No, I’m trying to remember now, I don’t even have a date on when those Eagles came in, but I think it was probably in 2005 or 2006. So Berry may have been involved in that if he wasn’t, it was Spelman that did it, I mean, she was still… Read More
Today, sometimes directors say they are looking for good curators, what do you think the problem is now?… Read More
I think the problem is that they come in ’cause it sounds like a pretty good job. And curatorial pay is getting better all the time, but I don’t think they have, I mean, unless they’ve come out of the keeper ranks and they’ve actually worked with the collections and… Read More
We talked about getting a yoke back in and the decision was not to because that exhibit was ancient. I mean, it was falling apart and the thought was, it didn’t make any sense to bring in Eagles and put them into an exhibit that had already allowed a fox… Read More
Were you there when Dolly Parton donated Eagles?… Read More
Those went to the Valley, okay. They didn’t go up the Bird House. No, actually I was off that day, so I didn’t meet Dolly Parton and I was kind of ticked off about their… You we working. Yeah, I was. Yeah. Read More
You were instrumental in getting them?… Read More
It was a fox. Yeah, but other than that, I was there for the birth of the first Panda that survived, which was, I mean, an incredible thing to be a part of. And I looked back in that and I was heavily involved in all the decisions that were… Read More
But in the long run, it worked out. You say, you made good on your promise to bring giraffes back. Read More
Did you make good to get some Eagles?… Read More
So if you’ve got a job to get position that they’re offering you, I’d be a fool to tell you, don’t take it, stay here.” So when you came in during this time, there was this public reaction or public relations issues, did you have to handle the pressure with… Read More
No, it fell on me for the most part. Even my wife told me when that bald Eagle got killed, I made some assumptions that I probably shouldn’t have made as to how it was killed, what killed it. And I mean, it turned out in the long run, it… Read More
What was it?… Read More
I mean, when I got introduced, I mean, all the keeper staff, everybody was there, and I mean, I had people coming up and saying, “God, it’s so good to see you come back.” Everybody I had not, I didn’t have anybody say, some said, “Why did you come back?”… Read More
No, I talked to my staff and told them what was gonna happen. I gave every single curator that was under my responsibility a carte blanche to go out and get animals. I said, “I don’t care how much they cost. I don’t care where you have to get them… Read More
And I didn’t even ask them to tell me what they were getting. I said, “I don’t care what you get as long as it fits into the theme of the building and in the collection plans, but just do it and don’t bother me with, is okay, if I… Read More
And he was gonna be running Amazonia in the valley and everything else, all which had really complicated water systems to deal with plus the collection too. And that worked out pretty well. Grisham, I had some problems with Jack at points and I think it was just his management… Read More
Now, when you came back to the zoo, how did the curatorial staff react to you coming back?… Read More
Was there cheers, geers. Yeah. Read More
Which ones?… Read More