As usual.
But that’s relatively easy to get, you know, between the associations and the government.
We have been in an unusually good position because we had a nice budget for books.
Oh yeah, that’s right. We have a good association now with good balance and good spread, and I’m sure that’s continuing. But again, see, we didn’t have much in the early days. In order to have a good association, you’ve got to have a good board. We did not. I’m not saying they were bad people, but often Warfield used them to publish, as opposed to that really viable, wonderful board that we’ve had these last few years.
So there were some changes on the board?
Oh, radical. Oh, yeah. I don’t think there’s anyone around there anymore that was on the early [board]. You have a great board [now] .
Yes, they’ve been very supportive.
That’s right, and they didn’t have an agenda. They recognize why they’re there. I’ve always been really, really grateful that they have done what they have. They never gave me quite the money to do all the things I wanted to do, but I can’t blame them for that.
Was Bryce’s board an independent association like ours is?
Yes. At Bryce we had a good board. That was okay. [It was a] totally different clientele. You weren’t going to get that wonderful cosmopolitan board that you get in a place like Crater Lake. There’s Roseburg, Klamath Falls, Medford, and Ashland that can be drawn on for potential candidates. You aren’t going to find that in an awful lot of rural areas.
I know that in talking to the Lava Beds people. They have difficulty recruiting board members.
I can’t speak for Lava Beds. Who’s super there now?
Craig Dorman, who came from [the Eugene] O’Neil House.
I would just bet this. You put Kent Taylor in there in the position of authority and see how damn long it would take him to have a good board. And you’d find you had a good board. He would do that.
