Everybody knows the need [on the Gulf coast], ... I had the time to do something and wanted to get people motivated.

I'm mainly trying to get the word out to people, ... Look in your pantries and linen closets. Go to the store. What are some things you have that someone down there needs even more than you? What can you do without.

This was a different time, ... This is something you wouldn't do nowadays. They would be thinking about insurance and people getting hurt - all the things we didn't think about in those days. We didn't lock our doors half the time.

People talk all the time about our freshmen. But where would we be without our seniors?

We can't just stop one and start another. We need to continue on through time with some sort of database.

It's stunningly affordable. Those kinds of repairs happen all the time.