Interview 25370 – Caption Index: 126
So Clint Gray, so it’s you and Clint, you’re the two vets?… Read More
So Clint Gray, so it’s you and Clint, you’re the two vets?… Read More
So you were on call 24-7?… Read More
Well we had a veterinary pathologist, Bob Sauer. But you’re the two people doing day-to-day. Yeah, Clint was mainly administration. I was doing 95% of the clinical work. Clint kind of moved over to administration, and …… Read More
Oh, well the collection was quite a bit bigger. I thought the exhibits were a little bit more modern. The keeper staff I believe was a little bit better, but it still evolved. The keeper staff at National Zoo evolved, as did the curatorial staff during my tenure there. It… Read More
What kind of zoo did you find when you came to the National Zoo, as compared to Baltimore?… Read More
It was just, it was there, and we took off with what we did, I think the most unique part of the place, I had a hospital there at least, and it was not the best hospital in the world, but the first thing as you drove into the hospital… Read More
We had a histopath technician, and we had a pathologist, Bob Sauer. And then there was one keeper in the hospital, and then one keeper “technician”, Tom Snyder was his name. And so it was quite a bit different. I had, you know, some help, but I still didn’t have… Read More
What kind of staff did you find when you went for this first job?… Read More
You’re now a federal employee. Correct. Well, I was put on temporary, I was hired during a freeze, so I was a term appointment for several years before I actually got full-time. But it was a federal position. So what did you find, I mean you went from a part-time… Read More
I mean was it the zoo job that he was offering you?… Read More
What was the job, and was it at the National Zoo, or did he have a office of Animal Health and Washington?… Read More
He was offering me as Assistant Veterinarian at the National Zoo. This was long before Front Royal was in existence, and I was gonna be his assistant, and that was basically it. I started doing rounds, and started treating animals, and started instituting some preventative medicine programs, and …… Read More
No. Hopkins was all for it because it was comparative medicine, and the stuff that I was doing was, I had never had any problems even leaving there, ’cause I didn’t have, sometimes I’d have to leave in the middle of the day or something if there was a, and… Read More
What was the favorite part of your job, when you were at Baltimore?… Read More
I think just being hands-on and making a difference, actually, probably that was at Baltimore … For the amount of effort and things you did, I got the biggest reward out of improving the animal collection. When I got to national, they had some of the preventative medicines, those programs… Read More
So that was kind of it. We kind of had a newsletter and he, through the Smithsonian, was able to get the postage, and we had a kind of a newsletter long before we had a journal. And that was kind of just a informal, “Well gosh, I did this… Read More
I think the communication between veterinarians in the beginning was mainly through personal contacts. We had phone numbers of the other six or seven people that, you know, that we would talk to. We didn’t do a lot of publishing, although I published my first couple of papers when I… Read More
Was it difficult juggling your work at Johns Hopkins and the zoo when you were there?… Read More
And then it was doing all right and then crashed again with the hip joint, filled up with pus and I tapped it, and got out and I said, “Okay, I need some help.” So I called the Children’s Hospital over in Washington DC, and talked, tried to get somebody… Read More
And okay, I’ll be over there in 15 minutes.” So he came over and it was the Head of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery, and he looked at it, and he said, “Well, what we gotta do is just open up the joints, and let ’em drain.” So he just… Read More