Well, I don’t know how it came about, how they picked me, but I’m glad they did because I learned a lot. I spent five and a half years going to Washington and visiting museums all over the country. As a part of that organization, my job was to keep them thinking about zoos as part of that museum services group. Now they’ve added libraries to that, so that the money and the grants that were available could be used for zoos as well as museums of all kinds and libraries. But I had to fight for every dollar to make sure that we got our share. And when it came time to evaluate the proposals, I called on the people in our organization, who I thought would be the most useful in judging who should receive the grants over all the others. We always had to leave somebody out, because there were too many requests and not enough money to go around, but I wanted to make sure that the people who I chose to call on to evaluate, I wasn’t allowed as a board member to do the evaluating, but I could have people come in and make sure that we got it to the right organizations.
