Eduardo continued on to tell us the last several weeks had been difficult for him and Josie. They didn"t know for sure whether she had gotten the job until just a couple of days earlier. I didn"t care she had not told me when she first knew. There was a reason. Eduardo smiled when he said that no one had known and added not even Ned. I was ecstatic for her. Wow, an incredible memory to be put into the pantheon of the great ones with Josie Du Puy.
Josie stood, acknowledging the applause from us all. When it tapered off, she signaled us all to sit down and we did. She was a little choked up and stammered a little but got out the appropriate thank you to all of us. She told us then "I can only hope that I will fulfill the high standards set in this office from the first moment I was aware of
