his predsers in his seat on the supreme court were louie bran dice and william o douglas, for 16 years he has been the senior associate justice. you may have read about him during the last few weeks. i give you justice stevens. thank you so much. thank you so much. fellow judges, friends. and members of the seventh circuit bar, and -- and the friends again. i am going to play my normal role tonight to talk to you very briefly -- while you were waiting to hear the principal speaker. i want to say on her behalf, she very kindly offered to let me go last tonight and i pulled rank on her and said no, i'm just going to do basically what i have done for many years here. just have a very few -- few comment that is are not very profound. the -- it occurs to me just out of the blue that -- that i attended a -- i think it was an illinois bar association, maybe the 100th anniversary or something like that, 25 or 30 years ago, and i remember the president of the association, i think we're negligent in kalamazoo, i'm in the sure, in any event saying because of the anniversary, this is a occasion. i