And we would spend a week or 10 days, you know, working, you know, 16, 18 hours a day. We had no, you know, we had no, you know, we had no money and resources then. So they all slept at my house. Marie cooked for them. I, really lucky,… Read More
But I got really, really lucky in finding a bride who was very tolerant and supportive. So Marie would cook for the mob and cooked breakfast and dinner, and we’d feed them hamburgers or hot dogs at lunch. They slept all over the house. One of our family stories, I… Read More
who did you talk to?… Read More
What kind of advice were they giving to you?… Read More
Well, I think I, well, I, I think about everybody that knew anything that. You know, I mean, one of the things that you learned early on as a veterinarian is the number one, you know, you didn’t know anything. I mean, you didn’t know nearly enough, you didn’t know… Read More
And about 120 animals, the big, the big attraction that year was a five legged calf that some farmer had given the zoo. And, and it remained, you know, part of it was built by WPA. Part of it had been built before WPA, it was pretty sad, frankly, as… Read More
He married the senator’s daughter, but it turns out that Henry was a really good, apparently very astute and aggressive businessman. So he took a small fortune and built it into quite a nice fortune. But we’re fairly sure, at least we’ve never found anybody in the family that would… Read More
And, and of course the stipulation was, was that it’d be named after, after Henry. So we have, you know, when I, when I retired three years ago, we had actually more species of animals, actually more animals than San Diego, in a zoo named after a guy that we’re… Read More
When you were, as you were progressing as a young director of the Omaha Zoo, and as you continued, what people were in a sense, your mentors from other zoos?… Read More
Well, in the beginning, in the beginning we found a few of them. And then, you know, we don’t add the words, it’s word of mouth and they, you know, they, they find us and, and it is word of mouth. Read More
Is this part of the education department?… Read More
Or who runs this program?… Read More
Part of it is, but mostly it’s part of, part of the, of the, of the research and medical department, yeah. But education manages part of the, as far as the housing and stuff like that. Let me do a little business here. Tell me about the name Henry Doorly… Read More
Does this, how do they find you?… Read More
Do you find them or?… Read More
And then, you know, we branched out into taking students both undergraduate, they simply want to know about to management and husbandry and you know, and a whole spectrum of zoo activities. Most of it focused on the sciences though. Read More
And you provide housing?… Read More
We provide housing and we provide a stipend so that they can eat. Interestingly, the overseas agent, Asian students, particularly. A lot of students, we’ve had a lot of students from Vietnam, from Thailand, from China, quite a number of Russian students. I think we’ve had students from 40, 41… Read More
We give them a stipend, but it’s a fairly small stipend so that they can eat and they get a discount at the zoo and they do their own cooking and we’ve got washers and dryers and then the whole bit. So they get a stipend, but it’s a very… Read More
And we’ve been doing that now for about 18, 19 years. But then three years ago, we went to just about, three years ago, we expanded that. We had another school district come at us and they wanted to do a full-time curriculum. We’ve had on the drawing boards. Actually,… Read More