And so she got to the end of the program and said, I’ve got a really good job offer and I need to let them know within a week can we do something to keep me here. Luckily I was getting ready to go on vacation by myself down to Lake of the Ozarks. So I had a week unencumbered by work to create a whole new place for her here and at the University of Illinois. The, I started with the new dean of the vet school on his first day on the job, I talked him into having a joint position. So she would be faculty at University of Illinois, spend all of her time here and it would be a, a shared position. And Herb Whiteley, the new dean of the vet school, thought that was a good idea. And then I spent the we rest of the week taking what was not my money, but the zoo’s money and taking a halftime position that had been vacated by a vet that wanted to just work halftime and convinced them through lots of lobbying and negotiation that it would be a good idea to, to create this new position where we dedicated half the resources and U of and u of I dedicated half the resources to having this shared position. And today, it’s almost 25 years later and she’s still in the shared position between U of I and Brookfield Zoo.
