He was an interesting man. He was from the East Coast, but he’d moved to California for health reasons when he was young. He was a banker, a land developer, and he also was interested in education and he became a regent with the University of California. And he too loved the desert in his own way. He didn’t know a lot about it, but he knew his land developer institutions tuition said the Coachella Valley where we were, it was gonna be buried in houses someday. And there ought to be a place where people could learn about the desert. And so, he envisioned creating a nature center. He also gave a big chunk of land that he had purchased to the University of California system for postgraduate research only.
