Women keepers. Yep, We had the Jimmy Jones rule in Milwaukee. That you had to, there was a suit that there were not enough minorities hired by the county, so we had every second or third hire, we had to hire a minority, which was either an African American, Native… Read More
Asians were not, ’cause we had a lot of Asian doctors at the medical complex. (chuckles) How did conservation on an international level start?… Read More
I thought about it ’cause I had thought that I wanted to be a zoo director when I was in high school. And I interviewed a couple of times for director jobs and basically, the last time it was interesting. I interviewed at Seneca Park Zoo to be zoo director. Read More
And I just said, “Well, you know, I don’t really think that I’m the right person for this job.” End of interview, didn’t even get me a taxi going home. I had to find my own way out. I mean, that was, turns out somebody later said, “You know, they… Read More
So, you know, they came to the question, why should you be director?… Read More
No, I mean, I was curator of the day. We had an incident one Thanksgiving day. I was, the head of finance was the senior staff person, had a temporary keeper who decided she was going to impress a man she met at a bar the night before by, we… Read More
Did you ever have visions of wanting to be a zoo director?… Read More
I’d go, “You know, you’re senior (chuckles) staff,” and I think Chuck was out of town. So I ended up handling that just because Grant had no idea what to do with that, so. Read More
I mean, how are we gonna, to live up to the hype of Disney?… Read More
And the two things that I remember from that was going to Animal Kingdom for a zoo conference and there were some people walking towards me and we were near the tigers and the man turned to his wife and he said, (lips smacks) “Our zoo is so much better… Read More
In the time at Milwaukee, were you ever called upon to be the zoo administrator or the head person at any time to do things?… Read More
So it’s changed because technology has changed, medicine has changed. So I think most people don’t realize that, that if you’re dealing with, I mean, my house was built in 1870. I can tell you that, yeah, I have no light up in the attic because the wiring was done… Read More
Well, I mean, decades ago, I mean, when we started, most of our exhibits were built pre-World War II. It didn’t have, vets didn’t have the capability to take care of animals. I mean, all the medicines that vets use now weren’t available. People medicine has changed so much, so… Read More
Remember when Disney, how worried we all were when Disney was building Animal Kingdom, what is this going to do to zoos?… Read More
Was it Larry Curtis who told us a story about someone bought a white tiger and someone had bleached the tiger and realized that it was not a white tiger when it shed and suddenly was this yellow tiger. So there’s chicanery in every animal business. With all the advancement… Read More
Are zoo animals better off now compared to decades ago?… Read More
And I remember, who was it?… Read More
What’s your philosophy about the exhibiting of white tigers or white alligators?… Read More
White tigers came as a presidential gift. I mean, National Zoo, Ted Reed and the white tigers. We had Mohini and so, animals, I mean, people love odd-looking animals. I mean, the white tigers are fascination. And when the Lion House was redone at National, they sent Mohini, and Mohini… Read More
You said the keepers feeding didn’t work out or was it not a great idea, the keepers, why?… Read More