william warren mayo had the first telephone in this region. it connected his farmhouse with his office. the idea of patient convenience, you could walk into the local area and call dr. mayo at his home. this was transformative, disruptive technology at that time. the local newspaper had to print an article, how to place a telephone call. it was so new to people that they did not know what to do. they assured that your voice and dr. mayo's voice would be as clear a mile apart as if you are in the same room. you would talk into this and listen for that and various things. it was a new way of communicating for your medical care. 1919, when the mayo family the brothers and their wives made the decision to donate the assets and life savings to our non-profit mission, here is the document they signed and the ink they used. this deed of gift is a legal document but it is kind of a statement of their philosophy. if you go through the terminology of the therefore's and all of that, there is a couple of powerful sentences that stand out. one of them, the