I said, “What we need before we need an elephant,” I said, “What I wanna do, and I’ve been trying to figure out how to do it, we need to form an organization to help the zoo in many ways.” So that’s what I thought maybe the 2030 Club would be the best way to do it. Instead of me being a new kid in town, trying to find, say an attorney to draw up the bylaws of our corporation, an accountant or a banker to be the treasurer. Somebody, a printing business to do the newsletter. And on down the line, then the 2030 Club had all of these things represented in their membership. And I said, “If I could call on you folks to serve in these capacities,’ plus they had 45 members. I said, “If you were to either ask them individually to pay dues or take it out of your treasury, we would have 45 members to start this thing with. And then let’s see it grow. And make it family oriented and have family days at the zoo and all that kind of stuff.
