Evelyn Reiman, who was the director of student development at the time,
was a very good mentor for me.
She and I--and I'll never forget it--
when I graduated she gave me a picture, a painting, a print,
and on the back of it she wrote--and it's not a verbatim quote--
but she wrote something like, "I enjoyed learning that two people could have the same goal and approach it differently."
That was sort of over the years that we were working together, particularly those last two years,
politically, world views, she and I probably could not have been more different
but at the end of the day we realized that we both had the same goal,
and because I had one view of how we got somewhere
did not make me a bad person because I was trying to get to the same place that she was trying to get, just from the opposite direction.
So I felt like she and I both probably were able to learn something from each other,
although I did a lot more learning from her than she did from me, that's for sure.
But it was fun when we would get into these discussions and we would try to get somewhere
and we would always start off at opposite spots, but it was never a contentious situation.
We got along great and I thought over the two years that I was student body president that we had a very good relationship working together.