Leadership
Zoological Society of the Palm Beaches
Board of Directors 2007-2008
OFFICERS
Chairman: Mr. Kane K. Baker
Vice- Chairman: Dr. Daniel J. Comerford, III
Treasurer: Mr. Luis J. Fernandez
Secretary: Mrs. Marilyn Beuttenmuller, Esq.
Member at Large: Mr. Guillermo Perez-Vargas
MEMBERS
Mr. Andrew M. Aiken
Mrs. Wynne S. Ballinger
Mrs. Whitney Wood Bylin
Mrs. Kim K. Campbell
Mrs. Kathie Comerford
Ms. Dale Coudert
Mrs. Clementina Santi Flaherty
Mr. Gary E. Krieger
Mrs. Patricia Lebow, Esq.
Mr. James B. Meany
Mr. George Merck
Mr. J.B. Murray, Esq.
Mr. Stephen Myers
Mr. William W. Powell
Mr. Tom Quick
Mrs. Tiffany Raborn
Mr. Jorge Rodriguez-Lugo
Mrs. Sandra S. Rooney
Mr. Paul Van der Grift
Mr. William Williams, Esq.
BOARD MEMBERS EMERITUS
Mr. Alvin Brown
Mrs. Peggy Brown
Mr. James Hancock
Mrs. LaDona Hancock
IN MEMORIAM
Mr. George D. Cornell (1910-2003)
Mrs. Harriet W. Cornell (1914-1999)
Dr. Rolla D. Campbell, Jr. (1920-2008)
Executive Staff
Terry L. Maple, PhD - President/CEO
W. Garrett Hambuechen - Senior Vice President/COO
Soteros G. Maniatty - Vice President/CFO
Glenn Ekey - Chief Development Officer
Keith Lovett - Director of Living Collections
Kristen Cytacki - Director of Education
Biography of Dr. Terry L. Maple
In January 2003, Dr. Terry L. Maple retired as the founding President and Chief Executive Officer of Zoo Atlanta, the nonprofit corporation that has operated the Zoo since 1985. Dr. Maple was appointed Zoo Director in 1984 by Mayor Andrew Young when the zoo was a unit of city government. For nearly two decades, he directed all aspects of zoo management, including the programming and design, funding, and implementation of Zoo Atlanta’s multi-million dollar revitalization plan.
Under Dr. Maple’s direction, Zoo Atlanta quickly became recognized as one of the world's most innovative zoos. In 1987, and again in 2000, the zoo was honored by the Metropolitan Communities Foundation as Atlanta's "best-managed nonprofit corporation." During his tenure as CEO, the American Zoo and Aquarium Association (AZA) presented five awards to the zoo for excellence in exhibit design and conservation. Zoo Atlanta's partnership with local television produced six Emmy Awards for local programming, and in 1991, the Georgia Wildlife Federation honored Zoo Atlanta as "Conservation Organization of the Year." Once denigrated as one of America's worst zoos, Zoo Atlanta is now recognized as one of the worlds finest.
Dr. Maple is also Professor of Psychology and Elizabeth Smithgall Watts Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology (on leave) and the Director of the Georgia Tech Center for Conservation and Behavior. For twenty-six years he continuously taught the undergraduate course in Environmental Psychology at Georgia Tech, one of the longest running courses of its kind in the nation. He is the author and editor of more than 200 scientific publications, including Captivity & Behavior (1979), Gorilla Behavior (1980), Zoo Man (1993), Ethics on the Ark (1995), and Saving the Giant Panda (2000). He is the Founding Editor of the journal Zoo Biology published by Wiley/Liss in association with AZA. Dr. Maple has mentored and trained 25 doctoral students who now occupy important positions in universities and zoological parks throughout the nation.
An elected Fellow in four divisions of the American Psychological Association, the Association of Psychological Science, and a former President of the AZA, Dr. Maple was named "Entrepreneur of the Year" in 1998 by the Atlanta Chapter of Stanford Business School Alumni. He received the 1999 "President’s Award" from the Atlanta Convention and Visitors Bureau for his contributions to tourism in Georgia. He was elected to Fellow status in the Georgia Academy of Sciences in 2005.
He received his Master's (1971), and his Ph.D. (1974) in Psychobiology from the University of California at Davis. During the 1971 academic year, he studied at the University of Stockholm as a Rotary Foundation International Graduate Fellow. After his Ph.D., he was awarded a prestigious Giannini Foundation Post-doctoral Fellowship for research in Biomedical Science at the UCD School of Medicine. He was recruited to Atlanta in 1975 to serve on the faculty of Emory University. He moved to Georgia Tech in 1978 retaining his research affiliation with Emory’s Yerkes National Primate Research Center.
Dr. Maple is internationally recognized as an expert on the behavior of great apes. For a decade he served AZA as a member of the Great Ape TAG, Gorilla SSP, and Orangutan SSP (he was its first chairman). His behavioral approach to design is the foundation of Zoo Atlanta’s innovative gorilla exhibit (The Ford African Rain Forest) which opened in 1988. It is still considered one of the most important gorilla facilities in the world. Zoo Atlanta’s unique facility was the first of its kind to exhibit a population of gorillas, and no comparable exhibit has ever generated a more productive program of research. A former President of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International, Dr. Maple served on its board for fifteen years providing leadership and oversight during the move of its headquarters from Denver to Atlanta in 1995.
In the mid-nineties, Dr. Maple worked with biologist E.O. Wilson and other prominent scientists to convince Speaker Newt Gingrich to protect the Endangered Species Act from eviscerating revisions to the law. His friendship with Speaker Gingrich sparked the emergence of "Green Conservatism," an alternative, market-based, environmental movement.
In June 2005, Dr. Maple took an official leave-of-absence from Georgia Tech to become President/CEO of the Palm Beach Zoo, and developed a scientific partnership in conservation, education, and medicine with Florida Atlantic University. In October of 2007, Dr. Maple’s tenth book, A Contract with the Earth, coauthored with former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, was published by Johns Hopkins University Press. A paperback edition, published by Penguin Plume, will be available in November, 2008.
Dr. Maple and his wife Addie currently reside in the Village of Tequesta in Martin County, Florida. They have raised three daughters and a pug named Darwin.
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