The zoo vets have had an incredible positive growth. Keep in mind that when I was a part-time zoo vet, there were a handful of us. We had almost no reference material to work with, very little published material, and it was a very kind of small informal group. And finally, we decided to create something to get together at the national AVMA, the American Veterinary Medical Association meetings, and have our own little get together. And I vaguely recall our first and only woman at that time, Dr. Patricia O’Connor, was a vet at the Staten Island Zoo in New York. And Patsy became a president of our group. And I can’t even remember what we called it originally, but it was totally informal. I was able to serve for twice, I think, different times three, four years.
