On a Wing and a Prayer

Looking ahead
Now that the project’s over, you have to figure that Carpenter and his crew can take it easy, right? After all, they earned it.

Mention that to him, and what you get is a chuckle and a “yeah, right” smile.

“We paid [the retrofit project] off in May 2003, and in June my executive director came to me and said, ‘Now, Craig, what about the new building?’ There was a capital campaign being discussed as far back as 1997 … there had been a feasibility study and lots of discussion was going on, then the earthquake hit,” Carpenter says.