The enthusiasm for Tennessee elk is both real and contagious. Carman related playing host to a field trip for the Eastern Kentucky University Chapter, RMEF’s only all-student chapter. Many of its members had never previously seen an elk. As the students reveled in the experience at the tower, Carmen remained in the parking lot where he cooked up hot dogs for the troops. During that time, other visitors streamed to the site. Several of them, thrilled with their elk viewing experience, asked if they could buy a hot dog to cap their day. Carman, always prepared, instead offered a hat, a knife and a hot dog coupled with an RMEF membership application. RMEF gained many new members that day.