Probabilities

 Post by James V. Toscano Almost forty years ago, I was just settling in to the position of Vice President for Resource Development and Public Affairs at the Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts, then parent to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the College of Art and Design and the Children’s Theatre Company. An intercom from my secretary told me of my first visitor, whom she ushered politely into an office not quite furnished.  As we stood among the packing cases, this older gentleman beamed as he handed me a check for  $2.2 million, told me how happy he was to do so, and…

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