The kindness of non-friends

When Bill Holland moved down here I thought of him as a St Louis Jellybean and a blowhard!  He had not gone to school here or done his dues in development!  But he has grown in the job and we have melded together!  We have lunch and talk!

I went up yesterday and he gave me a surprise!  It was a framed copy of the newspaper saying the Foundation had exceeded his goal!   Bill had it framed for me and had written in ink:   "Jane, none of this would have happened without the strong alumni base you built!"   And then he added verbally,  "I finally know what you did here during those years!"

Bill, you words and acts meant something rich to me!