From the Desk of My Husband-The Vice President

Below is word for word an e-mail that David sent all staff at his place of his employment. I love it.

I want to thank the kind employee who left a giant box of mixed-matched coat hangers in my office for “any client who may have a need to hang some clothing up.”

Remarkably, this fills a need at this time. The Nothing to Hide Coalition, of which I am a part, tentatively had plans for a November “Coat Hanger Drive,” with all coat hangers acquired to be dispersed to “any individual suffering from mental illness in Orange County who may be in particular need of a coat hanger.” (We joked in meetings that we were going to call ourselves the “Nothing on Which to Hang Coalition.” We had a lot of laughs about that.)

Now—with the exception of about eight hangers that I’m thinking I can remove from my wife’s closet without her knowing—we’ve suddenly and abruptly reached our quota. A great need has been met.

The employee who helped out is a kindred spirit with my late Gran Cooley—a JFK fanatical Holy Roman Catholic with a wonderful spirit for extreme preservation and rescue of items that might seem to some as numberless and ubiquitous. Not so to visionaries like these. Gran Cooley taught me about the Great Coat Hanger Shortage of 67. She used to tell me of those dreadful times and say “lest we forget… lest we forget.”

Thanks for all those hangers… they now have a good home.

David E. Cooley

Vice President