Interview 2817 – Caption Index: 308
How far could they leap and how far up could they leap?… Read More
How far could they leap and how far up could they leap?… Read More
So we just started playing around with figures and we came up with whatever that thing was, a 14 foot height on the walls and 20 feet from across the moat. We had this shoe celebration to open Monkey Island and Ripley was there. And the assistant secretary for science… Read More
And when Spelman got the directorship, that’s what she was faced with. And instead of saying, well, we can’t do that, she went along with the secretary’s recommendation based on what Mike had told him. And they were gonna shut down CRC, which really just fractured the zoo in Front… Read More
I mean, he was nice guy and everything, but he had his own agenda and it certainly didn’t include maintaining the zoo in a manner that it needed to be maintained and the same thing with Front Royal. Read More
Going back to your job on the time you were there, what was your favorite job and the positions?… Read More
And every time you would talk to Mike about can we bring in this, can we bring in that, he would never say no, but when you went after the resources to get what we were asking for, we couldn’t get the money. Read More
What year we’re talking about?… Read More
We are talking about ’84 through 1999, long time, 18 years. And he did finish Amazonia, which I give him credit for, but that was already on the books. And he built invertebrates, which was a pretty nice exhibit. Beck managed to get his O line, which was the orangutan… Read More
And I haven’t been there for awhile, but I don’t think it’s changed that much since I was there last. So the German zoos were okay, but I don’t know. I just wasn’t that impressed with their exhibits. I thought they could have done a lot better job, at least… Read More
What had you hoped to accomplish, but were unable to finish?… Read More
Well, if you’re talking about the first time, I would’ve liked to have seen a lot of the exhibits that needed to be totally knocked down and rebuilt done, and that never happened. I would have liked to have seen the collection change from what it turned into. And that… Read More
Now, you got to go back there and we’ve got animals in there that are hurt.” I mean, I had a number of issues where he wouldn’t come up prepared or he’d come up and he wouldn’t do what I thought should be done. I mean, he was an okay… Read More
And you said you’d worked for many directors, who had the greatest influence on you and why?… Read More
I’d have to say Reed, obviously, Bill Conway, I mean, I’d go up the Bronx and I would just be amazed at what he did with that zoo, not only the exhibits, but the collection. I mean, Lincoln Park. Lincoln Park, I kind of looked at it as my favorite… Read More
And who was Clint Gray?… Read More
I got along with Gray really well, but I mean, as a veterinarian, we had some serious disagreements. And one of the disagreements was that he constantly would come, we’d call him about a problem, and he would constantly come up and then say, “I gotta go back and get,”… Read More
He said, “I got to go back and get my stuff.” And I said, “For Christ sake Clint, I told you what was wrong?… Read More
Why in the world did you come up to look at what I told you what happened?… Read More
So just throwing out a name, Devra Klein, who was she?… Read More
Her work. Well, obviously she was an extremely important scientists, especially, I mean, not just for the National Zoo, but worldwide. And aside from her in-depth work on giant pandas. I mean, she did a huge amount of research work on golden lion tamarins. And I mean, she worked really… Read More