And I remember one particular time, I think he proposed that our guards, they couldn’t guard a chicken coop, would be paid, given a raise $5 a month more than the guards at the Field Museum. I said, “How come you’re doing this?” And Chute, he kind of shook his head. So I jumped into the fray, and I said, “You know, Mr. Field, “we’ve got this nice pension fund now. “And the aquarium, because it has so few employees, “we have to have a certain number of people “to keep that pension fund going. “And if we don’t attract enough people like our guards “with a suitable salary, ‘we’re gonna lose the pension fund.” And he looked at me, he said, “Good idea, Braker. “Okay, I’ll approve it.” Well, my heart was going like this. I had done something right.
