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| An eager participant volunteers for one of Mayor Street's activities. | |
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| At this point the group of ten volunteers know what they have to do: don't smile or laugh for five minutes, while facing the group--the last one still with a serious face wins. You can see that some of the students are already having a difficult time. |
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| She just laughed and had to take a seat. |
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| Concentration and dedication to the task at hand. |
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| Mayor Street testing one of the last two, and in the background, a volunteer from the group trying to get the student in the striped green shirt to laugh by playing an old man with a cane/umbrella. Green Shirt won, but Mayor Street, with all his charisma and cunning, was able to get him to laugh in the end. |
All of us at bITS, ITSRG, and Temple University in general want to thank Former Mayor John Street for giving us an engaging, crowd-pleasing talk As we in the office remember it, his two main points were to not let your future depend on luck, and, in his closing message, to remember that: "The man or woman who stops to throw a rock at every barking dog never arrives at his (or her) destination." Street emphasized the need to have a plan in life and to follow it through. There are always distractions and hardships, but if you have a plan, you can go back to it when the proverbial dogs are barking loudly and the going is difficult.
Thanks again to Former Mayor Street for coming today.
