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I. Forty-Fifth Anniversary of Asian American Studies at Yale
It is a great honor and pleasure to be invited back to Yale and to participate in this important conference.

This gathering has historic significance. It was forty-five years ago during the Spring semester of 1970 when the first class in Asian American Studies was offered at Yale. It was the first Asian American Studies class offered by any Ivy League college and, along with the first class offered at City College of New York,1 one of the first two that was taught east of the West Coast.

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