Interview 5420 – Caption Index: 245
Do you think that you were involved?… Read More
Do you think that you were involved?… Read More
Or is it better to have the animal person with the business person second?… Read More
My honest answer is that I believe that the zoo director should be as close to a scientist as possible. I would think that you want a person who is an animal person, a scientist running the zoo with the assistance of a capable team. You need a business manager,… Read More
Did you learn public relations, things or tricks of the trade from Briggs?… Read More
I learned from every director I worked under. When there was a public relations director, I learned a lot. How to deal with the media, how to deal with the press, how to deal with the public. What you should talk about, what you shouldn’t talk about. Following him, we… Read More
Bob Briggs was PR person mostly. He had the role of zoo director. He was the chief executive officer. We had a finance officer at the time. We had a business manager at the time. The business manager ran the railroad, the gift shops and the food stands. I was… Read More
But the businessman took care of the gift shops. At that time, we had big souvenir shops, gift shops and also the railroad. Read More
Based on your experience in this world over a period of time, do you believe it’s better to have a business person running the zoo with an animal person, in a sense, second?… Read More
Actually I got my appointment of deputy director under Marlin Perkins when Henry Sanders left the zoo. Moody Lentz was made deputy director. And then Moody died, then I was made deputy director. And then Hoff came in. And then Hoff came in. I was deputy director under Bill Hoff… Read More
So how did it work?… Read More
Did he say take over or was there a conflict between a animal person and I’ll say a business-type person?… Read More
What’s your title?… Read More
When Bob Briggs was director, he followed Bill Hoff. I was deputy director. But I also was the animal man because Bob Briggs was a marketing person, a former Post-Dispatch reporter, former photographer and had worked in public relations who knew nothing about animals. His only claim to fame is… Read More
I was really in charge of running the zoo, so I was still learning to be zoo director. Not realizing it but that’s what I was doing. Okay, just to make my timeline. Read More
Who appointed you deputy director?… Read More
I’m sorry?… Read More
For any of them. So Briggs is the director. Read More
You are?… Read More
Some of ’em on the inside of his lip, some on the outside of his lips. And that was somethin’. That’s kind of unusual. Another time he had a baby chimpanzee. Right in the middle of the show, urinated and defecated all over me. In those days, we used the… Read More
It was taped live and there was no editing. At the end of the show, they used that on a program, then it was erased. And the next week, they used the same tape again. They used it over and over again, so none of those were kept. There’s no… Read More