As a senior editor at National Geographic for 37 years, Mary Smith worked with prominent research grantees—including primatologist Dian Fossey, paleoanthropologists Louis and Mary Leakey, and conservationist George Schaller—to produce illustrated articles for the magazine based on their work. In 1962 she was sent to Africa by then Editor in Chief Melville Bell Grosvenor, who told her to do an article about the blond British girl studying the apes. That girl, of course, was Jane Goodall, who went on to become world famous for her meticulous field studies of chimpanzees and who today spends some 300 days a year on the road—lecturing, meeting with government officials, inspiring young people through school talks, and raising money as an advocate for endangered species and the environment. Working with Jane Goodall = Dream Job. ow.ly/zfJsD
Posted on: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 19:00:48 +0000
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