Transcription from the tape recording of the inauguration ceremony for Dedication: The Charles Burchfield Center, Buffalo State University College, December 9, 1966

The following passage is at 139 on a Califone counter:
DR. BULGER: I’ve kidded Charlie a little bit, I mean that red vest…my favorite bird is the flicker, and I accused Charlie of putting them in all these pictures, but he insists that they’re woodpeckers that he puts in his pictures. But I think…that vest…Charlie, really, I mean I give up. It’s definitely…they’re definitely woodpeckers in the pictures, I mean I can see where
MR. BURCHFIELD: May I interrupt a minute?
DR. BULGER: Yes, sure. This is your center; you can do anything you want. (Laughter)
MR. BURCHFIELD: Can you imagine the head of a college…ah…not knowing a flicker from a wood… (Laughter)
DR. BULGER: Well, you know, I can. (Laughter) Very good…I don’t know as we’d go this far and let you do anything you want to do. Can we have a meeting of the congressmen and the Mayor on this?

The following passage is at 260 on a Califone counter:
MR. BURCHFIELD: Thank you, Paul, even if you don’t know your birds…
DR. BULGER: I know my artists…

Charles E. Burchfield, December 9, 1966