They were both in the farming and ranching business. And so they moved to Brownsville when they established the Foundation, the Earl C Sams Foundation, Gladys was the first president and they established their offices in Brownsville. And so they did many community service projects. They built a wing on the hospital, at that time they were going through polio when they built that. And so they built a wing to treat the polio patients, which then was turned into something else once we got polio on the run. They built a field house for Pan American University. They built the high school stadium for football and track the Earl C Sams Stadium. They built a part that was named after Dean Porter, which was in the central part of Brownsville.
