And I kind of, I guess, reflect back now and see where all the deficiencies and issues maybe were there, but I surely didn’t know them or wasn’t aware of them at the time. The one thing that I guess, again, benefited by more than most people might or could, was the fact that I realized during these early days and months at the zoo, that if this didn’t work out, I could always just say the heck with it, and go back to my practice, which I thoroughly enjoyed. And so I had a sort of safety valve with all the stuff that did get thrown at me in the early months at the district’s bureaucracy. But I also was able to sit down and there was a man who was general superintendent then, I think his name was Dan Flaherty. And he and I just kind of agreed that I would try to run the zoo as best I could, and that I would appreciate being left alone, that I didn’t want the park people telling me how to run Lincoln Park Zoo. And in turn, I would make a full, honest, honorable commitment to do the best I could. There never was any civil service type thing for the zoo director spot. There never was any contract signed from that day that I started till the day I left.
