Interview 31514 – Caption Index: 221
How did you nurture your relationship with the press?… Read More
How did you nurture your relationship with the press?… Read More
Being honest, being out front, you know, being out front with anything that happened. Going to them, not just sending out press, we press releases, but, you know, having them again, maybe it happened 10 times, maybe six times. If it were bad news, tell them fir you know, get,… Read More
No, no. I mean, he worked for me for three or four years. So, and we, we, we, when I first retired, we’d have lunch every once in a while. We see each other all the time now. I mean, I see him a lot because I’m there and we,… Read More
And so it’s, it’s worked out better. Read More
When you retired, did you give the new zoo director any advice? Did they ask?… Read More
About five minutes. Well, when you put the ink on it, it’s already outta date. But I still like ’em. I, I, I like the process more than actually happening. I think the thought process of thinking about what we’re gonna do, even if you don’t do it all is… Read More
What would you say the shelf life of a zoo master plan is?… Read More
Lewandowski or something that we needed a hospital. Well, we did, wasn’t the next thing we were doing, but came forward with enough money to change our mind. So that, that was fine. Read More
No. Did I clean up animal stuff? No. But I, I was there when people were doing things and I, you know, I just stayed aware of stuff. I believe that you, again, goes back to one of my strengths planning. We had a mission. We had 10 goals or… Read More
And I think they handled people pretty much the same way. They all knew what was expected of ’em, what we expected them to get done in the month. And if they didn’t, there was no problem. There was reasons for it. So I think that’s how we worked out… Read More
We had talked about making rounds, but how involved were you in the day-to-day activities and hands-on when you became director?… Read More
We had a lot of in-house training as well as we could send people anywhere. We sent people to Africa times. So it all worked. Yeah, we had all, we were very good about training. Read More
Well, I picked up paper as Kristen said, you know, I walked around the zoo and I, I looked, you know, talked to people, what they were doing and, and did I give education classes?… Read More
Speaking about your staff, how important to you was professional growth for your staff?… Read More
Very important. Very important. And, and I have to say both the commission and, and, and our executive director of Metro Parks always let us put a lot of money in there. And we might have used some society money at times, certainly during research times. But no, I went… Read More
Yeah, oh yeah. Yeah. We’d already gone to protective contact and we had an elephant restraining device even in the old one. And, but everybody thought, yeah, it’d be a good idea. The issue is, and God bless the keepers, at least two or three of them and Jerry Bourne… Read More
So we did the hospital and then I finally, oh yeah, then we were, during the hospital, we were having all these meetings with the commission. And I’ll never forget this because it was what I previously told you. So we had some choices of what exhibits to, to do… Read More
And were you, and you included everybody in putting this elephant exhibit together?… Read More
So it was a long process. Read More
Was that a high point for you?… Read More