But while they need no introduction to their many ardent fans, the program they have put together certainly needs some explanation for those planning to attend.
Leone was a football player at Columbia and has been an ardent supporter of the program for more than a quarter-century.
The series was repeatedly threatened with cancellation, but the program's ardent followers, known as "Trekkies," formed fan clubs and initiated letter-writing campaigns to keep the series alive until Sept. 2, 1969.
"When Commissioner Sadik-Khan was coming up here telling me I can't drive, she was busy being driven in a city-owned car by a chauffeur, speeding, getting a ticket with her lights and sirens on," said Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz, a Bronx Democrat and an ardent foe of the program.
Over the last two decades, Democrats have been ardent pushers of SRO programs.
The officers, Board and staff of the YWCA of the City of New York express great sadness at the loss of Ruth Ainslie, Board Member and ardent supporter of YW programs.
$6$$)MENDLE--Blanche. Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University records with profound sorrow the passing of the beloved mother of Judy Konigsberg and dear mother-in-law of Paul Konigsberg, ardent supporters of our programs in medical education and biomedical research.
Even its most ardent supporters concede that the program will need to be amended as experience accumulates.
Even some of the program's most ardent supporters on Capitol Hill say that the goal of having what are, in effect, perfect embassies may have to be scaled down.
One of the shuttle program's most ardent supporters, Senator Bill Nelson, Democrat of Florida, who had flown on the shuttle as a member of the House, arranged for Senate hearings to draw attention to delays in safety upgrades.
The Miró Quartet was back that evening to open a different program with an ardent performance of Barber's early String Quartet in B. The achingly sad, slow movement is famous in its guise as a work for string orchestra, "Adagio for Strings".
