What are some of the strengths and weaknesses of AZA from when you first started to when you left active in the profession. When the AZA split, it was basically a one director organization that had an executive director and there were five or six clerical employees that handled everything from membership to oh, I don’t know what, the amount of things that the association did at the time was limited. The accreditation program was building but it was a very small office and it was in Wheeling, West Virginia. The big changes started to come with more demands for legislation, paying attention to legislation. Even though that had been handed out to committees, I can remember as a member of the Wildlife Management Committee, that we spent a lot of time looking for things in the Federal Register having to do with animal importations and permits and such. And so, we were the overseer for all the fish and wildlife things that were going on. And I think in time, we ended up having staff members involved with that. And then when I was on the board of AZA and that’s when the decision was made to open an office in Washington DC.
