While I will not attempt to share every accomplishment of the past year, I do want to highlight another historic and somewhat overshadowed part of our agreement with the University of Chicago. For more than 50 years, the JKM Library, a collaborative venture of McCormick and LSTC, has provided faithful service to our communities and managed one of the nation’s premier collections of Reformed tradition materials. As good stewards of this important legacy, we are delighted that our agreement with the University of Chicago provides that a signi昀椀cant portion of the JKM collection will now be permanently housed and cared for by the University’s renowned library system. The JKM Library and its sta昀昀 will continue to maintain a core collection of essential and unique materials, as well as manage its digital resources. Consequently, McCormick and LSTC now have access to the JKM core collection, digital resources, and dedicated JKM sta昀昀 as well as perpetual access to the University of Chicago Library System, sta昀昀, and the library’s world class resources. Our agreement with the University also provides all of our faculty, sta昀昀, and students access to the University of Chicago shuttle system, dining facilities, and grants our students access to the University’s graduate student housing on an “as available” basis. These are resources that most schools and seminaries do not have, and we are excited to begin this new chapter of JKM’s history and grateful for the opportunity to o昀昀er these enhanced services to our McCormick students, “ faculty, and sta昀昀. While we are extraordinarily proud of what we have accomplished over the past year, I know that there is a list of things that we have not done (or at least not done very well). First on that list pertains to our external communications. I once had a member of our faculty tell me that she thought being at McCormick was a bit subversive—that we did things, even big things, in quiet but impactful ways without a lot of fanfare. I rather like that notion of being subversive, but in these days of disintermediated communications, we owe it to all of you to share our news—good and bad, joyful and sad. And to tell our stories—early and often— before others attempt to tell (or mis-tell) them for us. That is a part of the job, and we will do better. 2 MCCORMICK THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY