She asked me, “What did I think the attendance was capable of being?” Well at the time, we were under 300,000. Not much, the population of the actual city itself. The metropolitan area was a little bit bigger. And I said, “This zoo ought to be drawing 650,000 people in X number of years” and so forth. I don’t know if anybody believed me, but my last year as director, we hit 711,000 people. And that came with the new elephant exhibit and everything. But we had inched up every year and I had shown him what my dreams were as far as organization of the zoo and told ’em I supported the master plan, but we were able to re tweak it twice. It’s a living document and always needs to be looked at.
