Interview 24153 – Caption Index: 441
What do you think made you a good zoo director?… Read More
What do you think made you a good zoo director?… Read More
I don’t know that I was. I try my best, and that’s all you can do. I knew how a good zoo is run, and I tried to run my own that way. Read More
Well, now what kind of skills do you think a new director today needs as compared to when you were director?… Read More
Yes. Read More
No, not because of the experience. We already had one and I continued it. It didn’t work out as successfully as the one in Evansville. Read More
And when you got to Jacksonville, did you continue the volunteer program because of your experience or did they already have one?… Read More
At the Evansville Zoo?… Read More
Yes. Read More
Did you start the volunteer program at the zoo there?… Read More
I was able to get my ideas across. They weren’t very complicated, and they were fairly simple, and they accepted. The people in charge accepted what I did. I started a magazine. They’d never had a publication before. We had a monthly magazine that we publish every month. You had… Read More
I enjoyed it so very much. Read More
Three actually. Three public zoos. Three. Three, right. Or four, sorry. Four private zoos. Catskill. I’m sorry, Roland, you’re correct. (Connie chuckling) The zoo in Evansville, Indiana. Read More
What do you think, well, why did you think that was the most important?… Read More
I agree. Read More
Yes. You did learn your lesson. (chuckling) I learned rapidly. I was gonna go to some general questions now. Of the two zoos that you worked at- Three. Read More
You had help the second time, didn’t you?… Read More
you accomplished the most?… Read More
And I’ll see you around. Read More
What’s her name?… Read More
We have to call her and thank her for this- The nameless rescuer. Yeah, thank goodness. Yeah, the snakes are very effective. We got her in her box. The next night I did the same thing again, and she didn’t strike again. Wait a minute. Read More