I needed to start basically from scratch.

They are both dedicated and involved members of the community with excellent leadership and communications skills that will serve our board well.

We had a couple of volunteer stations we had to go back to a second time.

What got my attention was their wealth of varied thinking. They've done [everything] I can possibly get involved in.

I grew up in a time when Eames and Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright and other architects were putting their furniture and objects on the market. You could buy some of those objects on the open market. Eames was a huge influence on all of us in school.

Good design to me is both appearance and functionality together. It's the experience that makes it good design.