really my honor to welcome you to this commennation of the life and spirit of our irreplaceable friend miltionks. today we will hear tributes and memories from those that knew milton in many aspects of his life and work, and i think together these memories and tributes will begin to form a mosaic of the multi-dimensional man he was. i use that word because i wrote it yesterday afternoon want thinking of the mosaic of words, and the word cloud that abbey and will and you collaborated on to express the many dimensions of milton markses and you can look at those expressions of milton and likely add your own. like i said you will be from a number of folks giving their thoughts and tributes to milton today and please stay for the reception afterwards. sign the guest books which are now outside. some of you may have come in before they were placed and together we will create our word cloud and mosaic of milton. to begin it's my honor to introduce the mayor of san francisco, the honorable edwin lee. >> thank you peter. good afternoon everyone. welcome to city hall. it's my honor and pleasure to welco

as i know carolyn and her work on the status of woman and miltion and trying to appear at every communitynt he could be to know you care about everything that happens in the city. well, milton represented that and i want to say he will always be in my heart as someone that we owe a debt of gratitude to for his civic high level of responsibility and integrity. he pushed that as part of his legacy and not only we suffer this loss and it's to remember and all of us that holds positions in the city the public expects us to the highest level of integrity and responsibility. that is the standard that the marks family has had and all of the generations, and that is something that milton himself held in high regard and he wouldn't expect anything less, and i know abbey as we have talked in celebration of his wonderful devotion to you and the family we always wanted to make sure when we talk about milton marks iii in the city is stands for integrity. it stands for transparency. we must do better and he was always about doing better and i knew him with having a dry sense of humor but passionate wit

i remember how upset at two and three how nathan would be and it wasn't how he picture today and miltion transformedded that into experience of pleasure and making a picnic in doors with full restaurant experience and illustrations, or giving -- i am going to tell something you remember. or giving three year old reluctant bathers in the sink and they ask for repeats of that. one thing that happens with brain tumors in the frontal lobe you lose the ability to see. all right. i'm going to set a limit right now. you guys have to leave the podium. there you go. but milton was to the last always keeping his kids in mind. this summer will and theo who are five -- excuse me, five and three quarters became fascinated with my eye glasses. sometimes i let them try them on so i am practically blind out them and just a few weeks milton would drag his caregiver to look for stylish frames that the boys could wear. he didn't want their eyes damaged by reading glasses and was proud to find them at the mall and the boys loved them. even then he was looking out for his boys. some of you may know this stor

really my honor to welcome you to this commennation of the life and spirit of our irreplaceable friend miltion marks. today we will hear tributes and memories from those that knew milton in many aspects of his life and work, and i think together these memories and