You'd look around at meetings, and committee members who could have been his grandchildren wouldn't be there because of things like bad weather. But Porter never missed.

The optimum committee has no members.

I respect the decision of the School Committee members.

I really do appreciate the efforts of all the committee members. It's the kind of thing where if there was a simple solution to all of this, we would have arrived at it a long time ago.

I just feel this committee was hijacked from previous meetings. ...Where this whole thing was going before compared to what is happening now.

It reminds me a little bit of the way we?re having our little informal meetings now. That?s the way George would be. He?d come into Tom Grieve?s office ? he was the general manager at the time ? and everybody would congregate in there informally, talk baseball and have some fun.