When he heard who had made the presentation, Dean said, "That must be Joanie Ganz. We went to the University of Arizona together, and I asked her to marry me!" He called her and asked how he could help. She told him she needed funding to distribute the program. At that time, there was no public broadcasting network, so films and videotapes had to be produced and distributed to each station. She said she had applied for a grant from what was then the Department of Health, Education and Welfare but had been turned down.