Interview 25868 – Caption Index: 276
Did the horse people ever get involved in Louisville with the zoo?… Read More
Did the horse people ever get involved in Louisville with the zoo?… Read More
Didn’t care about- you talking about?… Read More
Were you expected to raise money for the zoo?… Read More
Anybody and everybody was. We had some companies there. Trying to think of the companies. Read More
Who’s big-time in Louisville, moneywise?… Read More
What kinda frustrations did you have at the Louisville Zoo?… Read More
Well, I suppose so, but I’m hard-pressed to remember all those folks ’cause I had help from a lotta people, and companionship. Read More
You mentioned you gotta keep people, you can’t get rid of ’em. There were certain board members that were very difficult, always were. Was a constant struggle, but we overcame all that in time. So there was politics you had to deal with. Yes, there were a lotta politics. Read More
I don’t know. Read More
When you were at Louisville and before, who were some of the zoo directors that you interacted with and that you, maybe, got advice from or looked up to that were helping you in your career as you were moving around?… Read More
Were there colleagues that you talked with when you had frustrations or problems?… Read More
Well, it was a developing zoo. Some of the displays that were constructed just prior to my getting there were, I think, overdone and wasted money, and they had to redo a lotta things, but otherwise, it had an interesting collection. Read More
What kind of zoo did ya find when you came there?… Read More
What kind of a zoo?… Read More
And when you applied for the job, were they aware of your family background?… Read More
I assume. I don’t know. Read More
What was it like when you first came? What’d ya find?… Read More
No. No, he had a house on the grounds, but I didn’t. And then, the parks director, the minute I came to Louisville, he took the house on the grounds, so I had to buy a house. You saw this opening at the Louisville Zoo and decided you wanted to… Read More
Being a public- Development and fundraising, but we had a good group of people on the board and whatnot that fundraised, and we had some big names there. Read More
What were some of the issues you had to deal with at Louisville?… Read More