Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams
"Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams" was delivered on September 18, 2007, at Carnegie Mellon University's McConomy Auditorium. Over 450 Carnegie Mellon students, staff members, and friends of Pausch attended the lecture, leaving only standing room as this was more than the auditorium could hold. Pausch later commented about this in an interview, saying "A couple of hundred people in a room, looking and listening and laughing and applauding – hopefully at the appropriate times – that gives a lot of validation to my kids that a lot of people believe in this, and a lot of people who knew me believe that I did my best to try to live this way." The first introduction of the speech as well as the series of lectures was given by Indira Nair, the Vice Provost for Education at Carnegie Mellon. Nair first explained the university's aforementioned lecture series called "Journeys", in which eight more professors from Carnegie Mellon would share their insights on their professional and personal experiences over the years.
Northwest Unitarian Universalist Congregation
Three years after its peak, Sunday attendance dipped amid the financial challenges at the congregation. By 1990 with Susan Randolph as DRE, RE Sunday attendance was on the rise again averaging 77 students with registered families rising from 47 to 53 with 19 families attending regularly but not formally registered. The 15 member youth choir continued and other programs such as Secret Friends, youth participation in Atlanta's Hunger Walk and participation in the international UNICEF program were implemented. Pat Kahn became DRE in 1996 and by 1999 RE enrollment had grown to 145 children.