What kind of dynamic did marrying into the family and heading the family 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, even today. But C.S. and Harding had been looking around to get some assistance, and it didn’t cause a lot of problems. I never felt any resentment from members of the family. How much of a family foundation would you say Mott still is 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 but there is no requirement for family members to be on the board. And in the way we operate, in the way we think, we regard ourselves as an independent foundation. We are a very large, highly professional staffed foundation. I think it’s important, given the nature of our foundation, for the family to be involved. But at the same time we treasure the outside trustees. Sometimes it’s difficult to get the total diversity you’d like among one family,
