lists and supplemental efforts and would build community in this city in a way the yellow pages and witter do not -- and litter do not? supervisor chiu: let me call up what i think is the final speaker, and if anyone else wishes to speak, please line up in the aisle. [reading names] >> thank you, supervisors. in the executive director of the haight-ashbury recycling center. we have been recycling phone books since 1944. i have noticed that when we do recycle old books, many of them come to us in their original wrappers, so i can attest to the fact that a lot of the phone books handed out in the city are not used. the city does a fantastic job of recycling, but that is just one of the three r's. there is also reviews and source reduction -- reuse and source reduction. this legislation would go a long way towards eliminating or reducing unnecessary phone book waste or phone book recycling, for that matter, and it does follow along the same lines as the plastic bag legislation and styrofoam legislation, what have you, so that is a big reason why i speak in favor of it. there has been some com

we're moving into the early 1980s, mid 1980s -- i was running the retail futures department for dean witter reynolds. i would have mba graduates come to me saying, i'll move to chicago, i will work for minimum wage 30 hours a week, you know, part-time work as a runner just to learn the business. and, you know, their intention was to leave after a few the months, and can that was fine by me, but they kneaded to get down, make their connections, meet people, understand how it works, and you wound up with suddenly a situation where you were no longer there because you were somebody's son, daughter, niece or feoff you, but because -- nephew, but because you had an advanced degree, and you saw the potential for all of this. >> thank you. and at the risk of being too merc-heavy, i want to target one other person. nancy? you were, arguably -- i know there's some debate -- the first woman to walk on the floor of the exchange, right? >> oh, yes. i was the first woman allowed on the floor of the mercantile exchange. that was in 1962. in fact, the chicago mercantile was the fist explain in the country