The walk from the Canterbury Cathedral campus to the Christ Church University College ... more a short stroll ... was never unpleasant, although a modest few of the strollers were observed on occasion to lose their way and take a longer route. The project which I here reveal and of which I speak at the moment came about, and has proceeded in stages. Noting as I did the ever present good humor in our band of conferees and carrying my camera to pre-dinner convivial time and a more formal dinner, I struck upon the idea of portraits of our fellows. Actually close-up single shots with my obtrusive camera seemed to add a touch of merriment to the evening. I then found myself continuing this odd activity for the next several days in Canterbury and then at York and St. John College. The image number mounted.

Returning to New York from Old York and achieving the contact sheets I sensed something more that my project wished to convey. The set of single image prints brought the individuals back to mind. Then I wondered what the collective image might reveal. Matting close to fifty single prints on three adjacent panels allows one to step back and view the CUAC collective.

Many of us, perhaps even most, in colleges around the world have known the struggle to maximize the diversity of our existence for the better education of those in our charge. I have listened to many speak with startlingly good intelligence and common sense about the value and importance of diversity on our campuses. We each observe the immensity of the task and the meager advance of our results. Step back for a moment and observe the remarkable presence of the CUAC collective. Suddenly one can see all that we are and were meant to be from our very founding a dozen years ago.

The final stage of my project that began with light-hearted moments at our triennial dedicated to the theme of "learning through each other's living", has become that which is derived from the reach of our faces ... from all that CUAC is as a result of what was begun.