So we use those type of things, but we could have used more embracing of the community. And I feel bad that we didn’t get more of that. But you do the best you can with what you got. And with our limited funds and what we were able to… Read More
We had not… When we started our campaign for the new zoo, we had gone for the big bucks first. We hadn’t gotten to the point of okay, all the kids putting your pennies in and all that stuff. I hadn’t gotten to that part yet. So. I think them… Read More
Whether they embraced it or not?… Read More
Again, it was using the media. I think the most because, you know, people watch TV, they read the paper. If they didn’t feel it was important, or at least in their purview, they just let it pass by. But again, we tried to take all the pieces of what… Read More
Because we developed the society board they were already on board, so to say. They were different. They were looking more to me to come in and say here’s what we’re gonna do. (coughs) Excuse me. Read More
How did you get the community to embrace the zoo?… Read More
Were there some strategies you had?… Read More
Do your civic duty. Make some money. You’ve got some people that are there because they like the kids and they see the importance of that. You’ve got other ones that are just budget-minded people that are going what are you doing with this or that, so it’s a juggling… Read More
No, but did you have to approach the governmental board differently than you approached the society board?… Read More
Does that answer your question or was that going the wrong way?… Read More
The importance of what we did and how it made a difference in her or in their lives, of the grandkids lives. And in people that she taught. So. Again, it’s education through them. You just have to put things on a different level depending on who it is ’cause… Read More
You try to personalize things, do your job the best you can with what you got. And hopefully be training them. Whether it’s straight out training which they don’t always like versus little subversive stuff of oh, pick up that. Oh, that could be good. Oh, I see the kids… Read More
There was a board, the park district board. That we had to answer to also. Well let’s go with the park district board and then go to the society board. You had two different bosses, so to speak. Yeah. I had, yeah, I had a lot of bosses. Okay, my… Read More
What was your philosophy in dealing with the board of directors?… Read More
Because to me, the only thing that’s gonna make a difference is people to people. Computers are great. For knowledge and putting all this stuff together, but it’s people that get things done. You worked in a park district system. Correct. Governmental. You also had to deal with a board… Read More
Which board?… Read More
I mean isn’t that what future is all about?… Read More
You know, if we don’t learn lessons from the past of what we did right or wrong, how are we gonna make the right decisions in the future?… Read More
Not unlike slavery and what it went through. Read More
So same thing applies with… There’s been a lot of good people that know a lot of good stuff of basic information that you have to have respect for. Because as they say. If you come by and see that turtle sitting on top of a post, he didn’t get… Read More