The speech I gave (or rather tried to give) at the ceremony we held on Wednesday 6 November 2024 with participants from different countries around the world to commemorate Prof Dr Maxwell McCombs at CIM2024...
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I'd like to welcome you all to this special session in memory of Prof. Dr. Maxwell McCombs. In addition to those of us here in the room, we have colleagues from around the globe joining us online. I'd like to give them a heads-up from here.
We also have friends who can't be here right now, but they've sent video recordings for this meeting. I'd like to thank them for that.
After these welcomes and thanks, I don't really know where to start.
Because I think this is the most difficult session and the most difficult moment of this symposium, which I've been trying to organize in one way or another for more than 20 years.
It was not until this moment in time that I was able to put together in my mind what I was going to say here.
Just a few months ago I was corresponding with Prof. McCombs and we were talking about who to invite to this symposium, what to do, how to do it, how he could participate in some way, and now we are starting this session where we are remembering him with mercy.
