Steve Bechtel 70th Birthday May 15,1995 Friends, On this very special occasion let me start by paraphrasing the 90th Psalm in which Moses in essence says that for man the average life expectancy is three score years and ten but you can buy another ten with good behavior and careful control of cookie consumption. After that it's he pits! As A. E. Houseman would have put it, for Steve of his three score years and ten, seventy will not come again. We need have no concern about the next ten because Steve has led the kind of life that guarantees that he will get his bonus. But this is an appropriate time to review this man's remarkable record and how he managed to accomplish so much to date. This was not done by chance. It was a carefully calculated, rigidly disciplined life style. First Steve never did anything half-way. Some have suggested that this was because he wasn't very good at fractions. But I would argue, quite the contrary, no one has demonstrated better complete mastery of the concept of "cost plus." Steve is deft at handling numbers beyond 100%. So Steve's was always an all-out effort - a 100% plus. If a thing is worth doing, Steve figures that it is worth doing to excess. 1 sack of practice balls, 18 holes of