Well, arbitrarily, I got into the field around 1950, and today it’s 2012. I know very little about the zoo directors today, and therefore I can’t comment on them. But during my time, I was around an awful lot of zoo directors. They came from, during my times, in the zoo, especially at the beginning, they came from all kinds of origins of disciplines, business. Jack Hauser ran the Cinncinatti Zoo. Philadelphia was Freeman Shelly, he was a bean counter. Dr. Schroeder was a veterinarian, but he was running the whole zoo, not just the veterinarian aspect of it. Belle Benchley was a bookkeeper, but she kept that, she made that zoo, she made Dr. Wegeforth’s dream functional.
