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I thank Holly Massie for
responding to my questions about 1) brick and mortar spending; 2) the decision processes for making multimiUion dollar expenditure proposals; and 3) my suggestion that the school might devote greater effort to finding ways to save resources.
Since it was the last point that Mrs. Massie found insulting—that the school could possibly do more with less (or the same), let me address that question.
Sadly, we five in a culture where the first response usually is to throw money at a problem, even before the problem is carefully analyzed. If your wife says, “We need a bigger refrigerator,” is your first response to say, “Yes, dear, go get a bigger one?” Or might it be, “Let’s see if we can just organize it better?”
We all know that our already big refrigerators, while convenient, reduce the incentive to properly organize the contents, with the result that a lot of things “get lost,” and rot, or are purchased unnecessarily because the sour cream or pickles are hidden behind a mayonnaise jar which is behind a half gallon of milk. An investment of 10 minutes of time could save having to buy a new refrigerator and having to redesign the kitchen to accom
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