I am not blue emotionally about getting a job at the UN...but I love blue and hope it helps. Danny Kaye was definitely not blue when he had volunteered to travel around the world to see the work of the United Nations Children's Fund. His filmed adventure was used by Ed Murrow on his "See It Now" television program.

I had worked in television in San Francisco after college and a friend in New York thought I could work with all this film and do something more with it for UNICEF.

Walking into the UN Building my first work day was awesome. Its importance to the world, and to me, was illustrative in the grace and hugeness of the building. The color there was blue - everywhere - it was emblematic. It had to be a positive universal color.

My office was on the 14th floor. My boss was a stunning bright American woman who had ideas for this job. There was lots of footage left over from the Murrow show - called outtakes.

I spent my first days getting to know the staff, an American black, a Swiss, an Australian, a Peruvian. And it was even more exciting exploring their building, the multilingual sounds in the cafeteria...the sophisticated men in the delegates' bar - the meeting chambers - ECOSOC where UNICEF reported.

Sue Taha, OLLI participant at Denver University Life Long Learning Summer Program