Interview 25868 – Caption Index: 508
Oh yeah, we’d always let them know if there’s something special going on. You mentioned raising money and that you didn’t particularly like it. No, it’s no fun. Read More
Oh yeah, we’d always let them know if there’s something special going on. You mentioned raising money and that you didn’t particularly like it. No, it’s no fun. Read More
(Robert laughs) What advice would you give ’em about the job and what it entails?… Read More
If someone was coming to you today, young zoo person, and saying, “I would like to be a zoo director,” what would ya tell ’em?… Read More
And did you ever try and use the press to promote an exhibit?… Read More
Did you do anything to try and promote relationships with the press, aside from just keeping the collection clean?… Read More
Oh, well, we had people on staff that were public relations people. Read More
Did you try and develop a relationship with the press when you were at these places?… Read More
Oh, we always had a press person on staff whose business it was to keep it going. Read More
Well, most cases, it was always positive. As long as you treat the collection properly and then nobody comes and picks on you for doing bad things, then you get good words and more money (chuckles) in the coffers. Read More
(Robert laughs) Well, I don’t know if you could ever say you didn’t raise enough, other than that we never raise enough. I don’t know. Well, now, in all of these zoos… You’ve mentioned Busch Gardens had its own PR, high-powered PR people, but you were at Louisville Zoo and… Read More
What was the relationship of these other zoos or even Busch Gardens with the press?… Read More
What was your greatest challenge at that zoo, aside from not raising enough money?… Read More
I have to go back, and look at it and see. I’m forgetting what we did other than add on to the education facility and continue to develop that. There’s some other building for use in the picnicking and things. Read More
What were you the most proud of?… Read More
What was your proudest accomplishment at Brevard?… Read More
Or you were helping to move them along?… Read More
They liked the zoo. Everybody liked the zoo. Read More
Was there positive support?… Read More
Yeah. You know, one of the things we had down there that drew people around was the Kennedy, space. It was right next door, so we had a lotta people that were involved in that that were employed by that that donated a lotta things to the zoo. And computers,… Read More
Was that because they liked the zoo?… Read More