Mehrtens did not go quietly into the good night, and he just kept writing letters to the editor. He would give speeches at civic clubs and other places where the media would cover. And he was making all these incredible… He turned on me and said I’d stabbed him in the back, and, you know, without me, without him, I was nothing. It was just awful. It was personal, it was terrible. I was 26 years old, I didn’t know what the hell was going on. So the Zoo Commission did a brilliant thing.
