Did you have kind of a free hand to implement things, “Ah, now I can do this or that or this?” Yeah, in a sense, I mean I knew one of the first big things was to get Montale on, get me a pathologist on, because Ted was, that was another, one other thing that we had, I had to sit down and discuss with Ted is that, well there’s two other things. One was, Ted said, “Well we don’t, I don’t wanna hire a pathologist, you know, it’s gonna cost us salary and stuff, we’ll go back to AFIP, and let them do it”, which was catch us catch you can’t because they had other, and I said, “Ted, we’ve just got an internship program going, it’s going really well, major part of my internship program is the pathology that the interns do, which is, you know, kind of ties it all together.” I said we can’t do it, and you know, Ted agreed to that. So we got the internship program, and then the other was, I wanted to institute reproductive physiology, ’cause of my association with Dave Wilt, and before that we’d traveled around doing the stuff I’d talked about previously, the reproductive evaluations in cheetahs, and then gorillas, and we’d gone to, you know, South Africa, and I wanted to get him on as a reproductive physiologist, but one problem there was Deborah Kleinman’s title was reproductive physiologist in the Department of Zoological Research at the thing, and so that was kind of dicey, but we finally got everybody on board, and David came on as reproductive physiologist, and then, you know, we started building up that staff with Jo Gail Howard and then Steve Manford, and all those kind of came in as students. And then Jo Gail stayed on as staff, got her PhD, as did Steve Manford, who’s now running the facility out at front row.
