What kind of dynamic did marrying into the family and heading its foundation create?
It was very interesting. It’s a very big family. Frankly, if I were to be in a room with them all, I may not know all of them. But C.S. and Harding had been looking to get some assistance I never felt any resentment. Is Mott still a family foundation today? If you count the bodies, we currently have 13 board members, out of which five are family members, including myself. So from that angle, you would say we are a family foundation. Given the nature of our foundation, I think it’s important for the family to be involved but there is no requirement for family members to be on the board. In the way we operate, in the way we think, though, we regard ourselves as an independent foundation. But if you wish for diversity on the board of a foundation, sometimes it’s difficult to get the total diversity you’d like among one family, in terms of thinking, geography, race, etc. We wouldn’t be the foundation we are today if it were not for the outside board members. Has the foundation instituted a
