My childhood was, it’s a different time in those days. We had a lot of freedom to do what we were interested in, and express ourselves. I hope we can still do that now. We didn’t have television, but we did have a lot of radio. (clears throat) But anyway,… Read More
And some of those are 15 to 20,000 acres. So I’m saying that because it was quite remote and we had a lot of wilderness all around us. And I remember the joy in going out and he would point out everything to us, you know, to me, and I… Read More
Some of us were born in Georgia where he was assigned. Yeah. Read More
Are you the oldest, middle?… Read More
No, I’m next to the youngest. I’m the one that when you said, “How do I fit within the family?” I’m the next to the youngest son. And one of the… I’ve got three brothers that are my height or taller, but I’m the one that had to do all… Read More
And your mom?… Read More
My mother was born in Kansas. Her last name was Frazeur, F-R-A-Z-E-U-R. And that’s a French Huguenot, but she was born years ago in the, well, in the late 1800s in Kansas. And her name was Ada Frazeur. Yeah. Read More
She’s a stay at home mom or?… Read More
She was a… Well, I’ll tell you one thing about my mother. Apparently, when she was married to my father in Indiana, that’s where they met. My father had gone to a school called Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana, which is a Quaker School. And we grew up in the… Read More
I’m Jim Fowler. And I was born in 1930 and quite a while ago, and I was born in Albany, Georgia. Read More
And what did your dad do for a living and your mom?… Read More
Good question because my father had a lot of influence on my life, but he was a senior soil scientist for the Geological Survey originally. But he was one of the few soil scientists that really started identifying soils way back in the 1919 and 20. Read More
How would you like to be remembered?… Read More
That’s an interesting question. And I’ve talked to my wife about this, and I made the statement that I would like to be remembered as a teacher who wanted to share information on animals, both in the written and the oral form. But she talked to me and said, “There… Read More
What do you know about the profession that you’ve devoted so many years of your life to, this veterinary field?… Read More
Well, I know a lot about the veterinary profession. From a standpoint of specifics, I don’t know enough, but from the standpoint of the historical aspects of the American Veterinary Medical Association is working on 150-year celebration this year. And there are articles about people that have contributed to that… Read More
And if nothing else, zoos need to improve on their educational devotion, if you will, from their animal collection in the realm. Read More
And there are some incompatibilities shown up. Lee Simmons had an experience in his zoo at one time when they administered thiabendazole and a warming situation to their tigers. And he lost seven of them. But they found out after quite few months that there had been access through a… Read More
Do we still need zoos today?… Read More
Sure, there is no question about that. I think that zoos are part of society, they have been in one form or another since the year dot, and those that want to do away with animals in captivity are not in my camp. I think that good zoos, and we… Read More