Interview 8364 – Caption Index: 243
So you got to give them your vision and they bought into it?… Read More
So you got to give them your vision and they bought into it?… Read More
Yes, exactly right. They bought into what I was saying the zoo needed and that’s the way I worked with them for almost all of the years I was there. Read More
Had you had conversations, now, when you came there, Fred Stark had already passed away, correct?… Read More
Yes. Fred had passed away. Read More
No, I didn’t have any board member that came in and said, this is the way we want it. Read More
And that’s the, how many people can say that?… Read More
Not very many, I don’t think. And it was a wonderful way for me to start, because I knew what I had to do. And of course they agreed with that and I was very pleased that they did. Read More
My relationship with the chairman and the executive committee was always very good. In the early days, the chairman of the committee before I arrived, was very demanding. He would send out telegrams to people when he wanted them to come to a meeting. And the meeting was always about… Read More
They’d walk through the zoo in the evening. And I highlighted all the exhibits and this was all black tie and very, very formal. We hired nationally known bands and things of that sort. And it still continues even today. Read More
When you first started, did the board give you any charges?… Read More
Like here’s what we would like you to do?… Read More
Can you imagine having 84 bosses?… Read More
But of that 84, 15 member executive committee that really operates the zoo with the staff, but they are very free and easy to get along with, always has been. They liked what I was proposing and what I was doing. And that continued, believe it or not for all… Read More
What was your relationship with the chairman?… Read More
And he said, “Well, you got it.” And that’s how we built the veterinary hospital. Read More
Well, I was gonna ask, where is the money coming from for these projects that you were developing?… Read More
It was coming from the community. The San Antonio Zoo is operated by a zoological society with a board of 84 people. Read More
I found that a great collection, especially birds. I found an excellent beginning of a collection of antelopes that just didn’t exist anywhere else in the country or the world really all because Fred Stark had gotten the idea that he could get antelopes and put them in San Antonio… Read More
He had sitatunga but who didn’t?… Read More
I think wasn’t a the, Brookfield had the big group of sitatunga one time nobody else had them. Well, that was one of them, but sitatunga didn’t do too well in the climate we had. But everything else that Fred had chosen were desert type animals and a pretty dry… Read More