Eleanor Roosevelt
With her influence in Alabama, Mary was confident she'd get the crisis hotline director's post in the Tidewater Virginia community where she'd recently moved. The meeting with a panel of six local interviewers convinced her. They left no doubt she was the best qualified. They even acknowledged it in their letter, the letter saying they'd offered the job to a long-time resident with lesser credentials, but someone they all knew.
It was no consolation that, in the same letter, they asked Mary to volunteer her time and expertise! She was more knowledgeable than the new director, they said, and he could use her help.
