And they had hired Lohan’s Company, it was at those days called FCL, Fujikawa, Conterato, Lohan as architects. And they would go ahead a little bit, and then the board would say, “Wait a minute. “We don’t know if we can raise this money or not.” And then they’d tell… Read More
So he got me in to go over and I had lunch with Mickey Kupperman, who was the president and maybe his vice-president?… Read More
And the other big amount I got was from the State, and the Shedd board had been vacillating back and forth, back and forth. Read More
Should we do it, shouldn’t we do it?… Read More
Should we do it, shouldn’t we do it?… Read More
When you were fundraising, how well did you adjust to that responsibility of the director fundraise, were you called upon to do that?… Read More
Yeah, I was, I had to be part of it and all that. All directors participate in fundraising. So yes, I did. I did get into it, and very, fortunately, I think I was paramount and again, I don’t wanna sound like I am patting myself on the back, but… Read More
I don’t know the details, and they couldn’t give the money away, so the money kept building up. And then finally the IRS had told them they’ve got to get rid of some of this money. So Art’s names stayed in my mind, and I got a hold of him,… Read More
Overflow?… Read More
That was completely different than the fillers. It did overflow. We had a bunch of old-time engineers who did their job. They grease the Zerk fittings and they did those menial jobs. But the new computerized tank was just too much for them. And one night, I guess they went… Read More
But years later, the marble flooring around the coral reef and the rotunda started coming loose. And that seawater had gotten down in between there and broke up all the mortar underneath. So we had to take up the entire marble floor and replace it. So that came back to… Read More
So that we were gonna buy these filters from a company, I hope they’re not listening because they might come back in to sue us. I think it was out in Oregon. And I said we can build those things ourselves. We can go to Chicago tank, Chicago bridge and… Read More
You were able to keep the water in there all the time, never overflow?… Read More
Oh, well. Read More
Well, these microfloc filters were built like that from the bottom up, but then they were reversed. So you had them fines on fines and then medium and then big ones. Well, the problem comes when you backwash your filters with a large, medium-fine stuff, you backwash at twice the… Read More
And then I don’t know what comes next. I think it was charcoal and then big chunks so that when you turn off your backwash rate, everything in the bottom settles according to specific size and weight, but then the top ones realign according to the specific gravity, so that… Read More
So the advantage of this is that you’re taking out the big chunks first, instead of having the big chunks clog up the fines on the bottom, right?… Read More
Yes, as a matter of fact, that was the first major fundraising we had. And we did not have anybody on board as far as the department goes at that time. The board members just kind of got together, and they did that. And they had a lot of naysayers… Read More
Look what we did. That’s fine, they did it. So the coral reef was this grand exhibit that opened up. Read More
Were there any problems with it?… Read More