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 you were involved in raising funds for the renovation of old main,

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weren't you? Yes, Don dots was when he
retired he became our chief

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fundraiser for that. But he and I
worked really closely together on that.

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He was a great partner and

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against some of my, you know, people
who have become friends or I had

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donors to, to that renovation. If you
look at the major naming Ed Nadine

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Carson, Most wonderful gracious
people. Gary and I and Diane tucker who

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still remained close personal friends
of mine, uh, john and barbara

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bubbling still, you know, personal
friends of mine. So it was really

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pretty, pretty wonderful experience.
Um we kind of laugh because tom and I

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actually, my husband and I actually
named the, the kitchen break room in

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old main because I really want to do
something that was, that would have

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an impact on the staff. So it was that
doing that project was one of the

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most fun things I've ever done. Um, I
really was the project administrator

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with the architect and worked on doing
picking. I mean some design stuff

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in all of the fabrics, all the
furniture. That was again, just really a

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wonderful experience because I knew it
was going to have just such an

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incredible, you know, impact on our
alumni, especially for a school like

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ours that grew so quickly and and
didn't have a lot of traditions to be

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able to take the, that significant
historical building and the university

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make this declaration that alumni are
so important that we're giving them

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the centerpiece of the campus I think
was just a really incredible message.