I don’t think I have one. I think I have three. First was convincing my board that we ought to build the aquarium, and we’d build it. Second, receiving the Marlin Perkins Award. And I was so thrilled about that. I can’t tell you how… I got a call from… Read More
I’ve got a third one that won’t come to me right now. And the third is…… Read More
We’ll come back to that?… Read More
We’ve got to get better research and education programs in our institutions, and I think aquariums can provide a lot of this information, particularly in breeding programs, and find out, perhaps, excuse me, what’s wrong with this wild stock here and there, what’s wrong?… Read More
Why aren’t we seeing reproduction out there?… Read More
And I think the aquariums can cooperate with state and local, and federal agencies in solving a lot of these problems. Read More
Okay, but what would be the goals for the future aquarium, American aquariums?… Read More
What should be their goals?… Read More
Well, I think the goal is… One of the goals is to figure out how to preserve, and how to exhibit animals with which we have trouble exhibiting and keeping now, how to find out about their breeding potential. And this is all coming along. Read More
I think you start… If you want them to know the whole rainbow of the operation, I would take these people and move them around. And okay, you can pay them the same rate, but get ’em to be a janitor for awhile. See what’s involved there, get them to… Read More
50 years down the road, how do you see the American aquariums in terms of programs for the public, or their animal collections or other activities?… Read More
I’m too old to think, 50 years down the road. I don’t think I’m capable of answering that question. I think that we’ve made so many advances in the last 20 years, let’s say. We’ve been on a real fast track, and whether we can continue on that, I honestly… Read More
No, boy, you asked me a firecracker there. I will never admit to having a business person be the top dog at a zoological institution. I think that is absolutely wrong. It’s got to be a person who knows her animals and you can get a good business person to… Read More
Today, how would you train or think about training a young person to become a curator?… Read More
Oh, how do I train them to be a curator?… Read More
I was a biologist. And that’s about the limit of my skill sets was that I was a biologist, and I would advise anybody getting into a zoo or aquarium work these days to think ahead. And while they’re in college to take other courses, prepare themselves for having to… Read More
Philosophically speaking, would it be better to have a director of an aquarium or a zoo who was a, we’ll say, a zoologist or biologist and have as the second, maybe the business person, or would it be more appropriate to have a business person heading the organization, and have… Read More
What should we be telling them education or research?… Read More
And I think that that is what I just said is part of that. The other part is to talk about global consumption. For example, something that we in this country probably don’t pay too much attention to, but bluefin tuna is another big problem. I mean, this stuff is… Read More
Aquarium director needs to be aware of, what skill sets does an aquarium director need today compared to when you started?… Read More