8. HAS ALWAYS INSISTED ON GIVING VALUE RECEIVED - AND MORE. AS DICK LYMAN HAS TOLD US, ALF JOINED STANFORD IN 1946 AS BUSINESS MANAGER AND LATER WAS ALSO PUT IN CHARGE OF LAND DEVELOPMENT. THESE WERE TESTING TIMES FOR THE UNIVERSITY, THE STUDENT POPULATION WAS EXPLODING. CAMPUS FACILITIES HAD TO BE EXPANDED. A SHORTAGE OF WATER WAS IN PROSPECT UNLESS NEW SOURCES COULD BE DEVELOPED. ALF PUT THE PROBLEM TO THE FACULTY IN EARTH SCIENCES, WHO ASSURED HIM THE UNDERGROUND STRUCTURE OF THE CAMPUS LANDS WAS OLD HAT TO THEM AND TOLD ALF TO WORRY NOT. THE LEARNED GEOLOGISTS INDICATED WHERE TO DRILL. DRILL HE DID - AND DRY. THREE HOLES LATER ALF'S FAITH WAS BEGINNING TO WAIVER. HE NOTICED ALL THE TENANTS ON UNIVERSITY LAND SEEMED TO FIND WATER WITHOUT DIFFICULTY AND THEY CONFIDED IN ALF THAT THEY USED MANUEL, THE PORTUGESE WATER-WITCH, DESPERATE, WITH TIME RUNNING OUT AND WITH DR. TRESSIDER'S BLESSING, ALF HIRED MANUEL WHO PERFORMED FLAWLESSLY.