I forgotten what year it was. I’m not sure what year it was. There’s an interesting way how I got involved in that. AZA would represent the zoo profession at the IUCN meetings annually usually by two or three of the outstanding zoo directors. Read More
And one year, George Rabb said, “You know what?… Read More
You sit around a table and you talk about old times. But maybe outta that would come a suggestion for more formal program for a following year that would tap the resources that are still available from the zoo directors like you’re doing here with taping the old-timers. There may… Read More
How has the discussion changed since you were the AZA representative to the species survival commission of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources in Costa Rica?… Read More
Has discussion moved forward?… Read More
I’ve only been to two conferences since I retired. That’s almost 13 years. I can’t say that I know the direction that AZA is going today. It’s hard for me to make any statement about what I think they should be doing. I’m just not familiar enough with what they… Read More
But there’s so much going on there. There’s 1,200, 1,500 people there. But the retired zoo directors that are still alive, two curators, it’s a very small handful. You could have west coast regional meeting, east coast regional meeting and a central regional meeting. Read More
Maybe the first meeting would be more social than anything else, you know?… Read More
How long had the conference been going on before this happened?… Read More
I don’t think it was goin’ on more than a day or so. Read More
I just don’t remember that much more about it, you know?… Read More
As a member of AZA when you were say president beyond, what would you like to see AZA going toward at this time if you could make suggestions?… Read More
We couldn’t go on with the conference. Nobody could speak. Everybody was all upset. So we just got up on the podium and said, “Under the circumstances, no one can continue this.” The hotel was gonna have videos where people could go to their room to watch or they could… Read More
But they couldn’t leave. The airport was closed. We had docents takin’ guests home as personal guests. We had keepers and curators takin’ other keepers and curators home, putting ’em up. It was just kind of a camaraderie. Everybody came together, but it was a sad occasion. It’s one of… Read More
Nothing happened except mourning and concern and concern for the people in the area. I think we lost a member of the Bronx staff that we all had at management school. He taught HR course. He was in the World Trade Center, went down with it. Lotta people were touched… Read More
When we hosted that AZA conferences durin’ 9/11, I was really excited about a panel I put together. I had Peter Raven who’s the director of the Missouri Botanical Garden and a worldwide recognized botanist, scientist. Bill Conway who was one of the most eloquent representatives we have from the… Read More
Everybody was in shock. Peter Raven and Bill Conway were sittin’ in the front row. I went down, I talked to them. They had already heard about it. They both looked at me and said, “We can’t go on.” It was a shock. Really didn’t know what to do. We… Read More
What were we gonna do with them?… Read More
What was it like?… Read More
How did people react?… Read More