I used to think to myself, we had animals in jail. The old barred cages that were accepted 50 years, 80, 100 years ago were no longer acceptable, and it was important to improve the Old Zoo. So the Zoo Society made things happen at the Park District. And one of the wonderful, wonderful ladies that I had a chance to meet, and know, and work with was a woman named Hope McCormick. Hope McCormick was the wife of Brooks McCormick of the International Harvester Cooperation, very wealthy, wonderful people. And Hope was sort of the grand arm of Chicago society in her day. And she became a supporter of Lincoln Park and actually became a good friend and a meaningful person in the future of that zoo, and I’ll always be grateful to Hope who died some years ago, that she did make things happen at Lincoln Park. When Hope decided to call someone in town that she needed some money, or call one of the important political people in town that something should be done, they were more ready to listen to Hope then they were to Les Fisher.
