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[Chris Whitaker] Well, it's great to be celebrating,
Humber's 50th anniversary.
You know, a lot's happened over 50 years of the college sector.
This is an incredible milestone.
And if you think about why would we have an event like this to,
to cap off a year of celebration for our 50th,
I think back to Humber's history,
and I think back to our program mix,
and I think back to how we have a culture that likes to celebrate.
And I think it's wonderful that we're featuring graduates
and faculty, uh, from our music program
because our music program is one of our original programs at Humber.
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[Laila Biali] This is a family reunion.
This is a family celebration.
And as I see faces backstage,
some that I haven't seen since my time at Humber,
um, I'm just reminded that we are a family.
And those, those roots,
like where you first, kind of, s- begin to, to set down roots,
which for me was at Humber,
they only grow stronger as the years go by,
and the tree grows larger, and there are more branches.
And so I feel like my time at Humber has been, you know,
um, an experience of a gr- an ever growing family.
[Steve Bellamy] It's an honour for the music program to be featured
as part of a 50 year celebration for the institution.
This is a celebration of the entire college.
And we know that music lends itself to celebration,
so we're so happy to be part of this.
We're fortunate to be here at Koerner Hall,
which is one of the greatest performance venues in the country.
The music that you're gonna hear tonight,
from Humber faculty and from alumni,
deserves to be heard on a stage such as this.
These are world class musicians we're gonna hear tonight,
and they deserve a world class auditorium and a world class stage.
And it changes the way you experience the music.
[music] [man and woman singing] ...be searchin' for a heart of gold.
[drum solo]
[man] Wooo!
[man singing] Heart of gold! Heart of, heart of gold.
[Chris] Tonight is wonderful
because it, it's a celebration of Humber.
And the celebration wouldn't be complete
if we didn't have our donors
and our business industry community partners with us.
They are critical to our success.
[Corrado Messina] Well, I think one of the great pieces of news, uh, tonight is
we have some guests from TD here,
and two of 'em are actually Humber, Humber graduates.
So I think that that's just a, a testament
to the type of people that TD hires
and the type of graduates that Humber, uh,
Humber brings in to the community.
So, uh, really proud of all the alumni
we're able to, to support, but certainly for Humber,
having a couple here I think is extra special for us.
[Laila] I think we all want connection in our lives, right?
And we're always, when you, the older we get,
the more we look back on years gone by,
and we try to, kind of, make sense of it all
and paint a cohesive picture.
[Chris] So we've changed a lot, and we continue to evolve.
And it's all thanks to the great, uh,
people that have contributed to Humber's success
over the many, many years,
and the people that we have here now that are taking us into the future.
[audience applause and cheering]
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