A zoo campaign introduced former California Community Foundation president Jack Shakely to fundraising early on.

By Margaret Battistelli Gardner

Role models/heroes: “My primary role model was my grandfather, Ed Gaston, a country newspaper editor in Oklahoma. He introduced me to “The Power of One” [by Bryce Courtenay]. The hero of my youth was John F. Kennedy, whose reputation is tarnished today but who shown brightly and irresistibly to a young Oklahoman with dreams.”