We could take high school. We had a high school marine biology class, we’d take the high schoolers on these trips. And that was very, very important, a very popular program to take those kids down there. You can imagine that much high school kids, “Man, we’re going to Florida… Read More
We had to be careful on the dive groups, there was somebody who was licensed as a divemaster, and that person had to have his own insurance. And we imbursed him for the insurance in case somebody got in trouble underwater, had an accident. ‘Cause that’s the only way that… Read More
Why did we get a collecting vessel?… Read More
Okay, well, for one thing, quite frankly, I got tired of being towed across the Gulf stream in a flat bottom barge. And once you’re there in the Bahamas somewhere, you were stuck. All you had was maybe a 20 or 25-foot boat to set traps, pull sanes and so… Read More
So it needed some work, and it needed a lot of changes to be able to make it a good collecting boat. So we bought the boat, I think it was 75 feet long. It’s a wooden haul. It was very seaworthy. And so we took it up to Fort… Read More
Fine, let’s go ahead with it. If it was a harebrained scheme, I’d tell him so, that’s it. Read More
When did you feel, or why did you feel that the Shedd needed collecting vessel and how difficult was it to make that process happen?… Read More
Quite frankly, I think I operated on the basis of tell me what your side of the story is. And if I don’t agree with it, I’m gonna tell you so, and we’re gonna do it my way. That happened a number of time. Read More
After all the director of an institution has got to say, the buck stops here, and if it goes wrong and your board comes to you and say, why did you do it this way?… Read More
Well, Joe Blow said that this was the right way to do it. And then the board is gonna say, look, it’s your responsibility to get it right. So, you have to make the final decision on that. If you don’t, you’re gonna get booted. So they could come to… Read More
Differently, than Walter Chute did with you?… Read More
Yeah, I would say yes. Read More
How do I interact with my curators?… Read More
I think how have the curators change and directors?… Read More
I think that we have spread out to be more encompassing instead of just worrying about our own institution, that we’re worried about the other institutions and worried in a good way that we’re helping the others if they’ve got a problem to say, Okay, if you’ve got a problem,… Read More
How did you interact with your curators?… Read More
Is there a function still, primarily regarding aquariums and Marine mammals, and animal rights organizations, or do they have another purpose?… Read More
Well, I think you’re right in what you said there. They’re always on the lookout for that, but they also have become very active in trying to direct existing animal aquariums, those keeping Marine mammals into what I’ll say doing the right thing. That we don’t wanna be treating our… Read More
In the curatorial ranks, how have the curators changed from when you became director?… Read More
We had one particular woman who was a college professor at South Side community College down on Crawford Avenue. And she was just all over us like flies on raw meat and just sunk her teeth in. She would just would not give up. And she finally got a like-minded… Read More