you will never forget in in on top of the fact that uh we're in the middle of a pandemic that happens once in a 100 year period of time on top of that you also have a financial crisis that we'd likes of which we haven't seen since probably the great depression we've got racial wars that i haven't seen since i was a little kid in the 60s and i was really little then so i don't really remember all of
010it but these are unbelievably monumental times people will always ask you what it was like in 2020 you will this will never be something that people will forget but your contribution is something that we will never forget and it makes us a much better institution and it drives home the reason why each and every one of us call east brunswick home so i thank you for your contribution and uh the proclamations were already sent i shall make sure that each one of you get them they are well deserved thank you mayor cohn also sending proclamations tonight and some video words assemblywoman nancy pinken hi i'm assemblywoman nancy penkin i'm joining you all tonight in our zoom education foundation dinner and first time we have had to do this in the zoom format but we want
011to recognize the education foundation for the great benefits they provide for our school system providing funding for the teachers to be creative and come up with unusual programming so that we can graduate the stellar students that we are able to produce in east brunswick education is number one in new jersey and something we're all committed to maintaining so tonight we're here to honor joanne jane and leslie for all of their contributions and we have the special honor to recognize the hall of fame inductees including anthony yoselov who's a leader in finance and charlie wachtel and david rabinowitz who produced and wrote black lands men among other artistic accomplishments so we have a resolution from the senate and the general assembly just recognizing the honorees for all of their accomplishments and i just want to thank
012you all for joining us together tonight to recognize them have a great night and i look forward to seeing you in person next year thank you assemblywoman pinken and now for our awards like every town east brunswick has its celebrities you know the people whose name everyone knows our first honoree is a town celebrity you see her name on real estate signs all over town she's in the newspaper supermarket signs and even in the men's locker room radio at new york sports club one night after an unsuccessful run for town council which is there lost in our game i had a celebrity sighting jane came to one of our foundation meetings and joined our board when we sat down to talk one time i asked jane why she ran for council and then came to
013ebef and she explained what she believes is the role of somebody who lives in a community it's our obligation to contribute any way you can to make it better a better place for people who live there and she wants to give back with time and financially where she can jane and i are very aligned in that way and believe me that her actions match her words so much so that with all the planning emails that went back and forth for this dinner the end of everyone said let me know what i can do now this this evening tonight is to honor you jane so we're not going to let you do anything this night is on us and we just want to thank you for being one of our partners in excellence congratulations thank you
014very much i'm deeply honored and deeply humbled and grateful to receive this very prestige award thank you [Applause] i'm very proud as a member of east brunswick education foundation and since 1993 the foundation has raised over 2 million we support the teacher and the school programs via grants i'm very very happy very proud part of it thank you is take a village to raise children a child and children and we should work together to help our kids to form their part of the future and like our president jack levitt always say if you have a time please volunteer if you have talent please contribute if you're blessed with the financial ability availability please donate together we can make our town much better welltong is great but we can really work together to contribute to our
015part my daughter maria miller is in 8th grade just joined the churchill and a big shout half fell thank you to our teachers and the excellent teachers they work so hard to ensure our kids education and as a parent as a community we should come together to help the school help the teacher to help to educate our children and if there's anything i can do we can do together and we definitely can make the education much easier for our teacher much better for our children in the future be well be healthy god bless thank you make sure you take your award oh thank you thank you very much earlier i said i would get back to you about the celebrity dance-off i don't know that everybody knows the history of this event back when i
016was president and joe young was vice president we were having dinner one night joel's cousin david was there and talked about a fundraiser he did out in colorado which was similar to the tv show dancing with the stars and joel said we have to do this so i took an entourage down to cherry hill because they had done this before to check it out and the agreement was i was going to be the people-facing guy and joel was going to be behind the scenes while there were naysayers along the way we were determined to make this happen drove recruited the dance studios and i recruited the dancers and joel took it from there and let me define took it from there ticker from there means hundreds if not thousands of emails being sent at all
017hours of the night spreadsheets that tested excel's limits designing ads proofing a journal telling scores replacing cast members and i knew none of it every time i'd asked how it was going joel would say it's fine tireless effort is not an adequate way to phrase what i heard went on dancing with the ebay stars was a hit or so said the 700 people who sat in this very room seven years ago last week after a little rest and some distance from the event joel offered to produce the next dancing with the stars if he got promoted to executive producer which was a bigger success then after we got sued for using the name and joel handled all the legal stuff with it with our lawyer joel executive produced the next two eb celebrity off the
018total we raised 290 [Applause] what do you think those naysayers are saying now and you're probably wondering why the heck are you talking about this now well a few years ago our board instituted a new award called the unsung hero award for team members who work above and beyond the call of duty behind the scenes to make things successful the purpose of the award is to briefly shine the light on the hard workers who prefer to stay out of it joel you unsung hero you tonight you're being sung and it's only appropriate to have eb celebrity dance off trophy girl come out of retirement to bring your trophy out for you so joel congratulations my friend same rules thank you jack you're welcome joel what a very nice surprise i will say one thing i
019don't have anything prepared obviously because i didn't know about this but when i saw the video and it wasn't i who said we have to do this it was jack and the whole time i kept saying this is never going to happen we're never going to pull this off jack we're never going to pull this off jack so um it i would say you know i while there was some effort put in it's because jack was pushing me the entire way but thank you very much for the for the acknowledgement i appreciate it stop stop singing joel [Applause] one of the most fun parts of this event for me and the hardest part is putting together the actual award presentation speeches they need to be just right to pay tribute to the honorees well i
020lucked out this year with leslie anderson because while i was thinking about what to say it literally fell in my hands allow me to share a letter that some students sent to me dear mr levitt just wanted to drop you a short note to let you know how amazing it is that the east forensic education foundation has chosen ms anderson to be one of the award recipients at the partner in excellence dinner this year it's not often that a teacher especially one like ms anderson that gets acknowledged for the wonderful things she does for her students and the whole student body when a friend ms anderson bought tickets for her to give to four of her students we were honored that she chose three of us from a strikeout i hope i said that right
021robotics to attend ms anderson has always been thankful to ebf for helping us during our first year and we know she looks forward to further more collaboration in the future since we started working in the school ms anderson has always stood as our strongest supporter and biggest advocate for the last three years she has helped us organize train build collaborate and learn how to be a team we have come so far in such a short time and a huge part thanks to ms a not only does she keep us well fed with the best snacks she pushes us to be our best get out of our comfort zone and strive to be the best versions of ourselves whether it's robotics chemistry job friends family or just plain frustration she's always there to listen talk things
022through with a huge smile make everything better and give us the skills to handle it better next time so she can't build a robot herself mizei has helped build everything else around us our team our skills and ourselves and she always has a smile ms anderson loves coaching mentoring teaching and in general standing in the back and watching her students progress we're so glad that she will finally have to stand in front of people and graciously receive some of the accolades she deserves there's anything that we as a team can do to help honor her please let us know we would be glad to assist what you just did thank you bhaskar jain varun mahotra and fiona liu but not just any teacher gets these accolades and leslie is everything those students say and more
023and by more i mean she seems to do everything when we needed volunteers from national honor society for an event we asked leslie when robotics needed an advisor they asked leslie who in turn in her inimitable style sought ebef and my support to get funding for these kids my kids never had leslie but they knew who she was everybody in that schools know who everybody in that school knows who leslie is here i'll show you hey marilyn i need to ask you a favor sure jack what anything um well for the student association this year when we do back to school nights we have a whole lot of swag that we want to give away to get parents to donate absolutely but instead of you know bringing it back and forth i was hoping there
024was somewhere we could keep it at the high school yeah oh i'm i might have some space in my prep room but god you know i'm gonna have to check with leslie about that see what she thinks hey jess how are you i'm good how are you good i have a quick question for you what's up have you decided how many sections of ap chemistry you're going to have next year and who's teaching them um you know what i think i have an idea but i think i need to double check with leslie before i can give you a final answer on that hey matt how are you hold on jack i just have a call coming in let me take it real quick no problem hey mr knopfenberger how you doing what all right
025all right i gotta go what's the matter now i gotta get i gotta do some contact racing again so what's your procedure for that i think i gotta check with uh i gotta check with leslie so things have been good at the high school things have been outstanding at the high school great team great staff we're fortunate i'm glad i know the beginning of the year had to be a little bit rough but i'm sure things are like you know in the groove by now they are and our kids have been outstanding too they were really really great blessed to have great kids great staff and the school year's off to a good start good i'm glad to hear that excuse me i'm so sorry look at it there's an incident right away not again
026not again okay thank you kathy jack hold on a second you know what let me call ed our security see what's going on you know what no that's not going to be good move not ed glenn let me call glenn that'll get it zinc oh yeah good idea now i don't think that's a good idea you know we got to get we this has happened multiple times i'm tired of it we got to get this done once and for all and we got to get it done right i got the answer i'm going to call leslie she'll get it done of course thank you for everything leslie you were the first teammate i had the moment i walked in the building and you've always been there and you've always been so helpful i you're someone
027i always turn to when i need something i can't thank you enough it's good to have someone in the building who is so dedicated you bleed green congratulations leslie i'm so excited for you we wouldn't be able to survive without you i appreciate everything you do for us thanks i just want to say congratulations again i had a great time working with you at my time at east brunswick high school i respect and value your input so much you are a true professional an outstanding teacher unlike any other a great building rep for your your union and your rep and your uh employees who work at the high school and within the district and i'd like to thank you for everything that you do for the staff and students here in the east brunswick public
028school district leslie congratulations on a well-deserved award unfortunately you need to do this virtually you know me if we were there in person i'd give you one big hug right now and congratulate you but let me tell you something on behalf of the staff the students the administration there's nobody that's more committed to doing what's best for our students than you are this is a well-deserved award congratulations and enjoy your evening leslie i know you'd prefer one of those unsung hero awards but right now the stage is yours as our partner in excellence i'll make sure everybody can hear me i thought getting through my speech was going to be hard enough tonight is almost surreal like something i dreamed up in my head it's been about a year and a half since jack first
029approached me in mike vanello's office and with with the good news that keeps on giving and uh i said i remember saying something like yet you're kidding there's a outstanding building filled with outstanding people who do outstanding things every day there's got to be a better choice jack said no we it's not a mistake we we want to honor you so the school year ends new school year begins we hear about a virus coveted comes to the u.s coveted comes to new jersey code comes to east brunswick we're out of the building away from our kids away from each other in a very new and different world no no normal end of the year activities no ebef partner and excellence dinner school year comes to a close new school year begins so i started to
030think about what excellence means and i quickly realized that excellent can't come without partnership and i started to realize how blessed i am i am a proud staff member at east brunswick high school where i live in the most extraordinary culture of excellence encouraged by extraordinary people within my building in fact you might say excellence flows through every member of our staff and through every inch of my facility i'm met with excellence from the very moment i approach my building and i'm greeted by my school security officer who's trying to do his best to make an odd situation feel normal and he always leaves me with a smile the day starts and there is this flurry of excellence is obvious to anybody walking inside our building every member of my staff is involved and yes
031i said mine i get a little possessive every member of our staff is involved in this partnership where excellence ensues our bus drivers custodians instructional assistants student aides child nutrition workers i.t staff child study team ssos student assistance counselors athletic trainers attendance officer school aides instructional coach nurse media specialist school counselors my bookkeepers and my secretaries who are a blessing each and every day my fellow teachers who have unparalleled compassion passion and heart and my building administrators with unwavering resolve to support and protect staff and students in our building what an awe-inspiring group to partner with every day as a proud member of the east brunswick education association under dana zimbicki i encounter another partnership that affords me the ability to work in the midst of excellence a group of passionate and steadfast professionals who
032fight for the right thing and honor and respect the craft of education students that's a whole other thing this is my 28th year teaching the hundreds of sophomores that have walked into my room so scared to be wrong the juniors the seniors far too worried about a grade to worry about learning the students that i've coached the students that i've advised the students that i've mentored they each taught me something building a partnership where excellence improves so what does this have to do with the east brunswick education foundation's partner and excellence award that's easy what i do is not isolated it's not independent and if it's seen as excellent then credit goes to many the excellence being recognized is about relationships and lessons learned to be selected from a superior group of people as a
033partner in excellence for the east brunswick education foundation is astounding to be considered a partner by a group of people who do not necessarily work in a school but consider my work important and provide so much necessary support for all we do almost leaves me speechless it is a privilege to be recognized by the east brunswick education foundation i hope i can continue to be a partner with ebef and collaborate with the ebef student association beyond getting dodgeballs thrown at me a few words of personal thanks i am blessed to have two parents who are not just my heroes they're superheroes they have taught me lessons my whole life my dad taught me things like never work more than a 10-minute walk from where you live you may need to go in there every once
034in a while and he also taught me there is a fine line between precious and precocious which i think was followed by the words young lady mom taught me things like please and thank you go a long way and family is the biggest blessing you can have well i live less than a 10-minute walk to the high school and i've added i'm sorry and what can i do to help to those phrases that are important but true family that's the important partnership that's the relationship that gives excellence and what i learned about family choose them wisely east brunswick high school has provided me a work family like no other no single staff member is supportive every single staff member is supportive encouraging madly talented wildly creative and has exceptional engineering skills as we continue to
035build planes in the air i have the staunchest group of work moms siblings and incredible friends and i am thankful for their continued professional and personal support i am supported by a collaborative group of building administrators who push me forward have time to have time to listen and support my sometimes wacky plans where else could i work with a big brother a little brother a twin brother and my very best friend mike vanilla thank you for pushing me to be a stronger more fierce educator leader and just in general person thank you sherry for the most amazing 20 something years of friendship and family i would be remiss if i did not thank my husband because i know it is not always easy being mr anderson and i want to thank the east brunswick education
036foundation for this tremendous honor and allowing me to share it with the most deserving high school staff i would like to serve and continue as your partner in excellence and for that i am truly humbled thank you for this honor and good [Applause] evening i met our final honoree at our second dance-off event marge lapresse who's a past partner in excellence honoree by the way was unable to come back as one of our stage managers so i came to dress rehearsal and i met joanne i had heard her name and seen it on many grants from her days as a media center specialist but never met her in person i remember panicking as the show ended i ran tomorrow and ryan and said one more time how do i say this name when i thank
037her i have since learned as i said she was in the media centers at hammershould and east forensic high school when we saw joann's name on some cool grants like text for tots david adler comes to bow monroe school and help us grow with high low among many others but as principal she's moved into the supporting role on these grants joanna's a great influencer we get the best bulletin board for apples for education when we need one at irwin school when there's a grant submitted that she's excited about or wondering if it needs a little push to get through whenever i see her we go into the typical hey mr l yes mrs c hey i want to tell you about this cool grant for a mobile classroom and she goes on to tell me
038all the attributes of her grant she wants to get my feeling on how it's going to be received and it's usually a good reaction but the best part about those interactions that the conversations went on longer i got to see joanne in action as a principal like the time we brought a harlem wizard to irwin school one of the younger kids probably in kindergarten had a bit of a meltdown and joanne calmly and caringly escorted the student out of the gym so the rest of the class can enjoy the program joanne loves what she does and has a passion for kids and education and that shows all over erwin school which is one of the reasons i love to go into that building she and i have also had some long but neither exhaustive nor
039exhausting conversations about leadership as she has developed her style and grown into a leader of irwin and a leader in the community and district and somewhere along along the line i made a friend all that aside you have to admit it's a tough name to have at the helm of an elementary school see what i mean how do you say your principal's name mr willis miss o's mellowest miss camilla wicks say the principal's name this is samoas it's show me what michelle mellowetz mrs simmons who's the principal of our own school mr milo this is congratulations mrs chanellowitz congratulations smilers congratulations misha morowitz congratulations so charellowes congratulations joanne mrs c chamelowitz so glad to have you as our partner in excellence thank you jack i think they did a pretty good job all things being
040considered that there's about like 27 vowels in that uh in that last name my husband adorned me with 27 years ago so good evening and thank you so much to the east brunswick education foundation for this recognition i'm humbled and honored to be here to speak with you this evening the ebef is an organization near and dear to my heart and i see its positive influence and impact at irwin school every day the ebef's generosity to our schools of over two million dollars has made a lasting impact on the lives of thousands of children and i'm so grateful for their work congratulations to my fellow nominees gene mueller a true treasurer of the east brunswick community and my friend leslie anderson an amazing human being and the best chemistry teacher in the world i'm humbled
041to be nominated with such fine women congratulations as well to our hall of fame inductees for your contributions and dedication to the east brunswick community i feel incredibly lucky to be here to speak to you this evening i've been thinking a little bit about luck and the many ways that you can describe it not many people will look at the events of 2020 and think about luck but i think we can find some luck even in the most trying times the merriam-webster dictionary defines luck as to prosper or succeed especially through good chance or good fortune although i think this is a pretty good definition i ask you to bear with me as i offer my own definition of luck luck is having the privilege of having worked in many different schools in east brunswick
042over the years i've worked with so many incredible people many of whom have become my dear friends a group of people who have inspired me changed me as an educator and have shown me what it takes to be a top notch teacher when you work in east brunswick you really do work with the best teachers and support staff around luck is waking up every morning to the best hardest job you've ever had well aside from parenting maybe a job that is never the same two days in a row but is always focused on one central mission to make positive meaningful impacts on the lives of the children faculty and staff that enter the doors of irwin every day being a principal has taught me so much and given me many more gifts and valuable lessons
043than i can possibly express luck is having a front office staff and security team that looks after all the details that make the school building run like a well-oiled machine and in their spare time they also look after my personal well-being which is such a gift and i appreciate that care more than i can express luck is having a principal and administrator tribe who work collectively to ensure that every child in east brunswick has an outstanding educational experience they're also a group of friends who understand that sometimes but not very often even the principal has a bad day and in those moments they can be counted on to swoop in with compassion and support and occasionally on friday nights may be a little socially distanced wine luck is having 400 students come into our school
044both in person and online every day our students come from all walks of life beliefs and backgrounds and they bond together to form a community of learners who are just as focused on being good people as they are in becoming the best educational versions of themselves every day luck is also watching them grow as people to become more responsible more independent and most of all more confident as scholars luck is also walking down the hallway and getting stopped every couple of feet because a student wants to give me a virtual hug or an elbow bump or they just want to talk to me such as one day last week when one of my students said i love you mrs chamelowitz and the next one said you know you wore those shoes yesterday you know i
045love those moments so much luck is having an incredibly supportive pta and parent community who work as our partners no matter what we ask for we are blessed with parent partners who seek to support us how lucky can a person be to work with families that support nurture and love their kids and then let us borrow them for several hours a day to do the same luck is having a teaching staff that you get to work with every day who comes together as a true family a dedicated faculty and staff that make a difference in the lives of our students they are professionals that do their best no matter the effort who never cease in their relentless pursuit of high quality instruction and social and emotional support for our students and for one another they've
046also become a faculty who no longer flinches or groans when i say i had this crazy idea for example i might say something like hey guys we're in a pandemic let's build a new way of teaching in just three days no matter the request this staff continually rises to each challenge and blows me away with their excellence for most people in education 2020 has already been the most challenging of our careers but i will tell you this if i have to go through a global pandemic then these are the group of teachers i want to go through it with they are also a community of people who build one another up when times are hard and they provide a level of support and loyalty for one another and for me that i have never equally
047experienced in my 30 years in education i walk away every day proud to be their partner in irwin school's mission i love you guys exceptional luck is the one that comes from having a family that loves and supports you no matter what even when i tell them i'm going back to school for the umpteenth time a family that understands the long hours and the nights i have to be out and all the takeout food that comes with being the family of the principal but most of all luck is being blessed with the two best children on planet earth and who make me proud to be their mom every single day and a husband of almost 27 years who may say lucy when i have my next hair brained idea but who is also a never-ending
048font of support encouragement and love jack maddie and henry i love you guys so much thank you for loving me so with my apologies to merriam-webster my own definitions of luck describe a very clear picture my experiences as a member of the east brunswick public schools community is an embarrassment of riches i am by every definition of the word a very lucky woman indeed i thank you again for this honor and for your present both in person and virtually tonight thank you congratulations again to all our honorees before we wrap up i have a few thank yous first did everybody see or out in virtual land we have our program our ad journal put together by paul shone thank you paul and you're with graphic support from diana toto who is a designer like no
049other our dinner committee ellen shurer trish leduc and alexia deluca our tech team tonight lisa ruggiero marilyn ryan during poliopico mike lasher and the man himself my technical right hand my video producer and so many other things mr john mcmenamin [Applause] special thanks to mike vanilla for giving me the eb mask so i didn't have to come up here wearing a michigan mask even though we couldn't have a dinner ebf is having a catered dinner from steakhouse 85 delivered to all four of our honorees at their houses for them and their family to enjoy and keep the night special so i want to thank everybody for joining us tonight whether you're here or whether you're virtual and for your continued support and allowing us to honor these special people tonight good night you