Interview 24153 – Caption Index: 446
If it hasn’t changed, what are those basics that haven’t changed that someone should have?… Read More
If it hasn’t changed, what are those basics that haven’t changed that someone should have?… Read More
Well, what skillset would you say you need then?… Read More
It’s not that much different. I don’t think it’s that much different. Now I’ve been out of the zoo directing business for a long time, and it may have changed, but I don’t think that it has changed that much. Read More
Well, now what kind of skills do you think a new director today needs as compared to when you were director?… Read More
I don’t know that I was. I try my best, and that’s all you can do. I knew how a good zoo is run, and I tried to run my own that way. Read More
What do you think made you a good zoo director?… Read More
And when you got to Jacksonville, did you continue the volunteer program because of your experience or did they already have one?… Read More
No, not because of the experience. We already had one and I continued it. It didn’t work out as successfully as the one in Evansville. Read More
Yes. Read More
Did you start the volunteer program at the zoo there?… Read More
Yes. Read More
At the Evansville Zoo?… Read More
I enjoyed it so very much. Read More
I was able to get my ideas across. They weren’t very complicated, and they were fairly simple, and they accepted. The people in charge accepted what I did. I started a magazine. They’d never had a publication before. We had a monthly magazine that we publish every month. You had… Read More
Three actually. Three public zoos. Three. Three, right. Or four, sorry. Four private zoos. Catskill. I’m sorry, Roland, you’re correct. (Connie chuckling) The zoo in Evansville, Indiana. Read More
I agree. Read More
What do you think, well, why did you think that was the most important?… Read More
Yes. You did learn your lesson. (chuckling) I learned rapidly. I was gonna go to some general questions now. Of the two zoos that you worked at- Three. Read More
You had help the second time, didn’t you?… Read More
you accomplished the most?… Read More