It’s hard to say, but I remember going to the library with my mother when I was very young and I couldn’t yet write. I wanted to get a library card so I could take out whatever books I wanted and until I could write my name, I couldn’t take out any books, so she would take ’em out for me. Soon as I learned to print my name, then I had my own library card, and I could take out three books at a time and two magazines. Well, the magazines I always took out, I always got one National Geographic and one Bulletin of the New York Zoological Society, which was the Bronx Zoo magazine. That kind of put me up on the way to interest in zoos. I think it had to be more of a dream for me than anything else for a long time. I started off in college and not knowing what I was gonna study. Everybody that I knew, all my friends, were all going to Boston College.
