Two points need addressing here. When we first realized the need for a building George went to work on a floor plan while John Glenn and others started working on the finances. A close friend and longtime associate of George’s, Frank Cunningham, a Florida PE, who had been working with George since the late seventies, offered his services at no charge to the ranch. Frank and George had also worked together on the design, fabrication and construction of the pavilion where the Sunday service had always been held. Frank was well qualified to design a steel building as he has “many under his belt” and everyone agreed that was what we needed. Frank, with George’s, help would handle the project at cost of material and the ranch would only need to hire construction workers for the build. This was after the hurricanes of 2004 that left hundreds of thousands of damaged and destroyed homes and buildings in its wake. You will remember the blue FEMA tarps scattered from south of Miami to Orlando Florida covering bare roofs with missing shingles. SST Custom Fabricators owned by Dorothy Sweatt had up until this time provided all design, fabrication, and construction of nearly everything on the ranch much of which Frank was closely involved with. Not only would a steel building be less expensive but it could be designed for higher wind loading than necessary for Okeechobee County and would have been up one time and on budget. Enter John Hales: John Hales, an associate of John Glenn since the early nineties, offered to donate to the build if he and Danny Chreech could build it the way they wanted as he and Danny had built spec houses in the past. Danny was not a licensed contractor and had experienced trouble building with steel so wanted no part of steel construction. He was strictly a “brick and mortar” man which of course included wood. For reasons still unclear to most of us, John Glenn decided to go with the higher cost and less structurally sound CBS building. George and Dorothy had from the beginning, always left all major decisions to John Glenn and so it was to be a CBS building. George said two things pertaining to the build – it must have a steel roof to which all agreed and it didn’t really matter from what material the building was constructed as it was what went on inside that counted. George never had a moment’s disappointment about the project. When the discussion about Tom and Verna Benbow moving to the ranch arose, Dorothy went to her sister and expressed concerns about her and Tom investing in the property as it had become a pattern at the ranch of ups and downs with finances. The Benbow’s had also been looking at other properties in the neighborhood which looking back would have been the wiser choice. There was no “emotional meltdown” as stated by John, only concern for her sister. The “emotional meltdown” came later by another girl over a different set of circumstances.