Interview 4973 – Caption Index: 234
When I was in a member of AAZPA, I did not participate. Later on in the AZA, I was elected to the board of directors and eventually served as president in ’78, ’79, as president of the organization. Read More
When I was in a member of AAZPA, I did not participate. Later on in the AZA, I was elected to the board of directors and eventually served as president in ’78, ’79, as president of the organization. Read More
Were people in favor of it, not in favor of it?… Read More
Like whenever there’s a major change in a organization, when we were part of the American Zoos and Parks, we were part of a larger organization, we were a small element and obviously were a lot of people in our business. I was a youngster at that time coming into… Read More
You were a young Turk?… Read More
The labor of love. There was a main, the AA, American Zoo Association. Read More
Were you part of that evolution when it broke away?… Read More
Yes. Read More
Can you tell me something about?… Read More
(Ed laughs) After a few years, the glamor, there were some years that the glamor- A zoo director has to be jack of all trades to be master of one. You have your hat in many different arenas, at least in our zoo because of the society, the original society,… Read More
It’s been in my blood. My father had interest in animals. My uncle in Europe in Czechoslovakia kept birds, so maybe it’s something in the blood, I don’t know, but it seemed like an inherited passion, ’cause I’ve always known what I wanted to be from a little guy on. Read More
And did it change over the years?… Read More
You indicated there were some golden times. We always had a zoological society, and we received, as I stated, we received probably very little and some years nothing and other times, very little from the city, and working for a society, it presents its own challenges because a society that… Read More
After a few years, did the glamor wear off or was the glamor still there being the zoo director?… Read More
Can you talk about the concept of a frozen zoo and the plant conservation project?… Read More
Dr. Dresser, one of the areas that she began to develop interests was what Kurt Benirschke was doing in San Diego. It really started in San Diego, the idea of the frozen zoo. Benirschke I think perhaps was doing it more with tissue, animal tissue and Oli Ryder, and Betsy… Read More
I thought we should be developing methods of saving endangered plants as well, and Betsy liked that idea, and she hired a young botanical researcher, Valerie Pence, and Valerie’s still at the zoo and doing some fantastic things with culturing media and freezing and et cetera, that is gonna prove… Read More
How did you develop your relationship with the zoo society that was a major part of the Cincinnati Zoo?… Read More
Why was it important for Cincinnati to host it?… Read More
When we hosted the conference, the 1999 conference for the preservation of endangered species or the captive breeding of dangerous species, it was extremely important for our zoo because we were doing great things, but it wasn’t known out there. It really hadn’t percolated to the zoo community things that… Read More
And I think a few years later, we may have hosted another one. Read More