Thanks for letting us into your Frog family, TCU
Ferrari family will cherish memories of TCU
COMMENTARY
Michael R. Ferrari

My wife and I will soon be departing TCU after spending five of the most invigorating, fulfilling and rewarding years of our lives here.

Since the day we arrived, we have had the privilege of becoming part of an extraordinary university and a dynamic community. Over these years we have had the marvelous opportunity to see, feel and touch the richness and depth of TCU in ways too numerous to recount. Our interaction with faculty and staff has been inspiring, and we have marveled at their collegiality, genuine concern for students, and impressive dedication to this university.

The members of the Board of Trustees have displayed generous and thoughtful support.

They have imagined with us the possibilities for TCU, they have demonstrated their commitment to embracing with enthusiasm the dramatic physical transformation of our campus during the past five years and they have shown their eagerness to move forward with a bold blueprint to realize and secure the future of the university. Our visits with alumni from Houston to Chicago, from California to Florida, from El Paso to New York have been exhilarating.

What has been especially memorable for us, however, has been our interaction with students. We knew from the moment that we set foot on campus that TCU students were really special, that they were different from any students we had been associated with over the years. They consistently display a level of maturity, civility and social presence that set them apart from their counterparts elsewhere. And they have indeed enriched our experiences and our lives here in ways that are hard to describe.

When we came to TCU, I said that this was an uncommon university with an uncommonly bright future. How true it was then, how true it has been during the last five years and how true it remains today as we look to the future and the welcoming of a new chancellor and his family to lead the next stage of TCU’s progress.

We will cherish always our days, weeks, months and years at TCU. The memories are surely sweet, and the comrades true. We thank you for the honor you have given us to be part of this university. We thank you for the spirit of collegiality and friendship you have bestowed upon us. We thank you for permitting us to join you in the continuing and noble effort of building a great university.

Praise to thee, TCU, and praise and best wishes to each and every one of you!

Chancellor Michael R. Ferrari is retiring at the end of the school year.