While tonight is always a special night for the Officers of the Valley of South Bend, this year it also marks the auspicious occasion of the 100-year anniversary of the Cornerstone laying of this very building. A century having passed within these walls, we gather tonight with the additional reverie of this magnificent milestone. I would like you to take a moment with me and imagine yourself in May of 1924. A gallon of milk was .28 cents. The average house was about $2500. On February 22, President Coolidge “delivered the second radio address by a U.S. president from the White House.” For fun, there were baseball cards, jigsaw puzzles, and roller skating. There were poker games, ping-pong, and pedal cars. Baseball was the national pastime, and many Americans went to baseball games, followed baseball, and played baseball. People also listened to music, read books, danced the Charleston, played the banjo, went to the movies, and even took a “Sunday drive” in their Model T Ford. It is a world that for us is often imagined in Black and white. In color it must have been a sight to behold.