You know, I really hope I can get this job. And you know, I’m thinking, well, me too, man, but you know, he’s gonna make the choice that he thinks would be best. And so I got the position, the other guy ended up leaving and going to SeaWorld, ended… Read More
We had other, other individuals that would come through, but it was always like, we have to call up Lincoln Park Zoo and see can we get ’em over here?… Read More
We had no onsite vet at the, at all. Dr. Eric Ashkin was our first veterinarian. Barbara Baker would come over with, oh my gosh, Tom Mein. Read More
You know, Tuesday afternoon, whatever. I think in, in time we set up an agreement that they would come on a regular basis if nothing else, to just to assess the collection. Now did you have to interview for this assistant curator position? Yeah, Yeah. And I was in a… Read More
So you had, you had a part-time vet, or you had no vet?… Read More
So often I would say it was Roger ick and I would say, Hey Raj, you know, could you meet me at Gallery three?… Read More
I want you to look at this with me. Or sometimes if I was performing a necropsy, you know, under the microscope, I said, I think I got this. I just want you to look at it too and see if you feel that’s what we’re dealing with. So it… Read More
Again, I was fortunate right place. And I knew the curator very well. He knew my abilities. He also was big into fish disease analysis. Read More
So short a position as lab manager and what is this new position?… Read More
How do you get it, The position to open?… Read More
As that. Yep. And then in 81 you become assistant curator. Read More
Yes. Yeah, it was considered a step up. You had oversight of all the animals in the aquaquarium and their potential diseases or whatever. They’re not feeling well, you know, most Aquarius had a good working knowledge because most of ’em came from a home aquarium background. So they’re familiar… Read More
Right. Why?… Read More
Nowadays it’s much simpler. We buy a premix and that’s commercially available and it works great. Read More
Now, was this position as lab manager a step up?… Read More
Some of ’em were 80 pound, but I think the sodium chloride was 50 pound. So you bring it up to the lip of the mixing VA cut the top and pour it in. It was a three day operation, if you’re lucky. And I remember at the end of… Read More
They’re not familiar with that either. So the aquatic veterinary medicine world was way behind zoo and terrestrial animal at that time. And then I just have to share with you the salt water, we would make it up, we had a reservoir of a hundred thousand gallons. So you… Read More
And the lab at that time was a one person operation, one big room. The water testing was very simple, very, I mean, we did a number of parameters, but nothing as far as sophisticated equipment disease analysis was often kind of hit and miss. There wasn’t a lot of… Read More
You know, at the time, advancement in the early days happened pretty quickly for me, just because positions opened and I expressed interest. So I was not an Aquarius for that long. I’m trying to think, I think it was 1980 that I might have moved to the lab. And… Read More
And how did you think you might achieve it?… Read More