From the Dean.

Recently, I was walking though the front hallway of Weiskotten Hall late in the evening, thinking about all the things I had to do in the next day, and looked up from my worry to see something I had missed after 21 years at Upstate. I am not sure how I missed it since it’s 3 X 6 feet, hangs on the wall and is immortalized in bronze and 4 inch letters, but I did. When I saw it, it stopped me in my tracks as I read through it carefully and thought about it. First, it said that my observational skills had really narrowed, and I needed to start to open my eyes to the world. I would certainly think that we all need to do this much more, and since then I have consciously tried to do just that. Taking in the springtime for its rich beauty can make many of those worries go away. Literally what it said in those 4 inch letters is: