No, I wasn’t interested in zoos at a young age. I was interested in the outdoors and the creatures around. My turn on really came when the family moved for a year up to Lumberton, North Carolina. And in that circumstance, I was in the seventh grade when I left Charleston and somehow got booted up into high school in Lumberton. And there was a wonderful teacher Ms. Petri who had a master’s degree in marine biology and don’t ask me why but (George chuckles) she gave me the key to the lab. And it was quite a lab, chemistry and biology. It had a dark room attached, and so on, and so forth, but microscopes all over, and so on. But she was a very trusting person, I must say, because among other things, we made white lightning in the dark room and stored it there.
