Name: Dudley Althaus, CAI

Year Inducted: 1998

Hometown: Fredericksburg, Texas

Birthday: May 6, 1933

Business Name: Althaus Acres Realtors/Auctioneers Inc.

Business Location: Fredericksburg, Texas

Auctioneer Since: 1965

Specialty: real estate, estates, livestock, exotic game

Most Expensive Item Sold: Real estate.

Most Unusual Item Sold: Zebras, giraffes, camels, monkeys and lions. Ostriches go for about $10-15,000.

Inspiration: He saw auctioneering as a better way for him to make a living. His grandmother encouraged him to be an auctioneer.

Something Others Might Not Know: He did the first real estate auction in Fredericksburg, Texas.

Auction Mishaps: During an auction of exotic animals, a bidder asked if a monkey was gentle. The bidder reached for the monkey and the monkey bit her. Then the monkey went wild and wet on the crowd.

Family: Wife, Cookie. Four sons, two daughters, 13 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.