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  Mary Ann Burk Stout, 82, born Nov. 13, 1932, in Hawesville passed away Tuesday, May 5, 2015, in St. Louis.

Zoo attendance has reached an all-time high, according to Robert O. Wagner, executive director of the American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums. ''We now have 112 million persons visiting zoos and aquariums in the U.S. and Canada a year,'' he said. That's up from 104 million in 1980. ''In the past, people would come to the zoo and they wouldn't have to return for five years because everything would be the same,'' said Annette Lomont, the capital campaign director at the San Francisco Zoological Society, the private, nonprofit arm of the San Francisco Zoo.

''Every zoo in this country has naturalistic exhibits,'' added Robert O. Wagner of the American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums. ''It is terribly expensive, but it does an extremely fine job, not necessarily for the animal,'' which he says could not care less, ''but for the institution.'' Higher admissions, however, were not the only factors behind the exhibit. ''A more noble reason,'' said Ms. [Karen Asis], ''is that zoos have to educate people about their environment.'' Indeed, zookeepers say that is the main reason why many zoos take on these immense projects. The Detroit Zoo's campaign concentrates on large corporations and wealthy foundations and it has already raised $4.5 million privately for its chimp exhibit. And the Brookfield Zoo has collected so much private money in its bid to ''naturalize'' a number of its exhibits that it has won a $10 million matching donation from Cook County - the maximum amount that the county offered.

The Vineyard Playhouse will present two plays by Shakepeare: ''Much Ado About Nothing,'' (July 9 to 12 and July 14 to 18) and ''A Comedy of Errors'' (July 30 to Aug. 2, Aug. 6 to 9 and Aug. 13 to 16) at the outdoor amphitheater near the shores of Lake Tashmoo on State Road in Vineyard Haven. General admission to each production is $7.50, $5 for older people and students. For hefty servings of good broiled, fried or baked seafood and fish, try the Home Port (617-645-2679) on the Menemsha waterfront. A broiled lobster dinner (including appetizer, salad and desert) is $15, an enormous swordfish dinner $24. Menemsha (a village of the town of Chilmark) is dry, as are all the towns on the Vineyard except Edgartown and Oak Bluffs, so bring your own wine or spirits. Reservations advised. The Woods Hole, [Martha]'s Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority vessels depart from Woods Hole, Mass. at least 13 times a day and sail to Vineyard Haven or Oak Bluffs, two of the six towns on the island. Round-trip fares are $7.50 for foot passengers, $5 for bicycles (plus foot passenger fare for the rider) and $53 for cars (plus the foot passenger fare for each person inside, including the driver). For automobile reservations, call 617-540-2022.

''These clubs have been started for people 55 and over, but we decided to start at 50 to get to the market earlier,'' said Robert G. Soucy, executive vice president of consumer banking. The response has been tremendous, he said. ''We had to hire temporary help just to answer the phone,'' Mr. Soucy said. ''We've pulled back on advertising just so we can answer the phone.'' ''Deregulation hit banks like a rock in the face in the early 1980's, and all of a sudden they had to discover what marketing was all about,'' said Allan J. Rohr, senior vice president of Goldring & Company. ''They looked around and saw many institutions were controlled by older people. They started developing 'golden years clubs' - there are many names - to offer services to attract these people. This includes travel and, importantly, personal banking services.''

''Those women are not a market to ignore,'' said Amy Alson, associate editor of Marketing and Media Decisions, a trade publication for the advertising industry. But, she noted, ''I don't think they are taking that additional step to make further investments in order to change the ads'' by using older looking models to appeal more directly to older women. ''Our promotional literature has emphasized that this is a market that is being missed by advertisers,'' said Paul Perry, Second Wind's editor in chief. ''The first issue has 20 pages of ads, and none are giveaways, which in the first issue they usually are. Eighteen are high-volume advertisers, people like Chrysler, Oldsmobile, General Foods - companies that spend a lot of money hitting targeted audiences.'' And most, he said, have committed themselves to buying space for the first five issues.

The companies are also turning their attention to foreign markets. About 100 billion American cigarettes were exported last year, up from 64 billion in 1986. The exports were spurred in part by both a weaker dollar and the opening of East Asian markets - especially Japan and Taiwan. HOW THE BIG SIX SHARE THE MARKET Market share, in percentage 1987 Revenues: $33.5 billion Philip Morris: 37.8% Alpine, Benson & Hedges, Cambridge, Marlboro, Merit, Parliament, Players, Players Lights 25, Saratoga, Virginia Slims, generics RJR Nabisco (RJ Reynolds): 32.5% Bright, Camel, Century, Doral, Dorall II, More, Now, Ritz, Salem, Sterling, Vantage, Winston Brown & Williamson: 11.0% Barclay, Belair, Kool, Raleigh, Richland, Viceroy, generics Lorillard (a unit of Loews Corporation): 8.2% Kent, Max, Newport, Old Gold Filter, Satin, Triumph, True American Brands: 6.9% Carlton, Lucky Strike, Malibu, Pall Mall, Silva Thins, Tall, Tareyton Liggett Group: 3.6% Eve, Lark, L&M, generics (Source: Wheat First Securities) TOBACCO COMPANIES ARE THRIVING ON Adversity

Jamina is Moslem, but she is in her third year as a student at the Roman Catholic school. The reason is simple, said her father, Harry Handanovic. ''It's a good school,'' he said. ''It's a better education than public schools.'' Every year Cassie Zelic, the principal of Our Lady of Fatima, which has an enrollment that is 8 percent non-Catholic, meets with the parents of each non-Catholic student. ''I tell parents our teaching of the Catholic religion does not end with religion class,'' she said. ''In all the academic disciplines, we are constantly showing the Catholic aspect.'' ''In a sense, what we're doing is providing an atmosphere of spirituality,'' she said. ''Then there is the whole missionary aspect of the Catholic Church. To be here in Harlem and to provide an education to future black leaders, whether Catholic or not is part of that.''

Zoos are not just tracking animals on their computers. ''Computers are being used for recording all kinds of information so you can do a better job of marketing the institution,'' Mr. [Robert O. Wagner] said. For example, he added, ''if you look back and see that 10,000 people attended your zoo on the first Saturday of June in 1985, but only 6,000 attended the first Saturday of June in 1986, you can see whether it was raining, whether there was another community event.'' ARKS was first marketed in December 1985 by the International Species Inventory System (ISIS). The 13-year-old organization, which is based in Apple Valley, Minn., and keeps track of exotic animals in captivity, is now working to develop a second program. Called MedARKS, that program is being designed to store medical information. ''An annual report for a zoo would typically have taken several weeks,'' said Nate Flesness, the director of ISIS. ''With ARKS it only takes a couple of hours.''

The experience of the San Francisco Zoo is typical. In 1980, the city paid 40 percent of the zoo's $2.5 million operating budget. In 1987, it will finance 27 percent of the $7.2 million budget. Although that is more in dollar terms than the 1980 payment, it has prompted the San Francisco Zoological Society, a private, nonprofit arm of the zoo, to pick up much more of the zoo's costs. That group now pays 46 percent of the budget, up from 30 percent in 1980. (The rest is financed through admission fees.) The zoo, like the one in San Diego and others, allows corporations to hold company picnics and other events in roped-off areas during regular hours or after closing. Recently, the McKesson Corporation, a San Francisco company, held its Family Day picnic there. The San Francisco Zoo also parades ''orphaned'' animals through cafeterias of such corporations as Levi Strauss in hopes of encouraging more ''adoptions.''