I thought I might like to farm. But I didn't know the economics of it. Teachers basically steered me away from it.

I was raised on a family farm in western Minnesota. So I didn't have the background to prepare me for this business life.

We thought a ship had hit us.

If we had won a number of those close games, we probably wouldn't have thought about doing the trade. Looking at the results, which were below our expectations, we felt we had to do something. Wally was a player other teams wanted.

This is why my center trains teachers. I believe all students should take at least one course of economics in their lives, and that all high schools should have an economics program.

She is consistently one of our most innovative and creative teachers. She is constantly on the edge. We've come a long way from manual typewriters.