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Caption: Dedication - Grainger Engineering Library Symposium
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QUESTION: In two months we will be opening a children's museum here, and in traveling around the country looking at other science museums, AT&T's name keeps coming up a tot. And I would like to just commend AT&T for its obvious commitment to informal science education and ask ifyou have any innovative new ways of connecting kids' museums with the Internet and the new kinds of things that we will be seeing in the next few years. ANSWER: I'll tell you. AT&T is a company of 310,000 people and I cannot, I am happy to say, keep up with all their ideas. I do know that our technologists and our foundation people work very closely together. In fact, the trustees of our foundation are people who work in our various units and come from the technical side, the marketing side, and so forth. They have been very creative in the past, and I appreciated your saying so. We are trying to use our philanthropy and our technology and our people's time to create something of value in the community that has lasting value. So, while I don't know the specific answer to your question, I have every confidence that they will keep coming forth with creative ideas. The best news is, they don't generate these ideas themselves. They go to the community leaders, to the children's museum leadership and try to centralize their ideas with our capacity. That's what makes that work. We don't have all the great ideas, but we do have some values there. Thank you for saying so. CLOSING: (Mr. Wedgeworth): Jean Simon, Bob Allen, thank you for gracing our campus today and helping us celebrate this week. PAGE 35
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