“We didn’t even know that we were going to serve students per se. We were looking for, the proper focus would be where the greatest impact would be. And that’s where our conversations were. Even at Petit Jean Mountain. We hadn’t resolved that question at all. In fact, we were just looking at, you know. What would he call ourselves at the time? And it did come up that we did come up with the AISES name, and that was after lots of ideas were thrown out on the table about names for an organization. You know. What do we call ourselves? And then, later, after AISES was formed in 1977, at Petit Jean Mountain. That dialogue started. What do we do? And that took, as I recall, a year and a half, or maybe a little more, to begin to really zero in, and what I would call a mission statement because we didn’t have a specific mission at the beginning . . . I think that dialogue had to do with: Who could we serve the best? And where would the greatest impact of an organization like AISES have. Where could it do the most good? . . . So as we began to reach out. We could see that serving young people, and it had a horizon much broader than, let’s say, serving immediately tribes, because even tribes hadn’t fully asked for any help. And I mean there were other ideas like, do we become some kind of corporate entity for profit? Well, of course we did incorporate it as a nonprofit after we got organized in 1977.”