Hugo Eric Louis Van Lawick: Personal Narrative Of My Life

I was born in London, England on April 3, 1934. Which makes me 82 years old. I grew up on the south coast of England in Bournemouth. My mother was Margaret Myfanwe Joseph and my father was Mortimer Herbert Morris-Goodall. I have one little sister, Judith Goodall. I was married to, Hugo van Lawick, from 1964-1974. A year later I was remarried to, Derek Bryceson, from 1975-1980. I am currently not married. But I have one child, Hugo Eric Louis van Lawick.
As a child, I loved being outdoors and all animals. At the age of two, my dad brought me home a stuffed animal chimpanzee, which I named Jubilee. He gave me Jubilee because it was the first time that a chimpanzee was born at the London Zoo. That is when my fascination of chimpanzees began. When I was around eleven or twelve I had a dream that I was working with animals in the rain forest. And a little over ten years later that dream of mine came true.
I received my school certificate in 1950. And a higher certificate in 1952. I left school when I was eighteen and received a job as a secretary at Oxford University. To fulfill my dream of going to Africa I also worked at a London-based film company for documentaries. One of my friends from when I was a child offered me the chance of a lifetime and I was able to go to South Kinangop, Kenya. My other friends introduced me to the famous anthropologist Louis Leakey. He sent me to study the vervet monkey, on one of the islands of Lake Victoria. After my study of the vervet monkeys, he sent me to study the chimpanzees in Africa. Many people did not agree with his decision of sending me to study the chimpanzees, mainly because I did not have the proper science education and I lacked a simple college