Welcome to the first annual University of Kentucky Invitational Basketball Tournament.
It is always a very real pleasure to welcome friends of the University from throughout the state and athletics fans from many other areas and invite them to take the time to look about our beautiful campus during their visit.
Hundreds of thousands of persons visit the University of Kentucky each year for athletics events, concerts, lectures, conventions and other programs. I sincerely believe that you, like others before you, will find our campus an interesting and friendly place.
We also wish to extend a sportsman-like welcome tonight to the fine basketball teams, and their followers, from LaSalle College, University of California at Los Angeles, and Duke University. I trust that they will receive our utmost respect, courtesy and hospitality.
May we always bear in mind the sacrifices of those to whose memory this Coliseum is dedicated and pledge ourselves to a standard of conduct worthy of these honored dead.
H. L. DONOVAN President
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