And I think it started in 1959 and I took over in 1962. And so they were sort of delegated to be the friends, so the people who’d go out and raise some money to help the Park District do good things at Lincoln Park Zoo. And they were hired workers in that, and it became apparent to me that this would be a team effort. If I could go calling on people in Chicago with someone from the Zoo Society and ask them for financial help, they would be available to support us if they wanted to. And over a period of time, many of the board members of the Young Zoo Society started contributing funds. And I realized that part of my job was to go out and market the zoo, and I felt I have a commodity that I believed in. I saw the need, and I could express that to people that I was told to go see. And of course, the culmination of my early years was one time a luncheon with a man named Ray Kroc.
