Interview 25370 – Caption Index: 182
Now you’re the Head, you would have the opportunity now to bring in your assistant or more than one assistant?… Read More
Now you’re the Head, you would have the opportunity now to bring in your assistant or more than one assistant?… Read More
Was it essentially the same job?… Read More
That’s probably about right, ’75, ’76. Mm-hmm, okay. Dick took over the clinical path, which made sense to me, you know, ’cause it was, he was a board certified pathologist. He had the pathology, he took over the clinical path. So then that turned into a very productive collaboration that… Read More
It was all administrative title changing. It didn’t make a bit of difference in the way I did except one time I was put as, I don’t remember title for hoofstock or something of mammals. I did that for a while when there was a void in that. A curator. Read More
What year did you become Head of the department?… Read More
It’s on there, I don’t remember it — 1975?… Read More
1975?… Read More
I knew that had administrative loads, and I said no. I said, I didn’t particularly want that, and about that time another shakeup occurred, because initially, he put the pathologist under Clint Gray, and Bob Sauer didn’t want any of that. So Bob Sauer turned in his resignation right away. Read More
this was way before Robinson. He became Director at, he left National after a year, so he became Director somewhere around this area. Ugh, I guess that’s galloping Alzheimer’s is catching up, but he came around and I was very impressed with him, because first he came around, and set… Read More
Was that Robinson?… Read More
Well, Clint was getting close to retirement age, and then there was some rearrangement, I guess, we should say, in the administrative structure of the National Zoo, where some people up above weren’t happy with, I feel, or Ted Reed was doing or wanted new direction in the zoo. And… Read More
Robinson?… Read More
How did that progression start for you at National?… Read More
So we got access to breeder cheetahs and characterized that, and of course, as a sidelight, we collected some information for the geneticist, Steve O’Brien, who found the monomorphic populations that cheetahs were basically inbred, then that started us off on another direction. But then we also did some traveling,… Read More
So I met Dave Wilt when I went up to Steve Seger’s place who was doing some, a veterinarian doing work in reproductive physiology, and Dave Wilt worked for him, and Dave and I just kind of hit it off. We started doing laparoscopy together, and then basically we looked… Read More
Or did the Smithsonian say it’s okay to do it or … Yeah, we did a lot of traveling, Dave Wilt and I, when, I met Dave Wilt, ’cause I was interested in laparoscopy. Tell us who Dave Wilt is, just to — Tell us who Dave Wilt is, just… Read More
Now were you, when you were in your position working with Clint Gray, did you consult with other zoos also?… Read More
I mean, as I said earlier, I think I’m a generalist, and there’s a lot of information out there that people have, and I wanted to try to get as much of it as I could. But I mean, were they calling you, and saying — oh absolutely. Read More
or “Can you look at this?” I mean, did you have, were you able to travel to other places?… Read More
Yes — one of the few. in the United States. Lynn Griner at San Diego was one of the few, there was a, I think Snyder at … Pennsylvania … And Philadelphia, I think his name was Snyder, was doing some pathology. I’m not sure of his name, but I… Read More