Friends, fit morning. On behalf of...

Friends, fit morning. On behalf of the Chinese University of Hong Kong I have great pleasure in welcoming you all to our campus for this fourth International Autobiography and Biography Association parley
permit me begin with a quotation:
No common I know lives in the house where they grew up or steady in the
town or village where they one time were children. Most of my friends
live apart from their parents. Many were born in common country and now
live in another. Others live in exile, forming their cogitations in a
secondary language among strangers.... This centenary ...