[applause] [inaudible conversations] first of all born in 1874 in iowa as the son of quakers and son of a blacksmith and he was orphaned before he was 10. What not to that eventually would oakwood oregon. Never had more than a middleschool education really been applied for entrance into newly formed Stanford University in the summer of 1891 and got admission and was told to take some additional tutoring with the help of which he passed muster his entrance exams and was allowed to enter. Who is probably literally the first at Stanford University in the fall of 91, gaining his dormitory room ahead of anyone else. That became, in a deep sense, his alma mater. You have to remember he is an orphan boy and was trying to make it in the world. He was only 17 when he entered college and he was rather shy, but he blossomed in college and became a student body treasurer by the time he was out of college. Stanford meant so much to him that about 25 years or so after that, after world war i, hoover literally built his own home on the stanford campus. Its the resonance today at the university. What did he do with his education . Cracks he centered engineering. Yes, his official nature was geology and the adventures of mining engineering and that quickly became his career after he graduated in the class of 1895 after a year or two in the United States, he got a break and was hired via british mining Engineering Firm that was preeminent in the world at the time and was sent as a young man to australia and before he left australia at the age of 23, he was already manager of one of the great gold mines of the australia gold rush. From there, he went got married to a stanford women who also is a geology major, possibly the first such woman in the United States to have been nature. We cant be sure, that she was certain he pioneered in her own right. They went to china for a couple years and eventually hoover used to pay sturdiness mining engineering career, which took him up to world war i. He became very successful at it, traveled all over the world, lived in places like irma, china, australia and soap are then had a Great Success at the first career. Heres a look at upcoming doctors and testable tapping around the country. This weekend, booktv will be light at the 18th annual virginia festival of the book in charlottesville. And this is the feature of my nw book, which looks at views not from an industr