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There’s no tests?… Read More

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Not for laborers and dishwashers, there wasn’t any tests. You just filled out the form and you got on the list and they sent, when the zoo was looking for zookeepers, they would get a list from the federal government. And your name was on the list. Read More

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So when did you start then, what year did you start?… Read More

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And when you were, did you go on beyond your bachelor’s?… Read More

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Not then, you know, I got a job. I went to look for a job. At that point, I, well, and then my parents did help me with that. I was trying to find out how to get a job at the National Zoo and my mother talked to Mrs. Read More

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Well, tell me a little more about how does, you just put a name on the list?… Read More

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I don’t remember ever talking to them about it. I mean, we’re very different people, and I’m the oldest of the four, so I was always the first to do things. Read More

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So you had no one guiding your career or recommending or mentoring you as you were in high school or college?… Read More

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No, not really. Got a job working for a vet. You know, when I was in college during the summers and, you know, a neighbor across the street introduced me to her vet and so I went to work with her. So that was really the only direct animal experience… Read More

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I have a sister and two brothers. Read More

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What did they think of your aspirations?… Read More

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And did you think or were you guided that a degree was the way to go if you wanted to enter the zoo profession?… Read More

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No, I just, I wanted to go to college. And my father really didn’t believe in college for women, ’cause he thought, you know, you’re just gonna get married and you were taking the place of a man. So I originally wanted to go to Cornell University where most of… Read More

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So you had brothers and sisters?… Read More

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I always lived either at home or I had an apartment with friends while I was at school. And learned a lot. Read More

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Yep, went to the University of Maryland. Read More

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And received a degree in?… Read More

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Animal science, and went to the School of Agriculture, because at the University of Maryland, most of the zoology department was related to Chesapeake Bay. So invertebrate zoology was the main thing there. And I figured if I wanted to work with live animals, animal science was a better choice. Read More

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So you knew the son and daughter of the director of the National Zoo?… Read More

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Yes. Right. Did… Weren’t great friends. I knew them and would talk to them, but, you know, I didn’t really ask them about it. So you graduate from high school. Mm-hmm. Read More