He said, “I’ve got some work to do here in the office.” I said, “Good, I gotta go out and check on a few animals or something.” I come back and he hands me a piece of paper, and there was everything he had said the day before, with timelines. (laughs) And I said, “Dr. Schroeder.” I said, “You know that wall around the flamingo exhibit?” I said, “That wall is 10 inches thick. It’s concrete, steel reinforced.” “I don’t care, tear it down, it’s ugly. Okay, so I set about trying to take care of some of these tasks. And one morning, he’d been there about two weeks. I pulled in the parking lot, and one of the maintenance guys was standing in the parking lot waiting on me. And he said, “Satch, you need to go out to flamingo exhibit right away.” So I go running out there, and here is Dr. Schroeder. And the gentleman who had been initially appointed as one of the three acting, he was a maintenance and construction supervisor, a guy by the name of Dow Mayness, and Dow was a retired army command sergeant major. Six foot six, 240 pounds, and not an ounce of fat on him.
