When he retired from them, he ended up working for a smaller can company for a couple years. But then he left that and my mom was always the homemaker. I remember coming home from grade school at lunchtime about three blocks away, and mom would always have lunch ready… Read More
What did your parents do?… Read More
My dad worked, well first of all, he was in the National Guard during the war latter years. He got involved with working on planes out at O’Hare Airport before. It is what it is today. Used to have a military component out there and because he was one of… Read More
Ah, great memories. I still relive my childhood, especially around Christmas time, but I don’t remember much from my first five years. ’cause you know, you’re kind of young, but I always consider Milwaukee my adopted hometown. ’cause I moved up there when I was five years old. I lived… Read More
What was your childhood like?… Read More
It was just a a, a wonderful place to grow up. I I wouldn’t be above moving back there if my wife would agree to it, but it’s a nice easy place to go visit. Read More
My name is Jim Robinett. I was born in Chicago and my birthdate is February 13th, 1952. Read More
Yeah, I, I, I think obviously I have a good understanding of what a zoo veterinarian does and all of the different aspects of the, the things that go into that. And the thing that has interested me most about zoo medicine is I never had any experience or anything… Read More
I guess I’d like to be remembered for some of these programs that we’ve created. You know, I talked about the Zoo pathology program. I’m not involved with that directly at all, but it’s one that is gonna succeed for many years to come and generate a tremendous amount of… Read More
You know, in terms of all the, of the variety of experience and expertise that you need, How would you like to be remembered your legacy?… Read More
I have, you know, sort of in the last half of my career I got involved with a ZA accreditation in a much deeper manner. I had always done a ZA accreditation inspections, but in 2000 I got asked to be on the commission. And so I did a six… Read More
What do you know about the profession that you’ve devoted so many years of your life?… Read More
And now I’m, I, I mentioned this collaboration with Loyola. I’m, I’m getting excited to speak about my field and my career and what I’ve learned with a whole bunch of eager, enthusiastic medical students that are considerably younger than my children. So it just, it’s interesting. Read More
To what part, are you still active in the field?… Read More
Yeah, I think that the big challenge is, you know, succession planning. You know, if an individual, you know, an individual can have an infinite amount of money, and, and if there aren’t, if he or she doesn’t build a group around them that have a similar passion that are… Read More
’cause we’re all going away at some point. And so, you know, it, the key to it really is there has to be succession planning. Read More
Will they survey survive the length of time municipal zoos have?… Read More
What do the pluses and minuses have?… Read More
It, it’s tough because things are so diffused nowadays. You know, when you think about, in a time when there were three networks, when an article in Life magazine could literally have a, a national, a nationwide impact with media and messaging, so diffuse it. It’s hard to, to have… Read More
Do you think we need, or do we have any charismatic and committed heroes to help what you talked about shift public opinion for conservation such as Jacques Gusto win, Jane, Jane goodall?… Read More