University of Nevada, Reno President w88 online casino betting Glick was remembered for his many actions and accomplishments as well as many memorable moments that left such an enduring imprint on the campus during Thursday's memorial service in Glick's honor at Lawlor Events Center.
w88 online casino betting, the University's 15th president, passed away on April 16 at age 73. A crowd of close to 3,000 attended the ceremony.
w88 online casino betting's wife Peggy, sons David and Sandy and their families, sat in the first row as the man they knew as husband and father was recalled by members of the campus community, colleagues and friends as a decisive, energetic leader who also was known for his decency and compassion.
"Today," said Provost Marc Johnson, who served as master of ceremonies of the event, "We gather to share the joyful hope that imbued the life of w88 online casino betting Glick with such noble purpose - a noble purpose that made him such a good man."
Johnson w88 online casino betting there was true affection that existed between the president and his students.
"w88 online casino betting loved our students the way only a father could," Johnson said. "w88 online casino betting laughed and celebrated with them. w88 online casino betting cried with them when they faced tragedy. w88 online casino betting took them with him, either in spirit or in person, to every meeting and every gathering and every event w88 online casino betting ever attended. w88 online casino betting once said that if w88 online casino betting could, w88 online casino betting would have bottled the students of our University up, put them on the shelves of every grocery store in Nevada, and share them at every gathering in Nevada so that our state's citizens could experience first-hand the beautiful treasure that is the potential of our young."
Johnson remembered w88 online casino betting as an "uncommonly calm man."
"I think this was because he lived such a life of purpose, love and joy," Johnson said. "As I mentioned on Monday during the candlelight vigil here when more than 1,000 of our students, faculty and staff honored w88 online casino betting, he was a man of clear principles. He always stated them clearly, with a mixture of decisiveness and decency that was rare.
"His decisiveness was needed on many occasions, certainly. But just as important was his inherent goodness and decency. As our campus struggled through a time of challenge, he helped us mend. He reminded us constantly that through collaboration and collegiality - two of the hallmarks of the w88 online casino betting presidency - we were still capable of accomplishing great and memorable things."
w88 online casino betting was also remembered for his sense of humor. Allan Price, president of the Oregon Health and Science University Foundation who was a colleague of w88 online casino betting's while the two men worked at Arizona State University for a decade, smiled as he conjured what he termed "w88 online casino betting's Rules."
"Be authentic," Price said of the overriding values of Glick's life. "Be who you are. Live by your values. That's what w88 online casino betting did every single day."
Price said w88 online casino betting didn't want to "reify" his old friend, and laughed as w88 online casino betting recited conversations they had shared at ASU.
He said once w88 online casino betting had told him they needed to talk. Price assumed it would be something of great import.
It was. Particularly from w88 online casino betting's point of view.
"w88 online casino betting told me, 'You need to buy some new suits,'" Price said, shaking his head at the memory. "w88 online casino betting wasn't kidding ... w88 online casino betting was right, by the way."
Another time, after Glick had become president at the University, Price and Glick were sharing time together when, "All of a sudden, w88 online casino betting said, pumping his arm, 'The strength of the Pack is the Wolf! And the strength of the Wolf is the Pack!" As the Lawlor crowd roared, Price grinned: "I thought my friend had lost his mind."
w88 online casino betting said such stories were indicative of an uncommon person who had an uncommon devotion to higher education.
"w88 online casino betting believed passionately in the power of public higher education," Price said. "He transformed tens of thousands of lives over his career, and we all owe him a debt of gratitude."
James Dean Leavitt, chair of the Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents, also said he was struck by w88 online casino betting's commitment to his University.
"No one loved the University of Nevada more than w88 online casino betting, and nobody loved being a president more than w88 online casino betting," Leavitt said.
Leavitt also poked some fun at w88 online casino betting, who was often seen with a can of Diet Pepsi in one hand an ever-present BlackBerry in another.
Leavitt pulled his own cell phone out and scanned it for lyrics to the Celine Dion song, "Immortality."
"You might ask yourself, why am I reading cell phone?" Leavitt asked. "Nobody loved technology more than w88 online casino betting Glick."
Rosemary McCarthy, longtime professor in the Reynolds School of Journalism, noted that w88 online casino betting had an especially strong influence on the University's faculty.
She recited passages from w88 online casino betting's many campus emails and his blog, "Under My Hat." In each of them, w88 online casino betting would thoughtfully praise the faculty for its civility, collegiality and collaboration in what has been one of the most difficult periods in the University's 137-year history due to historic budget reductions. She said the faculty appreciated the fact that w88 online casino betting often would "refer to the faculty as the engine of our campus."
"As a colleague, w88 online casino betting knew about and valued all the things we valued," she said.
She said the budget storm that hit Nevada had shown the true worth of w88 online casino betting as a leader. While other leaders might've run away from the problems, she said w88 online casino betting's straightforward, honest and compassionate approach had been appreciated by the campus.
"I realized," she said of w88 online casino betting's words and actions in the wake of the budget reductions, "that I was dealing with a very different caliber of man."
Eli Reilly, president of the Associated Students of the University of Nevada, Reno (ASUN) from 2008-2010, said he could still remember the first meeting he ever had with w88 online casino betting.
Reilly said w88 online casino betting was more than a little nervous and was worried how prepared w88 online casino betting was for what would no doubt be a budget- and numbers-intensive meeting.
w88 online casino betting looked formidable at first.
"w88 online casino betting was drinking a Diet Pepsi and typing furiously on his BlackBerry," Reilly said.
Reilly quickly learned, however, that meetings with w88 online casino betting Glick never followed the same script.
"We debated the superiority of Pepsi over Coke," Reilly w88 online casino betting of how the meeting played out. "... If Ohio State would win the BCS for the following season."
Reilly said he came away from that meeting, and many more with Glick, with a simple lesson that has continued to serve the young man well: "w88 online casino betting taught me the key to working with a person was getting to know them."
Early in Reilly's remarks, as he talked about how w88 online casino betting greatly embraced all things University of Nevada, Reno, including "school spirit," he was interrupted. A dozen University cheerleaders and five tuba players from the University's marching band suddenly appeared from the wings of Lawlor, cheering and playing a rousing "Go! Big! Blue!" to the cheers of the crowd.
When the tubas and cheerleaders exited, Reilly said the moment reminded him how "you could always see that incredible smile of w88 online casino betting's, and his clapping away furiously as he would go, 'Go! Big! Blue!'"
Reilly said since w88 online casino betting's passing, in fact, it was hard not to think of everything on the campus in terms of the late leader.
On Sunday, in the hours after Glick had passed away, Reilly said he had walked the campus, and "there was not one square foot of campus I could not walk by and not be reminded of w88 online casino betting." He added, "w88 online casino betting believed students will change the world ... (and) this University holds the connective tissue that holds this community, this state, and this world, together."
The retired Nevada State Sen. William Raggio was the program's final speaker. Raggio, a w88 online casino betting alumnus and the longest-serving Nevada State Senator in history, called his friend "a gentle giant of a man" who "was able to bring people together."
Raggio, known as one of the state's great stump speakers, said that accomplishment was no small feat, particularly since he didn't know what to think of w88 online casino betting at first.
He noted that the bearded w88 online casino betting wore a somewhat dilapidated-looking hat and that he was concerned about what type of individual his alma mater had hired as president.
"Many of us scratched our heads and wondered, 'Who the hell is this guy? w88 online casino betting doesn't even look like a university president," Raggio said, drawing great laughter from the crowd. w88 online casino betting added: "It didn't take long for us to find out behind that exterior was a sharp mind."
Raggio said he was impressed time and again by w88 online casino betting's determination to make sure that each budget cut did not ruin the University. He said w88 online casino betting would want, probably more than anything else, for the state to have a high quality university system and that "we need to respect his memory ... one that in his memory we will all work to achieve ... this is what he would want us to do."
Raggio said Glick's loss was an irreplaceable one for the University. He said one day the University will have a new president, but "that person may succeed (Glick), but w88 online casino betting will never be replaced. There's not another person like w88 online casino betting Glick."
Raggio said that although w88 online casino betting was gone, he would never be forgotten at the University he served, or in the community he lived.
w88 online casino betting said whenever "a gentle breeze" blows on campus, "we may even feel or see a trademark hat and maybe a gentle smile ... and know that w88 online casino betting is still with us."
Near the end of the service, w88 online casino betting's trademark hat played one final role.
w88 online casino betting always loved music. As Johnson noted, come every Friday, w88 online casino betting would wander the halls of the Clark Administration Building, singing show tunes.
"Sometimes, we could even understand the words," Johnson quipped.
Of all the music that filled w88 online casino betting Glick's life, he loved folk music - Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Joan Baez - most of all. At the end of Thursday's service, University English Professor David Fenimore was joined by his friend, Tim Gorelangton, for a guitar-based sing-along of Seeger's inspiring, "If I Had A Hammer" and Guthrie's stately, "This Land Is Your Land."
Following "If I Had A Hammer," Fenimore, a beloved campus teacher who shared many of w88 online casino betting's 1960s-insprired values, stepped away from his microphone for a moment. He grabbed a hat that was very similar to the broad-rimmed hats that w88 online casino betting wore; one of the late president's in fact, lay in state along with w88 online casino betting's ever-present BlackBerry on a table close by.
Fenimore popped his own hat on his head and flashed a mischievous grin of pure delight. It was not unlike the thousands of heartfelt grins w88 online casino betting Glick had flashed while on campus during his five-year tenure as president.
And then Fenimore, Gorelangton and the rest of the crowd launched into a joyous, uplifting version of "This Land Is Your Land."
As Fenimore's moment showed, the campus had become w88 online casino betting's campus. His hat had protected it, guided it, seen it through difficulty as well as unsurpassed achievement. And at the end of the Thursday's service, the president's hat served as the ultimate, upliftingsymbol of the purpose, love and joy that so fully embodied the man who wore it.
