Included in the End-of-Year message from Caltech President Chameau is this quote from Einstein, delivered in December 1930, on his first visit to Caltech.

"To you all, my American friends, I wish a happy 1931. You are well entitled to look confidently to the future, because you harmoniously combine the joy of life, the joy of work, and a carefree, enterprising spirit which pervades your very being, and seems to make the day's work like blessed play to a child."
---- Albert Einstein, December 1930

May the spirit of joy pervade your life and your work in the coming year! Let us all look confidently and move boldly into the future. Happy Solstice! Merry Christmas! Happy New Year!