I want to start by offering my condolences to the Driehaus family. My father would have loved to meet him in person, and I know that they would have had a wide-ranging conversation about the history of the development of Chicago. Having lost my own father a few months before, I deeply sympathize with your loss.

About a month after my father passed away, I received an e-mail message out of the blue, which said, ``Please call me about an academic honor that your father has received posthumously.'' I have to admit that my first thought was, ``What? ... Are computer criminals getting so clever that they are now specially targeting the families of recently departed academics?'' A little Googling suggested that it was something that was on the up and up. And when I called Dean Polyzoides back, he didn't ask for my credit-card number ... which seemed like a good sign.

I recently heard a quote, attributed to Kurt Vonnegut, that we are born into a biological family, but spend our life trying to find the other family in which we belong. My sister and I grew up in a house whose walls were filled with old maps. As a 10-year old, I accompanied my father to an antiquarian bookstore in London, where he purchased a copy of the 24-sheet 1746 John Rocque map of London—and I was sworn to secrecy to never reveal to my mother that he had spent $325 on it (a relatively large sum in 1966). So when I saw the framed sections of the 12-sheet 1748 Nolli map of Rome in the background of Dean Polyzoides during his Zoom eulogy for Richard Driehaus, it was clear that this community is the other family that my father was part of. My father would have been very pleased by this recognition, and I thank you on his behalf.

My father almost made it to 99, and was probably multiple academic and biological generations older than everyone at this ceremony, so possibly most of you never met him. If that is the case, and you are interested to know what it was like to converse with him, I encourage you to read a remembrance of my father that a former Cornell student, named James Macmillen, published in the May 2021 issue of the Journal of Planning History. I sent it to one of my friends, and as he put it, ``Macmillen has a great ear, and captures your Dad's voice to a `T'. Each quote was like having him in the room.''

Finally, I wanted to let you know that my sister and I have donated the prize money to the Society for American City and Regional Planning History to endow their John Reps dissertation awards for Master's and Ph.D. dissertations, which they have awarded every odd-numbered year since 1993, and also to endow a new program of John Reps Travel Awards for graduate students to attend the Society's biennial conferences.

Thank you once again, on behalf of my father, for recognizing his work with this award. I know that he would have been honored and pleased.