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-- Oh, I see --

-- and they needed the experience of the first group. And I had to say no, absolutely not, because the second group might have its own ideas about what it wanted to do. And I knew that by word of mouth a lot of the stuff would filter back anyway.

So these appointments were for a single year and that was it.

By the time we had the third board meeting, after the first of the year, the air was just full of appreciation for what it had done for the fellows. They were discovering interests that they didn't know they had. The cross-fertilization between various disciplines had taken hold. They were organizing seminars around their mutual interests. The clustering that took place voluntarily was not to be believed. It was really a tremendous success from that point of view. And word of mouth spread across the academic landscape, and everybody wanted to get a year at the Center. So we were inundated by people who wanted to be considered for the year. Our problem wasn't getting good people. The problem was trying to find a way to finance it.

The scheme was that if we selected a fellow, and we could make it work with his university, he would come during his sabbatical year at the university so that he got some of his income from the university. We supplemented his income and we had to supplement housing because frequently they couldn't release their residences on the campus where they came from and get enough income to rent something in Palo Alto, or the surrounding area, with anything like the kind of income they got.