and bill strickland president and ceo of manchester bidwell corporation which founded the craftsmen guildo the youth in pittsburgh. welcome you all, greatly appreciate it. >> mr. strickland, let me start with you. you've been doing this a mighty long time. >> 40 years. >> the idea of mentoring is something that i think was years ago almost a given. you knew you mentored young people and some way, somehow we lost our way in doing that. talk to me about this, what seems to be thankfully, a re-emergens of people involving themselves with young people. >> well, i've committed myself to this work because i, myself, was mentored by a public schoolteacher who found out that i had value, possibilities, so i'm living out the example autobiographically of someone who said i had value in spite of what the school system said, the streets taught me. he helped me get into the university of pittsburgh as a probationary student. i graduated from pitt with honors, now a trustee of the university of pittsburgh and i was at commencement speaker and got up in front of 13,000 people and said don't give up on