Okay, I met Clint Gray when I was at Baltimore Zoo, doing, you know, just donating my time. We at the Baltimore Zoo got some pygmy hippopotamuses at the time, they were giant pandas. They’d built a new pygmy hippo house, and Hippo House at Baltimore Zoo, and President Tubman… Read More
They were just calling maybe a day or two a week and he’d — Now, did you meet Clint Gray at this initial meeting when you were at John Hopkins, when you were in the Department of Radiology, or when you were at the zoo?… Read More
Were you a Professor, Assistant Professor, or … Yeah, assistant professor, and at that time, veterinarians at Johns Hopkins had dual appointments. So if you were in comparative medicine, you also had a dual appointment in one of the other medical things, and I started out in Department of Surgery,… Read More
Dr. Wagers was his name, he was close to retirement, and what he had been giving him the yellow medicine or purple medicine or some, that’s all the people knew that he was giving, but he’d say, he said to me, “Mitch”, he said, “I’m so glad somebody’s coming out… Read More
And so I went out there and I said, “Well, you know”, I just went out and started talking to him, and the Assistant Director at the time was John Moore, who was a really, was geared me to keep coming out there, and kept me interested in zoo medicine,… Read More
And it was just total immersion there. We had some of the best, I think diagnosticians in the country, and they just took you under the wing, and within about three or four weeks, you were seeing your own cases, and my gosh, it was such an awareness in you,… Read More
And then at the end of the second year, I was deciding, “Well, what do I wanna do?” I said, when I’d see a case come in, you know, after the first year, you know, there was new stuff coming in, but after the second year there’s always new stuff,… Read More
Well how did you, let’s just do a quickie, but how, you’re working at John Hopkins in comparative medicine and did you hold a title?… Read More
I mean, what were your first impressions when you got to this place?… Read More
And what was it like?… Read More
Well, it was interesting, and the Angel Memorial, I grew up, my last six years out in farm country in Maricopa where I went to school, had 100 people in the whole entire city, so I was immersed right in the middle of Boston after driving across country, and at… Read More
So you graduated from veterinary school?… Read More
Yep. Read More
And then started in, and everybody kept telling, “Well, you’re not gonna get into vet school. Nobody gets into vet school, blah, blah, blah.” And you all heard that. And so I said, “Well”, that’s got a bit of a challenge, so … I went through the second year, which… Read More
That’s, they only take seven people out of, you know, the entire country.” I said, “Oh, that’s interesting.” So I applied, and I got there, and stayed there for about a year, over a year, I did my internship at 15 months, and then stayed on an extra year as… Read More
Well now let me go back to Angel Memorial. Read More
I just didn’t, you know, I had a normal curiosity about, you know, birds and stuff like that, but I didn’t go collecting ’em, or put ’em in jars, or anything like that. Read More
Well, did you ever get to zoos when you were younger?… Read More
Not that I can remember. I don’t remember a zoo experience, you know, in my younger years, so, no. Well, so it leads me to ask, when did you decide, and why did you decide “I wanna be a veterinarian?” Well, that’s kind of an interesting story is, as I… Read More
Were you bringing home snakes or … No, not really. I don’t have any other people to compare it to. I just never, you know, I had the occasional cat as a pet, but that was about it. Didn’t have many exposures to animals during my childhood. Read More