One day, while Hanna was driving across O'Shaughnessy Dam, a door fell off his official car onto the pavement.
I'll go in." Wrapping himself from head to toe in chain-link fencing, he started into the barn: "Well, you can't walk wrapped in chain-link fence," Debbie Casto comments dryly, “but most of all you can't catch a snow leopard.” The inevitable happened. After the snow leopards arrived at the zoo, they spent some time routinely quarantined in a zoo barn: When their confinement was over, their keepers were understandably reluctant to go in and bring them out. The zoo veterinarian was about to tranquilize them for removal when Hanna arrived and roared, "You guys are all chicken. Debbie Casto, zoo marketing director, likes to tell about the time Hanna captured the snow leopards. Almost.This sounds like a guy who's a little more interesting and a little less good, a man who's vulnerable and sympathetic.His history in Columbus bears out Lennard's observation. Take a few slices from Jack Hanna's recent life: Laurie Lennard, a producer of the "David Letterman Show," on which Hanna has appeared three times, may have part of the answer to Hanna's sustained popularity. She regards him from the viewpoint of a television veteran who's seen stars come and go. "There's always an air of confusion and hysteria around Jack," she says, laughing. What's Columbus Zoo director Jack Hanna got that makes him wear so well after seven years of cloying praise and unrelenting celebrity? " He ' s a person who gives joy to others.” In 1985, Columbus Monthly profiled Hanna just as his star was beginning to rise.
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Editor’s note: The Columbus Zoo’s director emeritus announced last week that he will step back at the end of this year from his public duties after four decades of charismatic TV appearances and visionary leadership.
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