Gary Rollins

Uh, Otto's sons forced him out of the picture, and the sons could not agree on financial, uh, or business strategy decisions.

So in steps Wayne Rollins.

Wayne, Wayne Rollins has a story of his own that I think is, you know, if you're, if you're really interested, you can go look it up.

But it's not that important to the business today.

But apparently, he was great entrene- entrepreneur, grew up poor, um, and he really wanted to own boring, predictable businesses and at one point discovered that Orkin was for sale.

So the issue was, uh...

So I guess back up a little bit.

Wayne Rollins and his brother owned a Ford dealership, and then Wayne Rollins bought a small radio station in Delaware, and, uh, the entire acquisition was apparently just to give free advertising to the Ford dealership and then also r-run the broadcasting business as well.

The first of them being the Rollins Foundation.

So Gary W. Rollins and Kathleen Rollins, they are one half of the Orkin family.

They supported us enormously.

And then we happened to have On the end, with the Blank Foundation, they came down and just embraced us with the Falcons and with the United and with all the things that come along with being a recipient of Arthur Blank's energy and