Interview 40106 – Caption Index: 264
I don’t, don’t get it. We’ve done well on all these reviews, what the hell’s going on?… Read More
I don’t, don’t get it. We’ve done well on all these reviews, what the hell’s going on?… Read More
And I broke it to the staff and they were in tears. Everybody was extremely, I didn’t, not the whole staff, but the, the department heads were there and they just couldn’t believe it. Read More
Was she working under Mitch? I can’t remember. I don’t think she was. I think Mitch, I can’t remember. It was a traumatic period in the latter phase of my development at, at the zoo, my career. And there’s probably some, some forgetfulness that’s crept in. But anyway, she was… Read More
But, but she went to our staff meetings and she never had anything to say at the staff meetings that, that dealt with larger pictures of, of management and, you know, zoo issues. She just didn’t have, she, I always got the impression she wanted to get back and be… Read More
Lucy Spelman, who was the veterinarian at the zoo at the time, I guess, was Mitch gone then?… Read More
Oh, okay. Well now those were the reviews. And we had, I should say that after four or five reviews, we had a very good record. They always had something to say, you should be doing this, you need more coordination with that, and that sort of thing. But when… Read More
There might have been one other person. And we were very close to making a decision. And when small came on, that process was stopped and we didn’t know what was happening. And then it was announced that a director had been selected for the National Zoo. We were all… Read More
So that’s, what was the question? You were asking about closure?… Read More
Yeah. How did that occur and what was your role in it and how was it saved?… Read More
And Julie Seale, for example, he was a reviewer in there. And they came out and they do these reviews. Read More
Well, one of the things that the Smithsonian did, it was a, a standard practice in si, excuse me, was to have reviews, review committees would come. And it seemed to me that there was a period there where every four or five years we were having another review committee… Read More
So let’s just continue Front Royal, and can you tell us about how this happened in 2001?… Read More
Front Royal is saved from closing. How did this even start?… Read More
I don’t know. It was never proposed. We could have accommodated elephants. It would’ve been some heavy duty structures that would be required. And even the fencing, I mean, an elephant can go through a eight foot chain link fence pretty easily. So no, it, I think it was just… Read More
You know, the, the guy that wants to be, they’re like truck drivers, you know, they, they’re driving big, they manage big rakes that are dangerous and can do a lot of damage. And when they’re coming along, you get out of the way. You know, so there’s ego involvement… Read More
Why not?… Read More
You have all of this space at Front Royal, but you did bring them and, and rhinos and giraffes and hippos were deaccession from the zoo, but elephants stayed, but they didn’t come to Front Royal. Read More
She wasn’t directing us to do anything. And we accommodated her when she wanted to use the facilities and that sort of thing. So, you know, it, a lot of things were going, there were a lot of threads in the tapestry, you know, of how we evolved and what… Read More
Can you tell us why elephants stayed at the National Zoo?… Read More
That kind of evolved in the zoo with, through Mitch Bush’s operation. He and Dave Wilt and Steve O’Brien were cooperating on that research, going to Africa and doing the cheetah work. Found out that Cheetahs had very low genetic diversity. And you know, AIDS research was involved in that. Read More