diff --git a/CHANGES.current b/CHANGES.current
index 635b3b82b..dcf5c1836 100644
--- a/CHANGES.current
+++ b/CHANGES.current
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 Version 1.3.20 (In progress)
 ============================
+08/10/2003: mrose (Mark Rose)
+            Fixed constructor generation for director classes to ignore private
+	    constructors.  Protected constructors are also ignored for now, pending
+	    a solution to the problem of wrapping classes that only define protected
+	    constructors.
+
 08/07/2003: cheetah (William Fulton)
             New commandline option -outdir <dir> to specify where the language specific
             files are to be generated. This is useful for target languages like Python,
diff --git a/Source/Modules/lang.cxx b/Source/Modules/lang.cxx
index c3c7c0c56..c5762a9c7 100644
--- a/Source/Modules/lang.cxx
+++ b/Source/Modules/lang.cxx
@@ -1473,8 +1473,11 @@ int Language::classDirectorConstructors(Node *n) {
   for (ni = Getattr(n, "firstChild"); ni; ni = nextSibling(ni)) {
     nodeType = Getattr(ni, "nodeType");
     if (!Cmp(nodeType, "constructor")) { 
-      classDirectorConstructor(ni);
-      constructor = 1;
+      String* access = Getattr(ni, "access");
+      if (!access || !Cmp(access, "public")) {
+        classDirectorConstructor(ni);
+        constructor = 1;
+      }
     }
   }
   if (!constructor) {