R: We were called advisory boards then. It was a citizens' advisory board.

P: Did you do more than advise?

R: We really did. The school board, truly, did not want to [do more than advise]. Our
 experience was that the school board and the superintendent, having chosen us, really
 pretty much left us alone. All key decisions had to wind up being approved by them;
 for example, the choice of site. After we had done all the preliminary work and
 picked the site we felt was the best, the school board concurred in that.

P: Now, after 1970 that was no longer true.

R: No longer the case, that is right.

P: After 1970 this advisory board then becomes the directing board for the college.

R: That is correct, and you can check the date with Jim [Wattenbarger], but I am sure
 it was in 1970.

P: Let us go back to Edison once again. Did you call the [head person] a president of
 the school?

R: Yes.

P: And a vice president of the school. Were there deans of the various areas?

R: Not that early. In fact, when David Robinson was hired, he was not called vice
 president, he was dean of the college. He literally was kind of dean of everything:
 dean of students, dean of academics.

P: But it was mainly an academic office?

R: He was the chief academic officer, really.

P: The president was the overall administrator.

R: That is correct.

P: They divided their responsibilities.

R: Then they grew from there.

P: But everybody reported to the local school board through this advisory [board].

R: That is right.


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