madam suzanne peery [applause] islamic it is my honor to be here tonight.y only sadness is i am sitting back here and cannot see this beautiful photograph of our beloved dr. dorothy height. we know that she was tired, but she wore us out. [applause] [laughter] and no matter how old our beloved one was, we just didn't want her to leave. we didn't want this evening to come. but here we are and we are going to make it a celebration. and i can see, alexis, i will also have to be a police officer, juneau, so each speaker is coming to have two minutes and if you go way beyond that you will hear a little music from the organist, and that means please, wrap it up. [laughter] so i'm going to move the program along. it is such an honor for me to be here to join you in a paging tribute to a woman who probably all of us who are in here tonight had the honor of knowing and some very special way and we are going to hear some of those stories recounted tonight. we men are as our leader. it's still hard to speak about her in the past tense. we knew her as a great fighter c