RE Log Fall 2018

“Plenty of students who get into the family business cripple the business. He tripled the business. But all the time, he was maintaining the structure of the old place.” – Jim Beverley ’62 was about to announce that Miami had been selected as the host city for the Summit of the Americas. Chiles asked Sawitz to deliver stone crabs to the White House for the occasion. “When do you need them?” Sawitz asked. “Tomorrow,” Chiles said. “But I’m in Miami,” Sawitz replied. ³<RX¶UH JRLQJ WR KDYH WR ¿QG D ZD\ WR get them up there,” Chiles said. It was past 3 p.m. “I’m thinking, I don’t KDYH D KRWHO URRP , GRQ¶W KDYH D ÀLJKW ´ Sawitz said. “Am I going to have to charter a plane? This is like Mission Impossible.” Yet within an hour, Sawitz had called his travel agent, packed a bag, fed his cat, and stopped at the restaurant to pick up stone crabs packed in styrofoam DQG VWXɣHG LQ D -RH¶V 6WRQH &UDE ER[ He raced up I-95 to the Fort Lauderdale International Airport with enough stone FUDEV IRU WKH SUHVLGHQW DQG ¿UVW ODG\ $V he trudged to his seat in the back of the DLUSODQH D SDVVHQJHU VHDWHG LQ ¿UVW FODVV said glibly: “How much can I pay you for those crabs?” Sawitz, a bundle of nerves and adrenal- in, clutched the box more tightly and kept walking. “There’s no amount of money in the world that would get these crabs out of my hand,” he said. 7KDW QLJKW KH VOHSW ¿WIXOO\ ZLWK WKH crabs next to his bed. When he arrived to the White House, security eyed his package. “I’m just a messenger. I’m just a delivery boy,” he recalled pleading. “I have to get these crabs to the president.” He remembers a rush of relief when he ¿QDOO\ KDQGHG Rɣ WKH FUDEV EXW WKH JRRG feeling was short lived. ³7KHUH¶V D SUREOHP ´ &KLOHV FRQ¿GHG after the event. “What?” Sawitz asked. “The vice president is upset,” Chiles said, “because he didn’t get any.” 20 Ransom Everglades LOG )$//